Faculty
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has more than 140 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, many of whom are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields.
International Affairs Faculty
Joseph R. Bankoff
Chair and Professor of the Practice
Joe Bankoff was appointed chair of The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in spring 2012 following six years as president & CEO of The Woodruff Arts Center and 32 years as a senior partner at the Atlanta-based law firm of King & Spalding. Mr. Bankoff’s association with Georgia Tech spans more than a decade and has been primarily focused on his work as the head of the law firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice group. (continues)
Michael L. Best
Associate Professor
Dr. Michael L. Best is associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he is also research faculty with the GVU Center and directs the Program in Information and Communication Technologies for Development at the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy. (continues)
Vicki L. Birchfield
Associate Professor
Vicki L. Birchfield is an Associate Professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and Director of the study abroad program on the European Union and Transatlantic Relations. She served as Director of the European Union Center of Excellence from 2008 to 2011 and currently co-directs the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies. (continues)
Kirk S. Bowman
Associate Professor
Dr. Kirk Bowman joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He directs study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Cuba and is the director of the Georgia Tech International House. (continues)
Peter K. Brecke
Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Associate Professor
Dr. Peter K. Brecke joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1991. In 2008 he became the Assistant Dean for Information Technology. His research projects are society design, social global modeling, computer simulation of the spread of ideas in populations, datasets of long-term social processes, fostering interdisciplinary research in a technological university, and a taxonomy of violent conflicts. (continues)
Mikulas Fabry
Assistant Professor
Professor Mikulas Fabry received his BA in international relations from the University of Toronto and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dr. Fabry's research and teaching interests revolve around moral and legal dimensions of international politics, especially those pertaining to sovereignty, self-determination, democracy, and territory. (continues)
John W. Garver
Professor
Dr. John W. Garver is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Issues and Studies, Asian Security, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. (continues)
Seymour E. Goodman
Professor
Dr. Seymour E. Goodman joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2000 as Professor of International Affairs and Computing and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, jointly in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Computing. Prof. Goodman's research interests include international developments in the information technologies (IT), technology diffusion, IT and national security, critical infrastructure protection, and related public policy issues. (continues)
Jarrod Hayes
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Jarrod Hayes received his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was the ConocoPhillips Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Oklahoma, a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Area Studies. (continues)
Robert Kennedy
Professor
Dr. Robert Kennedy joined the Georgia Tech faculty as a Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1989. His research focus is American foreign and defense policy, national intelligence, European security issues, and decision-making and crisis management. Dr. Kennedy has served as Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. (continues)
Margaret E. Kosal
Assistant Professor
Margaret E. Kosal received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on biomimetic nanostructured materials. In 2000 Kosal co-founded a sensor company, leading research on biological, chemical, and explosive detection and developing real-world applications for the technology. (continues)
Sam Nunn
Distinguished Professor
Sam Nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to reduce the risk of use and prevent the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He served as a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996) and is retired from the law firm of King & Spalding. (continues)
Lawrence Rubin
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Lawrence Rubin’s research interests include comparative Middle East politics and international security with a specific focus on Islam and politics, Arab foreign policies, and nuclear proliferation. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UCLA and has earned degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. (continues)
Michael D. Salomone
Professor
Dr. Michael D. Salomone joined the Sam Nunn School as Professor of International Affairs in 1989. At Georgia Tech he has developed and currently teaches courses on great power relations, technology and military organization, simulation and war-gaming, and scenario writing and path gaming. (continues)
Adam N. Stulberg
Associate Professor
Dr. Stulberg is Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for International Strategy, technology, and Policy in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international security, Eurasian politics and security affairs, nuclear (non)proliferation, and energy and international security, as well as inter-disciplinary courses on science, technology, and international security policy. (continues)
Mark Zachary Taylor
Associate Professor
Dr. Mark Zachary Taylor, formerly a solid-state physicist, now specializes in international relations, political economy, and comparative politics. In his research, he seeks to explain why some countries are better than others at science and technology. Zak’s research interests also include science and technology policy, comparative democratic institutions, and the politics of economic growth. (continues)
Fei-Ling Wang
Professor
Dr. Fei-Ling Wang received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1993, and was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor in 2005. His research focus is comparative and international political economy, and East Asia and China studies. (continues)
Katja Weber
Professor, Interim Chair
Katja Weber (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. Her research interests center around institution-building in Europe and Asia Pacific, sovereignty-related and human rights norms, non-traditional security challenges, and German foreign policy. (continues)
Brian E. Woodall
Associate Professor
Brian Woodall is Associate Chair and Graduate Director in Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held full-time faculty positions at the University of California at Irvine and at Harvard University as well as visiting appointments at the University of Tokyo. (continues)
Alasdair Young
Associate Professor
Alasdair Young is Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He taught at the University of Glasgow for 10 years and held research posts at the European University Institute and the University of Sussex. He has published extensively on the interaction between trade and regulatory politics, with particular reference to the European Union. (continues)
Research Faculty
Stephen Lukasik
Distinguished Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Lukasik received a B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His early research at Stevens Institute of Technology was on the physics of fluids and plasmas. While a member of the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), he was responsible for research in support of nuclear test ban negotiations and subsequently served from 1967-1974 as Deputy Director and Director of the Agency. (continues)
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