FacultyIvan Allen College has 130 permanent faculty members. Their specialties include Comparative Literature; Digital Media; Economics; History; English and American Literature; Modern Languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish; Philosophy; Political Science; and Sociology. All have Ph.D.s and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses. The College also has approximately 70 temporary faculty. Most hold Ph.D.s and all have fixed-term appointments. Like the permanent faculty, they are full-time professors, available each day throughout the academic year to advise and assist students outside of class. The list of permanent faculty [below] can be searched by School: Economics | History, Technology, and Society | International Affairs or by last name A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | P | R | S | T | U | W | Y Listings for temporary faculty are maintained on the individual schools' websites.
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Dr. Willie J. Belton is the Associate Chairman and Associate Professor in the School of Economics. He is responsibilities include administration, curriculum development and issues of student affairs for undergraduate programs in the School of Economics. Belton’s research focuses on issues of monetary policy and how policy design and implementation impacts the cyclical behavior of the macro economy. Currently, he is involved in multidisciplinary analysis which examines the impact of political and cultural institutions on economic growth outcomes across developed and underdeveloped countries. This research brings together issues of public policy, international affairs and economics to examine and developed a much more broad theory of economic growth and its origins.
Dr. Tibor Besedes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. He received his BSc in Economics from Texas Christian University, his MA and PhD in Economics from Rutgers University. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Louisiana State University. His research interests encompass International trade, decision making, experimental economics, social networks, and industrial organization. In addition to English, Professor Besedes also speaks Croatian and German.
Dr. Thomas D. Boston is a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he received the Ph.D. Degree in Economics from Cornell University. His appointment began at Georgia Tech in 1985. He is a national and international consultant on the economic status of minorities and minority business and community development issues. Formerly, he served as President of the National Economic Association, Editor of The Review of Black Political Economy and Senior Economist to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He currently serves as a member of the Black Enterprise Board of Economists and a member of Mayor Shirley Franklin's Council of Economic Advisors. His most recent scholarly article, "The Effects of Revitalization on Public Housing Residents" appears in the Autumn 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Planning. Dr. Boston is the creator of the Gazelle Index; a quarterly survey of 350 CEO's of the nation's fastest growing African American-owned businesses. He is the author or editor of six books including Leading Issues in Black Political Economy (2002), Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship (1999), and The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (1997) with C. Ross. Currently he serves as Principal Investigator on research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Kauffman Foundation and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dr. Vivek Ghosal received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida specializing in Industrial Organization and Econometrics. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor in Economics in the School of Economics in 2001. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a faculty member at the University of Florida and Miami University, and an Economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. His current areas of research include: the political economy of antitrust enforcement; antitrust evaluation of mergers in the electric generation and information technology markets; innovation and competitiveness in the automobile industry; uncertainty, sunk costs and industry dynamics; and innovation and mergers and acquisitions in the pulp and paper industry. He has published in several peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization,
Dr. Maurizio Iacopetta received his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, and a Doctoral Degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Economics in 2002. Specialist in economic growth and innovation, he has published scholarly articles on the market mechanisms that favor the dissemination of new technologies. He also investigates the relationship between inequality and economic performance. His recent teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, economic development, and the economics of innovation.
Dr. Rehim Kiliç received his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2002 and appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003 in the School of Economics. He specializes in Econometrics and International Finance. His research focuses on modeling and testing nonlinearity, volatility dynamics in economic and financial time series. He has published three scholarly articles, and presented numerous conference papers and seminars in research universities and institutions. At Georgia Tech he has served as a member of the several departmental committees. His recent teaching has included courses in econometrics, international financial markets and time series forecasting.
Dr. Haizheng Li received his Ph. D in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics in 1997, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. A specialist in applied econometrics, labor economics, industry studies and Chinese economy, he has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. He has received two research grants from Sloan Foundation Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, and one grant from Hunan University in China. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank, a Special Research Fellow of Shanghai Development & Reform Commission in China, and is a member of Advisory Board of China Economic Review, and President-Elect of the Chinese Economists Society. At Georgia Tech, he is currently Co-director of Georgia Tech-Shanghai Summer Program, and Director of Information Technology in the School of Economics. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate econometrics, economic forecasting, labor economics, and microeconomics.
Dr. Patrick McCarthy received his PhD in Economics from Claremont Graduate University. He joined Georgia Tech in 2000 as Professor and Chair of the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Professor McCarthy is also Director of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, one of twenty-five Industry Centers funded by the Sloan Foundation, and is on the Advisory Board of the Sloan Funded Trucking Industry Program at Georgia Tech. He is an Associate Editor of Transportation Research E. His research areas include transportation economics, regulation, industry studies, and applied econometrics. He is the author of Transportation Economics Theory and Practice: A Case Study Approach (Blackwell Publishers 2001), has published widely in academic journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. The Sloan Foundation Industry Centers Program, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health have supported his research. Professor McCarthy previously taught at Purdue University where he was a Professor of Economics and Civil Engineering. And he has received visiting appointments at Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (Greece), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the University of Southern California. He teaches courses in transportation economics, research methods, and discrete choice econometrics.
Dr. Usha C. Nair-Reichert holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University. She teaches courses in international economics and operations of multinational enterprises in the School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of trade policy, intellectual property rights, multinational investments, monetary policy and economic development. She has also worked with several community outreach projects focusing on issues such as poverty, health care and education.
Dr. Christine P. Ries came to Georgia Tech as Professor and Chair of the School of Economics in 1997. She has previously taught at The Harvard Business School, The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, the Peter Drucker Graduate Management Center at Claremont, and at Stanford University. She is a specialist in International Finance, Markets and Organizations, and Economics of the Firm in the School of Economics. Her articles include publications in The Journal of International Business Studies, The Harvard Business Review, Euromoney, and The Financial Analysts' Journal, among others. Her books address the policies of international corporations and the politics and economics of emerging markets. She is the author of over 20 case studies that have been published by the Harvard Business School. Several appear in her co-authored book of case studies and many are printed and reprinted in other case books and textbooks. She has served on the Board of The Academy of International Business and on the editorial boards and as referee of several major professional and academic journals. Service on advisory councils includes service to several foreign universities and governments and U.S. companies.
Dr. Olga Shemyakina is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. She received her BA in Accounting from the Kazakh State Academy of Management, her MA in Economics from Kazakhstan Institute of Management and the University of Massachusetts, and her PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research interests include transitional economics, development economics, applied microeconomics, education, and economic demography. Her native language is Russian but she is fluent in English and is currently learning Hindi.
Dr. Emilson Caputo Silva obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Prior to joining the School of Economics at Georgia Tech, he worked at the Department of Economics at University of Oregon and at the Department of Economics at Tulane University. His main areas of research interest are Public Economics and Environmental Economics with a concentration on Fiscal Federalism, Voluntary Provision of Public Goods, Tax Administration, Club Theory and Corruption. In Environmental Economics, his work has focused on Trading of Emission Permits and Transboundary Pollution issues. He has published in peer reviewed journals such as 
Dr. Ruth O. Uwaifo Oyelere received her Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics in fall 2006. Her research interests are in Development Economic, Education, Labor, and Health Economics. Her present work in development economics has centered on trying to precisely estimate returns to education in an African country while also trying to understand recent low returns to education in many African countries. She is presently also evaluating the impact on the US of the diversity visa lottery immigration program and possible alternatives to this program.
Dr. Ronald H. Bayor joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor and now is a full professor and serves as chair of the School of History, Technology, and Society. He specializes in urban, ethnic, immigration, and race relations history. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History and served in that position from 1980-2004. He has authored a number of books and articles including: 
Dr. Laura Bier is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. She is a social and cultural historian with a specialty in post-colonial Egyptian history. She received her MA degree from the University of Chicago in Middle East Studies and a joint PhD from New York University in History and Middle East Studies. Her research interests include gender and decolonization, the history of sexuality and the family, feminist theory and oral history. She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. Her work has appeared in the journal Gender and History, The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and in edited collections on the family in the Middle East and on the Bandung Conference.
Dr. Amanda K. Damarin came to Georgia Tech in 2004 as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, and specializes in economic and technological change, workplaces and labor markets, culture, and social theory. Her current research centers on the organization of work and employment in New York City's new media industry during its periods of emergence, growth, and decline. She has recently published an article on the flexibility of web production occupations in the journal Work and Occupations, and is developing further papers on the paradoxes of labor autonomy in innovation networks and on the use of personal ties to navigate rapidly changing labor markets. She has taught social theory, sociology of work and occupations, economic sociology, and sociology of innovation.
Dr. Douglas Flamming joined the School of History, Technology, and Society faculty as an Associate Professor in 1997 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 1987, taught briefly at Virginia Tech, and then joined the faculty of Caltech, where he taught for nine years. His research explores modern American society and politics, with an emphasis on labor relations and race relations. He teaches a wide variety of history courses at Georgia Tech, including The New South, The History of American Labor, and The Vietnam War. Flamming is the author of two books: Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia (University of North Carolina Press, 1992); and Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (University of California Press, 2005). 
Dr. Lawrence Foster is a Professor of American History in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1976 under Martin Marty and has taught at Georgia Tech since 1977. Foster specializes in American religious and social history, with strong interests in Modern European and comparative history, as well. His most recent research has focused on changes in American family patterns and sex roles, the social impact of new and controversial religious movements (or "cults"), and the dynamics of mass movements and political revolutions. He has published more than forty articles and three books-- 
Dr. August Giebelhaus is a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware where he was a Hagley Fellow in industrial history at the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation. He teaches courses in recent American history, business and economic history, the history of technology, and energy history. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1976, Giebelhaus taught at Rutgers University and the University of Birmingham, U.K. He has served as associate editor of Technology and Culture, the international journal in the history of technology, and has sat on the editorial board of that publication as well as that of Business History (U.K.). Among his publications are four books of which he is author or co-author: Business and Government in the Oil Industry: A Case Study of Sun Oil, 1876-1945; Energy Transitions: Long-Term Perspectives; Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985; and Bartlesville Energy Center: The Federal Government in Petroleum Research, 1918-1983. Formerly associate director of the School of Social Sciences at Georgia Tech, Giebelhaus was the founding Director of the School of History, Technology, and Society. Giebelhaus was co-recipient of the 1988 Alumni Award for outstanding teaching in the social sciences, and in 1995 he received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award, one of the major Institute recognitions for Georgia Tech faculty. In 1997 he was recipient of the E. Roe Stamps IV award for Excellence in Teaching within the Ivan Allen College, and in spring 2000 the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Student Government Association named him the "Dean George C. Griffin Faculty Member of the Year."
Dr. John Krige has a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Pretoria (South Africa and a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sussex (Brighton, U.K.). He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 as Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. Prior to that he directed a research group in the history of science and technology in Paris, and was the project leader of a team that wrote the history of the European Space Agency. Krige's research focuses on the intersection between support for science and technology and the foreign policies of governments. Since being at Georgia Tech he has expanded his interest beyond the study of intergovernmental organizations in Western Europe to include an analysis of U.S. - European relations during the cold war. He co-edited, with Kai-Henrik Barth (Security Studies Program, Georgetown University), Global Power Knowledge. Science and Technology in International Affairs (Osiris, Vol. 21, University of Chicago Press, 2006). His most recent monograph is American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006).
Dr. Gregory Nobles came to Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1983. He is now professor of history, specializing in early American history and environmental history, and director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program. His third and most recent book, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest, was published in 1997, and he is currently at work on two books: 
Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr. (Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1981) is Professor and Chair, School of History, Technology, and Society. In 1993, he received Southern Illinois University's College of Liberal Arts' Alumni Achievement Award. He specializes in the sociology of science and sociology of the family. He is the author or co-editor of six books and monographs and numerous articles and chapters. His most recent book is entitled 
Dr. Jonathan Schneer, who received his BA from McGill University in 1971 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1978, is the modern British historian at Georgia Tech in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He is a co-editor of two books, and the author of five more, including London 1900; The Imperial Metropolis, and The Thames: England's River. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals and collections of essays. He was a founding member of the Radical History Review and served as its book review editor for seven years. He is also on the editorial board of Twentieth Century British History and the advisory board of the London Journal. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and from numerous Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In 2003 he was the Visiting Senior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. At Georgia Tech he teaches modern British and modern European history to undergraduate and graduate students, runs the Atlanta-wide Seminar in Comparative History and Society, and coordinates the speaker series funded by the Magill Endowment.
Dr. John Lawrence Tone came to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 as a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He is also the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies effective January 1, 2008. He specializes in European and military history in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He has written several articles and books on Spanish and Cuban history, including 
Dr. Steven W. Usselman came to Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1996. He directed the School's graduate programs for six years and currently serves as Associate Director for Research in the Sloan Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (CPBIS). A specialist in business history, the history of technology, and American political economy, Usselman has published more than twenty refereed articles and book chapters and the book Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in American, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). His research on innovation, enterprise, and policy has been supported by the Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and IBM. He is on the editorial board of Enterprise & Society, has been a trustee of the Business History Conference, and is Vice President/President-Elect of the Society for the History of Technology. A winner of the E. Roe Stamps award for excellence in teaching, he teaches a variety of courses pertaining to technology, business, and law and policy in America since 1580. Usselman is a recipient of the Ellis W. Hawley Book Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Harold F. Williamson Award for mid-career excellence from the Business History Conference.
Dr. William Winders is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2001. He is a sociologist who specializes in the areas of social inequality (class, race, and gender), social movements, political sociology, and the world economy. He has published in journals such as Social Forces, Politics & Society, Social Problems, and Rural Sociology on topics including the politics of national policies (especially agricultural policy), voter turnout, and social movement dynamics. 
Dr. Michael L. Best is Assistant Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and Adjunct Assistant Professor with their College of Computing where he also is core faculty with the GVU center. In addition he is a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Michael is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Information Technologies and International Development published by the MIT Press. He serves as a frequent consultant to the World Bank, ITU, and USAID. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as Director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the role of computers and communication in social, economic, and political development. In particular, he studies the Internet and Internet enabled services, mobile telephony, and other communication and IT services in low-income countries of Africa and South Asia. His current projects include studies of terrestrial wireless infrastructure, human/ computer interaction in Africa and Asia, and new approaches in monitoring and evaluation. He is also studying the role of the Internet in post-conflict settings and as a tool for peace, reconciliation, security, and democratization. His work encompasses the engineering of new technologies, public policy interventions, as well as social and economic assessments. 
Dr. Vicki L. Birchfield joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2000. Her research focus is comparative politics, international political economy and European integration; subfield specialization in French politics; Director of Brussels Summer Study Abroad Program. Dr. Birchfield is currently completing a research project on "Jose Bové and the globalization counter-movement in France." She is also working on a manuscript on the institutional and cultural roots of income inequality in capitalist democracies. Other research and intellectual interests include theoretical explorations of the intersection of comparative and international political economy, the dynamic interplay of democracy and capitalism, and the political and cultural dimensions of trade disputes between the European Union and the United States. She has published in the European Journal of Political Research and the Review of International Political Economy.
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. A specialist in Latin American politics and political development, he is author of 
Dr. Peter K. Brecke joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1991. He is also the Assistant Dean for Information Technology effective January 1, 2008. His research focus is global modeling, computer simulation, conflict processes, computer-aided conflict early warning systems, and a taxonomy of conflict. He is the author of numerous articles and research reports on the computer simulation of worldwide political and economic developments. Previous positions include senior staff member of BDM International, Inc., political affairs officer at the United Nations, research scientist with the Science Center Berlin, and consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense on global modeling and Soviet strategic net assessment. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Peace Science Society (International).
Dr. Dan Breznitz joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2005. His research focus is rapid-innovation-based industrialization, especially science and technology policies and the role of the state under the constraint of the global economy; state-society interactions; and methodological issues regarding social structure and historical based social science research. He is transforming his dissertation into a book that explores issues related to the ability of communities, states, and societies to develop and sustain their growth under conditions of intensified globalization through conscious inducement of rapid-innovation-based high-tech activities. It details the evolution of policies and business development, and analyzes the long-term consequences of several different approaches followed by the IT industries in three states: Ireland, Israel, and Taiwan. The research focuses on the different interactions that evolved in each state between the state and the industry as a result of these different policies by using the comparative method both on the international level and the domestic level by micro-analyzing two different sectors of the IT industry, software and hardware. His current research project looks at the internationalization of R&D, specifically how policies in both home and host countries affect the strategies of MNCs and indigenous firms.
Dr. Molly Cochran joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1999. Her research focus is ethics and international affairs, international relations theory, global democratic theory and justice debates, and interstate and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Cochran is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach and articles in the Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and Millennium. At present, she is writing a book titled, Democratic Global Governance and International Public Spheres. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Political Theory and a reviewer for several journals and presses. She recently returned from working at Human Rights Watch in London as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.
Dr. Michelle Dion arrived at Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2002. She specializes in the political economy of social policy in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Her research has been published in Latin American Politics and Society, Mexican Studies, Estudios Sociológicos, Foro Internacional, and Politica y Gobierno. She is currently finishing a book on the political development of welfare in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution. She has completed over three years of research in Mexico funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright program. She was recently a Visiting García Robles-Fulbright Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin American politics, international political economy, and research methodology.
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. He is the author of eight books and over seventy articles dealing with China 's foreign relations. His books include: 
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. Areas of geographic interest include the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South and East Asia, and parts of Africa. Earlier research had been in areas of statistical and continuum physics, combinatorial algorithms, and software engineering. He is the author or co-author of about 150 publications in these subjects, and serves in various editorial capacities for several academic journals, including contributing editor for International Perspectives for the Communications of the ACM since 1990. He has served on numerous study and advisory committees for the ACM, the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and State, the US Congress, and the National Research Council. Prof. Goodman's work has been supported by almost three dozen funding sources, most recently by multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. He teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses in science and technology and national and international security.
Dr. Edward Keene joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2003. His research focus is international relations, international politics and the legal order, history of international political and legal thought, ethics. Before joining the Nunn School faculty, Dr. Keene was a Fellow of Balliol College of Oxford University. He is the author of Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and is working on a textbook on modern international thought.
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, 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. Army War College, and Civilian Deputy Commandant of the NATO Defense College in Rome. He is a Councilor of the Atlantic Council of the United States and a member of the International Studies Association and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From November 1997 until December 2002, Dr. Kennedy served as Director of the Marshall European Center in Garmish, Germany. 
Dr. William J. Long came to Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor of International Affairs in 1991, promoted to Professor in 1997 and, after holding several administrative positions within The Sam Nunn School, was selected as School Chair in 2001. Under his tenure, the School's faculty expanded by over 50 percent and external sponsorship increased several fold. His research specialty is in the areas of international conflict resolution and international trade and technology transfer and their relationship to national security, economic competitiveness, and international cooperation. He is the author of three books 
Dr. Sylvia G. Maier joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2003. Her research focus is international law; human rights; politics of immigration in Europe; patterns of discrimination against minorities; nationalism and ethnic conflict; legal pluralism. Dr. Maier's dissertation focused on the areas of legal accommodation of cultural minority rights claims in France and Germany. She authored "Czech Republic" for Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, a four-volume set consisting of nearly 400 separate entries covering every country, U.S. state, and Canadian province, and legal principles and concepts that have historically been observed as common to all. 
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. He was educated at Lehigh University 's Department of International Relations and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. For the past 30 years, Dr. Salomone has studied the capabilities and vulnerabilities of military organizations, and he has conducted numerous studies for the Office of Net Assessment/Office of the Secretary of Defense and other Department of Defense organizations. His most recent research activities involve information flows and battlefield decision-making, command and control assessment for network-centric operations, and military transformation. He is presently constructing an interactive computer simulation of the World War I German Schlieffen Plan and writing on the reasons for its failure. Dr. Salomone has written articles for Defense Acquisition Review, Orbis, Survival, Armed Forces and Society and Defense and Security Analysis on various political/military subjects, and he is the co-author of The Reluctant Supplier: U.S. Decision Making for Arms Sales (1983) and of Technology Transfer and US Security Assistance (1987), Managing Defense Transformation (2007) and the co-editor of Marketing Security Assistance: New Perspectives on Arms Sales (1987). He has been a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and is a fellow of Sigma Xi (scientific research society) and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. 
Dr. Adam N. Stulberg joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1998. His research focus is international security and the foreign policies of Russia and Eurasia. Dr. Stulberg recently served as a Senior Research Associate, Center for Nonproliferation, Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he drafted policy recommendations and background studies on future directions for the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in Russia and Eurasia. He is also a political consultant to the RAND Corporation. He has published book chapters and articles on Russian arms sales and the defense issue, Russian military R&D, and Russian national security policy making. 
Dr. Mark Zachary Taylor joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2006. His research focus is political economy of technological innovation and diffusion; international politics, economic growth, and war; comparative democracy; and science and technology policy. Dr. Taylor's dissertation seeks to explain why some countries are better than others at long-run technological innovation, even amongst the industrialized democracies. In addition to his work on technological innovation, he has also conducted research on innovation policy. Dr. Taylor holds a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, earned an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and has attended university in Japan.
Dr. Fei-Ling Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1993. His research focus is comparative and international political economy, U.S.-East Asian relations, and East Asia and China studies. Dr. Wang has published six books (two co-edited) in two languages, of which the most recent one is Organization through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System (Stanford University Press. 2005). He has also published numerous book chapters, journal articles, and reports in six languages. Before coming to Georgia Tech, Dr. Wang taught at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). He has had numerous grants from U.S. and foreign sources and frequently appears in U.S. and international news media. He has been an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Foreign Fellow of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, an adjunct/honorary professor of the Renmin University of China and Anhui Normal University in China, a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo in Japan, and a Fulbright Professor in Yonsei University in Korea.
Dr. Katja Weber received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1995 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. She has served as Co-Director of the European Union Center of the University System of Georgia since 2002. A specialist in international relations theory, transatlantic security relations, the European Union, and German foreign policy, she is author of 
Dr. Brian E. Woodall joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1994. His research focus is comparative politics with an emphasis on Japan and East Asia, international relations, and political economy. Dr. Woodall has taught at the University of California-Irvine and at Harvard University. He is the author of Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works. In 1993, he was awarded an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council.
Dr. Ian Bogost is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following a career in software and videogame development, he joined the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 2004, where he also directs the Experimental Game Lab. Bogost's research addresses computation as an expressive and cultural practice, with a particular focus on videogames. Bogost is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism (MIT Press, 2006), Persuasive Games: How Videogames Make Arguments and Express Opinions (MIT Press, 2007), and co-author (with Nick Montfort) of Video Computer System: A Platform Study of the Atari VCS (MIT Press, 2008). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Game Studies, co-series editor of the Platform Studies book series at MIT Press, co-editor of WaterCoolerGames.org, a popular website on non-entertainment games, and an active participant in the commercial videogame industry.
Dr. Jay D. Bolter is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina. He holds the Wesley Chair in New Media and is the Co-Director of the Wesley Center for New Media Research and Education. He directs the Writing Program in the School of in the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include
augmented reality and dramatic experiences, digital art and design, and media theory. 
Dr. Ron Broglio is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.
He received his Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Florida in 1999. He has taught at Georgia Tech since 2000. His research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. His book Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 1750-1830 covers technology in the British landscape aesthetic. He is beginning a second project on animals in contemporary art called On the Surface. Meanwhile, Broglio continues publishing on the visionary poet William Blake and writes occasional essays on digital humanities. He has received fellowships at the Huntington Library and Yale Center for British Art. He is associate editor of Romantic Circles and book review editor of Configurations. His essays appear or are forthcoming in Journal of Visual Culture, New Formations, The Wordsworth Circle, Praxis, TEXT Technology, AI and Society and Visible Language. 
Dr. Rebecca Burnett is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She received her BA from the University of Massachusetts, her M.Ed. Curriculum in Administration from the University of Massachusetts, and her MA and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining LCC, she was a Professor Rhetoric & Professional Communication in the Department of English at Iowa State University. Her areas of interest include professional and technical communication; collaboration, groups, and teams; communication assessment; communication in the disciplines and professions; intercultural/international communication; and risk communication. 
Dr. Carol Colatrella is a Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, which since 2002 has been sponsored by the Office of the Provost. During 2005-2006 she is serving as Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Program Director. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 1987. Her scholarly interests focus on the cultural study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European literary, historical, and scientific narratives, particularly those emphasizing moral transgression and rehabilitation. Her book Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner and articles in Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Comparative Literature and other journals analyze popular and scientific narrative representations of race, class, and gender. She has co-edited (with Joseph Alkana) and contributed to an anthology examining the influence of Sacvan Bercovitch's scholarship on American culture, Cohesion and Dissent in America. Her book Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading was published in 2002 by University Press of Florida. She is currently working on a book analyzing popular culture representations of women engaging with science and technology, tentatively titled Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology. Since 1993, she has served as Executive Director of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and editor of the SLSA newsletter Decodings.
Dr. Hugh Crawford received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Duke University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 1996. A specialist in the cultural studies of science and technology, he has published on literature and medicine, cinema and science, medical imaging technologies, the novels of Herman Melville, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams. He is past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and is the editor of Configurations: a Journal of Science, Technology and Culture published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. 
Dr. Angela Dalle Vacche is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She earned her Ph.D in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 1985. Since then, she has taught European and World Cinema at Vassar College, Yale University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the director of Italian Film Studies, a 6-week summer filmmaking school for documentary set up between GaTech/LCC and the University of Udine-Gorizia in North-Eastern Italy. She is a specialist in early cinema, film and the visual arts, Italian cinema and philosophy of history, color, women in film, and she has an emerging interest in textiles and African film. Every year at GaTech she organizes two film series; one on contemporary French film and the other on recent African fiction and documentary films. During the 2000 New York Film Festival she curated for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Cineteca di Bologna the retrospective Silent Divas which qualified for best of 2000 in ArtForum. Besides programming for Anthology Film Archive in NYC, she is currently on the Advisory Curatorial Board of PERFORMA-ARTS and working on "Back to Futurism,'' for PERFORMA's 2009 BIENNIAL. The recipient of several grants and fellowships (Fulbright, Mellon, Rockefeller, Leverhulme) she is a life-time member of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Her books include: 
Dr. Carl F. DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his BFA in Studio Arts and his MLS in Liberal Studies from the University of Minnesota, and his PhD in Design from the Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include design for emerging technologies, participatory design, community and interventionist-oriented design, critical design studies, human-computer interaction, and science and technology studies. 
Dr. Fox Harrell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. His primary research interests include computational (interactive and generative) narrative, cognitive semantics, imaginative fiction for social critique and empowerment, experimental and cross-cultural narrative, and social aspects of user-interface design. He is especially interested in the intersections of the above concerns, for example how cognitive science accounts of imagination (such as conceptual bending and metaphor) can inform design of expressive computational artifacts. He has presented his work internationally; sites of his publications and presentations include the MIT Press, the University of Toronto Press, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, CTheory, and other book chapters, journals, and conferences. He has also worked as an interactive television producer and as a game designer. Harrell received a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University, and both a B.F.A. in Art and a B.S. in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Narin Hassan received her PhD in English from the University of Rochester. Before joining the Literature, Communication and Culture faculty at Georgia Tech in 2003, she taught at James Madison University for two years. Her research and teaching is in Victorian, postcolonial and gender studies; much of her work examines representations of the body and of medicine in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her book manuscript, 
Dr. TyAnna K. Herrington is an Associate Professor, appointed to the Georgia Tech faculty in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 1997. Her doctoral degrees, one in law, in which she specializes in intellectual property, and the other in philosophy, with a specialization in technical communication, form a basis for her research treating issues of power and access in societal discourse. Her books are in law: Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet (SIU Press, Carbondale: 2001), treats issues regarding the inhibiting effects of overly restrictive intellectual property law on free speech and egalitarian participation in national dialogue and A Legal Primer for Technical Communicators (Allyn and Bacon, Longman, NY: 2003) provides a basis for understanding aspects of law most likely to affect the work developed by creative communicators. Herrington was awarded a Fulbright professorship, where she was a Senior Scholar in Russia in 1999, which allowed her to develop the continually expanding Global Classroom Project, for which she was awarded the Outstanding Innovative Use of Technology Award, 2002, as well as an IREX Starr Collaborative Grant for 2002-2004. She has continued to serve the Fulbright organization in multiple capacities, currently as a member of the Senior Scholar Selection Committee, in addition to providing service to her field as a participant in several national organizations' committees, including the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Technical Communication and intellectual Property Committees, and the Editorial Board of Kairos: An Online Journal. Herrington has delivered keynote, featured, and plenary addresses in international and national venues, including the NINCH Copyright Town Hall in 2002, the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 2002, and the Council for Programs and Scientific Communication in 2000. Her multiple publications and conference presentations supplement her ongoing work in intellectual property law and her Global Classroom Project. 
Dr. Kenneth J. Knoespel is Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. He also has a joint appointment in the School of History, Technology, and Society. Knoespel has published widely visualization and science studies in early modern Europe. Research on Isaac Newton's manuscripts devoted to universal history, religion, and alchemy are an important focal point in his research. In addition to his work on changing practices of interpretation within the natural and human sciences, his recent work engages cognition and visual practice in mathematics and architecture. During the past five years, he has taught a graduate seminar in the College of Architecture with John Peponis, devoted to the "The Spatial Construction of Meaning." Work from the seminar has been presented in Greece, Italy, France, England, Denmark and Sweden. He has recently edited a collection of essays on Diagrams and the Anthropology of Space. He has also worked closely with universities in Europe and Russia and is currently completing a project on the interaction of science and technology over the Baltic Sea. At Georgia Tech, he has participated in the development of interdisciplinary education including the undergraduate B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture (STAC), the B.S. in Computational Media (CM) and graduate programs in Digital Media (DM). He is one of the founding editors of Configurations: A Journal for Literature, Science, and Technology, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He has held research appointments at the University of Uppsala, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Cornell University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at he Russian Academy of Science. Knoespel received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
Dr. Blake Leland received the Ph.D. in 1988 from Cornell University, and has taught in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture since then. He teaches primarily in the School's degree program in Science Technology and Culture. His scholarly work on the psychology of literary production, especially of poetry, has appeared in journals such as Diacritics, English Literary History, Genre, and Twentieth Century Literature. He is as well a practicing poet with poems published in The New Yorker, Epoch, Commonweal, Indiana Review, Atlanta Review, and a number of more ephemeral venues. His poetry has also been incorporated in a number of digital artworks both in the U.S. and abroad. 
Thomas Lux was born in Massachusetts in December 1946 and graduated from Emerson College. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon foundations, and the NEA. In 1994, he was awarded the Kinglsey Tufts prize for his book