Faculty - AlphabeticalIvan 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 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. Philip Auslander 
Dr. Richard Barke is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester. His research interests focus on the roles of politics within science, and of science within politics. Dr. Barke has written about topics such as the political behavior of scientific disciplines, the impact of university curricula on the organization and advancement of scientific knowledge, the politics of science budgeting in Congress, and how scientists translate scientific findings into policy recommendations. Currently (2004-2005) he is focusing on the decision making processes by which science and ethics are reconciled in the regulation of research, particularly research involving human subjects.
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. 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. Roberta M. Berry is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Director, Law, Science & Technology Program. Her research focuses on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of life sciences research and biotechnologies. In 2001, Prof. Berry was named Outstanding Faculty Member by the Georgia Tech Student Government Association. In 2004, she received the Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award and in 2005 she received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award. 
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. 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 2005. 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. Laura Bier 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. Barbara Blackbourn-Jansma is an Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages. She has been active in Children's Programs since 1989 when she filmed 
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. 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. Stéphanie Boulard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages. She received her BA and MA in French in Université de Charles de Gaulle, Lille III, France, her DEA (pre-doctoral degree) in French Modern Literature in Université de Vincennes Saint-Denis, Paris VIII, France, and her PhD in French Literature from Emory University, Atlanta. Her teaching and research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature. She also has multiple scholarly interests in Francophone studies, film, feminine writing, the visual arts, and contemporary critical theory. Professor Boulard's most recent publication is "Ce qui (se) rêve sous le livre: "rêver d'oubli et de rêve" dans les Rêveries de la femme sauvage d'Hélène Cixous" (Feminismo/s, 2006).
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 Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America (Pennsylvania University Press, 2002) and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reference chapters. He has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, among others, and was a Fulbright Scholar. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in comparative politics, Latin American politics, research methods, and American politics in comparative perspective.
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. 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. Marilyn A. Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, she held various leadership positions and led several major energy technology and policy scenario studies. Recognizing her stature as a national leader in the analysis and interpretation of energy futures in the United States, Dr. Brown remains affiliated with ORNL as a Visiting Distinguished Scientist. Her research interests encompass the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies and issues surrounding the commercialization of new technologies and the evaluation of energy programs and policies. Recent projects include an assessment of the $3 billion/year multi-agency R&D portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program and development of a national climate change technology policy strategy as required by the 2005 Energy Policy Act.
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. Marco Castillo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BSc in Economics from the Catholic University in Lima, Peru, and he received his PhD in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests include experimental economics, bargaining, development economics, social capital and economics of religion. Most recently, he was visiting adjunct professor at Georgia State University and prior to that he was lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Recipient of the Best Dissertation Award at the University of Wisconsin, Professor Castillo has also received the Mellon Foundation's David Granick Award (1998) as well as a Ford Foundation Fellowship (1995-1996).
Dr. Jennifer Clark is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on regional economic development policy in the United States and specifically on agglomeration economies and regional labor markets. Her research and teaching interests include economic development, urban and regional policy, agglomeration economics, and labor market restructuring and regulation. Dr. Clark teaches research design for both undergraduate and graduate students and courses in regional economic development theory, methods, and practice.
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. 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. Kelly Comfort received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages in 2005. A specialist in Latin American literature and transatlantic modernism, she has published journal articles on nineteenth-century Cuban literature and turn-of-the-century German and Austrian literature and has presented numerous conference papers. Her teaching includes courses in Spanish language and conversation as well as the Latin American short story. She has also taught a series of Great Books classes and thematic literature courses on myths and legends, literature of fantasy, and women writers. During her graduate studies, she received an Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award and was twice elected to serve as a campus-wide teaching assistant consultant for the Teaching Resources Center.
Dr. Bettina F. Cothran is a Professor of German in the School of Modern Languages. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wuppertal. She serves as Director of the German LBAT program, as Director of the International Plan for Modern Languages, and advisor for the German group. She is the editor of the "Handbook for German in Business and Technology" and "The Global Connection: Issues in Business German," as well as co-editor of the volume "Languages and Culture Out of Bounds: Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom." She received Georgia Tech's Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in 1993, the AATG Georgia Professor of the Year Award in 1991 and 2001 and the Roe E. Stamps Outstanding Teaher Award in 2004. She is also Director of the Key Center of Business German for the Southeast and regularly administers the examinations for the International Business German Diploma. 
Dr. Nora Cottille-Foley is an Associate Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages. She received her Ph.D.from Northwestern University, Evanston. She joined the Faculty at Georgia Tech in 1998. She serves as director for the LBAT Paris program, an intensive summer study program taught in French with an emphasis on business and technology. At the campus level, she serves as "torchbearer" for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. At the national level, she is a board member of the Societe des Professeurs français et francophones d'Amerique. Her main interests are women's texts, the extreme contemporary (post 1980), identity issues, the inscription of the body, the representation of space, the relationship of photograph to text, the deconstruction of stereotypes and the renewal of language through literature. She received the Junior Faculty Teaching Award in 2003 from the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (Georgia Institute of Technology) and The BP Foundation. 
Dr. Susan E. Cozzens is Associate Dean for Research for the Ivan Allen College and Professor in the School of Public Policy. Her research is on science, technology, and inequalities, and she is active internationally in developing methods for research assessment and science and technology indicators. She has served as a consultant to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Research Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science Foundation, Institute of Medicine, Office of Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, and on advisory committees for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Liberal Education and the Sciences, EPSCOR Evaluation), the National Academy of Sciences (NSF Decision-making for Major Awards), and the Office of Technology Assessment (Human Genome Project).
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. 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. Michelle Dion arrived at Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs 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. 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. Harley F. Etienne is a joint Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and the College of Architecture. He received his BA in Sociology from Morehouse College, his MA in Urban Studies from Temple University, and his PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. His dissertation was entitled, "The Role of Universities in Neighborhood Change: The Case of the University of Pennsylvania and West Philadelphia."
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. Paul B. Foster received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the Ohio State University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Chinese in the School of Modern Languages in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Professor in April 2006. He specializes in Modern Chinese Literature, particularly Lu Xun and Jin Yong research, in the School of Modern Languages. Dr. Foster is the author of numerous journal articles and conference papers, as well as the book, Ah Q Archaeology: Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China (Lexington Press, 2006). He designed and developed the University System of Georgia Summer Study in China, for which he served as Program Director and/or On-site Co-director during the summers of 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. He also serves as examiner of Chinese for the critical languages program at Georgia Perimeter College. Dr. Foster is faculty advisor to the Chinese Student Association and the Hong Kong Student Association and was recipient of Ivan Allen College's E. Roe Stamps Excellence in Teaching Award for Junior Faculty, 2002-2003. He teaches the spectrum of Chinese language course and enjoys introducing students to contemporary Chinese culture through varied media.
Dr. Mary Frank Fox is NSF Advance Professor in the School of Public Policy, and co-director, Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology. Her research focuses upon gender, science, and academia - the study of women and men in academic and scientific organizations and occupations. Her current research projects include a Study of Programs for Women in Science and Engineering, supported by NSF; continuing study of students and faculty in doctoral education in five scientific fields, supported by NSF; and the research program of the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award to Georgia Tech, for which she is Co-PI.
Vicki Galloway is Professor of Spanish and Associate Chair for Research and Assessment in the School of Modern Languages. She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. She teaches a wide variety of courses in language, literature, business, and culture studies, and is Director of the LBAT-Mexico, a summer immersion program in Spanish for Business and Technology. She has published extensively in nationally prominent journals and professional volumes on second-language acquisition and cross-cultural learning and has co-authored eight textbooks for different levels and applications of language learning, including Spanish for International Business. She is the 2002 recipient of the prestigious international Nelson Brooks Award for the Teaching of Culture in recognition of her writings in this field, and the 2000 recipient of GT's E. Rowe Stamps Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before coming to Georgia Tech, she served as Project Director for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, editor of FLAnnals, and as South Carolina's State Supervisor for Foreign Language and International Education. She is the Spanish Advisor for the IAML and GEML degree programs. 
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. 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. Dr. Ghosal's 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. 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. Stuart H. Goldberg received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages, he joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2003. His expertise lies in Russian and Polish literature and culture, with a focus on the poetry of Russian Modernism. He has published scholarly articles on Russian poetry in Russian Literature (Amsterdam), Slavic and East European Journal, and Slavic Review, and forthcoming articles on the poets Fyodor Tyutchev and Osip Mandelstam will appear in Russian Literature and Sokhrani moiu rech' 4 (Moscow, Mandel'shtamovskoe obshchestvo) respectively. An article exploring the possible influence of Jewish Kabbalah on one of the masterpieces of Polish Romantic theater was recently translated into Polish and republished in a collection printed by the Polish Academy of Sciences ("Konrad i Jakub: Hipotetyczny podtekst kabalistyczny w III czesci Dziadów Adama Mickiewicza," in Polonistyka po amerykansku: Badania nad literatura polska w Ameryce Pólnocnej (1990-2005) [Warszawa: Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006]). In 2005-2006, Dr. Goldberg was recipient of a Fulbright grant, funding eleven months of research in Moscow. His upcoming book, Mandelstam, Blok and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism, explores the influence of the younger generation of Russian Symbolists on the Osip Mandelstam and Mandelstam's play with distance and immediacy in his assimilation of the Symbolist heritage. He teaches all levels of Russian language and leads Georgia Tech's intensive summer immersion program in St. Petersburg. He also offers courses in Russian literature and film in translation and is currently designing a team-taught capstone course on contemporary Russian culture, politics and economics together with professors from the Schools of International Affairs and Economics. 
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. 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.
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. Susan Herbst is Executive Vice Chancellor for the University System of Georgia, and Professor of Public Policy. Her research focuses on public opinion, mass media, and the nature of the policy-making process in the United States. Before moving to Atlanta in 2007, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, and then held faculty and administrative positions at Temple University and the University at Albany/SUNY. Professor Herbst is editor of a book series on American politics, public opinion and political behavior with the University of Chicago Press. Her current work focuses on the nature of public opinion in the United States, and most recently, the ways that media shape presidential political speeches and rhetoric.
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. Diana Hicks is Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy. Hicks specializes in science and technology policy as well as in innovative use of large databases of patents and papers to address questions of broad interest at the intersection of science and technology. Her recent work has focused on assessing the technological impacts of scientific research and on using visualization to more effectively convey complex research results to the policy making community. She is also examining highly innovative small firms and exploring their survival and technological contributions. She has published extensively on issues at the interface between science and technology, examining quantitative evidence of the evolving character of the research system and its relationship to innovation in the US; establishing that high quality scientific research has a high impact on technology; examining why companies undertake basic research; and being the first to argue that the accepted view of Japanese university-industry links as weak is not entirely accurate.
Dr. Michael Hoffmann is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the role of diagrammatic representations as mediating tools in conflict resolution processes. Based on the observation that resolving conflicts is mainly hindered by opposing interpretations of what is going on in a conflict, and by different habits of thinking, the question is: How to change thinking processes and interpretations? Using Charles S. Peirce's concept of "diagrammatic reasoning" to answer this question, his central thesis is that the only rational way to change thinking is by reflecting on possible representations of this thinking. In this way, different perspectives on a conflict can become an object of exploration in jointly conducted negotiation processes.
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. Christophe Ippolito joined the School of Modern Languages as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and culture, narrative theory, Francophone culture, translation, intercultural issues and language testing techniques. Ippolito is the author of 
Dr. Britta Kallin received her Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages in 2000. A specialist in contemporary German and Austrian women's literature and theater in the School of Modern Languages, she is the author of "The Role of the Roma in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl?" (Colloquia Germanica 2004), "Marlene Streeruwitz's Nachwelt as Feminist Postmodern Biography" (German Quarterly 2005), and other articles on contemporary women writers. She was associate editor (2001-2003) and editor of Communications from the International Brecht Society (2004-2006). She was chosen as a fellow in the TrainDaF program of the AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) in 2002. Her teaching includes undergraduate courses in German culture and literature.
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. Masato Kikuchi is Associate Professor of Japanese in the School of Modern Languages. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh where his research focused on the areas of application of natural language processing techniques such as development and evaluation of intelligent computer-assisted language instruction, discourse/pragmatics processing, and psycholinguistics. He was the Assistant Director of a research project which developed Macintosh-based computer programs called "Understanding Written Japanese" at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently a co-director of summer, intensive study abroad program (Language for Business and Technology) and working on the project involving translation of technical and business documents.
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. Dr. Kiliç specializes in Econometrics and International Finance. His research focuses on modeling and testing nonlinearity, volatility dynamics in economic and financial time series. Dr. Kiliç 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. Gordon Kingsley is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of organization theory, public administration, science and technology policy and environmental policy. The focus of his work is examining how the interactions of government agencies and the private sector firms shape two types of policy goals: the transfer and diffusion of technology and compliance with environmental regulations. This work has received sponsorship from the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Environmental Policy Institute, and the New York State Research & Development Authority. His work has been accepted for publication in Research Policy, Evaluation and Program Planning, Policy Studies Journal and Public Productivity and Management Review.
Dr. Robert Kirkman is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research encompasses environmental philosophy, the history and philosophy of the natural sciences, the history of philosophy, and ethics. Current research includes the extension of environmental philosophy to the built environment, especially to the process of suburbanization and metropolitan growth. Dr. Kirkman is author of Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Indiana University Press, 2002). Other publications include articles in Environmental Ethics and The Journal of Value Inquiry along with numerous book reviews.
Dr. Hans K. Klein is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also served on the faculty of the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University. Klein's research interests include: the development of large scale systems, federal technology policy, the politics of innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, public access television, Internet governance, and on-line democracy. Klein is active in Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and in 1999 was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Internet Society, the Society for the Social Study of Science, and the Alliance for Community Media.
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. 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. Angela Labarca was hired as Full Professor (1991) to create the Spanish LBAT program. At present, she directs the Madrid portion and the Valencia programs in Spain. Dr. Labarca is GT's only Hispanic female Full Professor. She has several articles, chapters in volumes, and two co-edited volumes on the psycholinguistics of second language acquisition, reading and testing. She also has written or co-authored more than 18 textbooks for Spanish and English teaching as well as standardized Rasch-analyzed language tests. She teaches Scientific and Business Spanish, Hispanic Culture through Literature, and US Spanish: Language and Cultures. She has taught at the Universities of Rome, Seville and Sofia, and has trained instructors in the US, Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, and Italy.
Dr. Cheryl Leggon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. Her research deals with race and ethnic relations as well as diversity issues on various aspects of which she has given lectures and published extensively. She is author of "
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. 
Dr. Aaron D. Levine is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BA in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.Phil in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in Public Affairs from Princeton University. His research interests include the impact of public policy on biomedical/biotechnology research, human embryonic stem cell research policy, geographic distribution of scientific research, formation and functioning of international research collaborations, and intellectual property rights. His latest book, Cloning: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford, England, 2007), is an introduction to cloning and embryonic stem cell science for non-specialists. 
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. Xiaoliang Li received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. In 1995 joined the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she established a Chinese language and cultural studies program. Her research and publications have delved into utilizing multimedia in Chinese language instruction, second-language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and cultural perspectives in language learning and communications. She has published a Chinese Characters Primer program to enhance learning the Chinese writing system and has presented and published scholarly papers and demonstrated her courseware at national and international conferences. She serves as a member of the Fifth Board of Directors, the International Association for Chinese Language Teaching. She is the team leader for the development of Chinese online courses sponsored by the National Security Education Program (NSEP) via the University System of Georgia.
Dr. William J. Long came to Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor of International Affair 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 an