Faculty-led Short-Term Study Abroad Programs

Elliott School faculty with area expertise

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  Nemata Blyden, associate professor of History and International Affairs; expertise in African and African Diaspora history with strengths in the history of Sierra Leone and Liberia
  

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  Alison S. Brooks, professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and director, Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology; expertise in Paleolithic archaeology; physical anthropology; paleoanthropology; ethnoarchaeology; geochronology; human evolution; politics of cultural heritage; central, southern, and northeastern Africa; northern China.
  

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  Yvonne Captain, associate professor of Spanish (CCAS/Elliott); Africa and its Diaspora; Latin America; the film industries of Latin America and Africa; south-south relations, especially between Latin America and Africa
  

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  William Cummings, professor of International Education and International Affairs (GSEHD/Elliott); International education and development, models of socioeconomic development, Asia, Africa
  

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  Gina Lambright, assistant professor of Political Science and International Affairs (Elliott/Political Science); African politics and public policy; comparative politics; democratization
  

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  Stephen Lubkemann, associate professor of Anthropology and International Affairs (CCAS/Elliott); Southern and Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique); Liberia; Portuguese and African Diasporas
  

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  David Rickter Rain, associate professor of Geography (CCAS/ Elliott); Urban geography, Africa
  

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  Joanna Spear, associate professor of International Affairs (Elliott); Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration & Sierra Leone
  

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  James Williams, associate professor of International Education and International Affairs (GSEHD/Elliott); International education and development, educational planning and policy, education in Sub-Saharan Africa
  

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  Paul Williams, associate professor of International Affairs (Elliott); Conflict resolution, international peace operations, Africa's international relations, theories of international security, British foreign policy. His forthcoming book is Conflict in Africa.
  

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  Brook Hailu Beshahn (professorial lecturer (Elliott) – East Africa and the Horn of Africa; Darfur; Sudan; Ethiopia; International Relations; UN. Beshahn most recently worked as the deputy permanent representative of Ethiopia to the U.N. (UNESCO). He served as the deputy ambassador of Ethiopia to the U.S. from 2001 to 2004, representing Ethiopia by promoting its national interest in the bilateral relations with the U.S. government and directing public diplomacy activities of the Ethiopian Embassy. Beshahn taught international relations, political science and media courses at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He was also the head of the External Relations Office of Addis Ababa University, promoting academic and research collaborations with U.S., European and African universities, research institutions and supervising international student exchange programs.
  

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  Kamal Beyoghlow, professorial lecturer (Elliott)-- Dr. Beyoghlow is professor of Strategic Studies, International Politics, the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Studies at the National War College (NWC). He is also the coordinator of the Arabic Cultural Literacy Program at NWC. Previously he served as academic chair and professor of Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CT) at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at the National Defense University. Beyoghlow was professor of International Relations and National Security at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College from 1992 to 2004, where he also taught and directed courses on Islam and the Middle East and North Africa (including Southwest Asia), International Relations, WMD proliferation and counterproliferation, and terrorism and counterterrorism. His research interests focus on Political Islam and International Terrorism strategy and policy.
  

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  Scott Edwards, professorial lecturer (Elliott)—Dr. Edwards is director of International Advocacy for Africa and director of the Science for Human Rights program at Amnesty International, USA. He completed his doctoral work in International Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on causes and consequences of violent political conflict. Recent publications include a book manuscript, "The Chaos of Forced Displacement," which advances a computational model of forced migration for use in operational planning. Current professional activity focuses on the development of early warning models of humanitarian crises, as well as the practical use of geospatial technologies for human rights compliance monitoring and research.
  

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  Audra Grant, professional lecturer (Elliott) – Dr. Grant is a political scientist at The RAND Corporation, where she is responsible for managing projects and conducting analysis and research on Middle East politics and issues related to democracy, governance and reform in Africa and the Middle East.
  

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  Zachary Kaufman, professorial lecturer (Elliott) - An attorney, professor, writer, speaker, and social entrepreneur, Zachary Kaufman is a graduate of Yale University, Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. He teaches on transitional justice in Africa.
  

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  Ambassador George E. Moose, professorial lecturer (Elliott)--Moose had a 30-plus year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. From 1998-2011, he was ambassador and permanent representative to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva. His diplomatic service has included assignments as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, alternate representative to the United Nations Security Council, and ambassador to both the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of Benin.
  

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  Richard Seifman, professorial lecturer (Elliott)--Seifman is a senior advisor to the World Bank's AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), and has worked with ACTafrica since 2002 on all aspects of the Multi-Country Program for Africa. His World Bank experience over 13 years includes serving as senior nutrition advisor for the Africa Region, and task management and design of various health, nutrition and population projects.
  

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  Ambassador David Shinn, professional lecturer (Elliott) – in May 2009, Ambassador Shinn delivered remakes on the U.S. and China in Africa at a session of the Fourth Dialogue on U.S.-China Relations in a Global Context, co-sponsored by the Elliott School’s China Policy Program. He received his B.A.(1963), M.A.(1964), and Ph.D. (1980) from GW and served for 37 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, Sudan and as ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. Shinn has been a part-time faculty member in the Elliott School since 2001. An expert on the Horn of Africa, he speaks at events around the world, is co-author of An Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters. His research interests include China-Africa relations, East Africa and the Horn, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, conflict situations, U.S. policy in Africa, and the African brain drain.