Faculty

Collaboration is at the core of our faculty and student relationships. Our faculty members are internationally-recognized scholars and practitioners in fields including cross-cultural conflict and intergroup relations, democratic development, environmental governance and sustainability, gender studies, global health, international relations and political economy, mediation, and negotiation.

Learn more about our faculty’s recent scholarship.

Department Chair and Graduate Program Directors

Stacy D. VanDeveer
Professor and Chair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
stacy.vandeveer@umb.edu

Global resources and energy politics, global environmental and resource governance, comparative politics, European Union, environmental change, human security

J. Samuel Barkin
Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance and Program Director of Global Governance and Human Security MA and PhD Programs; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Samuel.Barkin@umb.edu

International relations theory and international organization, with particular attention to global environmental politics, international monetary politics, theories of sovereignty, and constructivist theory

Joseph M. Brown
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Graduate Program Director of the International Relations MA Program

617.287.6901
Joseph.Brown@umb.edu

International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Non-State Actors, Signaling, Research Methods

Karen Ross
Associate Professor and Conflict Resolution Graduate Program Director, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Karen.Ross@umb.edu

Peace education, dialogue, research methodology, grassroots peace-building, social movements, nonviolent action

Courtenay Sprague
Associate Professor of Global Health, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School and Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

617.287.7489
Courtenay.Sprague@umb.edu

Health Equity, HIV, Social Constructions of Health and Illness, Social Determinants of Health, Women's Health, Qualitative Research Methods

Faculty

Eben Weitzman
Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7238
Eben.Weitzman@umb.edu

Organizational Conflict, Intra-group Conflict in Mediation, Cultural Differences in Attitudes toward Conflict, Effects of Cooperation and Competition on Small Group Processes, Computer-aided Data Analysis in Qualitative Research

Rita Kiki Edozie
Interim Dean, McCormack Graduate School, and Professor of Global Governance, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance

617.287.7231
RitaKiki.Edozie@umb.edu

African affairs and politics, global development, comparative democratization, international relations, international political economy, race and identity

Maria Ivanova
Associate Professor of Global Governance, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School. (On leave through December 2022)

617.287.7489
Maria.Ivanova@umb.edu

Global governance, environmental law and policy, multilateral environmental agreements, climate change, Sustainable Development Goals, US foreign environmental policy, international organizations, science-policy interface, United Nations reform, sustainability on campuses and in organizations.

Darren Kew
Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Darren.Kew@umb.edu

Civil society and transnational civil society development; international security and crisis intervention in Africa; conflict resolution efforts as grassroots approaches to promoting democracy, conflict, and democracy in Africa (especially Nigeria); culture and religion, international negotiation, nation-building

Paul Kowert
Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6942
Paul.Kowert@umb.edu

International relations theory, U.S.-Japan relations, foreign policy analysis, political psychology, research design

Jeffrey Pugh
Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Jeffrey.Pugh@umb.edu

Peace and Conflict Studies , International Studies , Latin American Politics, Institutions (Political Science) , Refugee Studies, Migration Studies , Social Movements

Marie Breen-Smyth
Visiting Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617 287-7489
mary.breen-smyth@umb.edu

Northern Ireland Conflict particularly human impact, trauma and victim politics, Children and Armed Conflict, Religion and Conflict, Research and Ethic Methods, Political Violence in Southern Africa and Israel/Palestine.

Douglas Thompson
Lecturer of Conflict Resolution, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
McCormack Graduate School

617.844.1136
douglas.thompson@umb.edu

Environmental and Public Policy Disputes, Freshwater and Marine Issues, Habitat Protection Disputes, Court Mediation

Cecilia U. Idika-Kalu
Lecturer & Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Relations and Human Security; Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Cecilia.IdikaKalu@umb.edu

Security & Human Rights, Comparative Politics, African Politics, International Organizations, Global Development, Peace & Conflict Studies, Crisis & Emergency Management Policy.

Samantha Lakin
Lecturer in Conflict Resolution; Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Samantha.Lakin@umb.edu

Transitional Justice, Human Security, African Affairs, Great Lakes Region of Africa regional history and politics, Gender Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, Comparative Genocide, Qualitative Research Methods

Faculty Fellows

Anna Agathangelou
Faculty Fellow, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617-287-7489
anna.agathangelou@umb.edu

Globalization, Politics and Government, Empire and Contemporary Imperialism, Securities Studies, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory and Praxis

Cynthia H. Enloe
Faculty Fellow, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance
McCormack Graduate School

617-287-7489
cynthia.enloe@umb.edu

Interactions of Feminism, Women, Militarized Culture, War, Politics, and Globalized Economics

Margaret P. Karns
Visiting Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School

617-287-7489
margaret.karns@umb.edu

International Politics; International Organizations and Global Governance; the United Nations System; Women in Leadership in Global Governance

B. Jane L. Parpart
Faculty Fellow, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

1.3438831151
Jane.Parpart@umb.edu

Gender and Development as well as : masculinity, Gender, Conflict and (In)Security; Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Sites.

Timothy M. Shaw
Faculty Fellow, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School

617.287.7489
Timothy.Shaw@umb.edu

International Political Economy, Human Development and Human Security, African and Caribbean Regions

Affiliated Faculty

Nada Mustafa Ali
Senior Lecturer of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6779
nada.ali@umb.edu & gender_justice@yahoo.com

Gender and development; governance; human rights; militarization and post-conflict settings; HIV/AIDS; feminist theories and methodologies; the Middle East and Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, and Egypt

Elora Halim Chowdhury
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Director, Human Rights Minor

617.287.6764
Elora.Chowdhury@umb.edu

Transnational feminisms, critical development studies, gender violence, human rights, narrative and film with an emphasis on South Asia

Dolly Daftary
Associate Professor, International Development, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development

617.287.4769
Dolly.Daftary@umb.edu

Global development, Institutional change, social and economic change processes, market-driven policy paradigms, democratic politics, political economy, transformation flows, agrarian studies, artisanal commodities, identity and cultural politics, ethnography, measurement

Leila Farsakh
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6932
leila.farsakh@umb.edu

Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Michael Johnson
Professor, MPA Graduate Program Director, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School

617.287.6967
michael.johnson@umb.edu

Management science planning models for public-sector facility location and service delivery, with applications to assisted housing and senior services

Michelle Jurkovich
Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6993
Michelle.Jurkovich@umb.edu

Food security, economic and social rights, ethics, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations

Adugna Lemi
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6962
adugna.lemi@umb.edu

International Trade and Finance, Multinational Corporations, Development Economics, International Political Economy, Poverty and Income Dynamics

Heather MacIndoe
Associate Professor; Graduate Program Director, Public Policy PhD Program; Research Affiliate, Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston; Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School

617.287.4861
Heather.Macindoe@umb.edu

Organizational Theory, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Advocacy, Organizational Collaborations, Philanthropy, Public and Private Funding for Social Services

C. Heike Schotten
Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts

617-287-6920
heike.schotten@umb.edu

Political theory: ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought; Nietzsche studies
Critical theory: queer theory and politics, biopolitics, feminist political theory, feminist and gender theory, radical/revolutionary political theory, Islamophobia and the War on Terror


Amy E. Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School

617.287.6975
amye.smith@umb.edu

Public Management, Gender and Diversity, Careers in Public Service, Work-Life Balance, Teaching and Mentoring in Graduate Education

Ursula Tafe
Senior Lecturer of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

617.287.6922
ursula.tafe@umb.edu

International Organization, Democratic Peace Theory

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Associate Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

N/A
Sindiso.MnisiWeeks@umb.edu

Law and society, human rights, human security, and human development, interface between culture/indigeneity and human rights/state law, gender and women's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, governance and participatory democracy, deviance, informal justice, and community-based conflict management, political economy, colonial–postcolonial African history, community-based participatory and action-research methods