Department Chair
J. Samuel Barkin, PhD
Samuel.Barkin@umb.edu
Graduate Program Directors
Courtenay Sprague, PhD
International Relations MA Program
Courtenay.Sprague@umb.edu
Stacy D. VanDeveer, PhD
Global Governance and Human Security PhD and Master’s Degree
Stacy.Vandeveer@umb.edu
Karen Ross, PhD
Conflict Resolution Master's and Certificate Degree
Karen.Ross@umb.edu
Staff
Jason Fasano, Administrative Assistant II
Jason.fasano@umb.edu, (617) 287-7489
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 128A
Kelly Ward Mason, Assistant Director of Student Success
kelly.ward@umb.edu, (617) 287-7415
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 107
Leigh Murphy, Program and Operations Manager
leigh.murphy@umb.edu, (617) 287-7362
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 109
Full-Time Faculty
- J. Samuel Barkin, Department Chair, Professor, International Relations Theory and International Organizations
- Rita Kiki Edozie, Professor, African Affairs, Global Development, and International Political Economy
- Mehr Latif, Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution, Radicalization, Collective Movements, and Qualitative Methods
- Jeffrey Pugh, Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution, Immigration, and Peace Education
- Karen Ross, Graduate Program Director of Conflict Resolution Programs/Associate Professor, Peacebuilding, Peace Education, and Research Methodology
- Courtenay Sprague, Graduate Program Director of International Relations/Associate Professor of Global Health
- Catriona Standfield, Assistant Professor, Gender and feminist international relations theory, The United Nations, Conflict mediation and peacebuilding, diplomacy, international practice theory, research methods
- Stacy VanDeveer, Graduate Program Director of GGHS Programs/Professor, Global Environmental and Resource Governance, Comparative Politics, European Union, Human Security
- Eben Weitzman, Associate Professor, Organizational and Intra-group Conflict, Qualitative Research
Lecturers, Scholars and Faculty Fellows
- Anna M. Agathangelou, Faculty Fellow
- Allyson Bachta, Visiting Scholar
- Mahdi Hassan, Visiting Scholar
- Cecilia U. Idika-Kalu, Visiting Scholar
- Margaret Karns, Faculty Fellow
- David Jerome Klassen, Lecturer
- Samantha Lakin, Lecturer
- Jane Parpart, Faculty Fellow
- Tim Shaw, Faculty Fellow
- Ursula Tafe, Senior Lecturer
- Douglas Thompson, Lecturer of Conflict Resolution
Affiliated Faculty
- Nada Mustafa Ali, Senior Lecturer, Women's Gender Sexuality Studies
- Joseph Brown, Associate Professor, Political Science
- Elora Halim Chowdhury, Professor, Women's Gender Sexuality Studies
- Dolly Daftary, Associate Professor, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development
- Leila Farsakh, Professor, Political Science
- Michael Johnson, Professor, Public Policy and Public Affairs
- Michelle Jurkovich, Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Paul Kowert Chair of Political Science Department/Associate Professor
- Adugna Lemi, Chair of Economics Department/Associate Professor
- Heather MacIndoe, Associate Professor, Public Policy & Public Affairs
- Heike Schotten, Professor, Political Science
- Amy E. Smith, Associate Professor, Public Policy and Public Affairs
Emeriti
- David Matz, Professor and Founder of Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution
- Susan Opotow, Professor Conflict Resolution Graduate Programs