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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty who are communicating across countries and cultures.

Department Chair

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Ìý kuraduse@american.edu

Research interests

  • Human rights
  • Social movements
  • Genocide

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Research interests

  • U.S. foreign policy
  • Political media and communication
  • Political violence
  • Genocide

Core Faculty

Research interests

  • Intercultural relations
  • Transnational migration
  • Southeast Asian studies

Research interests

  • Anti-corruption
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • International arbitrationÌý

Research interests

  • International education
  • Global media
  • Public diplomacy
  • Multiculturalism and pluralism

Research interests

  • Democracy and human rights law
  • Technology

Research interests

  • Global racialization
  • Migration
  • Education
  • Geopolitics of war

Research interests

  • Public and cultural diplomacy
  • Intercultural communicationÌý
  • Non-state actors and political change
  • Global citizenship