Political Science & International Affairs Contact Information

Craig Greathouse
Craig Greathouse, Ph.D.Profile page

Professor & Department Head

Phone706-864-1869

Office locationHansford Hall, 328, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Security and Defense Policy, European Politics

Raluca Viman-Miller
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Associate Professor & Associate Department Head

Phone678-717-3491

Office locationStrickland Academic, 159, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Comparative Politics, International Relations, European Politics

 

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Faculty & Staff

Carl Cavalli
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Professor

Phone706-864-1872

faculty.ung.edu/ccavalli/

Office locationHansford Hall, 338, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: American National Institutions, Political Parties, Elections

Bibek Chand
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Associate Professor

Phone678-717-3872

bibekchand.com

Office locationStrickland Academic, 148, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Security studies, Sino-Indian relations, small states in international politics, geopolitics

Luisa Diaz-Kope
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Associate Professor

Phone706-864-1699

Office locationHansford Hall, 311, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Collaboration and Watershed Grassroots Protection

Douglas Ealey
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Professor

Phone678-717-3690

Office locationStrickland Academic, 152, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: American Government, Religion, Religion and Politics, Leadership, and Conflict Management and Mediation

Joseph Gershtenson
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Assistant Professor

Phone706-864-1757

Office locationBarnes Hall, 123, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Authoritarianism and anti-democratic attitudes; Incivility in American politics; Political polarization; American elections

Marie Goodall
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Principal Lecturer

Phone706-864-1628

Office location Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Public Administration

Cristian Harris
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Professor

M.A.I.A. Program Coordinator

Phone706-867-3251

Office locationHansford Hall, 316, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: International Political Economy, Comparative Global Development, Latin American Politics, Global Governance

Jing He
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Assistant Professor

Phone706-864-1804

Office locationHansford Hall, 319, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Policy innovation and diffusion; Risk and risk management; Gender issues (such as gender equality); Big data and Public Administration

Charlene Hudson
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Senior Lecturer

Phone678-717-3552

Office locationStrickland Academic, 209, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Public Administration, Nonprofit Organizations, U.S. Government, State and Local Government

Jaimie Kelly
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Assistant Professor

Phone706-864-1916

Office locationHansford Hall, 317, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Public Administration, Networks, Organizational Theory

Christopher Kroh
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Senior Lecturer

Phone678-717-2262

Office locationStrickland Academic, 207, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: EU/European Politics and Comparative Political Parties/Political Systems

Scott D McDonald
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Assistant Professor

Phone706-864-1523

Office locationBarnes Hall, 121, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: National Security; International Relations; Chinese Philosophy; Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China; Indo-Pacific Security

Edward Mienie
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Executive Director, Strategic Studies Program & Partnerships and Professor of Strategic & Security Studies

Phone706-867-4465

Office locationHansford Hall, 314, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Strategic & Security Studies; State Fragility; Why Nations Fail

Jonathan Miner
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Professor

Phone706-867-2578

Office locationHansford Hall, 331, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. Foreign Policy, Middle East Politics, International Law

Elliot Montagano
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Assistant Professor

Phone706-864-1782

Office locationBarnes Hall, 125, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: History of Political Philosophy; Modern Political Philosophy; Enlightenment Thought; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Civic Education

Larry Morton
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Part-Time Communications Assistant

Office locationHansford Hall, 304, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: International Affairs / Security Studies

Christopher Newkirk
Christopher Newkirk, M.A.Profile page

Administrative Assistant IV

Phone706-864-1628

Office locationHansford Hall, 304, Dahlonega

Stephen Northam
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Senior Lecturer

Phone678-632-2401

Office location Cumming Academic Building, 1222, Cumming

Area(s) of Expertise: Public Administration, Complexity/Network Theory, Organizational/Group Behavior

Nathan Price
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Associate Professor

Phone706-946-5475

Office locationBuilding A, 111, Blue Ridge

Area(s) of Expertise: Populism, the European Union, Voting behavior in Western Europe and the United States

Sam Rohrer
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Associate Professor

Phone706-864-1927

Office locationHansford Hall, 315, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Secession, Maritime Crime, Terrorism, and Leadership Style and Trait Analysis

Ted Rossier
Ted Rossier, J.D.; Ph.D.Profile page

Lecturer

Phone706-310-6265

Office locationStudent Resource Center, 540, Oconee

Area(s) of Expertise: Public Law, Interest Groups, Bureaucracy, American Political Development

Seyed Hamid Serri
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Associate Professor

Phone706-867-4526

Office locationHansford Hall, 313, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: Strategic & Security Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Quantitative & Qualitative Text Analysis, Middle Eastern Politics

Glen Smith
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Professor

Phone706-310-6324

Office locationStudent Resource Center, 599, Oconee

Area(s) of Expertise: Media, Political Psychology, Research Methods

Laurel Wei
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Associate Professor

Phone706-867-2143

Office locationHansford Hall, 318, Dahlonega

Area(s) of Expertise: International relations of East Asia; Chinese foreign policy; US-China relations; and politics on the Korean Peninsula

Eric Wilk
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Assistant Professor

Phone678-717-3704

Office locationStrickland Academic, 210, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: American Politics and Empirical Methods

Charles (Trey)  Wilson
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Professor

Phone678-717-3909

Office locationStrickland Academic, 106, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Early American Law and Legal History, History of women's higher education

Dwight Wilson
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Associate Professor

Phone678-717-3936

Office locationStrickland Academic, 158, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American Politics, Political Theory