Who We Are
The Institute's staff is made up of a diverse group of scholars, researchers, and students from various disciplines including political science, international relations, economics, and sociology.
Directors
Sue Peterson
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Sue Peterson is Wendy and Emery Reves Professor of Government and International Relations and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the College of William and Mary. Her research interests include international conflict and cooperation, domestic institutions, U.S. foreign policy, and global health.
Michael Tierney
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Michael Tierney is Director of International Relations and Associate Professor of
Government at the College of William and Mary. He received his PhD from UCSD in 2003.
His interests include international organizations, IR theory, political economy of
development, and institutions. He has written numerous articles and book chapters
applying agency theory to cases in international relations.
Researchers
Darren Hawkins
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Darren Hawkins is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he chairs the department. He received his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996. His work has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and has been published in numerous books. His current research interests include Human Rights, International Institutions and Norms, Latin America.
Rob Hicks
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Rob Hicks is an Associate Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1997. He has published extensively in the area of fisheries management, water policy, and environmental economics. Dr. Hicks is currently expanding his research to include international environmental issues.
Dr. Maria Ivanova
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Dr. Maria Ivanova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy at The College of William and Mary and the Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Her research focuses on international institutions and organizations, environmental policy at the national and global levels, climate change, campus sustainability, and global governance. Her recent work analyzes the history and performance of the international environmental architecture with a focus on the United Nations Environment Programme.
James Long
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James is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of
California, San Diego. He received his BA in International Relations and
History from William & Mary in 2003 and his MSc in African Politics from
the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,
in 2004. His research interests include voting behavior and electoral
violence, democracy assistance, survey and field research methods, and
international relations theory. He is a co-principal investigator on the
TRIP project.
Daniel Maliniak
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Daniel Maliniak received his B.A. in Government and Economics from William and
Mary in 2006 and is currently a graduate student in political science at the
University of California, San Diego. His research interests include
international relations theory and international political economy. He is a
Principal Investigator on the TRIP project.
Daniel Nielson
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Daniel Nielson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. His research interests include agency theory, multilateral development banks, social and environmental assistance, and comparative politics, particularly in Latin America.
Amy Oakes
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Amy Oakes received her B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 2006. Her research interests include international security, comparative foreign policy, and quantitative methods. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines whether governments provoke international crises in response to domestic unrest, entitled Diversionary War.
Brad Parks
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Brad Parks is a non-resident researcher at the Institute and an Associate Director in the Department of Policy and International Relations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He received his MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2004. His research interests include global environmental politics, international political economy, and development theory and practice.
Dr. Mitchell Reiss
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Dr. Mitchell Reiss is Vice Provost for International Affairs at the College of William and Mary. Dr. Reiss has degrees from Williams College, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Oxford University, and Columbia Law School. During 2003-05 he was on leave, serving as Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department and as the President's Special Envoy for the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the rank of Ambassador. He has continued serving as Special Envoy concurrently with his responsibilities at the College.
J. Timmons Roberts
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J. Timmons Roberts is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program on Environmental Science and Policy at the College of William and Mary. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He has a wide range of interests related to environmental policy and environmental justice including work on the social impact of climate change and environmental justice in the United States and Latin America, especially Brazil.
Stephen Shellman
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Stephen Shellman is a research associate for the AIDS and International Security Project. Steve earned his BA from the University of Georgia in 1997 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University in 2003. His research interests include internal conflict and cooperation and the relationship between political survival and the tactical choices both government and dissident leaders make during internal political struggles.
Dennis Smith
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Dennis Smith received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia 1995 and his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia in 2007. His research interests in the area of international security include: coercion, economic sanctions, regime change, and strategic studies. He is currently working on book manuscript that examines the effect of regime structure on a government's vulnerability to international overthrow attempts, entitled Overthrow: Domestic Structure and Vulnerability.
Staff
Scott Parks
Project Manager
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Scott Parks received his BA from the College of William and Mary in 2008. His research interests involve private sector development in conflict and post-conflict states. He has worked directly with foreign governments grappling with development issues and government contractors who implement aid projects.
Ryan Powers
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Visiting Research Associate
Ryan Powers graduated from William and Mary in 2008 with a BA in Government and Environmental Science & Policy. Formerly of Thinkprogress.org, his interests include international organizations, international relations theory, U.S. politics and international environmental issues.
Brooke Russell
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Project Manager
Brooke Russell received her BA in Political Science from Brigham Young University in 2009. Her research interests include foreign aid effectiveness, political violence, terrorism, foreign policy, and national security.
Michael Weissberger
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Technical Specialist
Michael Weissberger is a current MA student at William and Mary in the department of Computer Science. He graduated from William and Mary in 2005 with a BS in
Computer Science and is currently responsible for software development and technical support at the Institute.
Ania Leska Baltes
Budget and Administrative Manager
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Ania Leska Baltes received her B.A. with honors in International Relations and German in 2001 from Bethany College. Her undergraduate thesis described the effect of Polish anti-German propaganda during the Cold War. She has also studied at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Heidelberg, Germany and the Goethe Institut in Munich. She attended graduate school at Louisiana State University where she studied International Relations and Comparative Politics, focusing her research on the International Court of Justice.
Current Research Assistants
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Ishita Ahmed
Peter Bergen
Jonathan Chan
Victoria Chung
Isabelle Cohen
Morgan Figa
Samantha Hynes
Ashley Ingram
Richard Jordan
John Kirn
Megan Liaboe
Steven Linett
Renee Lipari
Nicole Scheer-Irvine
Megan Smith
Kara Starr
Alena Stern
Hannah Thorton
Naila Timbergaleyeva
Heather Winn
Summer 2009
Spring 2009