Speakers Series
2018
Dr. Mark Nieman - Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University - February 20, 2018
Dr. Muqtedar Khan - Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University
of Delaware - April 3, 2018
2017
Dr. Glenn Palmer - Professor of Political Science at Penn State University and Executive Director of
Peace Science Society (International) - March 27, 2017
(Re)Imagining Tolerance, Diversity, and Justice: The Impact of a Post-Truth USA on the Arab-American and
Muslim-American Experience - April 10, 2017
Dr. Mohamad Al-Hakim - Professor of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University
Dr. Mucahit Bilici - Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the City University of New York
(CUNY) Graduate Center
Dr. Louise Cainkar - Professor of Social and Cultural Studies at Marquette University
Dr. Patrick Miller - Professor of Political Science at Kansas University - May 8, 2017
Dr. Kenneth Schultz - Professor of Political Science at Stanford University - October 13, 2017
Dr. Tobias Heinrich - Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina - October 20, 2017
Dr. Cameron Thies - Professor and Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State
University - October 27, 2017
2016
After the Uprisings: Public Opinion, Gender, and Conflict in the Middle East - May 5, 2016
Dr. Mohaned Talib al-Hamdi - Professor of Economics at Kansas State University
Dr. Soumia Bardhan - Professor of Communications and Director of Global Communications Initiatives
at Kansas State University
Dr. Lindsay Benstead - Professor of Political Science at Portland State University
Dr. Steven Brooke - Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative at
Harvard University
Dr. Ekrem Karakoc - Professor of Political Science at SUNY Binghamton University
Dr. Ahmed Khanani - Professor of Political Science at Earlham College
Dr. Mariya Y. Omelicheva - Professor of Political Science at the University of Political Science
Dr. Michael Robbins - Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Senior Research Specialist at
Princeton University, and Director of Arab Barometer
Dr. Marwa Shalaby - Fellow for the Middle East and Director of Women's Rights in the
Middle East Program at Rice University
Dr. F. Michael Wuthrich - Academic Director of Global and International Studies Programs
at the University of Kansas
Dr. F. Gregory Gause III – John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair and Head of the International Affairs Department at
Texas A&M University – February 8, 2016
Dr. Svitlana Chernykh - Lecturer, School of Politics & International Relations at the Australian National
University - April 11, 2016
Dr. Jennifer McCoy - University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Georgia State
University - October 12, 2016
Dr. Jaclyn Kettler - Professor of Political Science at Boise State University - October 26, 2016
2015
Perspective on Modern Honor Mini-Conference – March 27, 2015
Dr. Dan Demetriou – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris
Dr. Steven Forde – Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, Denton
and editor of American Political Science Review
Dr. Ryan Rhodes – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. Steven C. Skultety – Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Mississippi
Dr. Anthony Cunningham – Professor of Philosophy at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s
Dr. Mark Griffith – Professor of Political Science at the University of West Alabama
Dr. Andrea Mansker – Professor of History and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Sewanee:
University of the South
Dr. Joe Thomas – Chair and Distinguished Professor of Leadership Education at the U.S. Naval
Academy, Senior Fellow in the VADM James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership,
and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
Dr. Paul Robinson – Professor of International Relations at the University of Ottawa
Dr. Thomas Holbrook – Wilder Crane Professor of Government at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee –
April 8, 2015
Dr. Nicolas Van de Walle - Maxwell M. Upson Professor at Cornell University – September 29, 2015
Dr. Benjamin Fordham – Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University – October 26, 2015
Dr. Jon Pevehouse – Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and editor of the International
Organization – December 4, 2015
2014
General Richard Myers – 15th Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005) – February 7, 2014
John Hofmeister – Founder and Chief Executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy and Former President of Shell
Oil Company – February 11, 2014
Dr. Amaney Jamal – Professor of Political Science at Princeton University – February 27, 2014
Watch Amaney Jamal's talk: "US Foreign Policy and Democratization in the Middle East"
Dr. A. Cooper Drury – Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Missouri -
April 11, 2014.
Dr. Patrick James – Dornsrife Dean’s Professor and Director of the Center for International Studies at the
University of Southern California – September 17, 2013
Don Dressler – Founder of Don Dressler Consulting, Irvine California – November 7, 2014
Dr. Richard Eccleston – Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change
at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and 2014 Fulbright Senior Scholar – November 14, 2014
2013
Dr. Scott Gates – Research Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Civil War at the Institute for
Peace Research, Oslo, Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
and Professor in Residence at Oslo University – April 9, 2013
Dr. Carol Weissert – LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar and Chair of Civic Education and Political Science at
Florida State University – April 29, 2013
Dr. Ann O’M Bowman – Endowed Chair and Professor the Bush School of Government and Public Service at
Texas A&M University – May 13, 2013
Dr. Steven Forde - Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and editor of American
Political Science Review – October 4, 2013.
Dr. Mark Tessler – Vice Provost for International Affairs and Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan – November 4, 2013
Watch Mark Tessler's talk: "Islam and the Search for a Political Formula: Findings from the Arab Barometer"
2012
Dr. Jack S. Levy – Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Affiliate at the
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University – September 27, 2012
Watch Jack S. Levy's talk: "Theory and Practice of Preventive War" Part One
"Theory and Practice of Preventive War" Part Two
2010
Dr. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja - Professor of African, African-American, and Disporia Studies at the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill and past president of the African Studies Association – November, 29, 2010
