Faculty/Staff
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Volker Franke
Volker Franke Professor of Conflict Management
Position:
Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-2931
Email: vfranke@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 204
Dr. Volker Franke is Professor of Conflict Management and Executive Director of TRENDS Global, an Atlanta-area based nonprofit dedicated to research and engagement in diverse societies. Dr. Franke has worked with the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute at the U.S Army War College, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), one of Germany's premier peace and conflict research and capacity building institutes, and the National Security Studies Program at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of Preparing for Peace: Military Identity, Value-Orientations, and Professional Military Education (Praeger 1999) and more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, case studies and research reports on issues related to peace and security studies, conflict management, civil-military relations, development policy and social identity.
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Uddipana Goswami
Uddipana Goswami Assistant Professor of Conflict Management
Position:
Assistant Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-5104
Email: ugoswami@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 202
Uddipana Goswami is a writer and feminist peace researcher with a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her academic works include Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge 2023) and Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge 2014). Uddipana is also author of a collection of short stories set against the violent conflicts of Northeast India, No Ghosts in This City (Zubaan, 2014) and two poetry collections that dwell on the intersections of personal and political violence. Her Fulbright postdoctoral research (2016-2018) at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, was on gender and ethnonationalist conflicts. As an interdisciplinary academic, she has published widely in the fields of conflict, peace, ethnicity, social identity, media, gender, South Asia, Northeast India, and writing & literary studies.
A former journalist and editor, Uddipana worked for over a decade with several multinational and hyperlocal media groups, from National Geographic Channel to Seven Sisters Post. She brought a scholar-practitioner's approach to her classrooms at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Guwahati College (India), University of Pennsylvania (USA), Curtis Institute of Music (USA), and the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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Sherrill Hayes
Sherrill Hayes Interim Assistant Vice Provost of Student Success and Professor of Conflict Management
Position:
Interim Assistant Vice Provost of Student Success and Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-6499
Email: shayes32@kennesaw.edu
Location: KH 4428
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Timothy Hedeen
Timothy Hedeen Professor of Conflict Management
Position:
Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-6127
Email: tkhedeen@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 111
Dr. Timothy Hedeen has served as researcher, evaluator, mediator, ombuds, facilitator or trainer for court systems, educational institutions, federal agencies, and many private, civil, or non-governmental organizations. His experience spans mediation and restorative justice in community and educational settings, policymaking and regulation of court dispute resolution services, consultation, and assessment services to international organizations.
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Darina Lepadatu
Darina Lepadatu MSCM Director, Professor of Sociology and International Conflict Management
Position:
MSCM Director, Professor of Sociology and International Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-6953
Email: dlepadat@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 110A
Dr. Darina Lepadatu is Professor of Sociology and International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Lepadatu teaches the following graduate courses: Qualitative Methods, Advanced Qualitative Methods, Dissertation Proposal Colloquium, Research Design, Current Conflicts and Conflict Management for Managers.
Areas of expertise: Intercultural and Organizational Conflict, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Transnational Migration & Refugees, Conflict Management.
Regional area of expertise: Central and Eastern Europe; European Union; Post-communist Societies
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Sobia Mufti
Sobia Mufti INCM and MSCM Program Coordinator
Position:
INCM and MSCM Program CoordinatorPhone: (470) 578-2452
Email: smufti@kennesaw.edu
Location: HSE 59 (3201) 116
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Heather Pincock
Heather Pincock Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Interim Peace Studies Coordinator
Position:
Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Interim Peace Studies CoordinatorPhone: (470) 578-6227
Email: hpincock@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 111
Dr. Heather Pincock, Associate Professor of Conflict Management. Her research is broadly concerned with theories of democracy and citizenship, and her work examines how both citizens and the state seek to manage everyday conflicts in ways that conform to, reinforce, and challenge democratic values of autonomy, equality, and community.
Keywords: Political Science, Democratic Theory, Public Deliberation, Participatory Democracy, Citizenship
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Amanda Reinke
Amanda Reinke Associate Professor of Conflict Management
Position:
Associate Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-6127
Email: areinke@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 113
Dr. Amanda J. Reinke is a scholar-practitioner who uses primarily qualitative methods to analyze the structural, everyday, slow, and bureaucratic violence of disaster recovery processes and alternative dispute resolution contexts in the Southeastern United States.
Keywords: qualitative methods; ethnography; bureaucracy; structural violence
Additional Faculty and Staff can be found on the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development website.
