Faculty
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Akanmu Adebayo
Akanmu Adebayo Professor of HistoryPosition:
Professor of HistoryPhone: (470) 578-6646
Email: aadebayo@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4112
Dr. Akanmu G. Adebayo is KSU ombuds and professor of history at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. He was also formerly director of the Center for Conflict Management and executive director of the Institute for Global Initiatives at KSU. He received his education at the University of Ife (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University) and earned his PhD degree in history. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of many books, and his articles have been published in many scholarly journals. He is series editor for Conflict and Security in the "Developing World" for Lexington Books.
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Anisah Bagasra
Anisah Bagasra Assistant Professor of Psychological SciencePosition:
Assistant Professor of Psychological SciencePhone: (470) 578-5254
Email: abagasra@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 2017
Dr. Anisah Bagasra is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Science who specializes in interdisciplinary research in the Muslim American and African American faith communities. Research interests include the impact of Islamophobia on Muslims, Islamic religious competency for professionals, non-violent social action in the Islamic tradition, spiritual motivations and extreme altruism, and social and psychological challenges caused by acculturation. Further information can be found on my faculty webpage.
Keywords: Community Based Participatory Research, Mixed Methods Design, Pakistan, Muslim Americans to my brief bio.
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Jesse Benjamin
Jesse Benjamin Professor of Sociology and International Conflict ManagementPosition:
Professor of Sociology and International Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-2067
Email: jbenjam2@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 3003B
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Tavishi Bhasin
Tavishi Bhasin Associate Professor of Political SciencePosition:
Associate Professor of Political SciencePhone: (470) 578-2272
Email: tbhasin@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 5034
Dr. Tavishi Bhasin is a Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs. She studies the politics of identity (gender, ethnicity, religion and language), political participation including nonviolent and violent dissent, state repression, social movements and democratic institutions. She also conducts research in the area of teaching and learning. She has published articles on dissent (violent and nonviolent) and state repression/human rights violations in democratic and authoritarian contexts. Her publications include those examining dissent and repression in a global context in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the British Journal of Political Science. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in her work.
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Charity Butcher
Charity Butcher Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development.Position:
Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development.Phone: (470) 578-2929
Email: cbutche2@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 103
Dr. Charity Butcher is currently the Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. Her research explores a variety of international issues, including the ways that ethnicity and religion impact international relations, international human rights, civil war and terrorism, and diversionary war. She also conducts research on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education. She teaches graduate courses in international relations, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and development.
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Volker Franke
Volker Franke Professor of Conflict ManagementPosition:
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 Germanyâs premier peace and conflict research and capacity building institutes, and the National Security Studies Program at Syracuse Universityâs 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 ManagementPosition:
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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Maia Hallward
Maia Hallward Professor of Middle East Politics and International Conflict Management and Director of the INCM ProgramPosition:
Professor of Middle East Politics and International Conflict Management and Director of the INCM ProgramPhone: (470) 578-6127
Email: mhallwar@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 116
Dr. Maia Hallward is a professor of Middle East Politics and International Conflict Management. She is Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and Associate Editor of Journal of Political Science Education. She conducts research on topics including nonviolent resistance, human rights, womenâs leadership in the Arab world, and the role of identity (religious, cultural, ethnic) in conflict and peace. She has lived and worked in Jordan and Israel/Palestine and conducted field work in Morocco, Oman, and Turkey.
Keywords: peacebuilding, civil resistance, Israel/Palestine, civil society movements, human rights, gender
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Govind Hariharan
Govind Hariharan Professor of EconomicsPosition:
Professor of EconomicsPhone: (470) 578-6580
Email: gharihar@kennesaw.edu
Location: BB 407
Dr. Govind Hariharan is a Professor of Economics at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and is the board chair and faculty advisor at KSU SMIF LLC. He previously served as the Executive Director of the India China America Institute and as Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Kennesaw State University. In his research, Dr. Hariharan applies concepts from economics integrated with other fields such as Information Systems, Psychology and Physics in looking for novel ways to address global and local challenges. His primary area of research is in Health, Wealth, and Technology issues especially of Older Adults. He has taught or lectured in executive programs around the world including major U.S., Chinese, Indian and Singaporean Universities, on industry analysis.
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Timothy Hedeen
Timothy Hedeen Professor of Conflict ManagementPosition:
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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Kristina Hook
Kristina Hook Assistant Professor of Conflict ManagementPosition:
Assistant Professor of Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-7960
Email: khook2@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 205
Dr. Kristina Hook as an anthropologist, I specialize in comparative genocide studies and experiences of armed conflict fueled by contested identities and historical narratives. I have research and professional experience in twenty-five countries, with a primary focus on Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian relations, and the Eastern European context. My current book project is based on multiyear ethnographic fieldwork and clinical sensitive-topic interviewing across Ukraine. It explores Joseph Stalin's historical genocide against Ukraine (the Holodomor) and how modern leaders interpreted this history to predict both Russia's modern genocidal war and Ukraine's nationwide resistance. As a Ukraine-Russia specialist, I also publish Ukraine-focused work on war-related environmental risks, local experiences of conflict, historical narratives during hybrid warfare, and emerging technologies. An ongoing research collaboration includes working with computer scientist colleagues at the University of Notre Dame to harness artificial intelligence tools for atrocity forecasting and response in the Ukraine-Russia context and elsewhere.
Keywords: genocides and mass atrocities, memory politics, authoritarianism, identity (both its construction and erasure), oral storytelling, qualitative data, ethnography; Eastern Europe and Eurasia; Soviet Union.
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Darina Lepadatu
Darina Lepadatu MSCM Director, Professor of SociologyPosition:
MSCM Director, Professor of SociologyPhone: (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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Brandon Lundy
Brandon Lundy Chair & Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and AnthropologyPosition:
Chair & Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and AnthropologyPhone: (470) 578-2893
Email: blundy@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4050
Dr. Brandon D. Lundy is a Professor of Anthropology and served as a founding administrator and Associate Director in the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. Dr. Lundy also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Economic Anthropology. Dr. Lundy's work focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, African Studies, Development in Practice, Economic Anthropology, African Arts, African Identities, and Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. He currently supervises Ph.D. students on a Diplomacy Lab project on artisanal mining in Mauritania and is beginning new research on the contested values of artisanal alcohol in West Africa.
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Marcus Marktanner
Marcus Marktanner Professor of Economics and International Conflict ManagementPosition:
Professor of Economics and International Conflict ManagementPhone: (470) 578-7750
Email: mmarktan@kennesaw.edu
Location: BB 408
Dr. Marcus Marktanner is a professor of economics and international conflict management. He is interested in economic development as a driver of conflict and contributor to peace. His research is data-driven and involves impact studies and policy simulations. His teaching interest is in conflict economics and advanced quantitative methods.
Keywords: Economic methodology, conflict economics, econometrics, development economics, impact studies, policy simulations.
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Christopher Pallas
Christopher Pallas Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Political SciencePosition:
Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Political SciencePhone: (470) 578-6227
Email: cpallas@kennesaw.edu
Location: House 3201 - 203
Dr. Christopher L. Pallas, PhD has a dual appointment in the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development and the School of Government and International Affairs. His research examines the relationship between international institutions, international NGOs, and local stakeholders in international development. He currently has two main areas of focus. One is the impact of international advocacy campaigns on the representation of low- and middle- income country stakeholders in development policymaking and implementation. The other is the impact of foreign aid reduction and donor withdrawal on local civil society sustainability, especially in countries transitioning from low-income to middle-income country status. A list of his publications can be found here.
Subject Keywords: nongovernmental organizations, civil society, international development, international institutions, World Bank, advocacy,
Methods Keywords: policy analysis, process tracing, case studies, interviews
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Heather Pincock
Heather Pincock Associate Professor of Conflict Management and Interim Peace Studies CoordinatorPosition:
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 ManagementPosition:
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
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Seneca Vaught
Seneca Vaught Coordinator of African and African Diaspora Studies and Associate Professor of HistoryPosition:
Coordinator of African and African Diaspora Studies and Associate Professor of HistoryPhone: (470) 578-2431
Email: svaught3@kennesaw.edu
Location: 4115
Dr. Seneca Vaughtâs teaching and research specializations focus on global intersections of race, culture, and policy. He has co-directed numerous study abroad programs to Europe, West Africa, and South America where he mentors students working on applied historical projects, ranging from âgrassroots mini-documentary projectsâ to âgame-based play maps.â He leverages these techniques and his expertise in race policy as a method of democratizing the policymaking process and is a champion of problem-based learning. His research and teaching agenda focuses on how to apply historical methods and use historical content in policy, social entrepreneurship, and cultural diplomacy. His most recent book examines the life and legacy of Susana Baca, an Afro-Peruvian artist and diplomat, and studies historical and cultural connections between African-descended populations in Peru and throughout the African Diaspora.
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Silke Zoller
Silke Zoller Assistant Professor of HistoryPosition:
Assistant Professor of HistoryPhone: (470) 578-2531
Email: szoller@kennesaw.edu
Location: SO 4094
Dr. Silke Zoller is an Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Philosophy. she studies international collaboration against terrorism and political violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Her research focuses on how the United States and European countries responded to instances of non-state violence in the past. She analyzes the history of diplomatic relations, international institutions, debates about the legitimacy of violence, and civil aviation. In particular, Silke is interested in how different understandings of terrorism shaped different responses to terrorism over time.
Keywords: terrorism, counterterrorism, political violence, decolonization, the Cold War, international organizations, the United Nations, hijacking, aviation security, and international law.