FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Development/Social Change in Latin America, International Migration and Nationalism, Food Systems and Movements
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A. Douglas Kincaid is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, where he has worked since 1985. He served as FIU's chief international officer during 2000-2008 and as associate director and research director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center during 1985-2000. A strong believer in international education, he has led a summer study abroad program for undergraduates to Genoa, Italy, since 201. His research has been largely concerned with the sociology of development in Latin America, with specific focus on such issues as social movements, civil-military relations and democratization. More recently, his research efforts have focused on international migration and nationalism, and food systems and movements. He has conducted extensive field research in Central America. He has been principal investigator for contracts and grants from numerous sources, including the US Department of Education, US Agency for International Development, US Institute of Peace, and Miami-Dade County. His publications include Central America 2020: Toward a New Model of Regional Development (Hamburg: Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, 2000), co-authored with Victor Bulmer-Thomas; and Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), co-edited with Alejandro Portes.Prof. Kincaid has also been active in several professional organizations. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and as the representative of the American Sociological Association (ASA) to the ISA. Previously he chaired the 21st Century Task Force of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and during 2002-04 he served on the LASA's Strategic Planning Committee. During 1996-99 he chaired the Predissertation Fellowship Selection Committee for the Social Science Research Council.
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- Career Specialist, Career and Talent Development
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- Founding Director of the Maurice a. Ferré Institute for Civic Leadership
- Public Affairs, Florida International University ( 2012 )
Areas of Expertise: Online teaching, communications, public affairs, professional development, administration, community relations, economic development, diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, mentoring and advising, civic engagement, and community development
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Dr. Caraballo is the Founding Director of the Maurice A. Ferré Institute for Civic Leadership and an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University (FIU). She is also an Affiliate Faculty in the African and African-Diaspora Studies program and the Master of Arts in Global Affairs degree program.
She is a Past Chair and former Treasurer of the Section for Women in Public Administration (SWPA) for the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), as well as a past President of the ASPA South Florida Chapter. Dr. Caraballo also served as FIU's inaugural Director of Teaching for the Black Faculty Association. She is proud to have organized numerous professional development events related to public service and leadership and to be recognized for exceptional teaching, mentorship, and service with several awards. Her online classes have received Quality Matters certification, a nationally recognized benchmark for high-quality distance education.
Dr. Caraballo holds Ph.D. in Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science in Communication degrees from FIU and an Associate of Arts in Communication from Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California, where she was raised. Her professional background is in higher education, nonprofits, and leadership development. Dr. Caraballo and her husband, Leonel, are the proud parents of two children.
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami / 305 - 348 - 7253
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- Instructor
- Legal Psychology, 2009 / 305 - 348 - 7917
Areas of Expertise: Investigative Interviewing Techniques, Eyewitness Memory and Identification Procedures, Juror and Legal Decision-Making
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Amy Hyman Gregory is an Instructor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice within the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Legal Psychology from Florida International University, a M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University-State University of New York (SUNY). Her research interests include investigative interviewing techniques, police note-taking, and report writing, eyewitness memory and identification procedures, and decision-making in criminal and civil cases. She has authored/co-authored manuscripts in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling; Legal and Criminological Psychology; and Psychology, Crime, and Law. She has made presentations at numerous conferences including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology-Law Society, the American Society of Criminology, and the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Prior to her appointment at FIU, she was District Director for Academic Services at Broward College, where she served as a founding member of their Institutional Review Board (IRB) and IRB administrator. Formerly, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Central Connecticut State University, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses including Introduction to Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement and Society, Interviewing, Interrogation, and Identification, and Investigative Interviewing Techniques. She also served as a Master's Thesis Advisor, Co-Director for the Criminal Justice Master's Program, and a member of the University Graduate Studies Committee.
During her doctoral studies at FIU, she taught undergraduate courses in Social Psychology, Legal Psychology, and Research Methods. She was awarded the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies' Dissertation Award, as well as the Charles E. Perry Graduate Scholarship, and the Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Psychology. She currently teaches Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Measurement and Analysis in Criminal Justice, and Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice for the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department.
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- Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- Program Coordinator, Value Added Programs
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Politics; Latin America
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Barry Levitt holds a B.A from McGill University and an M.A. from York University, both in Political Science. In 1998-99 he was a visiting scholar at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru. In 2000, he served as Director of Political Analysis for the Carter Center / National Democratic Institute election observation mission in Peru. Levitt received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2002 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at FIU in 2007, he was Assistant Professor at Reed College and then at Emory University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of topics including comparative politics, Latin America, democratic institutions, and political violence. Levitt has contributed chapters to several edited volumes and has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review and Journal of Politics in Latin America. He is also the author of a recently-published book on institutional politics in new democracies, Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011).
Job Titles:
- Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy
Areas of Expertise: National Security, Foreign Policy, Cybersecurity
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Brian Fonseca is Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and an adjunct professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University's (FIU) Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He is the founding Executive Director of Cybersecurity@FIU, FIU's university-wide interdisciplinary emerging preeminent program. Brian also serves as a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow and International Security Fellow at the D.C.-based think tank New America. His analysis has been featured in local, national, and international media and he serves as the on-air political analyst for South Florida's WSVN-Fox News. Brian has testified before the U.S. Congress in 2019 and 2021. His recent publications include two edited volumes titled Culture and National Security in the Americas (Lexington Books, 2017) with Eduardo A. Gamarra and Democracy and Security in Latin America (Routledge, 2021) with Orlando Perez and Gabriel Marcella, and he is co-author of The New US Security Agenda: Trends and Emerging Threats (Palgrave, 2017) with Jonathan Rosen. Brian's technical expertise and publications focus largely on U.S. and Latin American governance, national security, and foreign policies, with particular focus on Venezuela, China, Russia, and cyberspace. Brian joined FIU after serving as the Senior Research Manager for Socio-Cultural Analysis at United States Southern Command's Joint Intelligence Operations Center South (JIOC-S). Brian holds degrees in International Business and International Relations from Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and attended Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, and National Defense University in Washington D.C. From 1997 to 2004, he served in the United States Marine Corps and facilitated the training of foreign military forces in both hostile theaters and during peacetime operations.
Areas of Expertise: Corporate Sustainability / Corporate Social Responsibility, Evolutionary Economics and Welfare (Evolutionary Human Development), Capability Emergence (Neuro-phenomenology), Impact Measurement, Continuous Improvement and Business Development
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Dr. Parra has seven years of experience in designing and executing corporate sustainability and business development strategies as well as in overseeing the continuous improvement of processes and metrics in the financial and manufacturing industries. As Head of Community Development for Citi in Latin America, he developed a regional strategy - executed it in 19 countries - and oversaw a 32 percent budget increase. He also instituted an ecosystem build-up approach to engage with business units in advancing microfinance, sustainable supply chain finance and mobile banking solutions in the region. As KAIZEN leader for Komatsu Latin America Corp, he was in charge of promoting, monitoring and assessing continuous improvement processes internally and throughout the distributor network (i.e. zero inventory programs and HANSEI planning). Dr. Parra developed Key Performance Indicators that facilitated forecasting/planning decisions for reducing costs, enhancing delivery times and increasing profits.
Areas of Expertise: Open Economy Macroeconomics, Growth Theory
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Three seemingly unrelated but nevertheless connected themes run through Dr. Karayalcin's research papers. One theme, which is couched in terms of the open economy macroeconomics literature, investigates the across-country distributions of wealth and income in a world where capital flows take a global aspect. In this set of papers, he explores the consequences of various policies in redistributing wealth internationally as reflected in financial and current accounts. A second theme, this time using the framework provided by development economics, looks at different aspects of globalization as reflected in the political economy of debt and the impact of the use of developmental tools in a context with economies of scale. Finally, a third theme is to be found in a set of papers looking at the historically divergent growth and development experiences of different regions of the globe and highlighting some of the political economy mechanisms that might account for this divergence.
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- Senior Supervisory Intelligence Analyst
Areas of Expertise: Intelligence, National Security, Terrorism, Foreign Policy
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Christopher L. Eddy is a Senior Supervisory Intelligence Analyst (SSIA) and Intelligence Program in the FBI's Miami Division. Prior to this April 2013 appointment, he served as the Intelligence Program Coordinator and Supervisory Intelligence Analyst (SIA) for FBI Miami's Central Strategic Coordinating Component. Upon joining the FBI in 2006, SSIA Eddy was assigned as the SIA of FBI Miami's counterterrorism analysts. Mr. Eddy began his career in 1987 as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force at Travis Air Force Base, California. He served a variety of intelligence leadership positions in the active and reserve forces, including several tours with various law enforcement and intelligence agencies domestically and internationally. He began his federal civilian career with the Department of the Army in 1999, serving as the lead counternarcotics analyst in Embassies throughout the Caribbean.
In 2002, he assumed the position as team lead within the United States Southern Command's, Colombia Division, where he was named the 2003 Joint Intelligence Center Civilian of the Year. Mr. Eddy joined the Department of Homeland Security in 2005, serving as an analytical supervisor at its headquarters in Washington, DC. As part of his military duties, he also served as an intelligence analyst with the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Customs. Mr. Eddy retired as a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserves in 2017 after 30+ years of service. Mr. Eddy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ashland University (OH) in 1986, an MBA in Management from Golden Gate University in 1988, a Master of Science in International Relations from Troy University in 2004, and a PhD in Leadership and Organizational Change from Walden University in 2012. He is an FBI Certified Intelligence Officer and has been inducted into the Academic Halls of Fame for Olean High School and Ashland University. He serves as a course developer and adjunct professor for colleges and universities specializing in intelligence, national security, terrorism, and foreign policy matters.
Areas of Expertise: National security, leadership
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Craig Faller is a retired four star United States Navy Admiral with nearly four decades of global leadership experience. Faller most recently led United States Southern Command where he was responsible for U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean with the primary objective of forging strong security partnerships. He has served in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific regions both on large staffs and in Command of a United States Navy Carrier Strike Group and two warships. He has extensive Washington, DC experience in the Pentagon and with Congress as the Department of the Navy's Chief of Legislative Affairs (lead representative to Congress on behalf of the leadership of the Navy). In the Pentagon he served as the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Faller earned a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a master's in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School.
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- Adjunct Instructor for FIU 's Department of Politics
Areas of Expertise: Human Trafficking, Climate Change
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David Twigg is an adjunct instructor for FIU's Department of Politics and International Relations and is a former director of the FIU Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies and Program in National Security Studies. He received a B.A. in Government from Florida Southern College (1972) and a Master of Science in Management, with a concentration in Public Administration, from FIU (1973). He held progressively responsible positions in local south Florida governments from 1974 to 1998, including working with the administration of various federally funded programs in the areas of substance abuse rehabilitation (grants from the National Institute for Drug Abuse - NIDA, the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - NIAAA, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration -LEAA) and employment training funding (from the U.S. Department of Labor - DOL, and the Department of Health and Human Services - DHHS). In 2004 he completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at FIU, with a dissertation entitled The Winds of Change? Exploring Political Effects of Hurricane Andrew. He has served as Adjunct Instructor in Political Science at Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus and Barry University, Adjunct Instructor in Public Administration and Political Science and Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at FIU. He joined the Gordon Institute as Associate Director in January 2007. When Dr. Twigg retired in 2015 he was director of the Gordon Institute. He had served in local government for 24 years and at FIU for 11 years: 35 years of service within the Florida Retirement System. He has taught courses in U.S. government/politics, North American government/politics and national security. Dr. Twigg completed the FBI Miami Citizens' Academy in 2014. Publications include The Politics of Disaster: Tracking the Impact of Hurricane Andrew (University Press of Florida 2012), "Florida Elections and Hurricanes," Florida Political Chronicle, Volume 19 Winter 2008-2009, pages 33-54, and (co-authored) "Access, Boundaries, and Cooperation: An Introduction," part of the online Colloquium Proceedings from Access, Boundaries and Cooperation: The ABCs of North American Security. Current interests are countering Human Trafficking (modern day slavery) and Climate Change (and the resulting sea level rise), two huge global, national and local problems.
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- Business Administration, Florida International University ( 2011 )
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- Research Associate at the FIU GIS Center
Diana Ter-Ghazaryan is a Faculty Research Associate at the FIU GIS Center. She holds a PhD in International Relations and Geography from Florida International University, a Master's in Environmental Studies from Florida International University, and a BS in Environmental Science and Anthropology from the University of Rio Grande. Dr. Ter-Ghazaryan has been researching and teaching with GIS for the past 15 years, with interests at the intersection of cultural geography, geospatial technology and digital/spatial humanities. At the FIU GIS Center, Ter-Ghazaryan collaborates with business units and faculty on externally and internally funded research in the geospatial realm. She designs and delivers customized GIS workshops and works with faculty to incorporate geospatial visualization and analysis into their teaching and advises graduate and undergraduate students in geospatial visualization and data analysis. She organizes geospatial awareness events and coordinates the GIS Center's outreach efforts within FIU, and to the broader South Florida community. Prior to her current appointment at the FIU GIS Center, Dr. Ter-Ghazaryan was a full-time Lecturer and Director of the Geospatial Technology Program at the Department of Geography at the University of Miami. In that role, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in GIS and geography and managed the Geospatial Technology Certificate Program.
Dr. Alejandro Arrieta is a health economist with an active research portfolio in health policy and global health. He studies how healthcare financing and organization influence utilization and quality of care; for example, how health reforms have changed the role of the private sector in health systems in Latin America or how physician incentives affect the utilization and quality of care. He also researches the economic impact of chronic diseases. Dr. Arrieta has served as principal investigator, co-investigator and consultant for several studies assessing cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis. These studies cover current issues such as technological devices to improve self-control of hypertension, care management programs to improve diabetes control, and contingency management programs to change smoking behavior.
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- Assistant Director of Research Programs and Services in the Extreme Events Institute
- Political Science / 305 - 348 - 7283
Areas of Expertise: Natural Disasters, Comparative Politics in Governance, Policy and Accountability
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Dr. Gabriela Hoberman is Assistant Director of Research Programs and Services in the Extreme Events Institute at Florida International University. She is Co-Director of LACC's Politics & International Relations in the Argentina Study Abroad Program, an intensive four-week program designed to foster an understanding of Latin American international relations with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the region. Dr. Hoberman is a political scientist and researcher who has extensively worked in the study of natural disasters and comparative politics in Latin American and Caribbean countries, specifically in policy, governance and accountability. Her early work focused on race, ethnicity, and migration patterns with a specific emphasis on developing countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and the Dominican Republic. Her current research is on the political economy of disasters, with an emphasis on policy and accountability. She has presented extensively at international and national conferences as well as contributed papers to peer-reviewed academic journals. Dr. Hoberman obtained her Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Political Science from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University.
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- Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise: Natural Resource Management, Sustainable Development, Agriculture
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Dr. Mahadev Bhat is Professor of Natural Resource Economics in the Departments of Earth and Environment and Economics. Dr. Bhat's research focuses on economic and policy issues relating to natural resources management, including sustainable development, agriculture, water, coastal and marine resources, and ecosystem services valuation. He has more than 250 research articles, book chapters, publications and presentations. He has received research funding from the US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, National Parks Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and private foundations. Dr. Bhat has advised more than 30 graduate students and 150 undergraduate students on their research and independent study projects. He co-founded the FIU Agroecology Program with the aid of over 20 different USDA grant programs (over ten million in total), which helped train over 400 under-represented students in agricultural and natural resources sciences and prepare them for career and higher education. His USDA-funded grants helped establish a multi-university consortium for training over 150 Hispanic students in South Florida and Puerto Rico. Dr. Bhat co-established the FIU Organic Garden, which serves as a teaching tool in urban and sustainable agriculture. The Garden was designated as a People's Garden by USDA for having promoted sustainable agriculture education and benefited the FIU student community. He also co-established the nationally acclaimed FIU Veterans and Small Farmers Outreach Program to assist prospective and beginning farmers with establishing viable farming and agri-business operations. He is the recipient of multiple awards: FIU Faculty Senate Awards for Excellence in Service (2010), Teaching (2014) and Engagement (2016); FIU Presidential Award for Excellence (2016); FIU Top Scholar Award (2015); Professor of the Year Award (by the 2015 Class of Professional Science Master in Environmental Policy and Management); Best Course Award (by the 2016 Class of Professional Science Master in Environmental Policy and Management). Dr. Bhat received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and M.S. from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India.
Areas of Expertise: Latin American Politics, Democratization, Neo-Populism
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Eduardo A. Gamarra received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. He has been affiliated with Florida International University since 1986 where he is currently a tenured-full professor in the department of politics and international relations. Between 1994 and 2007 he served as director of FIU's Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) a federally supported National Resource Center for Foreign Language and Area Studies. At LACC he also co founded and edited Hemisphere, a magazine on Latin American and Caribbean affairs. Under Gamarra's leadership, LACC became one of the fastest growing and most dynamic Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs in the United States.
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- Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Jewish Federations of North America
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Elana Broitman is the Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Jewish Federations of North America. She and her family were among the tens of thousands of Jews who fled Soviet Union in the 70's and 80's to escape antisemitism.
Among other positions, Broitman has staffed the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, served as a leading senator's Senior Advisor for National Security, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and USAID Senior Rule of Law Advisor.
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- Executive Director of Career Services
Dr. Figueredo is the Executive Director of Career Services at Florida International University (FIU), the fifth largest university in the U.S. In this position he is responsible for managing a team of professionals focused on expanding students' career opportunities as well as their professional development. He took over this position in April of 2014 after serving for almost three years as the Director of Communications and External Affairs for Miami-Dade County, where he was also a member of the Mayor's Executive Committee. During his time with the County, he was responsible for supervising a team of 37 Public Information Officers focused on managing all external communications programs for the County. These programs included, crisis communications, news-media relations, community support, and social media initiatives for the Office of the Mayor and all 25 departments of Miami-Dade County, the fourth largest municipal government in the U.S. Before joining the County, Dr. Figueredo was the Chair of the Public Relations and Advertising Faculty in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University, a position he took over in 2007. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Figueredo was a partner with Porter Novelli, a global strategic communications agency with offices in 69 countries and headquarters in NY, where he was the Managing Director for the 17 country network of agencies in Latin America. In this position Dr. Figueredo led teams responsible for managing the corporate communications and news-media relations for major multinationals operating in the Latin America region, including AOL, AT&T, Chevron, General Electric, HP, IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft, Visa, and many others. He also led the Multicultural practice for the agency. In addition to profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities, he also formed and led the Crisis Management Task Force for the Latin America region.
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- International Development
- Research Professor
Alex Crowther is a visiting research professor with a dual appointment in both the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, both within the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at FIU. Dr. Crowther is also an integral part of FIU's Emerging Preeminent Program Cybersecurity@FIU. He has extensive experience at the local, regional and global levels with the US government and international organizations and has worked in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Prior to coming to FIU, Dr. Crowther worked on cyber and European issues at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C. and continues to lecture on cybersecurity at the Organization of American States (OAS) as well cyber law/crime/terror at NDU's College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC). He has also worked with cyber issues at NATO. Dr. Crowther has professional fluency in Spanish and a working capability in Portuguese.
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- Adjunct Instructor
- Adjunct Instructor, Career Advisory Board Member
- Adjunct Instructor, Career Advisory Board Member / Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
- Vice Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police ( IACP ) Computer Crimes
Areas of Expertise: Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes
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Major George Perera is the Commander of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Strategic Innovation and High Technology Crimes Bureau (SIHTCB) and the South Florida Cyber Crime Task Force. The largest cyber task force in the country. SIHTCB has the primary responsibility of investigating all facets of technology-related crimes as well as identifying new technology for the department. Additionally, he performs special projects of departmental interest and serves as the departmental research body to assist in recommending and establishing new and innovative ideas as well as best practices. A sworn member of the department for over 30 years, he has worked in everything from Patrol to Major Crime Investigations, from Administration to Technology.
Perera serves as vice chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Computer Crimes and Digital Evidence (CCDE) Committee and chair of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) SAFECOM Cybersecurity working group. He is also a Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Technology Grant Evaluator. He is a nationally recognized subject matter expert for the DHS and a member of multiple Cyber Security Working Groups. He is frequently called upon by the DHS as well as the IACP to participate in policy-related forums as well as speaking engagements. Perera is a NENA Emergency Number Professional (ENP) since 2005; has earned a Bachelor of Science from Florida International University, a Master of Public Administration at Lynn University, and a Master's degree in Security Studies at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Major Perera is an adjunct instructor in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University where he teaches courses in digital crimes. He is also the Acting Director of the Cybersecurity Master's program at St. Thomas University School of Law where he teaches courses in cybersecurity.
Areas of Expertise: Quantitative and Research Methods
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Howard Frank earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida State University in 1988, when he joined the faculty at Florida International University. Professor Frank has held a number of administrative posts at FIU, including Directorship of the Institute of Government and School of Policy and Management. He is currently Chair of the Public Administration Department and Director of the Metropolitan Center, which delivers applied social science management solutions to Southeast Florida nonprofits and governments. Professor Frank's primary research interests are local government financial management and performance. He has authored three books and 33 refereed journal articles and served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, & Financial Management (2008-2011).
Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Frank served as a Management Analyst with the Florida Department of Health and Human Services and a Planner with the Broward County Office of Planning. Dr. Frank earned his BA (with Distinction) from the George Washington University ('79) and his MPA at the University Delaware ('81) where he as a Presidential Fellow. Dr. Frank has been active in the Public Administration profession as a reviewer for numerous journals, and served as Treasurer of the Southeastern Conference of Public Administration from 2000 to 2008.
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- Instructor
- Mass Communications
Areas of Expertise: Media and Branding, Audience Development, Communications
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Jessica Delgado is a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Communication at FIU. With more than 10 years experience in communication, she pursued a career in marketing and public relations within higher education and the arts and humanities fields. She has led media and branding campaigns; initiatives in audience development; overseen promotion for various art exhibitions and projects; and managed public relations for prominent community events. She has worked and taught at Miami Dade College and, most recently, served as the Director of Marketing, Communication, and Events at the UM Libraries. Ms. Delgado received a Bachelors in Liberal Arts and a Masters in Communication from FIU. Currently, Ms. Delgado teaches various courses, which include Business and Professional Communication (COM 3110), Advanced Business Communication (COM 3150), and Advanced Public Speaking(SPC 3602). She has also taught Communication for Effective Leadership (SPC4445), Public Speaking for Engineers (SPC 2608), Conflict Management (COM 4462), Political Communication (COM 4510), and Rhetorical Communication (SPC 3230).
Areas of Expertise: International Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Information Systems, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Dr. Rocha's academic and professional background includes 15+ years of international experience in higher education, research and industry with some of the top universities in the United States, Mexico and Latin America and with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Latin American Headquarters; Wihuri Oy Witraktor-Caterpillar Finland; Consolidated Parts Distributors of Canada, LTD.; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria-Compass Bank; and Robert Allen Law.
Dr. Rocha served on the faculty of the largest private educational system in Latin America: the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education University System (Tec de Monterrey - ITESM) where he held several top positions and taught a number of courses in Executive MBA, MBA and undergraduate programs. He has received a number of awards including a PhD dissertation fellowship award from 2008 to 2010. Dr. Rocha is heavily involved with the South Florida and Latin America business communities, serving on several boards of directors such as the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Inter-American Chapter. An avid serial entrepreneur and co-owner of Swim, Bike and Run and Multisport and Beyond, LLC. as well as managing partner and owner of RMC Global Consulting, LLC., he also has worked closely with senior executives at a number of Fortune 500 companies.
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- Director of Research at FIU 's Kimberly Green Latin American
Areas of Expertise: Latin America - criminal violence, Gangs, Police, democratization, public opinion
José Miguel Cruz is the current Director of Research at FIU's Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. He is an expert in the area of criminal violence, gangs, police, democratization and public opinion in Latin America. Cruz has a Ph.D. in Political Science awarded by Vanderbilt University, a Masters in Public Policy from Oxford University, and a BA in Psychology from the Universidad Centroamericana.
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- Manager, College Recruiting
Areas of Expertise: Political Geography
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Dr. Grove's research works across political geography, security studies, and nature-society theory to study the biopolitics of disaster management and climate change adaptation. Thus broadly concerned with two interconnected movements: on the one hand, powers over life: the continual efforts of governmental interventions to regulate and control how people can understand and adapt to environmental change and surprise. On the other hand, powers of life: the ways that individuals' and communities' everyday practice continually exceeds this governmental reach. To study powers over life, Dr. Grove explores how disaster management and climate change adaptation initiatives attempt to govern populations through social and ecological uncertainty and surprise. Numerous of his peer-reviewed articles have been published in outlets such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Security Dialogue, Geopolitics and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space demonstrate how techniques such as community-based disaster management and catastrophe insurance attempt to regulate individuals' and communities' inherent creativity and adaptability.
To study powers of life, Dr. Grove explores how resilience-building initiatives constantly run up against the limits of target populations' adaptability and creativity. His ethnographic research in Jamaica draws on Caribbean subaltern studies literature to show how the implementation of resilience programming is often a fractured and disjointed process in which project managers constantly adjust their delivery as they interact with people in the field. By drawing attention to the ways that life exceeds power, his research strives to re-contextualize adaptive capacity. At stake here is the ability to approach resilience as what Felix Guattari calls an ethico-aesthetic practice: a creative style of experimentation over how to live within, and possibly against, the socio-ecological insecurities of contemporary neoliberal order. Recognizing this partiality is the first step towards developing new kinds of collaborative interventions between academics and research subjects that creatively address the myriad social, political economic, and environmental insecurities marginalized peoples face in their everyday lives.
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- Manager, Value Added Programs
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- Member of the Cuban Research Institute
Areas of Expertise: The Cuban Revolution, history, sociology, politics
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Routledge will publish The United States and Cuba: Intimate Enemies in 2010. A short book which, nonetheless, forced Dr. Perez-Stable to rethink U.S.-Cuba/Cuban-American relations among themselves and with the international community. Rethinking the Cuban experience is a crucial intellectual direction of her research. She draws liberally from history, politics, and sociology. Currently, she is in the process of thoroughly revising The Cuban Revolution. Expanding the connections between pre- and post-1959 Cuba, particularly regarding politics (part of the major revision) and broadening the "looking forward" perspectives. Why has the Cuban government defied all expectations of quick demise? Finally, her long-term research project is Cuba's Long Twentieth Century, 1868-2002, from the start of the first independence war to the republic's centennial. Instead of focusing primarily on the United States and sugar monoculture, she seeks an understanding of how Cuban political agency at critical junctures was also determinative of the island's trajectory.
Since 2006, Dr. Perez-Stable has taught the Senior Capstone Seminar, Societies in the World, Sociology thru Film, Sociological Theories, and two graduate seminars Sociocultural Theories B and Political Sociology. In her courses, she emphasizes the importance of knowing (learning the facts) and understanding (why/how x, y or z happened).
Dr. Perez-Stable is member of the Cuban Research Institute's advisory board, chair GSS's Rules & Procedure Committee charged with producing the bylaws for our merged department, and member of the Graduate Committee. In Spring 2010, Dr. Perez-Stable will have a course release to work with SIPA in exploring funding opportunities. In academic years 2006-2009, she served on the Personnel Committee and chaired it the last two academic years.
By September 1, 2010, she plans to have finished the 3rd edition of The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy (Oxford University Press).
Areas of Expertise: Politics of Western Europe, International Organizations, European Identity Politics
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Dr. Thiel's research interests are the political sociology of the EU and European (Union) Politics more generally, Nationalism & Identity (Politics) and Mixed Methods Research Methodology. He has published several EU-related articles and book chapters at the EU Center of Excellence as well as in Transatlantic Monthly, International Studies Compendium, Journal of Human Rights, Perspectives on European Politics & Society and the Journal of European Integration. He published The Limits of Transnationalism: Collective Identities and EU Integration (Palgrave, 2011) and also co-edited three volumes: one with Lisa Prügl on Diversity and the European Union (Palgrave, 2009), one with Roger Coate on Identity politics in the Age of Globalization (Lynne Rienner/First Forum Press, 2010), and the latest with Rebecca Friedman on European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging (Ashgate, 2012). His current research focuses on the promotion of rights policies through civil society based on the EU's Fundamental Rights Charter/Agency. His other project examines the significance of LGBT Politics for International Relations (Theory). He teaches INR 2001 Introduction to International Relations, CPO 2002 Comparative Politics, CPO 3103 Comparative (Western) European Politics, CPO 3104 EU Politics, INR 3214 International Relations of Europe, INR 3502 International Organizations, as well as graduate courses on European/EU Politics, International Organization and Research Design in IR. n addition, Dr. Thiel is a research associate at the Miami European Union Center of Excellence and active in FIU's European Studies Program.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication
- Communications, University of Miami
Areas of Expertise: Communication Theory, Research Methods, Multicultural Communication
Bio
María Elena Villar is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the School of Communication + Journalism at Florida International University and teaches courses in communication theory, research methods, multicultural communication, and advanced seminars in strategic communications. She holds a doctorate in communications and master's in public health from the University of Miami, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University. Her research focuses on culturally competent communication for social and behavioral change, and on strategic communication for diverse audiences. In her career as a researcher, Dr. Villar has focused on diverse topics that range from culture and communication, social determinants of disease and health, domestic and sexual violence prevention, stigma related to HIV, mental health and drug abuse, evaluation of program outcomes, and communication for social change. She helped found the student-run faculty supervised strategic communication agency, BOLD, and has taken groups of students on summer abroad programs to Berlin, Germany and Seville, Spain. She has been an invited lecturer for graduate programs at Universidad del Norte in Colombia and Universidad Americana in Nicaragua.
She has dozens of publications based on her research including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, a book chapter and many conference presentations, and several technical reports. Her work has been published in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Sex Education, Health and Mass Communication, Howard Journal of Communication, Journal of Product and Brand Management, American Journal of Media Psychology, Pediatrics, and Journal of Pediatrics, as well as other scholarly journals. She has presented papers and lectures at national and international refereed conferences, including the National Communication Association, International Communication Association, Public Relations Society of America, Association for Educators in Mass Communication, Institute for Public Relations, World Congress on Communications for Development, Latin American Studies Association, Global Health and Innovation Summit at Yale University, and the CDC National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media.
Prior to coming to FIU, she was adjunct professor of public health at Nova Northeastern University, and taught speech communication at Miami Dade College and communication at the University of Miami. She has been an invited lecturer for graduate programs at several universities in Latin America. Dr. Villar's professional experience includes senior research roles at the University of Miami School of Medicine departments of epidemiology and pediatrics; and at the Nova Southeastern University's Institute for Child Health Policy.
In addition to her responsibilities as researcher and educator, Dr. Villar is heavily involved in the community. She served as social marketing director to federally funded FACES (Families and Communities Empowered for Success), a community initiative to improve behavioral health services for youth and ensure that family voices are heard. In that role she oversaw all social marketing, branding, stigma reduction and internal communication activities. For her work, she received various ECCO (Excellence in Communication and Community Outreach) Award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Based on this work, she was recognized by Florida International University as a 2012 Top Scholar for her scholarly contributions.
Dr. Villar's current projects include research on the use of "fotonovelas" or graphic novels for discussion of stigmatized health issues among Haitian and Latino immigrants; culture, stigma and HIV-related behaviors; culturally appropriate approaches to improve clergy health; involvement of Latino fathers in their children's health, and and measuring attitude change as a precursor to behavior change. She is currently collaborating on an interactive game intervention to increase awareness and promote prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in Colombia.
Job Titles:
- Program Director
- Associate Professor of Public Policy Administration
- Public Management and Policy Analysis, Indiana University ( 2008 ) 305 - 348 - 0486
Milena I. Neshkova is an Associate Professor of Public Policy Administration and Faculty Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Global Affairs program in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. Dr. Neshkova earned her Ph.D. from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University in 2008. She also holds M.P.A. from Indiana University and M.A. in Journalism from Sofia University. Her research interests include citizen participation in government, the role of bureaucracy in democratic systems, managing public money, comparative public administration, and fighting corruption. She is a recipient of competitive grants from the National Science Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, and the European Union Center of Excellence. Her work has appeared in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, American Review of Public Administration, Policy Studies Journal, and Journal of European Public Policy.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Department of Politics
Mohiaddin Mesbahi is a Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Director of the Middle East Studies at School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at FIU. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Miami in 1988. He conducted his post-doctoral research at Oxford University (England) in 1992. He teaches in the areas of Strategic Studies and National Security, Islam in international relations, Central Asia and Post-Soviet Studies and International Relations Theory.
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Political Sociology, Post-colonial Studies, Political and Economic Development, Caribbean Political-Economy, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Critical Methodology, Comparative Race and Ethnicity.
Bio
Professor Hintzen received his formal graduate training in comparative political sociology with a particular focus on political economy. He also holds an M.A. degree in international urbanization and public policy. His scholarship reflects his concern with the fraught conditions of upheaval brought about by globalized modern social formations (including modern forms of consciousness), their material manifestations, and their distortions. This is the focus of his current work in a manuscript titled The Black Modern Subject: Diaspora, Modernity, Foreclosure, and Misrecognition. His substantive engagements are with i) the Caribbean, which he sees as the formative emplacement of modern social formations, or at least its conditions; ii) migration, which he sees as the condition out of which modern formations were forged through the "entanglements" that they necessitated; iii) Africa, Blackness and the African Diaspora as the spaces from which he chooses to engage with modern social formations and forms of consciousness; and iv) coloniality or colonial and post-colonial forms of commandment around which modernity has been formalized, legitimized, institutionalized, and normalized. His work reflects his concern with the entire global enterprise of colonialism that includes Europe and North America. Professor Hintzen's research, scholarship, and scholarly practice is "trans-disciplinary" more than multi-disciplinary. It takes into account ways in which culture and institutions permeate, define, produce, and fashion every aspect of reality. He has authored what is considered to be one of the most significant and authoritative books on the racial politics in Guyana and Trinidad titled The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, elite domination and control of the state in Guyana and Trinidad. He has also authored a book on West Indian immigrants to the United States titled West Indians in the West: Self-representations in an immigrant community. He has co-edited with Professor Jean Rahier of FIU a volume on black immigrants to the United States titled Problematizing Blackness: Self ethnographies by Black immigrants to the United States and a recent volume, Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora, also with Jean Rahier and Professor Filipe smith of Tulane University. He has published over fifty articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes on the political economy of the Caribbean and Africa, on West Indian immigration to the United States, and on issues of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. He has presented his research in over one hundred papers at conferences and other forums.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Geography
Areas of Expertise: Economic and Social Geography of the former Soviet-Union, Population and Geography
Bio
Dr. Craumer is an Associate Professor of geography with a joint appointment in both Global and Sociocultural Studies and Politics and International Relations. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Columbia University, specializing in environmental and economic geography, with a regional specialization in the regions of the former Soviet Union. His research has covered a wide range of geographical topics on the states of the former Soviet and Eastern Europe, from agricultural and rural development to health and demographic issues. This work on that vast region has taken him to nearly all of the countries there. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the experiments in democratization, he has worked on the new electoral geography as a unique reflection of the socioeconomic change sweeping the region, and travelled to Russia to study every national election from 1989 through the ascendance of Vladimir Putin. Most recently, he has turned his focus to the study of the socioeconomic vulnerabilities of populations under climate change, from coastal South Florida to the cities of Russia, and their geographic implications.
Areas of Expertise: Situational Crime Prevention, Problem and Community-Oriented Policing, Transnational Crime, Program and Policy Evaluation
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Rob T. Guerette is an associate professor of criminal justice in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Florida International University. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His research interests primarily focus on transnational crime, situational crime prevention, problem- and community-oriented policing, and program and policy evaluation. He serves as the senior researcher for the crime prevention section of the CrimeSolutions.gov Resource Center, part of the Evidence Integration Initiative (E2I), a project originally launched by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Assistant Attorney General's Office. He is also affiliated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and serves as the advisor and coordinator for the annual International Herman Goldstein Awards for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. In addition, he has worked on projects in consultation, collaboration or affiliation with the Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Border Patrol, the National Research Council, the British Home Office Research Directorate, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA-UK), the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, the Miami Police Department, the City of Hollywood (FL) Police Department and the New Jersey Department of Probation and Parole.
His research has appeared in a variety of peer reviewed outlets including Criminology; Crime & Delinquency; Crime Prevention Studies; Criminology & Public Policy; the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research; the Journal of Criminal Justice; the Journal of Experimental Criminology; the Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs and Security Journal. He is the author of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, Problem-Solving Tools Guide No 10, Analyzing Crime Displacement and Diffusion and Problem-Specific Guide No. 44, Disorder at Day Laborer Sites, part of a publication series produced by the U.S. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He is also author of the book Migrant Death: Border Safety and Situational Crime Prevention on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (2007) and co-editor of the book Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism (2006).
Areas of Expertise: Social Development, Civic Institution, International Dialogue, Entrepreneurship
Bio
Saif Y. Ishoof, Esq. serves as Vice President for Engagement at Florida International University. He was appointed in May 2015 by President Mark B. Rosenberg and leads the office in incubating transformational partnerships. As VP for Engagement, Saif builds win-win-win partnerships that create sustainable change for the university and its students; public and private sector partners; and the global community. He is also a Green Fellow at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, Saif served as founding Executive Director at City Year Miami, which provides 17-24 year olds an opportunity to serve one year in high-need schools as tutors, mentors and role models to address the opportunity gap. Under Saif's leadership, the organization more than doubled in size and scope with an expansion from 8 to 17 schools. Saif earned his bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law. His professional career includes being a startup technology entrepreneur and executive in the agricultural and engineering space. Prior to City Year, Saif served as CEO of FCT Technologies Corp., a firm involved in renewable energy, crop science and water resource management. Saif is a graduate of America's Leaders of Change, a program of the National Urban Fellows. He served as a member of the Public Health Trust, the oversight body for Jackson Memorial Hospital. Saif is past chairman of the Miami-Dade County Asian American Advisory Board and a graduate of Leadership Florida Class 28. In the international realm, Saif participated in a U.S. State Department exchange to Turkey of Young American/Young Turkish leaders as part of a public diplomacy initiative. Saif was named a "20 Under 40" Leader by the Miami Herald in 2010 and a 2010 Diversity Leader by the American Jewish Committee. In 2012, Saif was named a Thurgood Marshall College Fund Leader of the Year. He was also named a "Rising Star" leader by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce in 2012. Saif was recognized by the University of Miami School of Law Alumni Association as the Distinguished Leader of 2013. He was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Miami" in 2011 and 2012 by Poder Magazine. Saif was named a 2013 "Father of the Year" by the American Diabetes Association. In 2012, Saif co-founded a technology entrepreneurship initiative called TekFight to empower young innovators in Miami. In 2014, he was awarded the Ruth Shack Leadership Award for his ethical leadership and service to Greater Miami. In 2015, he was recognized as a Monsignor Walsh Outstanding Human Services Professional by the United Way of Miami-Dade and a Volunteer Florida Champion of Service. Saif's personal and professional life has been defined by a commitment to developing young people, building civic institutions, international dialogue, and entrepreneurship.
Shlomi Dinar is Dean in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations.
Dinar's research interests lie at the intersection of international environmental politics, security, and negotiation. In particular, he has published in the area of conflict and cooperation over transboundary rivers (a field popularly known as ‘hydro-politics'). In addition, he works on the linkages between climate change and international water issues, particularly as such a relationship pertains to the resilience and effectiveness of international river basins and institutions, respectively. Dinar's research includes other areas and topics such as the nexus between political demography and technology and terrorism. Among his publications, he has authored or co-authored International Water Treaties: Negotiation and Cooperation along Transboundary Rivers (Routledge 2008), International Water Scarcity and Variability: Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries (University of California Press 2017), and edited Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation (MIT Press 2011). Dinar is also working on several forthcoming book manuscripts, which include a set of 4 volumes titled World Scientific Handbook of Transboundary Water Management (World Scientific Press) where he is Editor-in-chief. His writings have also appeared in such journals as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Geography, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Foreign Affairs, among others.
Among his other professional accomplishments, Dinar has been part of several collaborative consultancy projects for the World Bank that included team members from the United States, Spain, and Israel. In addition to his service to the profession as journal and book manuscript reviewer, Dinar is currently on the editorial board of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics. In 2018, Dinar sat on the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Selection Committee. Dinar has also been invited to give talks and seminars in academic institutions, which have included the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside; University of Sussex; Venice International University; and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, among others. Invited talks in public/organizational forums include NATO (as part of the organization's Advanced Research Workshop) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Government of Canada), among others.
Dinar was also an Anna Sobol Levy Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Pemberton Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, United Kingdom.
Before being appointed Dean, Dinar was Interim Dean and prior to that Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Innovation. In his capacity as Associate Dean, he managed and oversaw all graduate studies (MA and Ph.D.) related affairs, oversaw School-wide market-rate and executive education opportunities, managed efforts to expand internship and career opportunities, assisted with the evaluation of the School's Programs, Centers and Institutes, and reviewed all research grant applications submitted by the School's faculty, among other responsibilities. He is the Faculty Director for the Master of Arts in Global Affairs program. As Faculty Director, he is responsible for all academic-related matters including curriculum, course offerings, and Capstone research projects.
Dinar completed his doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and master's studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis.
Areas of Expertise
International Environmental Politics, International Environmental Institutions, Environment and Security, Hydro-politics, Climate Change, Terrorism, Conflict Resolution, and International Negotiation
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Diplomatic History; History of China's Foreign Relations; U.S.-China Relations Ethnicity and Religion in Foreign Affairs
Bio
I expect students to work hard at their studies, attend class faithfully, and ask questions, preferably questions of their own formulation. I work hard to share what I know about the history of foreign relations with them and to make their FIU degree worth more each year. Having published a path-breaking exploration of the effect of presidential ethnicity on American foreign relations from George Washington to George W. Bush, The Great Anglo-Celtic Divide in the History of American Foreign Relations, (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Praeger, 2011), I am extending my research on that topic as well as pursuing research into the history of claims to the South China Sea, the Chinese frontier during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and America's disobedient diplomats.
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and writing, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, emulative learning, teaching methods
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Professor Vernon Dickson joined Florida International University in the fall of 2007, having just completed his Ph.D. in English at Arizona State University with a dual focus in Renaissance literature and rhetorical studies. He has taught a wide range of courses on rhetorical theories and practices, from first-year writing to the graduate pedagogy course for new instructors of composition, as well as medieval and Renaissance literature courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Before joining FIU, Professor Dickson was the Writing Center Coordinator for Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus, where he also coordinated the Academic Success Workshop Series, taught for Humanities and Arts, and received the Engaged Scholar Certificate of Distinguished Service. His recent monograph explores social and rhetorical theories and practices of imitation and emulation primarily through their enactment on the English Renaissance stage and examines their cultural significance in the often touted age of imitation-several aspects of which he has presented as papers at international, national, and regional conferences. He has published articles related to Shakespeare, the Renaissance, rhetorical theory, exemplarity, and emulation in Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.