POLITICS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Council
- Professor of Politics at the Catholic University
Andrew Yeo is a Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and also a Senior Fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies. He is the author or co-editor of five books: State, Society, and Markets in North Korea (Cambridge University Press 2021); Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century (Stanford University Press, 2019), North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks (Cambridge University Press 2018); Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge University Press 2011); and Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust in Contemporary Society and Politics and How to Get it Back (Routledge Press 2017). He is completing an edited volume on geostrategic competition and Chinese, Russian, and U.S. overseas military bases, and beginning a new book project on narratives and grand strategy.
His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, Asian security, narratives and discourse, the formation of beliefs, ideas, and worldviews, civil society, social and transnational movements, U.S. grand strategy and global force posture, Korean politics, and North Korea. Dr. Yeo's scholarly publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific among others. His other writings and media commentary have appeared in a variety of outlets including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Hill, The Dispatch, NPR, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and BBC.
Dr. Yeo is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the National Committee on North Korea. He was awarded the Young Faculty Scholar's Award from Catholic University in 2013. He is a two-time recipient of a U.S. Fulbright scholar award conducting research as a senior scholar in the Philippines in 2020 and as a graduate student in South Korea in 2005-2006. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, and BA in Psychology and International Studies magna cum laude, from Northwestern University.
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- Editor of Humanitas
- Founding Director of the New Center for the Study of Statesmanship
- Professor & Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship
Ryn is the Founding Director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at Catholic University. The Center studies the moral, cultural and political preconditions of peaceful and respectful relations among persons, peoples and civilizations and explores sources of foreign policy and domestic leadership in keeping with American traditions of restraint and compromise.
David Walsh is Professor of Politics with teaching and research interests in the field of political theory broadly conceived. His focus has been on the question that the modern world poses for itself at its deepest level. Does our civilization possess the moral and spiritual resources to survive? In response to that question Walsh has traced the modern retrieval order in a trilogy of works. First, is the catharsis evoked by the totalitarian crisis that called forth an affirmation of truth beyond the abyss. This is explored in After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (1990). Second, there is the emergence of a minimal order within the abbreviations that became the liberal democratic form. The Growth of the Liberal Soul (1997) tracks both the contemporary debates and the historical unfolding of the principles that maximize individual liberty while also sustaining civic virtue. Finally, The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (2008) reflects on the overarching philosophical horizon of modernity. It finds that the narrative is best characterized as a re-founding of the classical and Christian understanding rather than a radical departure from it. One of the results of these studies has been a renewed interest in the centrality of the person from whom order radiates into social and political existence. The first phase of this new direction has appeared in Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2016), followed by a companion volume, The Priority of the Person (2020). His current book project is "The Invisible Source of Authority: God in a Secular Age."
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- Associate Professor & IHE and IPR Fellow
- Chairman - Department of Politic Science - Catholic University of America CUA Skip to Main Content
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Professor
Dr. Hellmuth is an associate professor of politics and serves as the academic director of the department's parliamentary internship programs in Europe. Her book, Counterterrorism and the State, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), analyses post-911 counterterrorism decision-making and responses in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and France. She has published and co-published scholarly articles in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal for Deradicalization, Comparative Strategy, German Politics, Democracy and Security, and The Nonproliferation Review, in addition to numerous other book chapters and writings. Her publications also include policy papers and reports published by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) in Washington, D.C., where she is a Non-Resident Fellow.
Professor Hellmuth's research and teaching covers world politics, particularly the study of transatlantic counterterrorism and counterradicalization, European politics, U.S. homeland security, general comparative politics, and U.S. foreign policy.
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- Assistant Professor & Director of the Intelligence Studies Program
- Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Bianca L. Adair serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice and the Director of Intelligence Studies. She retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2022 where she served as an Operations Officer in the Directorate of Operations, which included working as the Resident Intelligence Officer at The University of Texas at Austin. During her federal government service, she held leadership positions in Washington, DC, and foreign field posts. Her foreign postings included work in the Middle East and North Africa. She specialized in security, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and foreign policy concerns with a special focus on Iran.
Dr. Adair has published most recently in Comparative Strategy and Studies in Intelligence. She is currently co-editing and contributing to a compilation book for publication with Routledge on comparative foreign intelligence services with Dr. Kiril Avramov from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her government service, she published her research on communist-era Hungary in East European Quarterly, Problems of Communism, and Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.
Dr. Adair is the recipient of an "Outstanding Contribution to the Literature of Intelligence" award from the CIA for her research on the role of Rear Admiral Sidney Souers in the framing of CIA's authorities on covert action. She also previously received a Fulbright Research Grant on Austrian-Hungarian Relations for research on the relationship between Austria and Hungary during the Cold War. She regularly uses her language abilities in Persian (Farsi), French, German, and Hungarian for her research.
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- Director, Asian Studies Program, 2015 - Present
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- Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair
- Professor & Department Chair
- Professor at the Catholic University of America
Jakub Grygiel is a professor at the Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.). In 2017-2018 he was a senior advisor in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and on the faculty of SAIS-Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Return of the Barbarians (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Great Powers and Geopolitical Change (JHU Press, 2006), and co-author with Wess Mitchell of The Unquiet Frontier (Princeton University Press, 2016). His writings on international relations and security studies have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Orbis, The National Interest, Commentary, Parameters, as well as several U.S. and foreign newspapers. He earned a Ph.D., M.A., and an MPA from Princeton University, and a BSFS Summa Cum Laude from Georgetown University.
John F. Fox, Jr., has served as an adjunct instructor in the CUA Politics Department since 2019. He has also served as the FBI Historian since 2003. In 2001, he was awarded a PhD in modern American history from the University of New Hampshire and in 1993, he completed an MA in political science from Boston College. His articles have appeared in a number of academic journals, the FBI's website, and other venues. He has contributed chapters to several books and co-wrote The FBI: A Centennial History. Fox has also been involved in a number of cooperative museum projects, including the temporary exhibit on the FBI and the media that was on display at the Newseum from June 2008 until June 2016 and the various iterations of the FBI Tour/FBI Experience. He has appeared in many documentaries in the US and Europe, appearing on C-Span, CBS Sunday News, CNN, and Turner Classic Movies among other platforms.
John Kenneth White is an Ordinary Professor of Politics. He has taught at Catholic University since 1988.
Professor White is author of several books on political parties and the American Presidency. The New Politics of Old Values examined the role of values in political campaigns and presidential rhetoric with a special focus on the Reagan presidency. The Values Divide explored how political polarization developed in the post-Reagan years along cultural and social issues. Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics described the creation of a Cold War party system that helped the Republican Party seize the presidency for more than a generation, and how its ending helped elect Bill Clinton to two terms. Barack Obama's America described how a new political demography has reshaped American presidential politics that facilitated the election and reelection of Barack Obama.
What Happened to the Republican Party, White's latest book, describes how the Republican party has been transformed from the Reagan years into the party of Donald Trump. He has also recently coauthored the textbook Party On!: From Hamilton and Jefferson to Trump with Professor Matthew Kerbel of Villanova University. It examines the historical role of the major parties in American political life, and the ways in which the parties shape our political landscape.
Together with his Catholic University colleague, Dr. Sandra Hanson in Sociology, Professor White has co-edited two books on the American Dream: The American Dream in the 21st Century and Latino/a American Dream, the latter book examining how Latinos/as conceive of the American Dream as they emerge as the leading minority group in the United States.
Professor White has made numerous media appearances and has been often quoted in major newspapers and journal articles. He has published numerous op-ed columns for The New York Daily News, The Hill, and other media outlets.
Josiah Augustine is a PhD Candidate at The George Washington University. His research focuses on the effects of entrepreneurship on the electoral dynamics of competitive authoritarian regimes, both past and present. He has been the recipient of graduate fellowships from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Institute for Humane Studies.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Justin B. Litke is an assistant professor of politics and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship. He has taught at Western Kentucky University, Belmont Abbey College, and George Washington University. In 2018, he returned to teach at Catholic, his undergraduate alma mater. Dr. Litke teaches a variety of courses in American political thought and the history of political theory, focusing in particular on the nature and development of political traditions. In 2013, he published his first book, Twilight of the Republic: Empire and Exceptionalism in the American Political Tradition with the University Press of Kentucky.
He is also interested in and writing on the implications of the American political tradition for U.S. foreign policy and is currently at work on two book manuscripts. The first concerns the American tradition of republicanism and its intersections with foreign policy. The second centers on American statesman Henry Clay's work in Congress and develops a new reading of Federalist 10 alongside empirical analysis of Congressional voting. Dr. Litke has been nominated for a number of teaching awards and enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for political theory with his students. He earned the Ph.D. with Distinction from Georgetown University in 2010.
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- Adjunct Instructor
- Adjunct Professor
Mark Stout has served as an adjunct instructor in the CUA Politics Department since 2021. He has previously worked for the Army, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Institute for Defense Analyses. After his first career as a national security practitioner, Dr. Stout was the Historian for the International Spy Museum and then directed graduate programs in global security studies and in intelligence for another university. He is on the editorial board of Georgetown University Press' Studies in Intelligence History series and was a senior editor at War on the Rocks for several years. He was also the founding President of the North American Society for Intelligence History. Dr. Stout's work has been published in Intelligence and National Security, Cold War History, and the Journal of Strategic Studies, among other journals, and he has contributed chapters to several edited volumes. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books in the intelligence and strategic studies fields. His book World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence was published by the University Press of Kansas in the Fall of 2023.
Job Titles:
- Department Chair
- Professor
Matthew Green is a professor of politics and has taught at Catholic University since 2005. He teaches a variety of courses in American politics, focusing in particular on political institutions, state and local politics, federalism, and methodology. He developed a course on recent political events called Politics in the Age of Trump, and also helped develop and co-teach the class Washington Past and Present, an interdisciplinary introduction to the city of Washington, D.C. that is unique to Catholic University.
Professor Green has written a number of books and articles about American politics. His articles have appeared in American Politics Research, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and other journals. Green's most recent book, Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur (University Press of Kansas, 2022), coauthored with Jeff Crouch, uses media accounts, original interviews, and newly-uncovered archival material to explain the motivations and influence of former Congressman and Speaker Newt Gingrich.
He is co-editor of the Congressional Leadership series with University Press of Kansas and has been interviewed or provided commentary for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, C-SPAN, DC News Now, and other media venues. He is also a staff writer for Mischiefs of Faction, a blog about political parties, and contributes periodically to other politics-related blogs.
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow in the Americas Program
Ryan C. Berg is senior fellow in the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). His principal interests are in US-Latin American relations, security, geopolitics, and authoritarian regimes, as well as the region's governance and security challenges. Prior to his appointment at CSIS, Dr. Berg was a research fellow in the Latin America Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He has served as a research consultant at the World Bank, a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil, and a visiting doctoral fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Berg obtained a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. in political science and an M.Sc. in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Hulme fellow. Earlier, he obtained a B.A. in government and theology from Georgetown University. His writing has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals, including The Lancet, Migration and Development, Journal of Climate Change and Health, the SAIS Review of International Affairs, and the Georgetown Security Studies Review. He has appeared on Voice of America and National Public Radio and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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- Professor & Dean of Arts and Sciences
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- Intelligence Officer at the National Security Agency
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland
BA, LaSalle University
William Nolte has served as a career intelligence officer at the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.