
David Adu-Amankwah
Senior Lecturer, African Studies Program
Hamilton Lugar School faculty come from a range of backgrounds and engage in a wide spectrum of research.
They are scholars on human rights, security, public health, climate change, and area studies. They are linguists, military veterans, historians, and sociologists. They are former humanitarian aid workers, diplomats, and nonprofit leaders.
But above all else, our faculty members are thinkers, doers, mentors, and teachers.
David Adu-Amankwah
Senior Lecturer, African Studies Program
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Yasuko Akiyama
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Program Director, Arabic Flagship Center
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Issam Albdairat
Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Nana Amoah-Ramey
Lecturer, African Studies Program
Noah Arjomand
Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development, and Democracy, International Studies
Rahman Arman
Senior Lecturer, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Yingling Bao
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Samuel Bass
Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Chair, International Studies
Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Joseph Bradshaw
Director of Defense and Security Initiatives
Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies
Stanislav Budnitsky
Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Beth Buggenhagen
Director, African Studies Program
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies
Director, Chinese Flagship Center
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jamsheed Choksy
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Elisheva Cohen
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Issues and Sustainable Development, Center for the Study of Global Change
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Interim Dean
Professor, International Studies
Shahyar Daneshgar
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Professor Emeritus, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, International Studies
Kathleen Evans
Director, Language Workshop
Founding Dean
Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Esther Ham
Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies
Distinguished Scholar; Professor of Practice
Executive Associate Dean
Professor, African Studies Program
Director, Institute for European Studies
Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies
Malik Hodjaev
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Lecturer, International Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Professor in Global Strategic Studies, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, International Studies
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Gregory Kasza
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, International Studies
Language Instruction Specialist, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Umida Khikmatillaeva
Visiting Academic Specialist, Language Workshop
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Piibi-Kai Kivik
Language Program Coordinator
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Eli Konwest
Director, Center for the Study of Global Change
Nicole Serena Kousaleos
Senior Lecturer, International Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Tserenchunt Legden
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: East Asian international relations; Japanese and Chinese foreign policy; security studies; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy
Xiaoying Liles
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Xiang Lyu
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Rebecca Manring
Director, Dhar India Studies
Professor, Dhar India Studies
Misako Matsubara
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor of Practice, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor of Practice, International Studies
Academic Director, Arabic Language Flagship
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Gulnisa Nazarova
Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Teaching Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Senior Lecturer, International Studies
Co-director, Cybersecurity and Global Policy Program, Senior Analytics Officer
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Alwiya Omar
Clinical Professor of Linguistics, African Studies Program
Instructional Coordinator, African Studies Program
Director, East Asian Studies Center
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chair, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Leah Peck
Director of International Partnerships and Programs
Director, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Professor, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Benjamin Priest
Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Gedun Rabsal
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Senior Assistant Dean for Curricular and Undergraduate Affairs; Diversity Officer; Director, International Law and Institutions Program, Affiliated Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law
Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Kaya Şahin
Director, Islamic Studies Program
Kazeem Sanuth
Associate Director, National African Language Resource Center
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Natalia Savelyeva
Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Professor, International Studies
Antonia Schleicher
Senior Scholar/Scientist, African Studies Program
Director, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Kashika Singh
Senior Lecturer, Dhar India Studies Program
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Andrea Siqueira
Lecturer, International Studies
Amadou Sow
Senior Lecturer, African Studies Program
Aaron Stalnaker
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Global Affairs Fellow
Daniel Suslak
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Peg Sutton
Director, Southeast Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
David Tezil
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Valeria Varga
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Chair, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Attia Youseif
Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Justyna Zając
Director, Polish Studies Center
Professor of Practice in European Security Studies