Graduate International Relations Faculty

Full-time St. Mary's University Faculty

Milo Colton, Criminal Justice

Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder; J.D. College of Law, University of Iowa; M.A., M.P.A., B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder.

Milo Colton received B.A., M.P.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado and a J.D. degree from the University of Iowa. He is a former Sioux City, Iowa School Board member and Iowa State Senator. He also served as Chief Administrative Officer of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and he taught college classes at both the Winnebago and Omaha Indian Reservations. He is currently a civil rights attorney, specializing in American Indian issues. At St. Mary's University, he has taught in the undergraduate Criminal Justice program, International Relations graduate program, and at the law school.

Areas of Interest: International Criminal Thought, Substantive Criminal Law

email: mcolton@stmarytx.edu

Kathleen M. Gallagher, Graduate International Relations

Ph. D. Anthropology Harvard University; M.A. Sociology Tribhuvan University (Nepal); B.S.
Psychology/Second Degree Philosophy University of Scranton.

Kathleen M. Gallagher is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations at St. Mary s University in San Antonio, Texas. Her research explores processes of exclusion and dispossession with a special interest in the relationship between political instability and marginalized communities, particularly squatter settlements, displaced people and homeless populations. Related research interests include land, law and the environment; moral economy; and the ethnographic research methodology of transient, illegal and hard-to-follow populations. She is a cultural anthropologist and has conducted extensive research in Nepal. Dr. Gallagher completed her doctoral studies at Harvard University in 2006.

Areas of Interest: Anthropology and International Development; Political Economy and Marginalization; Inequality and Suffering; Ethnographic Research Methodology; South Asia and Nepal

e-mail: kmgallagher1@stmarytx.edu

Larry Hufford, Political Science

Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science, England; M.S.W. Our Lady of the Lake University (Texas);
M.A.T. Miami University, Ohio; B.S. Ohio State University.

Dr. Hufford was a VISTA Volunteer and worked with the United Farm Workers prior to entering doctoral studies. He has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Resolution, Uppsala University, Sweden, and is a recipient of the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award given to ten faculty in the state of Texas. He has served as an official election observer for non-governmental organizations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. For 25 years, Dr. Hufford has led 31 study seminars to countries in war, transitioning out of conflict, transitioning to democracy and extremely poor countries. Examples are: Central America in the 1980s, Haiti, Cuba, Bangladesh, India and Bolivia. He has edited or written seven books, published articles in journals including Journal of Peace Research and the Journal of Current Research on Peace and Violence.

Areas of Interest: Conflict Resolution, Sustainable Development, International Relations Theory.

e-mail: lhufford@stmarytx.edu

Celine A. Jacquemin, International Relations

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine; M.A. University of California, Irvine; B.A. California State University, Fullerton.

Dr. Celine A. Jacquemin was born and raised in the South of France. Dr Celine, as her students call her, received a PH. D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2003. Her research focuses on international response to genocide and to patterns of human rights violations. She is an Associate Professor in Political Science at St Mary s University where she first served as Director of the Undergraduate International Relations Program and is now the Associate Dean for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research examines how international actors understand and frame cases of massive human rights violations and how this impacts the possibilities for intervention. Her expertise covers parts of Europe and the Great Lakes of Africa where she more closely studies Rwanda. A constructivist by training, she is developing a new framework that can further help us understand what makes it 'easy for people to violate the rights of others in order to educate for the respect of human rights. Her current research is expanding her focus to the case of Darfur in the Sudan. This is how she has come to "Researching the Road to Peace" Ã�Æ Ã† Ã�¢â‚¬Å¡Ã�Æ Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã�‚ where she demonstrates that most cases of genocide since the end of the Cold War took place following internationally brokered peace agreements. She also serves as a expert witness for political asylum cases linked to female genital mutilation and rape with the St Mary s University Center for Legal and Social Justice. She co-authored a chapter with Alison Brysk "Bridging Borders for Human Rights" in Transnational civil society published by Kumarian Press in 2006. In November 2008, she published "Allied against all odds to fight genocide: How far has the US come?" in Revista Espaco Academico.

Areas of Interest: International Relations, Human Rights, Comparative Politics (Africa and Non-governmental Organizations).

email: cjacquemin1@stmarytx.edu

Leona Pallansch, Political Science

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.A. Georgetown University; B.A. University of Virginia.

Dr. Pallansch is an associate professor in the Political Science Department and serves as the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs. In addition to offering courses for the graduate and undergraduate international relations programs, Dr. Pallansch has been very involved with the President s Peace Commission as well as the Model Organization of American States, which is sponsored and hosted by St. Mary s. Her research interests currently focus on the application of international development strategies to domestic development and revitalization efforts.

Areas of Interest: Research Methods, International Political Economy, Feminist International Relations Theory

email: lpallansch@stmarytx.edu

Gerald Poyo, History

Ph.D. University of Florida; M.A. University of Texas at Austin; B.A. University of South Carolina.

Born in New Jersey, Gerald E. Poyo grew up in Bogota, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a graduate student he studied Latin American and U.S. Latino history. He worked as a research associate and curator at the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio before taking a faculty position at Florida International University in Miami in 1990. From 1992-1996 he occupied the O Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary s University and then accepted a position in the Department of History. Poyo is currently Chair of the History Department and teaches courses in colonial and modern Latin American history as well as U.S. ethnic and immigration history and the history of Latino communities in the United States.

Areas of Interest: Latin America, Cuba

email: gpoyo@stmarytx.edu

Michael J. Sullivan, Graduate International Relations

Ph.D. Politics, Princeton University; M.A. Church-State Studies, Baylor University; B.A. History and Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada)

Michael Sullivan will be an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations starting August 2012. His research interests focus on the causes of international migration, the ethics of immigration enforcement and regulation policy, and the rights and obligations of membership in political communities. He is also interested in the interstate coordination of responses to unauthorized migration and settlement, and efforts to balance the securitization of migration with international human rights commitments. Dr. Sullivan also has training and teaching experience in public law, normative political theory, identity politics, and religion and politics. Dr. Sullivan is currently working on a normative framework to govern responses by state actors to the settlement of long-term unauthorized residents by net migrant receiving countries. Dr. Sullivan completed his doctoral studies in Princetons University's Department of Politics in September, 2011, with a dissertation entitled: "A Pathway to Citizenship through Contributions in Relationships."

Areas of Interest: Ethics (Normative theory); Immigration Law and Policy (Human Security); Citizenship Studies, International Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Human Rights

email: msullivan6@stmarytx.edu

Robert L. Summers, Jr., Law School

M.S.L.S. University of North Carolina; J.D. College of William and Mary; B.A. Williams College

Professor Bob Summers (Robert Lee Summers, Jr.) is a tenured Professor of Law at the St. Mary's University School of Law where he is the Co-Director of International Studies and the Director of the LL.M Program. He is also the co-founder of the law school's Center for Terrorism Law. In the law school, Professor Summers teaches a wide variety of public international law courses which address such topics as human rights and humanitarian law, laws of war, peace and neutrality, foreign relations law, international criminal law, international dispute resolution, comparative constitutional law, international law of the sea and admiralty, and U.S. intelligence and national security law. As an adjunct faculty member in the International Relations Department, he teaches a number of law-related topical areas including law and ethics of armed conflict and post-conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, intelligence processes and introductory public international law. Professor Summers holds a law degree from William and Mary, and Masters degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and St. Mary's University (in international relations) as well as a Certificate of Advanced International Affairs in the Bush School at Texas A & M University. In addition, Professor Summers is a retired U.S. Navy Captain (06) with twenty-two years of active and reserve service including two tours of duty in Vietnam and command of a Naval Investigative Service unit with the combined mission of criminal investigations, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.

Area of Interest: International Human Rights, Public International Law, Admiralty, International Environmental Law

email: rsummers@stmarytx.edu

Aaron Tyler, Chair, Graduate International Relations

Ph.D. Baylor University; M.A. St. Mary's University; B.A. Baylor University

Aaron Tyler is the chair of the Graduate International Relations Department at St. Mary s University. He received his doctorate in religion, politics and society from Baylor University in 2006. His research interests include: political and religious theories on tolerance; the contributive potential of third-party religious affiliated organizations (RAOs) in conflict management; and normative/metaphysical arguments surrounding the international human rights regime. His work has appeared in such journals as UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Religion and Politics, and International Journal of Christianity and Social Work. He is also the author of Islam, the West, and Tolerance: Conceiving Coexistence.

Areas of Interest: religion and politics, ethics and global security, conflict resolution.

email: atyler@stmarytx.edu

Teresa Van Hoy, History

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Teresa Van Hoy teaches history at St. Mary s University. Throughout her career, Van Hoy s research has focused on international relations. At Wesleyan University where she earned her BA, she wrote her undergraduate thesis on Latin America and the UN Law of the Sea treaty. Her doctorate from UT Austin focused on foreign investment (US and British) in Mexico s railroad development and resulted in a book entitled, Peons, Prisoners, and Priests: A Social History of Mexico s Railroads, published in February 2008. In theoretical terms, this book focused on hypermasculinized models of development that informed late nineteenth-century economic liberalism. Her current research examines the French Intervention in Mexico and Mexican-American mobilization to support Juarez. This project focuses on migrations and peregrinations in order to study gendered expressions of faith and war.

Van Hoy joined St. Mary s University from the University of Houston-Clear Lake where she attained the rank of Associate Professor, served two terms as Chair of Women s Studies, and won a national competition sponsored by Blackboard Inc. Long-committed to activism in the Latino/a community, Van Hoy founded and directs San Antonio Students Stand and Deliver, an educational enrichment program. She also works with Latinas for a Cure to focus attention on the disparity of breast cancer mortality suffered by women of color. (Podcast of her lecture at China Women s University in Beijing can be accessed at the following URL [http://courses.cl.uh.edu/womenstudies/] )

Areas of Interest: Modern Mexico, The Mexican Diaspora

email: tvanhoy@stmarytx.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Jalal Nejad, International Relations

Ph.D. University of North Texas; M.A. Texas State University; B.A. University of Texas at Austin

Jalal Nejad has been an adjunct faculty at St. Mary's university since Fall semester of 2001. He is the recipient of NISOD excellence in teaching award and is currently an associate professor of political Science at Northwest Vista College. His research concentration include "causes of military mobilization among ethnic groups" and "conflict resolution through peaceful means". He is currently working on a project that is a comprehensive study and elaboration on the concept of "ethnic military mobilization" and the factors that contribute to its occurrence. Areas of Interest: Middle East Security Issues, National Security, Theories on Causes of War

Areas of Interest: Middle East Security Issues, International Relations Theory, Causes of War

email: jnejad@stmarytx.edu

Ryan McMahon, International Relations

ABD Washington State University; M.A. University of San Diego; B.A. St. Edward's University

Ryan McMahon is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Program in International Relations at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. He has received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He then earned his Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego where many of his classes focused on comparative politics and security studies. He is currently finishing his doctorate in Political Science at Washington State University. His dissertation examines Chinese naval modernization and East Asian security.

Areas of Interest: Global Justice and Security, Political Psychology, Comparative Politics, and International Relations Theory

email: rmcmahon2@stmarytx.edu

J. Philip Rogers, International Relations

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

J. Philip Rogers received a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin where he specialized in Arms Control. Subsequently, Dr. Rogers was awarded Post-Graduate Fellowships at Stanford University and Harvard University and served as Scholar-in-Residence at the Russian Diplomatic Academy. Currently, a Professor of Political Science at San Antonio College, he has taught at George Washington University, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (where he directed an International Studies Program), and Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. While in Washington, Dr. Rogers supervised internships in the Departments of State and Defense, and taught graduate courses at the National Security Agency.

Areas of Interest: European Security, Nuclear Proliferation, Human Rights

email: jphiliprogers@gmail.com

Amir Samandi, International Relations

M.A. George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs; B.A. St. Mary's University

Amir Samandi is a foreign affairs analyst with MacAulay Brown, Inc. He is currently providing analysis of Middle Eastern affairs to the U.S. Department of Defense. Amir is also an Adjunct Professor with the Political Science Department at St. Mary's University, where he teaches Middle Eastern Politics. Prior to working for MacAulay Brown, Amir was the analyst for Iraqi/Shia affairs at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), where he was awarded a Meritorious Honor Medal for his contributions to U.S.-led efforts in Iraq. He holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from St. Mary's University.

Areas of Interest: International Relations, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Middle East Politics and Security, Latin American Politics, Globalization, Intelligence and National Security, Counter-Terrorism

email: asamandi@stmarytx.edu or amirsamandi@gmail.com

Victoria Samson, International Relations

Victoria Samson is the Washington Office Director for the Secure World Foundation, where she engages in Congressional staffers and agency officials on matters related to space security and governance.

Previously, she was a Senior Analyst with the Center for Defense Information (CDI), where her areas of interest included missile defense, nuclear reductions, and space security issues. Prior to her time at CDI, Samson was a Senior Policy Associate at the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, a consortium of arms groups in the Washington D.C., area. She previously worked as a subcontractor on war-gaming scenarios for the Missile Defense Agency s Directorate of Intelligence.

Samson is the author of numerous op-eds, analytical pieces, journal articles and electronic updates on missile defense and security matters. She has an M.A. in international relations from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and holds a B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from UCLA.

email: vsamson@stmarytx.edu

Steven Zaveloff, International Relations

B.A. Brooklyn College; Naval Officer Candidate School

Steven Zaveloff served in the US Navy for ten years mostly in the Naval Security Group as officer in-charge of submarine and airborne reconnaissance and intelligence mission detachments. After leaving the Navy, he worked as a parole and probation officer before joining the CIA where he served more than 20 years overseas as an Asia Division operations officer in East Asia and as a desk officer and branch chief at CIA headquarters. After transferring to FBIS, Mr. Zaveloff was responsible for open-source reporting on Japan and China and worked on a machine translation project. Mr. Zaveloff serves as a consultant on competitive intelligence and as a translator and interpreter.

Areas of Interest: Asian Security Issues, Intelligence, International and National Security

email: szaveloff@stmarytx.edu

Staff

Nancy Cauble, Graduate Admissions Specialist

email: ncauble@stmarytx.edu

Stephanie Lee, Ft. Hood Office Coordinator

email: stmuhood@stmarytx.edu

Kathleen Worthington, Campus and Online Administrative Assistant

email: kworthington@stmarytx.edu