Faculty

  • Headshot Photo of Susan Allen

    Henry Hart Rice Chair and Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School
    Director of Graduate Programs, Carter School

    Susan Allen is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution. Her main focus is on reflective practice and research that emerges from practice contexts.
  • Headshot of Charles Chavis

    Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and History, Carter School
    Director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race, Carter School

    Dr. Chavis is a historian and museum educator whose work focuses on the history of racial violence and civil rights activism and Black and Jewish relations in the American South, and the ways in which the historical understandings of racial violence and civil rights activism can inform current and future approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution throughout the world.
  • Photo of Leslie Dwyer

    Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology, Carter School
    Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict, Carter School

    Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose academic research focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, and the politics of memory and identity.
  • Photo of Thomas Flores

    Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Political Science, Carter School

    Dr. Flores' research focuses on democratization, civil conflict, and economic development.
  • Photo of Marc Gopin

    James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Carter School
    Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Carter School

    Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution.
  • Photo of Susan Hirsch

    Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School
    Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology, Carter School

    Dr. Hirsch's scholarship focuses on law in relation to conflict; international and transitional justice; legal integration and religious minorities; environmental justice; feminist approaches to law and conflict, experiential learning, and legal responses to terrorism.
  • Photo of Douglas Irvin-Erickson

    Assistant Professor, Carter School Director of the Genocide Prevention Program, Carter School

    Dr. Irvin-Erickson has worked in the field of genocide studies and mass atrocity prevention in DR Congo, Burundi, Cambodia, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Argentina. He is the author of books, chapters, and articles on genocide, religion and violence, human security, international criminal law, and political theory.
  • Photo of Karina Korostelina

    Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School

    Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and dynamics of identity and power in protracted social conflicts.
  • Photo of Tehama Lopez Bunyasi

    Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Carter School

    A political scientist by training, Dr. Lopez Bunyasi's scholarship is broadly concerned with matters of race, racism and antiracism in the United States, with specializations in structural inequality, racial attitudes and ideologies, racial marginalization, and the politics of whiteness.
  • Photo of Terrence Lyons

    Professor of Conflict Resolution, Carter School

    Terrence Lyons focuses his research on comparative peace processes and post-conflict politics, with a regional emphasis on Africa.