Faculty Emeriti

Kevin Avruch received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). In 2009 Avruch was appointed the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution (succeeding Nadim Rouhana), and in 2013 he became S-CAR’s second Dean, succeeding Andrea Bartoli. In 2020 he became Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution Emeritus.

Sandra I. Cheldelin is Professor Emerita and former recipient of the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution.  She has held faculty and administrative appointments, including Director (1999-2001) and PhD Program Director (2009-2015) at the Carter School, Provost at the McGregor School of Antioch University, and Academic Dean at the California School of Professional Psychology (Berkeley).  She is a master practitioner with more than four decades of intervention experience in 150 communities and organizations, and has facilitated large-scale community dialogues on issues of fear, suspicion, and violence. 

Dr. Cobb teaches and conducts research on the relationship between narrative and violent conflict.

Chris Mitchell has degrees in Economics and International Relations from London University but is actually a historian able to recognise fraudulant economic reasoning [e.g. the “free” market] when he sees it.

Professor Rubenstein's books and articles include works on the history of religious conflict, structural conflict resolution, war and peace ideologies, and socio-political polarization. In addition to these topics, he teaches courses on theories of conflict and resolution, religion and conflict, and conflict and literature, and participates in public discussions of controversies involving various forms of political violence.

Dr. Sluzki has held numerous teaching, service, and administrative appointments and has extensive training and experience in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, systemic couples and family therapy, narrative-oriented and cross-cultural approaches.