Get to Know Our Faculty and Staff Members

Listed below are the current faculty and staff for the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development at Kennesaw State University.

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Name
Position
  • charity butcher

    Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development and Professor of Political Science

    cbutche2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2929
    House 3201 - 103

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  • maia hallward

    Associate Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacekeeping and Development and Director of the SCMPD PhD Program and Professor of Middle East Politics

    mhallwar@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6127
    House 3201 - 116

  • darina lepadatu

    Professor of Sociology

    dlepadat@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6953
    House 3201 - 110A

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  • akanmy adebayo

    University Ombuds and Professor of History

    aadebayo@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6646
    SO 4112

  • anisah bagasra

    Associate Professor of Psychology

    abagasra@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5254
    SO 2003

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  • Professor of Sociology and International Conflict Management

    jbenjam2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2067
    SO 3003B

  • tavishi bhasin

    Interim Director of International Policy Management and Professor of Political Science

    tbhasin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2272
    SO 5034

  • nalani butler

    Associate Professor of Sport Management

    bbutle59@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6178
    HS 4231

  • volker franke

    Professor of Conflict Management

    vfranke@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2931
    House 3201 - 204

  • uddipana goswami

    Assistant Professor of Conflict Management

    ugoswami@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5104
    House 3201 - 202

  • Govind Hariharan

    Professor of Economics

    gharihar@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6580
    BB 407

  • sherrill hayes

    Assistant Vice Provost and Professor of Conflict Management

    shayes32@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6499
    KH 4415

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  • tim hedeen

    Professor of Conflict Management

    tkhedeen@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6127
    House 3201 - 111

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  • kristina hook

    Assistant Professor of Conflict Management

    khook2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7960
    House 3201 - 205

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  • danica kulibert

    Assistant Professor of Psychology

    dkuliber@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6225
    SO 2015

    Dr. Danica Kulibert (https://namedrop.io/danicakulibert) is an assistant professor in the Psychology Science Department. They are a social psychologists and the lab director for the Social Perceptions and Intergroup Relations (SPAIR) Lab. They often uses Social Identity Theory and Intergroup Contact Theory to better understand how the groups people are a part of impact their perceptions of the world. Currently, Dr. Kulibert conducts research focusing on four broad domains.

    1. Perceptions of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment: What are potential barriers victims with different social identities face when coming forward with discrimination and/or sexual harassment claims?
    2. Understanding Meta-Perceptions: When do meta-perceptions (i.e., how one social group thinks other social group views them) impact prejudice reduction methods?
    3. Political Attitudes and Behaviors: How well do social psychology concepts and interventions be applied to political context?
    4. Applied Intervention/Assessment: In what context can social psychology theories and research methods translate to real-world settings (e.g., workplaces, hospitals, colleges)?

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  • ellen lahtinen

    Program Manager & Part-Time Instructor of Political Science

    elahtine@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6115
    House 3201 - 116A

  • brandon lundy

    Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology

    blundy@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2893
    SO 4050

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  • marcus marktanner

    Professor of Conflict Management and Economics

    mmarktan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7750
    BB 408

  • robin mathis

    Assistant Director for Strategic Communication and Associate Professor of Communication

    rmathi18@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6298
    SO 5110

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  • Brian Moore

    Director of the Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services Research and Associate Professor of Psychology

    bmoore50@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7281
    House 3217 - 103

    Research Interests: Trauma, military psychology, resilience, sleep, health psychology

    Brian A. Moore, Ph.D. is a health psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State University. Before joining Kennesaw State, he served over 10 years in the United States Army as an Infantry officer and continues to serve as a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Moore has a Ph.D. in military health psychology and has completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships in health and trauma psychology. 

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  • jason mueller

    Assistant Professor of Sociology

    jmuell18@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6739
    PS 142

    Areas of Interest: Global Social Change; Political-Economy of Development; Social Theory; Protests, Uprisings, & Insurgencies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Culture & Ideology; Psychoanalysis; Africana Studies; Comparative & Historical Methods

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  • sobia mufti

    Academic Program Support Specialist

    smufti@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2452
    HSE 59 (3201) 116

  • luc noiset

    Professor of Economics

    lnoiset@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4371
    BB 317

    Professor of Economics

    Dr. Luc Noiset is Professor of Economics at Kennesaw State University. He has worked as a tax and budget economist for the Office of Tax Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C.  After the breakup of the Soviet Union, he became the U.S. Treasury's liaison to the Baltic States and the U.S. Treasury's resident advisor to the Latvian Ministry of Finance. In the late 1990's he was based in Moscow, where he was Tax Policy Director and advisor to the Russian Ministry of Finance for a large USAID sponsored Russia Fiscal Reform Project. Additionally, professor Noiset has worked on short-term fiscal reform missions for finance ministries around the world, including in Egypt, Vietnam and countries of the Former Soviet Union.  Since 2006 professor Noiset has taught economics in the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis at Kennesaw State University. His research interests are in fiscal reform and more generally in the role of government in capitalist-based economies.

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  • heather pincock

    Associate Professor of Conflict Management

    hpincock@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6227
    House 3201 - 111

  • amanda reinke

    Associate Professor of Conflict Management

    areinke@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6127
    House 3201 - 113

  • Professor of Sociology

    esterlin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2268
    SO 4065

  • Associate Professor of Psychology

    pstory@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6594
    SO 2019A

  • seneca vaught

    Professor of History

    svaught3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2431
    4115

  • silke zoller

    Assistant Professor of History

    szoller@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2531
    SO 4094