Explore the impactful scholarship produced by our academic community, including completed
doctoral dissertations and published works by our esteemed faculty. This page serves
as a resource for accessing research that contributes to the advancement of knowledge
across disciplines. Faculty and staff listings, along with published materials, reflect
the intellectual rigor and professional expertise that define our institution.
Dr. Akanmu G. Adebayois KSU ombuds and professor of history at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.
He was also formerly director of the Center for Conflict Management and executive
director of the Institute for Global Initiatives at KSU. He received his education
at the University of Ife (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University) and earned his PhD degree
in history. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of many books, and his articles
have been published in many scholarly journals. He is series editor for Conflict and
Security in the "Developing World" for Lexington Books.
Dr. Anisah Bagasrais an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Science who specializes
in interdisciplinary research in the Muslim American and African American faith communities.
Research interests include the impact of Islamophobia on Muslims, Islamic religious
competency for professionals, non-violent social action in the Islamic tradition,
spiritual motivations and extreme altruism, and social and psychological challenges
caused by acculturation. Further information can be found on myfaculty webpage.
Keywords:Community Based Participatory Research, Mixed Methods Design, Pakistan, Muslim Americans
to my brief bio.
Jesse BenjaminProfessor of Sociology and International Conflict Management
Professor of Sociology and International Conflict Management
Dr. Tavishi Bhasinis a Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs. She studies
the politics of identity (gender, ethnicity, religion and language), political participation
including nonviolent and violent dissent, state repression, social movements and democratic
institutions. She also conducts research in the area of teaching and learning. She
has published articles on dissent (violent and nonviolent) and state repression/human
rights violations in democratic and authoritarian contexts. Her publications include
those examining dissent and repression in a global context in the Journal of Conflict
Resolution and the British Journal of Political Science. She uses both qualitative
and quantitative methods in her work.
Charity ButcherDirector of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development and Professor of Political Science
Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development and Professor of Political Science
Dr. Charity Butcher is currently the Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. Her research explores a variety of international issues, including the ways that ethnicity and religion impact international relations, international human rights, civil war and terrorism, and diversionary war. She also conducts research on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education. She teaches graduate courses in international relations, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and development.
Dr. Volker Franke is Professor of Conflict Management and Executive Director of TRENDS Global, an Atlanta-area based nonprofit dedicated to research and engagement in diverse societies. Dr. Franke has worked with the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute at the U.S Army War College, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), one of Germanyâ s premier peace and conflict research and capacity building institutes, and the National Security Studies Program at Syracuse Universityâ s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of Preparing for Peace: Military Identity, Value-Orientations, and Professional Military Education (Praeger 1999) and more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, case studies and research reports on issues related to peace and security studies, conflict management, civil-military relations, development policy and social identity.
Uddipana GoswamiAssistant Professor of Conflict Management
Uddipana Goswami is a writer and feminist peace researcher with a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her academic works include Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge 2023) and Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge 2014). Uddipana is also author of a collection of short stories set against the violent conflicts of Northeast India, No Ghosts in This City (Zubaan, 2014) and two poetry collections that dwell on the intersections of personal and political violence. Her Fulbright postdoctoral research (2016-2018) at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, was on gender and ethnonationalist conflicts. As an interdisciplinary academic, she has published widely in the fields of conflict, peace, ethnicity, social identity, media, gender, South Asia, Northeast India, and writing & literary studies.
A former journalist and editor, Uddipana worked for over a decade with several multinational and hyperlocal media groups, from National Geographic Channel to Seven Sisters Post. She brought a scholar-practitioner's approach to her classrooms at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Guwahati College (India), University of Pennsylvania (USA), Curtis Institute of Music (USA), and the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
Maia HallwardAssociate Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacekeeping and Development and Director of the SCMPD PhD Program and Professor of Middle East Politics
Associate Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacekeeping and Development and Director of the SCMPD PhD Program and Professor of Middle East Politics
Dr. Maia Hallwardis a professor of Middle East Politics and International Conflict Management. She is Editor of the Associate Editor of Journal of Political Science Education. She conducts research on topics including nonviolent resistance, human rights, womenâ s leadership in the Arab world, and the role of identity (religious, cultural, ethnic) in conflict and peace. She has lived and worked in Jordan and Israel/Palestine and conducted field work in Morocco, Oman, and Turkey.
Keywords: peacebuilding, civil resistance, Israel/Palestine, civil society movements,
human rights, gender
Dr. Govind Hariharan is a Professor of Economics at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and is the board chair and faculty advisor at KSU SMIF LLC. He previously served as the Executive Director of the India China America Institute and as Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Kennesaw State University. In his research, Dr. Hariharan applies concepts from economics integrated with other fields such as Information Systems, Psychology and Physics in looking for novel ways to address global and local challenges. His primary area of research is in Health, Wealth, and Technology issues especially of Older Adults. He has taught or lectured in executive programs around the world including major U.S., Chinese, Indian and Singaporean Universities, on industry analysis.
Dr. Timothy Hedeen has served as researcher, evaluator, mediator, ombuds, facilitator or trainer for court systems, educational institutions, federal agencies, and many private, civil, or non-governmental organizations. His experience spans mediation and restorative justice in community and educational settings, policymaking and regulation of court dispute resolution services, consultation, and assessment services to international organizations.
Kristina HookAssistant Professor of Conflict Management
Dr. Kristina Hookas an anthropologist, I specialize in comparative genocide studies and experiences of armed conflict fueled by contested identities and historical narratives. I have research and professional experience in twenty-five countries, with a primary focus on Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian relations, and the Eastern European context. My current book project is based on multiyear ethnographic fieldwork and clinical sensitive-topic interviewing across Ukraine. It explores Joseph Stalin's historical genocide against Ukraine (the Holodomor) and how modern leaders interpreted this history to predict both Russia's modern genocidal war and Ukraine's nationwide resistance. As a Ukraine-Russia specialist, I also publish Ukraine-focused work on war-related environmental risks, local experiences of conflict, historical narratives during hybrid warfare, and emerging technologies. An ongoing research collaboration includes working with computer scientist colleagues at the University of Notre Dame to harness artificial intelligence tools for atrocity forecasting and response in the Ukraine-Russia context and elsewhere.
Keywords: genocides and mass atrocities, memory politics, authoritarianism, identity
(both its construction and erasure), oral storytelling, qualitative data, ethnography;
Eastern Europe and Eurasia; Soviet Union.
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.
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?
Understanding Meta-Perceptions: When do meta-perceptions (i.e., how one social group
thinks other social group views them) impact prejudice reduction methods?
Political Attitudes and Behaviors: How well do social psychology concepts and interventions
be applied to political context?
Applied Intervention/Assessment: In what context can social psychology theories and
research methods translate to real-world settings (e.g., workplaces, hospitals, colleges)?
Dr. Darina Lepadatuis Professor of Sociology and International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Lepadatu teaches the following graduate courses: Qualitative Methods, Advanced Qualitative Methods, Dissertation Proposal Colloquium, Research Design, Current Conflicts and Conflict Management for Managers.
Areas of expertise: Intercultural and Organizational Conflict, Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion, Transnational Migration & Refugees, Conflict Management.
Regional area of expertise: Central and Eastern Europe; European Union; Post-communist
Societies
Dr. Brandon D. Lundy is a Professor of Anthropology and served as a founding administrator and Associate Director in the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development. Dr. Lundy also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Economic Anthropology. Dr. Lundy's work focuses on climate change, sustainable livelihoods, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management, and entrepreneurship. He is the editor or co-editor of five books and has published in many journals including Cross-Cultural Research, Human Organization, African Studies, Development in Practice, Economic Anthropology, African Arts, African Identities, and Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. Dr. Lundy has served as a country specialist (Guinea-Bissau) for Fulbright and the State Department and regularly presents nationally and internationally. He currently supervises Ph.D. students on a Diplomacy Lab project on artisanal mining in Mauritania and is beginning new research on the contested values of artisanal alcohol in West Africa.
Marcus MarktannerProfessor of Conflict Management and Economics
Dr. Marcus Marktanneris a professor of economics and international conflict management. He is interested
in economic development as a driver of conflict and contributor to peace. His research
is data-driven and involves impact studies and policy simulations. His teaching interest
is in conflict economics and advanced quantitative methods.
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.
Heather PincockAssociate Professor of Conflict Management
Dr. Heather Pincock, Associate Professor of Conflict Management. Her research is broadly concerned with
theories of democracy and citizenship, and her work examines how both citizens and
the state seek to manage everyday conflicts in ways that conform to, reinforce, and
challenge democratic values of autonomy, equality, and community.
Keywords: Political Science, Democratic Theory, Public Deliberation, Participatory
Democracy, Citizenship
Amanda ReinkeAssociate Professor of Conflict Management
Dr. Amanda J. Reinkeis a scholar-practitioner who uses primarily qualitative methods to analyze the structural,
everyday, slow, and bureaucratic violence of disaster recovery processes and alternative
dispute resolution contexts in the Southeastern United States.
Dr. Seneca Vaughtâ steaching and research specializations focus on global intersections of race, culture,
and policy. He has co-directed numerous study abroad programs to Europe, West Africa,
and South America where he mentors students working on applied historical projects,
ranging from grassroots mini-documentary projects to game-based play maps. He leverages
these techniques and his expertise in race policy as a method of democratizing the
policymaking process and is a champion of problem-based learning. His research and
teaching agenda focuses on how to apply historical methods and use historical content
in policy, social entrepreneurship, and cultural diplomacy. His most recent book examines
the life and legacy of Susana Baca, an Afro-Peruvian artist and diplomat, and studies
historical and cultural connections between African-descended populations in Peru
and throughout the African Diaspora.
Dr. Silke Zolleris an Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Philosophy. she studies
international collaboration against terrorism and political violence in the second
half of the twentieth century. Her research focuses on how the United States and European
countries responded to instances of non-state violence in the past. She analyzes the
history of diplomatic relations, international institutions, debates about the legitimacy
of violence, and civil aviation. In particular, Silke is interested in how different
understandings of terrorism shaped different responses to terrorism over time.
Keywords: terrorism, counterterrorism, political violence, decolonization, the Cold
War, international organizations, the United Nations, hijacking, aviation security,
and international law.
