Faculty

Ablaze with learning

At SGIS, our faculty ranks are as wide-ranging as they are deep. They include area studies scholars, anthropologists, scholars of literature or gender studies, historians, lawyers, linguists, political scientists, and sociologists, among many others.

For example, there is a MacArthur fellow who studies the Silk Road and a leading expert on the inner workings of the United Nations.

Our faculty also include former ambassadors and senior government officials, diplomats, and leaders of nonprofit organizations.

The Carnegie Consortium

SGIS, along with four other leading schools, is part of the Carnegie International Policy Scholars Consortium. Faculty and students at the five schools, which include MIT, Duke, Syracuse, and the University of Virginia, are coming up with new ways to link academic scholarship with policy-making. In other words, they're inventing ways to bring their findings down from the ivy tower and out into the real world.