Dr. Virginia Haufler, Ph.D.
Director
Virginia Haufler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Government, with a specialization in international relations, from Cornell University. She has two B.A. degrees from Pennsylvania State University, in Foreign Service and International Relations, and in Russian Language and Literature. She is affiliated with the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland. Her research and publications examine the role of the private sector in global governance, the global regulation of industry, and the rise of industry self-regulation and corporate social responsibility. In 2009, she spent a year as a visiting scholar at UC Irvine and USC, and in 1999-2000 she was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank in Washington, DC. She has advised the USIP/ GWU Task Force on Business and Peace, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/ HSFK), Women in International Security (WIIS), and the UN Global Compact Principles for Responsible Investment. She has consulted for international organizations and the non-profit sector.
Professor Haufler teaches courses in international relations and international political economy, with a special focus on the influence of multinational corporations. She will teach the required freshmen courses for Global Communities, and is responsible for general oversight of the program.
Dr. Virginia Haufler's web site
Kevin R. McClure, M.A.
Assistant Director
Kevin R. McClure graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Richmond with degrees in History and Spanish. He completed his Master's degree in international education policy from the University of Maryland, focusing on Islamic education. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the same field, with emphasis on modern Turkey. After studying abroad in Spain, Kevin worked in Ecuador and has traveled throughout Europe. As an outlet for his somewhat life-consuming interest in Turkish history, Kevin teaches a short-term study abroad course based out of Istanbul, Turkey. Kevin is responsible for program outreach, admissions, and assessment. He oversees the second-year experiential learning requirements (study abroad, internships, and service-learning). Contact Kevin for inquiries regarding Dorchester Hall and/or partnering with Global Communities for intercultural events
Kevin teaches:
EDHI288/488: Education and Islamism-Secularism Debate (Winter Term Only)
Natalie Vinski, M.A.
Program Coordinator
Natalie Vinski recently completed a one-year Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) fellowship at University Hassan II Faculty of Arts and Humanities, a public university in Casablanca, Morocco. Prior to that she lived and worked in Boston where she directed the Office of International Education Programs at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Natalie holds a Master’s degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and a Bachelor’s degree in American Cultural Studies from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.
Jacqui Ignatova, M.A.
Graduate Assistant
Jacqui Ignatova is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government and Politics. She is working on a dissertation on the politics of genetically-modified crops in West Africa. She has a M.A. in International Relations at San Francisco State University and was a part of the first graduating class of the Global Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Travel is a big part of her life and she considers her travels to 23 countries and study abroad in the Netherlands a critical part of her education.
