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MDY Faculty
The Master of Arts in Diplomacy faculty are a diverse group of professionals sourced from all over the world and a wide variety of industries. All have terminal degrees in their specialized fields. They are passionate about both the subject matter and teaching, and bring the latest developments in their professional activities and research right into the classroom. Each instructor is chosen specifically for his or her unique insight into the curriculum of particular seminars.
All School of Graduate Studies faculty receive comprehensive training in the online learning environment. They recognize their responsibility to bring experience and expertise to bear in the classroom, to facilitate vibrant and engaging discussion of the subject matter, and to support students in all of their learning activities.
The following is a partial faculty list. Please contact a Diplomacy Admissions Advisor to request a comprehensive list.
Harold Kearsley, PhD
Greetings, I'm Hal Kearsley, Director of Norwich University's On Line Master of Arts in Diplomacy program. I was born in Canada, but moved south when I was young, becoming a US citizen in 1967. I volunteered for the US Navy in 1969 and received my commissioned in '73 (University of South Carolina ROTC).
I stayed in the Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer until 1981, and then decided to look into the field of education. I had done most of a master's degree from the University of Southern California while stationed in London with the Navy, so I returned to the UK and finished the degree. My first teaching job (with Schiller International University in London) was really just an experiment to see if I liked dealing with students. I loved being in the classroom, but, I still had some restlessness, so I decided to delay the PhD thing for a time and lived on a sailboat for a few years (eventually crossing the Atlantic on it).
Returning to the UK in 1986, I started the long-delayed PhD program at the University of Aberdeen, under the tutelage of Paul Wilkinson. Finally, I finished the degree under Mike Sheehan and John Moore in 1990.
I came back to this country to start my present profession as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana. From SLU, I moved on to Troy State University to take up various administrative posts, including Chair for their International Relations Department as well as Director of their Masters program in International Relations. I then took the job of Professor of Political Science and Director of this program at Norwich University in 2002 and am extremely excited as to the direction and vigor of the program.
As for my academic side, I have been published in a number of journals and military publications. I have written about a number of topics, thus I consider myself to be eclectic in that arena. I have written on the Swedish Navy, the Irish Military and have done extensive research on the Maltese Navy (Yes, they have one!). I have published a book on maritime power, but also have written on racism, the Chinese-Taiwan issue, as well as United Nations peacekeeping operations. My research interests still rest in the maritime arena, if only I could break away from writing student manuals, etc!
James F. Miskel, PhD
In addition to teaching in the Norwich program, Dr. Miskel is a consultant in the areas of defence policy and homeland security. His two main clients are Alidade Inc., a defence consulting company in Newport, RI and the state of Rhode Island. He is also the editor of the Information Age Warfare Quarterly. He is widely published in the field of national security and has an extensive background in security affairs. He has two books coming out in the fall of 2006: Disaster Relief and Homeland Security (Praeger) and (co-author) A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East (University Press of Florida). Dr. Miskel is a former Professor of National Security Affairs and Associate Dean of Academics at the U.S. Naval War College. Prior to joining the Naval War College faculty in 1993 he held senior positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Security Council. He was a Director of Defence Policy and Arms Control at the NSC under two presidential administrations.
Seung-Ho Joo, PhD
Dr. Seung-Ho Joo is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Morris. His research interest areas include Russian foreign and security policy, Russo-Korean relations, and US-Korea relations. Dr. Joo is the author of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula, 1985-1991: Reform and Policy (Edwin Mellen, 2000) and co-editor of Korea in the 21st Century (Nova, 2001), The Korean Peace Process and the Four Powers (Ashgate, 2003), and The United States and the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century (Ashgate, 2006). He has authored over 40 book chapters and journal articles, with the latter appearing in Pacific Affairs, World Affairs, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, American Asian Review, Comparative Strategy, Arms Control, Asian Perspective, Pacific Focus, and The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis. He is currently completing a book manuscript on Russia and Korea, 1991-2005.
Dr. Joo is Associate Editor for North America, Pacific Focus (2003-present) and former North American Editor, International Journal of Korean Unification Studies (1999-2000). He was Korea Foundation Field Research Fellow (2005); a Distinguished Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification (1999-2000) and a Humphrey Institute Policy Fellow (1997-1998). Dr. Joo is former President of the Association of Korean Political Studies (formerly AKPSNA) (2003-05).
Dr. Emily Copeland
Dr. Emily Copeland received her PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1996. She currently teaches Political Science at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. Prior to relocating to Rhode Island with her husband and family, Dr. Copeland taught in the International Relations Department at Florida International University and served as the lead project director for an eight-university consortium program on "Transnationalism, International Migration, Race, Ethnocentrism and the State."
She has worked for UNHCR in the Sudan with Ethiopian refugees and for Save the Children (USA) in Pakistan with Afghan refugees. She has also worked as a Research Analyst in Washington DC with the Refugee Policy Group and as a consultant with the World Bank. Dr. Copeland has also taught on refugee issues at Oxford, Tufts and Boston College.
Selected publications include: Forced Migration: Policy Issues in the Post-Cold War World, (co-author); A Rare Opening in the Wall: The Growing Recognition of Gender-Based Persecution, in Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights; When Backyards are Borders: The Debate over Immigration Issues in Florida, 1994-1996, in The Ethnic Entanglement: Conflict and Intervention in World Politics and Reshaping the International Refugee Regime: Industrialized States' Responses to Refugee Flows in the Post-Cold War Era, in International Politics.
Dr. Robert Farkasch
Dr. Robert Farkasch received his doctorate in Political Science from York University, Canada, in 2001 and resides between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. An honors undergraduate degree in economics, a masters degree in international affairs emphasizing international economics and recent research efforts concerning how historical and normative concerns shape conceptions of international relations and the economy have provided Dr. Farkasch with an interdisciplinary approach to determine whether contemporary globalization processes are imposing new limits on political participation.
Currently lecturing at the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington, Bothell, he offers courses in International Political Economy, International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Ideas and Ideologies, Globalization and Terrorism. In addition, he conducts graduate international relations seminars for Troy University, Alabama.
Dr. Farkasch is currently involved in a number of research projects having published papers in economics, political theory and international relations while attending and presenting papers at the International Studies Association, the British Columbia Political Science Association and the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association. In 2003, Dr. Farkasch was honored with the ASUWB Teaching Award (Professor of the Year as determined by the students) at the University of Washington, Bothell.
Prof. Hayat Alvi-Aziz
Hayat Alvi-Aziz is an Associate Professor in the National Security & Decision Making Department at the US Naval War College. She has served as the Director of International Studies at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, and she also taught Political Science at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, for four years. Her specializations include International Relations, Political Economy, Islamic Studies, and regional expertise in the Middle East and South Asia. She is proficient in Arabic and Urdu. Prof. Aziz has published Regional Integration in the Middle East: An Analysis of Inter-Arab Cooperation (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007), along with numerous articles. She lives in Boston with her husband. For more information, see her personal web site at www.hayataziz-politicalscience.com. Prof. Aziz is an American citizen of Indian descent. Some of her publications include:
- An Introduction to International Studies: Exploring Frontiers (Deer Park, NY: Linus, 2006).
- "A Progress Report on Women's Education in Post-Taliban Afghanistan," International Journal of Lifelong Education (IJLLE), vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2008 (169-178).
- "The Non-Governance of Divided Territories: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Palestine," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAM), December 2008.
- "The Human Rights of Women and Social Transformation in the Arab Middle East," Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), 9:2, June 2005 (142-160).
- "Reconstruction in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Women and Education" Resources for Feminist Research, Special Issue on Women, War & Militarization, Spring/Summer 2004, vol. 30, no. ¾ (13-37).
Dr. Shelton Williams
Dr. Shelton Williams is a leader in the field of experiential education and an expert on the issue of nuclear non-proliferation policy. In his over 35 years as a professor at Austin College in Sherman, Texas he created and supervised the college's Model United Nations program, won three major teaching awards, and wrote extensively. His books include The US, India and the Bomb (1969), Nuclear Non-proliferation in International System: The Japanese Case (1973), and Multilateral Diplomacy in the Post Cold War United Nations (contributed chapters in 1998 and 2005). He also contributed four articles on arms control and disarmament in the Facts on File: United Nations Encyclopedia. Other articles and op eds have appeared in The SAIS Review, Newsday, and the American Centre for International Policy Studies. Washed in the Blood (2004) and The Summer of 66 (2006) are his latest non-fiction novels, but there are more to come.
Dr. Williams has also worked in government, including a tour of duty in the Department of State, under Secretary of State Madeline Albright, in which he worked extensively on the permanent extension of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1995 and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency where he worked on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1995/96. He also served the Office of International Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission as an analyst and consultant, 1976-1981.
Dr. Williams created the Osgood Centre for International Studies in 2006, so students from all over the world can come to Washington, DC to study international affairs and meet the policy makers, analysts, journalists, and politicians who make and debate these issues.
Jaylene M. Sarracino
Jaylene M. Sarracino holds a BA in Criminal Justice and a JD from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She belongs to the Maryland and Washington, DC Bars. She is an adjunct professor for Norwich University and as of January 2006 is the Assistant Academic Director of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies for UMUC.
Professor Sarracino began her legal career as a visiting student with the University of Detroit Mercy in London, U.K. and Howard Law School in Washington, DC She interned with the Honorable Juan Burciaga of the U.S. District Court for the district of New Mexico and the U.S. State Department's Legal Advisor's Office. Later she enjoyed working for international scholars such as Dr. Linda Spedding and Dr. Gudmundur Eiriksson, former Member of the International Law Commission. As an associate in Washington, DC, she practiced food safety law with well-known advocate Jim Turner and negotiated the importation of FDA-regulated products. A few years later, she was an Attorney-Advisor with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Between the years 1999-2001, during her spouse's temporary diplomatic assignment to Israel, she practiced US trademark law for two large Israeli law firms and volunteered with the U.S. Fulbright Office as an advisor. Years later she owned and operated the law firm Raju & Sarracino, LLC, a successful trademark law boutique.
She is the co-author of two publications for the National Academies of Science: Trademarking and Licensing for Transit Providers; and Legal Guidelines (summary and chapter), published in Sharing Information Regarding Bus Transit Maintenance Practices.
She currently sits on the editorial board for WomenInLaw.com and will begin her master's degree this fall in UMUC's Homeland Security Management graduate program, which will complement her subject matter expertise in the fields of criminal justice and international law.
Clifford A. Bates, Jr., PhD
Clifford A. Bates, Jr., holds a PhD in political science from Northern Illinois University. Aside from being a lecturer for Norwich's on-line program for over 3 years, he is also a Professor at Warsaw (Poland) University's American Studies Centre, where he teaches MA courses on American Politics from a comparative perspective. He has published a book on rethinking how we look at democratic theory by turning to ancient political thought, Aristotle's Best Regime (LSU 2003), as well as several articles and reviews on the connection between political thought and political action and statesmanship.
Dr. Bates is currently working on a book on the crisis of modern sovereignty and how the crisis emerges from the Hobbesian foundation of modern theory of sovereignty. He is also working with a colleague from Warsaw School of Economics on the political economy of Poland's transformation, and why policy reform has often not yielded the results the designers of such policies have expected. From 1999 to 2004, he worked as a consultant for the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. And occasionally is on Polish TV and Radio to discuss or comment on aspects of American politics and how they impact or could impact Poland.
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