Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912,it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967,it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research,founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly a part of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy,also known as Heinz College,is the public policy and information college of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. It consists of the School of Information Systems and Management and the School of Public Policy and Management. The college is named after CMU's former instructor and the later U.S. Senator John Heinz from Pennsylvania.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. In 2006,she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim Ambassador in July 1990. Dr. Tahir-Kheli was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy,Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council,from 2003-2005. She has served three Republican presidential administrations since 1980.
The School of International Service (SIS) is American University's school of advanced international study,covering areas such as international politics,international communication,international development,international economics,peace and conflict resolution,international law and human rights,global environmental politics,and U.S. foreign policy.
Zamira Sydykova served as Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2005 to 2010,after a career as an opposition journalist,including imprisonment by the government of then-president Askar Akayev. After the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010,Ambassador Sydykova served as a trade advisor,scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,associate with Carnegie Endowment,as well as resumed her editorship of Res Publica. Ambassador Sydykova has received awards from the International Women's Media Foundation,Human Rights Watch,and Amnesty International.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is an American international affairs expert with a focus on climate and energy,defense and security,nuclear weapons,and conflict and governance. She was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,an international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington,D.C.,with offices in five other countries,from 1997 to 2015. She has also held jobs in the Executive and Legislative branches of government,management and research in nonprofits,and journalism.
Lisa Anderson is an American political scientist and the former President of the American University in Cairo (AUC).
The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver is a professional school of international affairs offering undergraduate,graduate,and doctoral degrees. It is named in honor of the founding dean,Josef Korbel,father of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Susan J. Pharr is an academic in the field of political science,a Japanologist,and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics,director of Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on the changing nature of relations between citizens and states in Asia,and on the forces that shape civil society over time.
Anita LaFrance Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was formerly Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013 to 2020.
Danielle Susan Allen is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of the Edmond &Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist,human rights activist and public intellectual.
Kathleen M. Carley is an American computational social scientist specializing in dynamic network analysis. She is a professor in the School of Computer Science in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments in the Tepper School of Business,the Heinz College,the Department of Engineering and Public Policy,and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an independent scholar. Until 2019,she was a Research Professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C.,with which she had been associated since 2005,as Visiting Fellow and then Visiting Professor. She became an honorary fellow of ACMCU in September 2019.
Nolan Matthew McCarty is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. politics,democratic political institutions,and political methodology. He has made notable contributions to the study of partisan polarization,the politics of economic inequality,theories of policy-making,and the statistical analysis of legislative voting.
Middle Eastern Americans are Americans of Middle Eastern background. Although once considered Asian Americans,the modern definition of "Asian American" now excludes people with West Asian backgrounds.
Kenneth Prewitt an American academic who is the Carnegie Professor of Social Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs,where he is also director of the Scholarly Knowledge Project. He was Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001.
Kiron Kanina Skinner is a former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State in the Trump administration. Skinner is presently the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy,where she teaches graduate courses in national security and public leadership. Prior to that,she was the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University,and the founding director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy and associated centers at the university. She is also the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. After leaving the Department of State,she returned to her position at Carnegie Mellon University until stepping down in 2021.
