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.
Michael W. Doyle is an American international relations scholar who is a theorist of the liberal "democratic peace" and author of Liberalism and World Politics. He has also written on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation of UN peace-keeping. He is a University professor of International Affairs,Law and Political Science at Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs. He is the former director of Columbia Global Policy Initiative. He co-directs the Center on Global Governance at Columbia Law School.
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.
Helen V. Milner is an American political scientist and the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University,where she is also the Director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. She has written extensively on issues related to international political economy like international trade,the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy,globalization and regionalism,and the relationship between democracy and trade policy.
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).
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.
Herro Kader Mustafa Garg is a Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023. She served as the United States ambassador to Bulgaria from October 2019 to March 2023.
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.
Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical &Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. She is also the CEO and founder of YinzCam,a U.S.-based technology company that provides the mobile fan experience for a number of professional sports teams and leagues in the United States,Canada,Australia and New Zealand.
Kiron Kanina Skinner is an American academic and former government official. She was 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 of Stanford University. After leaving the Department of State,she returned to her position at Carnegie Mellon University until stepping down in 2021.
