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Meet Our Team

Each SIS department is an intellectual home for faculty working across similar or related disciplines, topics, and themes. Led by a chair, each department also includes a director of graduate studies and an undergraduate faculty coordinator selected from among that department's faculty. Each department is professionally staffed with administrative and programmatic support team members. 

Department Chair

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

  kuraduse@american.edu

Director of Graduate Studies

Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Professorial Lecturer and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

  kuraduse@american.edu

Undergraduate Faculty Coordinator

Department Manager

Program Coordinator

Faculty

Akbar Ahmed Distinguished Professor and Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

  akbar@american.edu

PhD Students

The Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations Department has a thriving community of dedicated and qualified PhD students. Learn more about our department's current PhD students.