Carter School Faculty

Professor Romano is a scholar-practitioner whose research and applied interests include global educational movements, the use of transformative and experiential education in communities affected by violence and nonviolence education.

Agnieszka Paczynska’s research focuses on the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, development and conflict, security-development nexus, post-conflict reconstruction policies, the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts, and conflict resolution pedagogy.

Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution and the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution.

Dr. Maulden's research interests include generational and gendered dynamics of conflict and peace, social militarization/demilitarization processes, urbanization, post-conflict peace economies, and building peace practices.

Terrence Lyons focuses his research on comparative peace processes and post-conflict politics, with a regional emphasis on Africa.

A political scientist by training, Dr. Lopez Bunyasi's scholarship is broadly concerned with matters of race, racism and antiracism in the United States, with specializations in structural inequality, racial attitudes and ideologies, racial marginalization, and the politics of whiteness.

Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and dynamics of identity and power in protracted social conflicts.

Dr. Hirsch's scholarship focuses on law in relation to conflict; international and transitional justice; legal integration and religious minorities; environmental justice; feminist approaches to law and conflict, experiential learning, and legal responses to terrorism.

Dr. Flores' research focuses on democratization, civil conflict, and economic development.

Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose academic research focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, and the politics of memory and identity.