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Faculty

Our superb core faculty - comprised of leading scholars and former senior officials from the worlds of diplomacy, commerce and intelligence - remain close to the policymaking process, bringing real world, real time experience to the classroom. They are frequent travelers to Washington, New York, around the country and overseas, making presentations, consulting, conducting research or advancing special projects for the U.S. government, United Nations, or NGO community. These faculty members are distinguished by their commitment to teaching, scholarship, and public service. Their institutional connections and personal contacts can prove invaluable when it comes to ferreting out internships and professional opportunities for our students, and career openings for our graduates.

Student engagement with all the Patterson School core faculty is substantial, given the intimate size of the program, our exclusive focus on masters degree students, and the wide range of co-curricular activities.

Patterson faculty

Core Faculty

Carey Cavanaugh - Director and Professor

Carey Cavanaugh | 461 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676

Carey Cavanaugh

Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh became Director of the Patterson School and Professor of Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in 2006. He returned to academia after a twenty-two year diplomatic career with the U.S. Department of State centered on conflict resolution, political-military affairs, and humanitarian issues.

In addition to Washington assignments in the State Department, Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Cavanaugh served in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern. In 1992, he established the first U.S. Embassy to the new Republic of Georgia, serving as Chargé d’affaires. Under Presidents Clinton and Bush, he spearheaded or helped advance peace efforts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Cavanaugh was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Ambassador/Special Negotiator responsible for conflicts in Eurasia in 2002 (in this role he served concurrently as the US Co-Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Minsk Group). Later Cavanaugh was elected president of the State Department's Senior Seminar and criss-crossed the globe as a team leader for the Office of the Inspector General. His final government assignment was foreign policy/political advisor to U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Mullen (the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff).

Professor Cavanaugh earned his B.A. in Russian at the University of Florida, his M.A. in Government and International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, with additional graduate work at Notre Dame and the U.S. Army Russian Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).

Areas of Specialization

Conflict Resolution, Diplomacy, Mediation, Assistance and Humanitarian Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy, Europe and Russia.

John D. Stempel - Senior Professor of International Relations

John D. Stempel | 449 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-8261 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~stempel

John D. Stempel

John Stempel, Senior Professor of International Relations, received his A.B. from Princeton and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served 23 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, including postings in Guinea, Burundi, Zambia, and Iran, plus a three-year tour as U.S. Consul General in Madras, India. His experience in Teheran — where he was the Embassy’s principal liaison with opposition groups — provided material for his book Inside the Iranian Revolution. Professor Stempel taught previously at the U.S. Naval Academy, joining the Patterson School in 1988. He served as the school’s director from 1993-2003. In 2005, Professor Stempel was on sabbatical at Virginia Military Institute. His most recent book, Common Sense and Foreign Policy (2008), argues for pragmatic solutions to address our most vexing problems. Professor Stempel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of Georgetown College.

Areas of Specialization

Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Near Eastern Politics, Cross Cultural Negotiation, Iran, and India.

Karen Mingst - Lockwood Chair Professor

Karen Mingst | 441 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-7043 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~kmingst

Karen Mingst

Karen A. Mingst is the Earl and Jean Lockwood Professor of International Commerce and Entrepreneurship. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science where she served as Chair from 1993-1999. She joined the Patterson School in 2002. Professor Mingst received her B.A. from Colorado College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She has taught at Louisiana State University, the University of Maine, and is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to Africa. She served as President of the International Studies Association-South, and Treasurer and Vice President of the International Studies Association.

Professor Mingst’s published works include Essentials of International Relations, The United States and Multilateral Institutions, and Politics and the African Development Bank. She is also co-author of United Nations in the Twenty First Century and International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance.

Areas of Specialization

International Cooperation, International Organization, Non-government Organizations, International Law.

Evan Hillebrand - Associate Professor

Evan Hillebrand | 465 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-6928 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~ehill2

Evan Hillebrand

Evan Hillebrand is Associate Professor of Geoeconomic Studies and serves as director of graduate studies. He taught in the Patterson School for two years as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Officer in Residence before retiring from the Agency in 2006 and accepting a faculty appointment. In a 30-year career in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, Professor Hillebrand developed and used economic and geopolitical models in the production of intelligence analysis on a wide variety of topics. He was awarded one of the Agency’s highest honors, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

His research interests include long-term economic growth, foreign trade, economic power, and the modeling of political relationships. He is co-author of Exploring and Shaping International Futures. For the last several years Professor Hillebrand has been a collaborator with the International Futures Project at the University of Denver. He earned his B.A. at the University of California in Davis and his Ph.D. in Economics at the George Washington University.

Areas of Specialization

International Economics, Economic Modeling, Modeling of Political Relationships.

Robert Farley - Assistant Professor

Robert M. Farley | 467 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4668 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~rmfarl2

Robert Farley

Robert Farley, Assistant Professor, started at the Patterson School in 2005 as a post-doc scholar. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington in 2004. His dissertation, “Transnational Determinants of Military Doctrine,” investigated the role that transnational networks of military officers play in the diffusion of military doctrine. In addition to a book manuscript, he is working on projects involving piracy and naval doctrine, nuclear power in second tier states, and the spread of “Mahanianism” across the international system in the first half of the twentieth century.

Areas of Specialization

Military Doctrine, Transnational Politics, National Security

Thomas McGinty - Department of Commerce Senior Executive in Residence

Thomas McGinty | 455 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4671 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~tamcgi2

Thomas McGinty

Thomas McGinty is a career senior official at the U.S. Department of Commerce currently assigned to the Patterson School as Senior Executive in Residence. His last assignment at Commerce headquarters in Washington, DC was as Acting Deputy Director General for the U.S. Commercial and Foreign Service and deputy to the Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion. In earlier assignments, he was National Director for U.S. Operations (responsible for the 109 U.S. Export Assistance Centers) and served as Regional Director of the Commercial Service’s eastern region. His primary area of expertise is international trade promotion, with decades of experience helping connect American businesses with overseas trade partners and advancing U.S. commercial interests. McGinty is responsible for corporate outreach, career mentoring and commercial curriculum development. He is a graduate of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.

Areas of Specialization

Trade Promotion, Export Assistance.

George Herring - Professor Emeritus

George Herring | 455 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4671 | Fax 859-257-4676

George Herring

George Herring, Professor Emeritus and formerly Alumni Professor of History, has been connected to the Patterson School from the early Vince Davis years. He received his B.A. from Roanoke College in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1965.

Professor Herring retired after thirty-six years at the University of Kentucky. He served as chair of the Department of History from 1973-1976 and 1988-1996, and he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1993, he was a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy and in 2001 at the University of Richmond. In 2002, he was awarded the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Norman A. Graebner Prize for distinguished contributions to the field.

Professor Herring’s research centered on U.S. foreign relations. His most recent work is From Colony to Superpower: American Foreign Relations Since 1776, (part of the Oxford History of the United States). His other published works include Aid to Russia, 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War; with Thomas M. Campbell, eds., The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius; America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975; The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The "Negotiating Volumes" of the Pentagon Papers; and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Professor Herring is one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Vietnam War.

Areas of Specialization

U.S. Foreign Relations, Vietnam War, History.

Harry E. Mason - Adjunct Professor

Harry E. Mason | 301 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~hemaso2

Harry E. Mason

Harry Mason, Adjunct Professor, came to the Patterson School in 2004. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the University of Maryland. His 35-year federal government career included domestic and overseas positions with the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Department of State, and service as Deputy Director for Programs and Budget for the Intelligence Community. Prior to joining the Patterson School faculty, he was a consultant and president of a national security firm. Mason’s awards include the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit and the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement.

Areas of Specialization

Foreign Intelligence, Homeland Security

Clifford Tsuboi - Adjunct Professor

Clifford Tsuboi | 301 Patterson Office Tower | Phone: 859-257-4666 | Fax: 859-257-4676

Clifford Tsuboi

Clifford Tsuboi, Adjunct Professor and Researcher. Professor Tsuboi holds two B.S. Degrees from Oregon State University, in Physical Science (1971) and Pharmacy (1978). In 1989 he received a PharmD. degree in Clinical Pharmacy Practice from the University of Kentucky. After three years of post-doctoral work in the field of hematology/oncology at UK’s Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center, he established a teaching/research relationship with the Patterson School.

Areas of Specialization

Science/Technology Policy, Economic Statecraft, National Security Policy.

Jonathan Max Gitlin - Adjunct Professor

Jonathan Gitlin | 301 Patterson Office Tower | Phone: 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676

Jonathan Gitlin

Jonathan Gitlin, Adjunct Professor and researcher, was born in South Africa, but raised in England. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Imperial College School of Medicine in London in 2002, before moving to the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at UK's College of Pharmacy, where his research focus is on the mechanisms behind cardiovascular disease. In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Gitlin is also a science writer for the technology website Ars Technica and serves on the board of the National Postdoctoral Association.

George Staples - Adjunct Professor

George M. Staples | 461 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~gmstap2

George Staples

Ambassador George Staples, Adjunct Professor, was Director General of the Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State until summer 2007. He retired after decades of service as a career Foreign Service officer. Earlier he had been the Political Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General James L. Jones at NATO in Belgium, U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, and Ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Prior to joining the State Department, Staples served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and as a manager in private industry. He received his education at the University of Southern California and Central Michigan University.

Areas of Specialization

Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Ethics, African Assistance and Development, Africa.

 


The core faculty represent only the top of the pyramid of expertise available to Patterson School students. Substantial academic depth and breadth are provided by twenty-four associated/support faculty. These scholars serve as professors across the University of Kentucky’s many colleges, schools, and departments. Their extensive course offerings and multifaceted research provide the broad interdisciplinary support our students require to achieve their professional goals and be competitive in the international arena.

Visiting professors, researchers, lecturers, and experts provide additional opportunities for informative, intellectual discussion with Patterson School students and faculty members. Dr. Hoseon Hwang from Pukyong National University in Pusan, South Korea, and Dr. Naima Pulatova from Tajik State University in Khujand, Tajikistan, joined us in 2008, and international economist Professor Merab Abdaladze from Tbilisi University in Georgia will be in residence in 2009.

Associated / Support Faculty

James C. Albisetti - Professor of History

James C. Albisetti | 1767 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4343

James C. Albisetti, Professor of History, received his B.A. from Amherst and his Ph.D. from Yale. His primary areas of specialization are German History, European Social History, and Women’s History. His current research interests include comparative study of female education in nineteenth-century Europe and Jewish Germans who became English Unitarians.

Arne Bathke - Associate Professor of Statistics

Arne Bathke | 875 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-3610

Arne Bathke, Associate Professor of Statistics, received his Ph.D. from the Universität Göttingen in 2000. His primary focus is nonparametric and multivariate statistics, and statistical modeling.

Horace Bartilow - Associate Professor of Political Science

Horace Bartilow | 1641 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-7031

Horace Bartilow, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. His areas of specialization include International Political Economy, International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and Race Relations. His most recent work is The Debt Dilemma: IMF Negotiations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana.

Douglas Boyd - Professor of Communications

Douglas Boyd | 101J Main Building | Phone 859-257-1705

Douglas Boyd, Professor of Communications, received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas-Austin and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He currently also serves as Chief of Staff to University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd, Jr. He specializes in international broadcasting and new media technology.

Stanley Brunn - Professor of Geography

Stanley Brunn | 1467 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-6947

Stanley Brunn, Professor of Geography, received his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He came on staff at the University of Kentucky in 1980, having taught previously at the University of Florida and Michigan State. He has also been a guest professor at several European and Central Asian universities. He is the editor of Wal-Mart World: The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy (2006) and 11 September and Its Aftermath: The Geopolitics of Terror (2004). His areas of specialization include political, social, and urban geography, geography of multinational corporations, Asia/Pacific, Japan, South Asia.

Francie Chassen-Lopez - Distinguished Professor of History

Francie Chassen-Lopez | 1771 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4344

Francie Chassen-Lopez received her B.A. from Vasser and her Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional Modern Mexico in 1986. She lived and taught in Mexico for ten years before returning to the United States. She has served twice as director of Latin American Studies and is currently chair of the History Department. Her most recent book was From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca. She specializes in Latin American History, Modern Mexico, Women and Gender in Latin America, and Race and Ethnicity in the Americas.

Robert Dahlstrom - Bloomfield Professor of Marketing

Robert Dahlstrom | 425L Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-6717

Robert Dahlstrom, Bloomfield Endowed Professor of Marketing in the Gatton College of Business and Economics, received his B.A. from Xavier and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Some of the courses that he has taught include International Marketing Management, International Marketing, and a Seminar in International Business. He has repeatedly worked as a visiting professor and a Fulbright scholar at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo.

Walter Ferrier - Gatton Professor of Management

Walter Ferrier | 455X Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-9326

Walter Ferrier, Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Management, received his M.A. from the Patterson School and his Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Maryland. His research interests include patterns of competitive actions-reactions among rivals, top management team demographics and decision making, inter-firm social networks, and competitive strategy.

A. L. Goldman - Professor of Law

A. L. Goldman | College of Law, Room 250 | Phone 859-257-3325

A. L. Goldman, Walter T. Lafferty Professor of Law, received his education from Columbia University and the New York University School of Law. He has taught at the University of Kentucky since 1965. In 1975, he was scholar in residence at Leuven University. Areas of interest include negotiation theory and labor law.

Gordon F. Holbein - Senior Lecturer of Management

Gordon F. Holbein | 455J Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-6455

Gordon Holbein, Senior Lecturer, received his B.A. from Dartmouth, M.B.A. from Syracuse, and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He began teaching at Gatton College of Business and Economics in 1995. He specializes in contemporary management, business strategy and leadership, and international commerce.

Pradyumna P. Karan - Professor of Geography

P. P. Karan | 1439 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-6953

P. P. Karan, Professor of Geography, received his B.A. from Patna University, M.A. from Banaras Hindu University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana. His research focuses on sustainable development and environmental management, with a recent emphasis on Nepal and the Himalaya region. His most recent books are The Non Western World (2004), Japan in the 21st Century (2005), and Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (2008). Professor Karan also chairs the UK Japan Studies Committee. He specializes in development, geography of multinational corporations, society-environment relationships, Asia/Pacific, Japan, South Asia.

Mark Kightlinger - Assistant Professor of Law

Mark Kightlinger | College of Law, Room 256 | Phone 859-257-4698

Mark Kightlinger, Assistant Professor of Law, began teaching at the University of Kentucky School of Law in 2004. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1991. Particular areas of experience and interest include European Union laws, WTO issues, bio-terrorism, and immigration policy.

Thomas Leinbach - Professor of Geography

Thomas Leinbach | 1477 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-1276

Thomas Leinbach, Professor of Geography, received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1971. His recent research has focused on electronic commerce – with an analysis of innovation at Nokia – and Indonesia’s non-rural economy. His areas of specialization include transportation and communication, impacts of information technology, development, and Southeast Asia.

Donald Mullineaux - DuPont Chair in Banking

Donald Mullineaux | Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-2890

Donald Mullineaux, duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Director of the School of Management, graduated from Boston College in 1971 with his Ph.D in Economics. He has taught at the University of Kentucky since 1984. Before that he was Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His research interests include banking and financial services. Mullineaux is also currently curriculum director for the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Robert Olson - Professor of History

Robert Olson | 1751 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4346

Robert Olson, Professor of Middle East and Islamic History, received his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana in 1973. He specializes in the Ottoman Empire, Islamic History, the Kurdish people, and general contemporary politics of the Middle East. His most recent books include The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations and Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 1991-2000.

Angelos Pagoulatos - Professor of Agricultural Economics

Angelos Pagoulatos | 404 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-3482

Angeolos Pagoulatos, Professor of Agricultural Economics, received his Laurea di Dottore at the University of Rome and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. His areas of interest include natural resource and environmental economics.

Joe Peek - Gatton Chair in International Finance

Joe Peek | 437 Gatton Building - | Phone 859-257-7342

Joe Peek, Gatton Endowed Chair in International Banking and Financial Economics, received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1979 in Economics. His research interests include international financial markets and institutions, Japanese banking problems, bank regulation, monetary policy, and small-business credit availability. He is concurrently a research associate at Columbia University's Center on Japanese Economy and Business.

Karen Petrone - Associate Professor of History

Karen Petrone | 1701 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4345

Karen Petrone, Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994. She specializes in cultural and gender history in modern Russia and the former Soviet Union. She spent time in Moscow during 1991-92 and saw firsthand the transition of the Soviet Union to Russia. Her most recent book is Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin.

Michael Reed - Professor of Agricultural Economics

Michael Reed | 308 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-7259

Michael Reed, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of International Programs for Agriculture, graduated from Iowa State University in 1979 with his Ph.D in economics. He joined the University of Kentucky in 1989. His areas of specialization include international trade, agricultural marketing, statistics, and price analysis. He is the author of International Trade in Agricultural Products.

Susan Roberts - Associate Professor of Geography

Susan Roberts | 1471 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-2399

Susan Roberts, Associate Professor of Geography and department chair, received her B.A. from the University of Leister and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School. She taught at Anglia Polytechnic University in the United Kingdom before coming to the University of Kentucky in 1991. She is coauthor of An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance and is currently engaged in a project examining NGO transnational networks. She specializes in global political economy, the geography of financial capital, development, social, feminist theories, and the Caribbean.

Frank A. Scott - Gatton Professor of Economics

Frank Scott | 335M Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-7643

Frank A. Scott, Gatton Endowed Professor in Economics, received his B.A. from William and Mary and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His areas of specialization include applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization, antitrust, public economics, and public policy. His foreign experience includes being a visiting senior research scholar at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.

Jerry R. Skees - Price Professor of Agricultural Policy and Risk

Jerry R. Skees | 310 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-7262

Jerry Skees, Price Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1981. His areas of specialization include agricultural policy, risk, insurance, and rural development. He is also President of GlobalAgRisk, which aims through its policy-related research to mix markets and government in sharing natural hazard risk. His work on new livestock insurance in Mongolia won the World Bank's Golden Plough Award for innovation in 2006. Skees is the author of Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths and Agricultural Policy.

John van Willigen - Professor of Anthropology

John van Willigen | 218 Lafferty Hall | Phone 859-257-6920

John van Willigen, Professor of Anthropology, received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1971. He has probed social relationships and aging in Kentucky and New Delhi. His areas of interest include cultural change, social aging, applied anthropology, and South Asia.

Steve Vasek - Associate Professor of Law

Steve Vasek | College of Law, Room 249 | Phone 859-257-3250

Steve Vasek, Associate Professor of Law, began teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1969. He received his B.A. in Business Administration and his J.D. from Northwestern University, as well as an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School.