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Steering Committee

Steering committee members assist the program director with oversight and management of the Reppy Institute.

Assistant Professor, Government
Oumar Ba's research focuses on international criminal justice and human rights for globally marginalized people.
Associate Professor, History
Cristina Florea’s research revolves around nationalism, empire, statehood, war, and regime change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita
Associate Professor, Department of Government

Sabrina Karim is an associate professor in the Department of Government. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war.

Geographic Research Area: Sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh

International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Karim-Aly Kassam's research interests include human and environmental relations and indigenous ways of knowing.
Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies

Peter Katzenstein is the Einaudi Center's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government, College of Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics.

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Ruth Lawlor teaches U.S. and global diplomatic and military history. Much of her work concerns the global history of World War II, but she also writes broadly about the laws of war, geopolitics and sexual violence. She is currently working on a history of Arctic imperialism.

Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Much of Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson’s work examines the ocean as a site of contested sovereignty, where conservation, militarization, resource extraction, and geopolitics intersect with Indigenous claims to place.

Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Department of History

Rachel Sandwell is a historian of modern Africa and transnational solidarity movements, with a focus on late decolonization, national liberation movements, and international support for national liberation movements.