Associate Vice President of Finance and Assistant Treasurer

Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research

Dr. Tubman works with departments and Colleges to develop new graduate programs and to ensure excellence in graduate education at AU. He also works with students, faculty, centers, institutes and external research partners to promote a culture of dis... [More]

Assistant VP for Facilities Development, & Real Estate

Jorge Abud has worked at American University for 31 years, with 28 years of that time in a variety of facilities roles. He is currently responsible for overall capital planning and execution of facilities development projects, management of real esta... [More]

Director

Aurora Carmichael is the Director of Grant Administration and Program Development at American University Washington College of Law. She joined the staff in 1995 and is responsible for directing the law school's grantseeking efforts in support of rese... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Clark has expertise in high performing teams, leadership, diversity, and strategic human capital. He is an active researcher, holds an endowed Kogod professorship, and his work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences... [More]

Associate Professor

Derrick Cogburn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University. In addition, he is Senior Scientist and Chief Research Director at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse Universi... [More]

Professor

Professor DeLone is an internationally recognized scholar in the measurement of information systems effectiveness. His article, “Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable” was recently determined to be the most cited article a... [More]

Associate Professor

John Douglass is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He has been at American for more than 30 years and through most of this time has served as director of the film and media arts division. His contributions to the Washington, DC media comm... [More]

Associate Professor

Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His book, Nazis and Good Neighbors... [More]

Professor

Jeffrey Hakim’s research primarily lies within the broad mathematical areas of representation theory and harmonic analysis. Most recently, he has focused on supercuspidal representations and symmetric spaces over p-adic fields. His papers have also i... [More]

Associate Professor

Mary Eschelbach Hansen is widely published in the fields of child welfare policy and economic history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institu... [More]

Dean, School of Education, Teaching and Health

Dr. Irvine Belson's research activities focus on infusing effective components of instructional design with emerging technology across the field of education, particularly for students with exceptionalities. Dr. Irvine Belson has trained pre-service ... [More]

Assistant Vice President of Risk Management and Safety Services

University Librarian

William “Bill” Mayer was appointed University Librarian for American University in May 2007. From 2001 – 2007, Bill served as the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Technical Services at the George Washington University, wh... [More]

Distinguished Film Producer in Residence

Chris Palmer is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is a wildlife filmmaker who joined the SOC faculty in 2004. Since then, he has founded its Center for Environmental Filmmaking; launched Classroom in the Wild, which takes students to t... [More]

Director of Projects

Kristi Plahn-Gjersvold is SOC’s Chief of Staff, working with the Dean as well as faculty and staff of the School of Communication in developing initiatives for the School’s centers, institutes, projects and campaigns, as well as providing leadership ... [More]

Associate Dean of Research and Department Chair, Computer Science

Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Dave Swartz is the Chief Information Officer of American University. Before coming to American University in 2007, he was the CIO at George Washington University for eight years. He was also the Director of Information Systems and Network Services at... [More]

Research Professor

Joseph Trotter, an attorney, is a Research Professor on the faculty of American University's School of Public Affairs, and is the founder, in 1989, and director of SPA's Justice Programs Office. He received a BS in International Relations from the Ge... [More]

Director Of Accounting