Find an Expert
“Find an Expert” is a resource for reporters, producers and others in the media. The list below highlights Monterey Institute faculty and staff with areas of expertise that are especially relevant to breaking news stories.
If you need assistance identifying a faculty expert or would like to schedule an interview, please contact the Communications office at 831.647.6606.
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001965881376160242245:mquvnb19ego Mahmoud I. AbdallaAssistant Professor
Office: IIRC 7 Arabic language, Arab culture and media, linguistics, second language acquisition, language culture and identity. |
 Tsuneo AkahaProfessor
Office: Casa Fuente Building Japanese foreign and security policy, international relations of the Asia Pacific, international political economy, Asian studies, Asia-Pacific development, East Asia security, globalization, human rights, human security, international migration, international relations theory, Northeast Asia and security issues, US-Asia policy |
 Kathleen M. BaileyProfessor
Office: 208 McCone Educational research, assessment, teacher education, language program administration, language teacher supervision |
 Mahabat BaimyrzaevaAssistant Professor
Office: 120 McCone Governance, administrative reforms, and corruption; institutional theory; policy analysis and public administration; organizational and institutional development; international development, organizations, and law; democratic theory and civic engagement. |
 Jan Knippers BlackProfessor
Office: 117 McCone Human rights, international and comparative politics of the Western Hemisphere, international and grassroots development, women´s rights and roles, globalization |
 Philipp C. BleekAssistant Professor
Office: 200E McGowan Causes, consequences, and amelioration of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons proliferation. |
 Avner CohenProfessor of Nonproliferation Studies and Senior Fellow with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Office: McGowan 203 Israeli nuclear program; nonproliferation issues in the Middle East; Nuclear age and nonproliferation history; the non-proliferation regime; nuclear weapons and democracy; morality, ethics, and norms in the nuclear age; the movies of the nuclear age; nuclear disarmament; nuclear weapons free zones Dr. Cohen interviewed on UCBerkeley's Conversations with History |
 Jeff Dayton-JohnsonAssociate Professor of International Trade and Development
Office: McCone 217 Economic development, emerging economies, economics and politics of Latin American countries (including Mexico), immigration, poverty, inequality, natural disasters. Professor Dayton-Johnson interviewed live about a financial crisis in Latin America on CNBC. |
 Sandra M. DowProfessor of International Finance
Office: McCone 211 Corporate Governance, International Finance |
 Pushpa IyerAssistant Professor
Office: 124 D McCone Identity conflicts, civil wars, peace processes, non-state armed actors, South Asia |
 Sharad JoshiAssistant Professor, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
Office: McGowan 200-F International Security, South Asia, Terrorism, Nuclear proliferation, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia |
 Fredric KroppProfessor and Program Chair, Fisher International MBA Program
Office: 116 McCone Entrepreneurship, international marketing research and strategies, creativity and innovation |
 Jeff LangholzAssociate Professor
Office: 214 McCone Biodiversity conservation, environmental conflict management, international environmental policy, protected natural areas, research methods, program evaluation, social entrepreneurship, adaptive management, conservation leadership, sustainable development |
 Edward J. LauranceProfessor and Gordon Paul Smith Chair in International Policy Studies
Office: 311 McCone Global governance, international organizations, proliferation and effects of conventional weapons and small arms, program evaluation and project management |
 Beryl LevingerDistinguished Professor and Program Chair, Public Administration
Office: 212 McCone Nonprofit management, international organizations, poverty alleviation, third world development, international education, international health, nutrition and hunger, organizational development, program evaluation and project management |
 Jeffrey LewisDirector of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program
Email: jlewis@miis.edu Nuclear nonproliferation, international security, disarmament, arms control |
 Philip J. MurphyAssistant Professor
Office: 224 McCone Public Policy, Research Methods, Quantitative Methods, Network Analysis, International Development |
 Barry Slaughter OlsenAssistant Professor and Program Chair, Interpretation
Office: 5 IIRC Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, T&I education, multilingual negotiations, political and diplomatic discourse, and interpretation technologies. |
 William C. PotterProfessor, Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Office: E 200 CNS Building Nuclear nonproliferation, illicit nuclear trafficking, and nuclear terrorism; Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); the International Atomic Energy Agency; the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and nuclear politics; the sources of nuclear weapons decisions; U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control; Nuclear-Weapons- Free Zones (NWFZs); nuclear safety and security; and nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation education. |
 Moyara RuehsenAssociate Professor
Office: 213 McCone Money laundering, terrorism financing, illegal drug markets, political economy, Middle Eastern economies |
 Bilal SaabVisiting Fellow, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Office: Washington Office Arab-Israeli conflict, US Middle East policy, Nuclear and conventional deterrence, Counterterrorism, Islamist movements, Arab reform, Middle East security and terrorism Bilal Saab interviewed on BBC America about the crisis in Syria. |
 Stephen I. SchwartzEditor, The Nonproliferation Review
Office: 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 450 Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I), Nuclear Weapons Budgets, Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism, Strategic Arms Control, National and Theater/Ballistic Missile Defenses Stephen I. Schwartz Interviewed on Fox Business Regarding Nuclear Crisis in Japan |
 Jason ScorseDirector, Center for the Blue Economy; Program Chair, International Environmental Policy; Associate Professor
Office: 102 C McCone Environmental and natural resource economics, international economics, behavioral economics, environmental policy, econometrics and statistics |
 Leonard SpectorAdjunct Professor and Deputy Director of CNS, Washington D.C. Office
Office: 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 450 Arms control and nonproliferation, international treaties, U.S. domestic and multilateral export controls |
 Patricia SzaszDirector of Intensive English Programs
Office: Kinnoull House C214 Language program administration, leadership, technology-enhanced language learning, project-based learning, and intercultural communication. |
 Leo van LierProfessor
Office: 207 McCone Building Educational linguistics, second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, computer-assisted instruction, discourse analysis, bilingual education |
 Anna VassilievaProfessor
Office: 200 A McGowan Contemporary Russian politics, Russian politics in Central Asia, Russian culture and society, Siberia, Russians in Japan. |
 Lyuba ZarskyAssociate Professor
Office: 119 McCone Sustainable development, business and sustainability, foreign direct investment and the environment, collaborative governance, development economics, global environmental governance, livelihood-based resource management |
 Raymond ZilinskasDirector, Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program
Office: 208 McGowan Chemical and biological weapons |
