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Karen Saunders, Senior Program Officer/Researcher
Part-Time Staff Sally Stoecker, Consultant Ramziya Shakirova, Researcher Mahmut Cengiz, Researcher Dr. Nikolay Naydenov, Fulbright Fellow Caitlin Kurylo, Special Projects Coordinator Nelly Mobula, Graduate Research Assistant
Affiliated Faculty Dr. Allison Frendak-Blume, Academic Director, Peace Operations Policy Program Dr. A. Lee Fritschler, Professor of Public Policy, Director of Executive Education Dr. Jack Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Global Policy Dr. Jon Gould, Associate Professor, Administration of Justice Dr. Todd LaPorte, Research Associate Professor, School of Public Policy Dr. Linda Merola, Assistant Professor, Administration of Justice Dr. Stuart Malawer, Professor of Law and International Trade, School of Public Policy Dr. Wayne Perry, Professor, School of Public Policy Dr. Catherine Rudder, Professor, School of Public Policy Dr. Hilton Root, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy Dr. Janine Wedel, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Louise Shelley, Founder and Director Dr. Shelley received her undergraduate degree cum laude from Cornell University in Penology and Russian literature. She holds an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University on IREX and Fulbright Fellowships and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She held a Fulbright and researched and taught on crime issues in Mexico. She has also taught on transnational crime in Italy. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim, NEH, IREX, Kennan Institute, and Fulbright Fellowships and received a MacArthur Grant to establish the Russian Organized Crime Study Centers. In 1992, she received the Scholar-Teacher prize of American University, the top academic award of the university.
____________________________________________________________________________________________ Karen Saunders, Senior Program Officer/Researcher Her prior work experience includes Russian-language project work for the International Monetary Fund, management and ownership of a small Russian-English translation firm, contractual work in Washington, DC and Moscow for the agribusiness and packaging industries, and marketing promotions management for a large joint-venture corporation in Moscow. Ms. Saunders holds a Master’s Degree in International Development from American University. She received a dual B.A. in International Relations and Russian Language and Literature from Tufts University. She was selected to spend one academic year in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1993-94 to participate in a specialized language fluency program. Ms. Saunders has traveled extensively in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Sally Stoecker is consultant to the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University. She has been managing projects and conducting research on human trafficking and child exploitation sponsored by the Departments of State and Justice since 1997. She has served as research professor and consultant to American University’s Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, lead assessor and writer at Shared Hope International, and development associate at CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of DC. Sally directed two major grants to develop and conduct human trafficking curricula and law enforcement training for 40 Russian, Moldovan, and Georgian investigators and prosecutors in Budapest, Hungary, in 2001. With Louise Shelley, Sally co-edited the book “Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives,” published in 2004 and in 2005 she co-authored “Russia’s Abandoned Children: An Intimate Understanding” with Clementine Fujimura. While at Shared Hope International, Sally researched and drafted the report Demand, based on excellent field data that analyzes the commercial sex trade in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Sally Stoecker has published numerous articles and addressed many audiences on human trafficking and Russian politics, including her dissertation: Forging Stalin’s Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the politics of military innovation.. Sally received her doctorate from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and worked as a research associate on Soviet military strategy at the RAND Corporation from 1981 to 1993. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Nikolay Naydenov, Fulbright Fellow Dr. Naydenov is an associate professor of politics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Bulgaria. His expertise is in the field of corruption research, non-public political moves, public sphere theory and political anthropology. Read further about Dr. Naydenov's current Fullbright Reasearch Project at TraCCC: LAW AS THE LAST SHELTER OF CORRUPTION:
Comparative Analysis of Bulgarian and American Law |