Principal Investigators
John O'Loughlin
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado
John O'Loughlin, Professor of
Geography and Research Associate in the
Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, received his
Ph.D. in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. His
research interests are in the political transition in Ukraine and Russia,
ethno-territorial nationalisms, the diffusion of democracy, the political
geography of conflict, and the political geography of Nazi Germany. He is
editor of
Political Geography. He teaches classes in Political Geography,
Geographies of Global Change, and the Geography of Western Europe. He also
serves on the Advisory Committee of the
International Affairs undergraduate
program.
Michael D. Ward
University of Washington
Department of Political Science
Michael D. Ward is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an affiliate of the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences. His primary interests are in international relations (spanning democratization, globalization, international commerce, military
spending, as well as international conflict and cooperation), political geography, as well as mathematical and statistical methods.
Gerard Toal
Public and International Affairs
Virginia Tech University
Dr. Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) is Director of the
Masters of Public and International Affairs at
Virginia Tech's campus in Old Town Alexandria and Professor of Government and International Affairs in Virginia Tech's
School of Public and International Affairs. He grew up on the border region between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and was educated in political geography at the National University of Ireland, the University of Illinois, and Syracuse University (Ph D, 1989). He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (Routledge, 1996) and a co-editor of A Companion to Political Geography (Blackwell, 2002) and The Geopolitics Reader (2nd edition Routledge, 2006) among other works. He also serves as Associate Editor of the journal Geopolitics.
Jeremy Mennis
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Temple University
Jeremy Mennis (Ph.D. 2001, The Pennsylvania State University)
is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Geography and
Urban Studies at
Temple University. He has research
interests in spatio-temporal databases, geographic knowledge
discovery, and their application to investigating human-
environment interactions. His research has been supported by
NASA and published in journals such as International Journal
of Geographical Information Science, International Journal of
Remote Sensing, and Transactions in GIS.
Kristian S. Gleditsch
Department of Government
University of Essex, UK
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is Reader in the
Department of Government,
University of Essex and a research associate of the
Centre for the Study
of Civil War, PRIO . His research interests include conflict and
cooperation, democratization, and spatial dimensions of social and
political processes. He is the author of All International Politics is
Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization
(University of Michigan Press, 2002) and articles in the American
Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Annals
of the Association of American Geographers, International Interactions,
International Organization, Internasjonal Politikk, International
Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace
Research, Political Analysis, and Political Psychology.
Consultants
Vladimir Kolossov and Olga Vendina
Institute of Geography
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Research Assistants
Ira Kurtagic
Virginia Tech
Langston Clement
Temple University
Kristin M. Bakke and Xun Cao
University of Washington
University of Colorado
