UMass Boston

Department Chair 

J. Samuel Barkin, PhD
Samuel.Barkin@umb.edu

Graduate Program Directors

Courtenay Sprague, PhD 
International Relations MA Program
Courtenay.Sprague@umb.edu

Stacy D. VanDeveer, PhD
Global Governance and Human Security PhD and Master’s Degree 
Stacy.Vandeveer@umb.edu 

Karen Ross, PhD
Conflict Resolution Master's and Certificate Degree
Karen.Ross@umb.edu

Staff

Jason Fasano, Administrative Assistant II
Jason.fasano@umb.edu, (617) 287-7489
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 128A

Kelly Ward Mason, Assistant Director of Student Success 
kelly.ward@umb.edu, (617) 287-7415
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 107

Leigh Murphy, Program and Operations Manager
leigh.murphy@umb.edu, (617) 287-7362
Office: Wheatley Hall, 4th Floor, Room 109

Full-Time Faculty

  • J. Samuel Barkin, Department Chair, Professor, International Relations Theory and International Organizations
  • Rita Kiki Edozie, Professor, African Affairs, Global Development, and International Political Economy
  • Mehr Latif, Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution, Radicalization, Collective Movements, and Qualitative Methods
  • Jeffrey Pugh, Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution, Immigration, and Peace Education
  • Karen Ross,  Graduate Program Director of Conflict Resolution Programs/Associate Professor, Peacebuilding, Peace Education, and Research Methodology
  • Courtenay Sprague, Graduate Program Director of International Relations/Associate Professor of Global Health 
  • Catriona Standfield, Assistant Professor, Gender and feminist international relations theory, The United Nations, Conflict mediation and peacebuilding, diplomacy, international practice theory, research methods
  • Stacy VanDeveer, Graduate Program Director of GGHS Programs/Professor, Global Environmental and Resource Governance, Comparative Politics, European Union, Human Security
  • Eben Weitzman, Associate Professor, Organizational and Intra-group Conflict, Qualitative Research

Lecturers, Scholars and Faculty Fellows

Affiliated Faculty