Professional Service

School Service (SGIA)

Coordinator, Major in International Affairs (2015-present)

Coordinator, Certificate in Intelligence and Homeland Security (2018-present)

Member, PSIA Curriculum Committee (1998-1999, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018).

Faculty Advisor to the KSU Model UN Team (1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Assistant Faculty Advisor, KSU High School Model UN Team (1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Faculty Advisor, KSU High School Model UN Team and Conference (2004-2005, 2005-2006)

Faculty Advisor, KSU Global Society (2002-2003, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018)

Faculty Advisor, Global Affairs Forum (1999-2000)

Member, Department Faculty Council (2010-2011 (Chair), 2011-2012)

Member, Departmental T&P committee (2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2012-2013/2013-2014 (Chair), 2016-2017, 2017-2018 (Chair))

Member, POLS/IA Search Committee-European Union (2002-2003)

Member, POLS/IA Search Committee-Public Law (2003-2004)

Member, POLS/IA Search Committee-Middle East (2004-2005)

Chair, POLS/IA Search Committee-Political Thought (2003-2004)

Chair, POLS/IA Search Committee-Political Thought (2006-2007)

Chair, POLS/IA Search Committee-IPE/IL (2004-2005)

Interim Chair, POLS/IA Search Committee-Political Institutions (2005-2006)

Committee Member, PSIA Chair Search (August 2013-June 2014).

Chair, Departmental Student Services Committee (2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Faculty Participant, Alliance for Community Engagement-Service Learning (1999-2000)

Member, POLS/IA Budget and Travel Committee (2000-2001, 2001-2002)

Member, POLS/IA Technology Committee (2001-2002)

College-level Service

Member, HSS International Committee (2006-2007 (Chair), 2007- 2008 (Chair))

Faculty Representative, HSS Distinguished Awards Committee (2003-2004, 2008-2009)

Departmental Representative, HSS College T & P Committee (2004-2005/2005-2006 (Chair), 2007-2008/2008-2009, 2010-2011/2011-2012, 2014-2015)

Faculty Representative, HSS Technology Committee for New Social Science Building (2003-2004)

Faculty Participant, HSS Ph.D. in International Policy workshop (June 2008)

Participant: Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop (12 September 2008)

Member, Search Committee, Director of PhD Program in International Conflict Management (Fall 2011)

HSS Delegation Member, University of Graz, Austria (December 4-8, 2011)

Panel Participant, Panel Discussion-Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Impact on Russia and Central Asia,

HSS, Kennesaw State University (November 6, 2014)

University-level Service

PSIA Faculty Representative to KSU Faculty Senate (2011-2012/2012-2013, 2013-2014)

HSS Faculty Representative, Institutional Research Board (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)

KSU Admissions Appeals Committee (2003-present)

Co-founder/Co-director, KSU Great Books Program (2009-present)

Honors Faculty Instructor (HONS 3000 in both Fall and Spring) (2009-present)

Faculty Mentor, KSU Honors Program (2003-present)

Member, General Education Council (2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Guest Lecturer, ''Russia, Georgia and NATO,'' KSU Institute for Global Initiative, September

10, 2008.

Faculty Representative, Hispanic Student Orientation (2003)

Keynote speaker, Phi Kappa Phi Annual Induction Ceremony (May 2006)

Faculty Advisor, University Supplemental Instructor Program (2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020)

Faculty Representative, KSU Foundation Prize Committee (Summer 2009)

Faculty Participant, Academic Standing Committee (2000-2001)

Faculty Representative, KSU's US Navy Campus Liaison Officer (2007-2008, 2008-2009)

Faculty Participant, Military Outreach Training, Training by ACE (13 April 2012)

Discipline-level Service

Associate Editor, VoegelinView (August 2020 - Present)

Chair, Political Research Quarterly Editorial Team Applicant (May 2013)

Chair and Panel Organizer, ''Morality, Power, and Politics in Literature,'' APSA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Panel (Sep 2, 2006)

Panel Organizer, ''Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents,'' ISA West, Conference on Diverse Ethics in a Pluralistic World, San Francisco, California (September 28-29, 2007)

Reviewer for Palgrave MacMillan, Lajos F. Szaszdi's, Civil-Military Relations and the Origins of the Second Chechen War (2006)

Community-level Service

Lieutenant Commander/O-4, United States Naval Reserve (August 1993-May 2005)

Sergeant/E-5, United States Army Reserve (May 1981-May 1987)

Guest Lecturer, ''The Global War on Terrorism,'' given to the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (January 2003)

Guest Lecturer, ''Tolstoy and Modern Russian Foreign Policy,'' Great Decisions Association (February 2008).

Guest Lecturer, ''Politicized or Professionalized? The Relationship between Civil-Military Relations and US National Security,'' National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Saint Louis, Missouri (2006)

Other Teaching Experience

The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. I served as a Teaching Assistant for the three introductory courses within the Department of Political Science from the Fall Semester of 1992 through the Fall Semester of 1997:

Introduction to American Government (Spring 1993/Fall 1994/Spring 1995)

Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 1993/Spring 1994/ Fall 1995/Fall 1997)

Introduction to International Politics (Fall 1992/ Fall 1996/Spring 1997)

Georgetown University, Russian Department, Washington, D.C. I served as a Drill Instructor for the following course in the Fall semester of 1985 and the Spring semester of 1986:

Intensive Basic Russian I (Fall 1985/Spring 1986)

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