Faculty and Affiliates
 Dr. Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, where he also is Director of the International Affairs Program and Director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development. Prof. Sullivan formerly served as Chair of Political Science at Northeastern (2001-2003).
Dr. Sullivan established the "Dialogue of Civilizations Program" in 1998, beginning with the Egypt Seminar. The "Dialogues" now include student-to-student exchanges and independent field research in Egypt, China, Greece, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, Niger, Thailand, Mexico, Cyprus, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and more.
Since 1987, Dr. Sullivan has been an Affiliate in Research at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2002 and 2003, he was the Director of the Institute in Governance, Public Policy, and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain.
Prof. Sullivan's most recent books are The World Bank and the Palestinian NGO Project: From Service Delivery to Sustainable Development (Jerusalem: PASSIA, 2001); and Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (Boulder: L. Rienner, 1999). Recent articles and chapters include: "Egypt" in Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Democratic Governance (A Freedom House Publication, 2005); "The U.S.-Egypt Partnership: Are Human Rights Included?" in Human Rights Implementation Project , (Institute of Peace, 2004); and "The Struggle for Egypt's Future," Current History, January 2003.
Dr. Sullivan is a consultant to the U.S. State Department on Islam and the Middle East as well as to the World Bank on its Palestinian NGO Project. He works with K-12 teachers on professional development and teacher training on introducing Middle East studies in primary and secondary schools.
 Dr. Ann Galligan is an associate professor and co-op coordinator for the Department of Art and Design at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Previously she served as a Senior Associate Scholar at the Center for Arts and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in the fields of cultural policy, arts education and cultural planning. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics, and serves as lead executive editor of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society and consulting editor for the Creative Industries Journal.
She holds a B.A. in English from Brown University, and a master’s degree in communication and a doctorate in History of Education with an emphasis on arts and education policy from Columbia University.
She has conducted funded research for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Assembly and the Irvine Foundation. For the past ten years, she has worked on multiple projects in partnership with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts. She was responsible for drafting the Arts and Cultural Plan for the city of Providence, RI and drafting a comprehensive cultural plan for Pawtucket, RI.
Dr Galligan has acted as a consultant for a number of arts and cultural organizations, including The New York City Ballet, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Dance Umbrella, and WNET. In addition, she ahs acted as project evaluator for the Boston Public Schools, the Everett Dance Theatre, Centercity Contemporary Arts, New Urban Arts, and Dance Umbrella.
Dr. Denise Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Northeastern University, she was a researcher at Harvard University's Intrastate Conflict and International Security Programs at the Kennedy School of Government for three years, and taught seminars at Harvard's Department of Government of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and at the University of Massachussets at Amherst where she thought International Security Policy addressing major challenges and threats the world faces today.
Her book, at the intersection of international security and international law, Small Arms and Security: New Emerging International Norms by Routledge, examines how new international norms develop to deal with illicit arms trafficking worldwide. Denise has other publications addressing this topic as one of the key international security issues nowadays. International security and conflict & negotiation constitute her main teaching and research focus at Northeastern. In future projects, she plans to address other major themes in international security like achieving international energy security and examining new dimensions of transnational organized crime.
Previously, she held positions at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs of the University of Geneva, the World Council of Churches' Peace Building and Disarmament Program, the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross. She was the founder of the International Protection of Human Rights Center at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. During that time, she also attended the Interamerican Human Rights Institute in Costa Rica and its Court of Human Rights sessions as well as those in the European system of human rights in Strasbourg France, the International Law Department of the University of Seville, and the European Peace University in Austria.
Beyond Northeastern, she is affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health, the Intrastate Conflict Program at Harvard, and a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations System, the International Law Association, the International Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association.
Dr. Lori Gardinier obtained her Ph.D. in the Law, Policy, and Society program at Northeastern University, where she researched wage replacement family leave policies in Massachusetts and California. She is also a graduate of the Boston University School of Social Work.
Her areas of specialization include non-profit program planning, development and management, tenant/landlord law, homelessness, counseling and advocacy services for victims of domestic violence. She is also a batterers intervention counselor at Common Purpose. Lori has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to practice-oriented education. She is currently the Director of the Inter-Cultural Summer Program.
 Dr. Milica Golubovic earned her PhD in International and Public Affairs in August 2007 from Norhteastern University. During her graduate studies, she was a teaching assistant in the Political Science department and has taught Introduction to International Affairs and International Relations Classes. Milica also worked for American Bar Association/Eastern European and Euroasian Law Initiative in Belgrade each summer on judicial reform projects while working on her dissertation. She earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science from University of Charleston, WV in 2002. Milicia was born in Belgrade, Serbia and currently lives in Boston.
 Dr. Denise Horn is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Acting Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She served as the Associate Director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy at Rutgers University, where she was involved in the development of the Civic Engagement Program (CEPO) at the State University of Moldova in Chisinau, Moldova. The program is in its third year, and has expanded to include teacher training, statistical research, and student involvement in local and international NGOs and the community. Her research examines the effects of US foreign funding in the development of civil society in transitional states, particularly in the areas of women's issues and women's NGOs. Currently she is working on the impact of this funding on the politics of the new accession states and their relationship with the European Union.
 Dr. Richard G. Wamai, a Kenyan by origin, is presently a Research Fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. Wamai obtained his Ph.D. in international health and development, public policy and nonprofit studies from the University of Helsinki Finland in 2004. His current research is on health sector reforms focusing on decentralization and financing in Kenya, Ethiopia and Mexico. His other research interests focus on mainstreaming and implementation of donor funding for the health sector in Ethiopia and Kenya, and scale up of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs particularly ARVs and male circumcision in Africa.
Wamai has previously worked and trained at the University of Helsinki, the Johns Hopkins University Institute of Policy Studies and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the London School of Economics, the Nordic-Africa Institute in Sweden, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and at the World Bank. Prior to his Harvard appointment, Wamai was a research associate at Oxford University Department of Social Policy researching on the shifting comparative welfare systems in the OECD and South Africa. Wamai has taught undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in social policy, nonprofit studies, international development cooperation, and health policy in various universities in Finland, the UK and the US. He has co-edited several texts including Civil Society Reconsidered: A Critical Look at NGOs in Development Practice (IDS: Helsinki. 2006). |
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