Faculty & Staff
Organization and Contributing Faculty
The International Relations program is governed by an executive committee, and has a dedicated team of faculty advisors (see below).
The home of the International Relations program is the Department of Political Science. As an interdisciplinary program, International Relations is staffed by faculty from the following departments:
- Area Studies
- African and African American Studies
- Chinese Studies
- East Asian Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Middle East Studies
- Russian Studies
- School of Communications
- Geography and Planning
- History
- Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Political Science
- Seidman College of Business
- Economics
- Finance
- Management
- Marketing
- Sociology
Staff and Program Contact Information
Academic Office Coordinator
Ashley Savage
(616) 331-2320
[email protected]
Fax: (616) 331-3550
International Relations
1121 AuSable Hall
1 Campus Drive
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401-9403
Executive Committee
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Polly Diven
Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Director, International Relations Program
1107 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-3282
[email protected]
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Fields: international relations, U.S. foreign policy, American politics
![James Goode](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/lingwood_profile[1519237079].jpg)
Chad Lingwood
Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
D-1-122 Mackinac Hall
(616) 331-8697
[email protected]
Fields: Middle East, Islamic Civilization, Iran, Persian Literature
![Anne Caillaud](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/1e5057d6-9458-6151-fa926d2bfdcd39c6[1396628642].jpg)
Anne Caillaud
Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
B-2-247 Mackinac Hall
(616) 331-3371
[email protected]
Fields: Modern Languages and Literature (French)
![Wei Sun](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/wei_sun_aug2011(2)[1396628760].jpg)
Wei Sun
Ph.D. (University of Kentucky)
482C DeVos Center
(616) 331-7424
[email protected]
Fields: international finance and economics
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Faculty Advisors
![John Constantelos](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/johnconstantelos[1396628050].jpg)
John Constantelos
Ph.D. (Duke University)
1125 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-2869
[email protected]
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Fields: comparative politics, Western Europe, international political economy
![Polly Diven](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/pd5[1510675919].jpg)
Polly Diven
Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Director, International Relations Program
1107 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-3282
[email protected]
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Fields: international relations, U.S. foreign policy, American politics
![Michelle Miller-Adams](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/a_miller-adams[1521051745].jpg)
Michelle Miller-Adams
Ph.D. (Columbia University)
1105 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-2864
[email protected]
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Fields: international relations, international and domestic development
![Heather Tafel](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/heather-tafel[1520966303].jpg)
Heather Tafel
Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
1128 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-1131
[email protected]
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Fields: democratization, federalism, Russia and Eastern Europe
![Thomas Walker](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/thomaswalker(2)[1397048877].jpg)
Thomas Walker
Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
1102 Au Sable Hall
(616) 331-8713
[email protected]
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Fields: international relations, history of international political thought, causes of war
![Yi Zhao](/cms4/asset/54C5C727-FCAC-1649-9E8139F47DCCF9B4/yizhao3[1423840910].jpg)
Yi Zhao
Ph.D. (Yale University)
1108 AuSable Hall
(616) 331-8523
[email protected]
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Fields: comparative politics, Chinese politics, judicial politics