Faculty
Public Administration and International Affairs Faculty
Maxwell Faculty
- Merima Ali (ECN)
- Hans Buechler (ANT)
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A. Peter Castro (ANT)
- Erin Hern (PSC)
- Azra Hromadzic (ANT)
- Audie Klotz (PSC)
- Jok Madut Jok (ANT)
- Amy Lutz (SOC)
- Devashish Mitra (ECN)
- Deborah Pellow (ANT)
- Tom Perreault (GEO)
- Robert Rubinstein (ANT)
Core Course Recommendations
Development and humanitarian assistance work requires an understanding of changing conditions on the ground, the ability to work at the non-governmental, intergovernmental, and international level, understand how to use economic and statistical analysis to assess the policy impact of interventions, and conduct research conduct to support programming or policy analysis.
As such, students are encouraged to consider the following classes for their core requirements:
- Economics: PAI 720 Principles of Economic or PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions.
- Management of Programs and Staff: PAI 762: Challenges of International Management and Leadership or PAI 763: NGO Management in Developing and Transitional Countries.
- Research Design and Evaluation: PAI 705: Research Design for IR Practitioners, PAI 722: Quantitative Analysis, or ANT 681 Ethnographic Techniques
- Signature Course:PAI 707: Culture in World Affairs or PAI 716: Economic Dimensions of Global Power.
Development and Humanitarian Assistance Course Offerings
ANT 624 Negotiation: Theory and Practice
ANT 679 Anthropology of Global Transformation
ANT 663 Global Health
ANT 683 Social Movement Theory
LAW 831 Refugee and Asylum Law
PAI 601 Fundamentals of Conflict Studies
PAI 700 Food Security
PAI 713 Governance and Global Civil Society
PAI 715 Global Sustainability and Public Policy*
PAI 719 Fundamentals of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
PAI 757 Economics of Development
PAI 764 UN Organizations: Managing for Change
PAI 765 Humanitarian Action: Challenges, Responses and Results
PSC 681 Comparative State-Society Relations
PSC 682 Social Theory in the Middle East
PSC 700 Civil Wars
PSC 758 Global Migration
(*taught in Maxwell-in-DC program)
Alumni Careers
Visit the Palmer Center for Career Development's Career Field Guides for more information about Careers associated with the Development and Humanitarian Assistance Career Track.
Non-Government Organizations
Deputy Chief of Party-Mongolia, Chemonics International
Zimbabwe Country Director, Mercy Corps
Government Service
Private Sector Cooperation Manager, German Agency for International Cooperation
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development
International Civil Service
Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross