Faculty

The Peace Studies Program is directed by Dr. Donald Will, though numerous other faculty members from a variety of disciplines teach in the program.

Dr. Donald S. Will is the Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies and a member of the Department of Political Science. He received his BA in Political Science from Haverford College and his MA and PhD in International Studies from the University of Denver. His research emphasis includes the comparative study of conflict and social change. For eleven years he served as a non-governmental observer at the United Methodist Office for the United Nations. In that capacity acted as an observer and expert at numerous United Nations conferences and meetings. Dr. Will played an active role in the struggle for a free South Africa and has been a member of coalitions in search of a just peace in the Middle East. Dr. Will has traveled in Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Courses taught include: Introduction to Peace Studies; Nonviolent Social Change; Race and Change in South Africa and the US; Peace and Conflict in the Middle East; Vietnam: War, Peace and Legacy; Social Change in Cuba; Literature of Peace and Justice; Noam Chomsky: Intellectual and Dissident; and the Chapman University Freshman Seminar: The Global Citizen.

Dr. Angeliki A. Kanavou is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and joined the Chapman faculty in 2006. She received her BA in International Studies from Panteion University in Athens, Greece, her MA in U.S. Foreign Policy and PhD in International Relations from the University of Southern California. She has been a Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School and a post-doctoral fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, at the University of Notre Dame where she also taught Advanced Theory and Practice in Conflict Resolution.

Courses taught include: War and Peace from Ancient to Contemporary Times; War in the American Experience; Intercultural Conflict and Communication; Introduction to Peace Studies; Resolving Ethnic Conflict; Introduction to Political Science; Nonviolent Social Change.