Faculty Bios

headshot of Dr.  Sandra J. Peart
Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President, Jepson Scholars Foundation

Specialties:
  • Ethics and Economics
  • Leadership Ethics
  • History of Economic Thought
  • History of Political Economy
  • Experimental Economics
Contact:
(804) 287-6086
headshot of Dr.  Kristin M. S. Bezio
Professor of Leadership Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Specialties:
  • Leadership in Literature & Film
  • Leadership in Performance
  • Cultural & Political History (Early Modern England)
  • New Media and Gaming
Contact:
(804) 287-6045
headshot of Dr.  Kerstin M.  Soderlund
Associate Dean for Student & External Affairs

Specialties:
  • Community-based Learning
  • Diversity and Difference
Contact:
(804) 287-6082
headshot of Dr. Vladimir  Chlouba
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Traditional Leadership
  • Governance in Weak States
  • African Politics
  • Historical Political Economy
Contact:
(804) 287-6694
headshot of Dr. Volha (Olga) Chykina
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Educational Inequalities
  • Education of Immigrant and Minority Children
  • Education Policy
  • Comparative and International Education
Contact:
(804) 287-6335
headshot of Dr.  Joanne  B. Ciulla
Professor Emerita

Specialties:
  • Leadership Ethics
  • Business Ethics
  • International Leadership
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Philosophy of Work
Contact:
headshot of Dr.  Jessica  Flanigan
Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics & Democratic Values

Specialties:
  • Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Political Philosophy
Contact:
(804) 287-6353
headshot of Dr.  Donelson  R. Forsyth
Professor Emeritus

Specialties:
  • Group Dynamics
  • Social Behavior
  • Psychology of Morality
Contact:
headshot of Dr. Guzel  Garifullina
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Political Leadership
  • Russian Politics
  • Governance and Bureaucracy
  • Experimental Methods
Contact:
(804) 287-6411
headshot of Dr.  George  R. Goethals
Professor Emeritus

Specialties:
  • Presidential Leadership
  • Peer Interaction and Performance
  • Heroes
Contact:
headshot of Dr.  Julian Maxwell Hayter
Associate Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Modern African American History
  • American Civil Rights Movement
  • African American Politics in Richmond, Virginia
  • American Political Development after 1945
Contact:
(804) 287-6097
headshot of Dr. Lauren  N.  Henley
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • African American History
  • Ethics of Crime
  • History of Serial Killers
Contact:
(804) 287-6891
headshot of Dr.  Gill  Robinson Hickman
Professor Emerita

Specialties:
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Leading Change
  • Invisible Leadership
  • Leadership during Personal Crisis
Contact:
headshot of Dr.  Javier  Hidalgo
Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Political Philsophy
  • Applied Ethics
  • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Pedagogy
Contact:
(804) 287-6365
headshot of Dr.  Crystal L. Hoyt
Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member

Specialties:
  • Beliefs Systems (e.g., Mindsets, Stereotypes, and Ideologies)
  • Stigma, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
  • Social Inequities
Contact:
(804) 287-6825
headshot of Dr.  Peter Iver Kaufman
Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
  • Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)
Contact:
(804) 289-8003
headshot of  Dr. Bo Yun  Park
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Sociology

Specialties:
  • Political Leadership
  • Digital Politics
  • Technology
  • Social Change in Democracies
Contact:
headshot of Dr.  Terry  L. Price
Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics

Specialties:
  • Leadership Ethics
  • Moral Psychology
  • Responsibility
  • Influence
  • Social, Political, and Legal Theory
Contact:
(804) 287-6088
headshot of Dr.  Christopher R.  von Rueden
Associate Professor of Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Status Hierarchy
  • Leader Emergence in Task Groups
  • Evolution of Cooperation and Morality
  • Social Gradient of Health
  • Small-scale Societies
  • Origins of Personality Differences
Contact:
(804) 287-6098
headshot of Dr. David  E.  Wilkins
Professor, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies

Specialties:
  • Comparative Indigenous Politics and Governance
  • Native Sovereignty and Diplomacy
  • Federal Indian Policy and Law
  • Native Nations/State Relations
Contact:
(804) 287-6494
headshot of Dr.  Thad  Williamson
Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law

Specialties:
  • Urban Politics and Sprawl
  • Community Economic Development
  • City of Richmond Politics
  • Sports, Justice, and Ethics
Contact:
(804) 287-6542
headshot of Dr.  J. Thomas Wren
Professor Emeritus

Specialties:
  • Intellectual History of Leadership
  • Leadership in Historical Contexts
  • Leadership and the Law
  • Leadership Education
Contact:

Affiliated Faculty

headshot of Rev. Dr. Craig  Kocher
University Chaplain
Jessie Ball duPont Chair of the Chaplaincy
Contact:
(804) 289-8500
headshot of  Tom J. Shields
Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs
Associate Professor, Education
Program Chair, Graduate Education
Associate Professor, Leadership Studies
School Liaison, AFAC
Member, SPCS Speakers Bureau
Adjunct Instructor, Executive Education

Specialties:
  • Educational Leadership
  • School & Housing Segregation
  • Changing Demographics in RVA
  • Ethics & Leadership
Contact:
(804) 289-8524

Adjuncts and Visiting Lecturers

headshot of Ambassador Anthony  Godfrey
Adjunct Lecturer
Contact:
(804) 484-1532

Visiting Scholars and Visiting Research Fellows

headshot of Dr. Betty Neal Crutcher
Mentor-in-Residence
Contact:
(804) 484-1561
headshot of  Ekrem   Mus
Ekrem Mus
He/Him
Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar
Contact:
(804) 287-6083