Faculty Bios

Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President, Jepson Scholars Foundation

• Ethics and Economics
• Leadership Ethics
• History of Economic Thought
• History of Political Economy
• Experimental Economics

Professor of Leadership Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

• Leadership in Literature & Film
• Leadership in Performance
• Cultural & Political History (Early Modern England)
• New Media and Gaming

Associate Dean for Student & External Affairs

• Community-based Learning
• Diversity and Difference

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

• Educational Inequalities
• Education of Immigrant and Minority Children
• Education Policy
• Comparative and International Education

Professor Emerita

• Leadership Ethics
• Business Ethics
• International Leadership
• Conflict Resolution
• Philosophy of Work

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics & Democratic Values

• Ethics
• Bioethics
• Political Philosophy

Professor Emeritus

• Group Dynamics
• Social Behavior
• Psychology of Morality

Professor Emeritus

• Presidential Leadership
• Peer Interaction and Performance
• Heroes

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies

• Modern African American History
• American Civil Rights Movement
• African American Politics in Richmond, Virginia
• American Political Development after 1945

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies

• African American History
• Ethics of Crime
• History of Serial Killers

Professor Emerita

• Organizational Leadership
• Leading Change
• Invisible Leadership
• Leadership during Personal Crisis

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies

• Immigration
• Citizenship
• Global Leadership

Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership

• Women and Minority Leaders
• Stereotypes and Discrimination
• Complex Social Issues

Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies

• Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
• Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Sociology

• Political Leadership
• Digital Politics
• Technology
• Social Change in Democracies

Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law and Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics

• Leadership Ethics
• Moral Psychology
• Responsibility
• Influence
• Social, Political, and Legal Theory

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies

• Status Hierarchy
• Leader Emergence in Task Groups
• Evolution of Cooperation and Morality
• Social Gradient of Health
• Small-scale Societies
• Origins of Personality Differences

Professor, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies

• Comparative Indigenous Politics and Governance
• Native Sovereignty and Diplomacy
• Federal Indian Policy and Law
• Native Nations/State Relations

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law

• Urban Politics and Sprawl
• Community Economic Development
• City of Richmond Politics
• Sports, Justice, and Ethics

Professor Emeritus

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

University Chaplain

Jessie Ball duPont Chair of the Chaplaincy

Tyler Haynes Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Justice
• Political Morality of Public Law
• Rule of Law in the Algorithmic State

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

• Educational Leadership
• School & Housing Segregation
• Changing Demographics in RVA
• Ethics & Leadership

Mentor-in-Residence