Faculty Bios

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

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

Associate Dean for Student & External Affairs
Specialties:
- Community-based Learning
- Diversity and Difference

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Educational Inequalities
- Education of Immigrant and Minority Children
- Education Policy
- Comparative and International Education

Professor Emerita
Specialties:
- 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
Specialties:
- Ethics
- Bioethics
- Political Philosophy

Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Group Dynamics
- Social Behavior
- Psychology of Morality

Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Presidential Leadership
- Peer Interaction and Performance
- Heroes

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

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- African American History
- Ethics of Crime
- History of Serial Killers

Professor Emerita
Specialties:
- Organizational Leadership
- Leading Change
- Invisible Leadership
- Leadership during Personal Crisis

Associate Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Immigration
- Citizenship
- Global Leadership

Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership
Specialties:
- Women and Minority Leaders
- Stereotypes and Discrimination
- Complex Social Issues

Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
- Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)

Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Sociology
Specialties:
- 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
Specialties:
- Leadership Ethics
- Moral Psychology
- Responsibility
- Influence
- Social, Political, and Legal Theory

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

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

Associate 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

Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Intellectual History of Leadership
- Leadership in Historical Contexts
- Leadership and the Law
- Leadership Education
Affiliated Faculty

University Chaplain
Jessie Ball duPont Chair of the Chaplaincy
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Tyler Haynes Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Specialties:
- 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
Specialties:
- Educational Leadership
- School & Housing Segregation
- Changing Demographics in RVA
- Ethics & Leadership