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	• Ambassador Mary Ann Peters Dean of Academics • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borisovich Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Sebastian L. v. Gorka Adjunct Professor, Program for Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Deputy Director of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, USMC (Ret.) Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Professor Michael N. Schmitt Professor of International Law • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Dr. Gregory Gleason
Professor of Eurasian Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Gregory Gleason is professor of Eurasian Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is a seminar leader for the Center’s Program for Advanced Security Studies, and teaches course electives on “Central Asian Security” and “Security in the Caucasus.”

Gleason is serving at the Marshall Center while on leave from the University of New Mexico (USA), where he is a professor of political science. Since joining the University of New Mexico in 1988, Gleason has taught international relations and public administration with particular focus on former communist countries. Gleason is the author of Federalism and Nationalism: the Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR (1991), Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (1997), and Markets and Politics in Central Asia (2003), as well as articles in scholarly journals. The National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences as well as other public and private foundations have sponsored Gleason’s scholarly research. In addition to academic contributions, Gleason has served as a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Department of State.

With particular interest focused on Central Asia and Russian foreign policy, Gleason has spent considerable time in applied, field-based activities. During 1993-1995 Gleason served as Chief-of-Party for the first USAID program on legal and governmental reform in Central Asia. In 1996 Gleason worked on a USAID program on market reform and privatization in Kazakhstan. In 1997-1998 Gleason initiated an Asian Development Bank program on regional economic cooperation in Central Asia. During 1998-2000 Gleason was Director of the University Partnership Program between the University of New Mexico and Urals State Technical University, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts in nuclear nonproliferation. During 1999-2001 Gleason headed a partnership between the University of New Mexico and Kazakhstan universities sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. During 2005-2007 Gleason worked with the Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan to develop a new academic program on environmental management and engineering under the sponsorship of the Kazakhstan government and the U.S. government.

Gregory Gleason holds degrees from the University of California at Irvine and the University of California at Davis. He has held teaching appointments at the State University of New York at New Paltz (1985-1986) and the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1986-1988).

Last updated: April 24, 2008