Directors' Biographies
Dr. Terrence Lyons is Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies and an Associate Professor in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. With Peter Mandaville he co-directed the Global Migration and Transnational Politics project, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation. His research has focused on the political economy of civil war and peacebuilding, with particular emphasis on transnational politics and Africa. His publications include: Politics from Afar: Transnational Diasporas and Networks(2011, co-editor); Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace (2005). He has also written numerous articles in a range of journals and policy-oriented publications and has served as senior program adviser to Carter Center’s projects in post-conflict Liberia (1997) and Ethiopia (2005).
Dr. Jo-Marie Burt is Co-Director of the Center
for Global Studies, Director of Latin American Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. Her research focuses on state violence, human rights, and transitional justice; social movements and revolutions; and democracy and civil society in Latin America. She brings to her teaching years of experience working with human rights organizations in Latin America and the U.S., including Peru’s National Human Rights Coordinator, Peace and Justice Service (SERPAJ)-Uruguay, and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). As a researcher for the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dr. Burt prepared a report on the evolution and impact of political violence in the urban community of Villa El Salvador that was incorporated into the Commission’s Final Report. She previously worked as editor at NACLA Report on the Americas. Dr. Burt has published widely on Latin American politics and society in academic journals, edited volumes, and in journalistic magazines and newspapers. She is author of Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), which was published in Spanish in early 2009 as Violencia y Autoritarismo en el Perú: Bajo la sombra de Sendero y la dictadura de Fujimori by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) and the Asociación Servicios Rurales (SER). She is co-editor of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).
Staff Biographies
Anne O'Dell is the Coordinator for the Center for Global Studies. She oversees day to day operations, provides administrative support for research initiatives, and coordinates the Center's interdisciplinary programs. She received her Masters in Music from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory & Henry College.
Marcy Glover is the Global Programs Coordinator at CGS, the Global & Educational Programs Coordinator in the Office of the Provost, and the Chapter Coordinator for Phi Beta Delta/Epsilon Delta Chapter. She received her M.S. in Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics (TPOL) and her B.S. in Public Administration from GMU.
Susan Graziano, the University's International Grant Coordinator, holds a BA from Bucknell University. Prior to coming to Mason she worked for nearly 20 years with the American Association of Museums (AAM) on the development and evaluation of professional standards for museums. She was the director of the Museum Assessment Program, a national peer review program, and also worked for the association's Accreditation Program. Susan worked as a consultant for other museum-related associations, as well as for a museum writer/editor on books and articles related to museums. Since coming to Mason in 2004, Susan has been responsible for coordinating the efforts of various academic units within the university to develop research and education projects with a global focus. Her work has helped to attract support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others.
Ger FitzGerald is the Managing Editor of the Global Studies Review and CGS Web Editor. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at GMU and holds an MA in Political Science from GMU and a BSc. in Leadership and Management Studies from New York University. He is a Presidential Scholar and is a co-founder and past
Chair of George Mason's Graduate Political Science Society (GPSS). His dissertation focuses on how ethno-religious groups have influenced - and continue to influence - the formal institutions of Western European states. His research interests are integration, assimilation, and multiculturalism and comparative immigration policy. Past research includes an honors thesis analyzing the effects of net immigration on Irish industry in the 1990s. He also teaches an undergraduate-level international relations course.