Staff and Fellows

James F. Hollifield, Professor of International Political Economy, serves as the director of the Tower Center. The Center is advised by a Board of Directors which includes thirty distinguished citizens from throughout the country and is chaired by the Hon. Dan Branch. The Center is also served by a seven-person Advisory Board.

Seyom Brown, John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security, is the Center's Director of Studies.

2007-2010 Diplomat in Residence

The Honorable Robert Jordan

Advisory Board Fellows

Seyom Brown, John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security 

Christopher Hanna, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law

Dennis Ippolito, Eugene McElvaney Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department

Cal Jillson, Dedman College Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Political Science

Joe Norton, James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institutions Law and Professor of Law

Daniel Orlovsky, Professor of History and George Bouhe Research Fellow in Russian Studies

Thomas Osang, Associate Professor of Economics

Harold Stanley, Geurin-Pettus Distinguished Chair in American Politics and Political Economy

Senior Fellows

Caroline Brettell

Kathleen B. Cooper

Lee Cullum

Delores M. Etter

Diana H. Newton

Research Fellows and Associates

Justyna Dymerska

Vanda Felbab-Brown

LiKanz (Tim) Chen

The Honorable Joe Lake

Steve LeVine

Alejandro Nieto

Pia Orrenius

Idean Salehyan

Alexander Tan

2008-2009 Tower Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

Chelsea Brown

Staff

Spencer Diebel, Coordinator

Noëlle McAlpine, Associate Director for Academic and Administrative Affairs

Lynne Novack, Associate Director for Programs