Faculty Fellowships

The Tower Center Teaching Fellows Program

The Teaching Fellows program brings post-doctoral fellows to the SMU faculty, for non-renewable two -year appointments, to teach and lecture in the areas of world politics, international political economy, and international institutions. Each teaching fellow offers two courses per semester and is expected to be active in the student life of the campus.

 2007-2008 Tower Teaching Fellows:

Chelsea Brown received her PhD (2007) from the University of North Texas.  She has an MBA (2002) from Texas Christian University and an MSc (2002) from ESC in Dijon, France.  Prior to SMU, she was a visiting professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and also worked for the Foreign Agricultural Service in Moscow.  She specializes in comparative political economy, and her research interests include political and economic development, foreign policy, democracy, and globalization.  Currently, she is working on a project that examines the effects of financial market development on inequality and poverty.

J. Mark Skorick received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2005. He has taught courses in international relations, foreign policy, and terrorism at Texas A&M and the University of Kansas. His areas of specialization include foreign policy decision making, US foreign policy, and political psychology. Skorick's current research focuses on how emotions influence the manner in which people make sense of and respond to important foreign policy events. He has published papers in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and International Interactions, and has a chapter on emotions and foreign policy event interpretation (co-authored with Nehemia Geva) in the forthcoming book, Feeling Politics.

Former Tower Teaching Fellows:

The Diplomat-in-Residence Program

The Diplomat-in-Residence program brings to the campus world leaders who have affected the nature and course of our times. Ambassador Robert Strauss and Defense Secretary Richard Cheney have served the Tower Center and SMU as resident diplomats. The current (2007-2010) Diplomat-in-Residence is the Honorable Robert Jordan, former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

The John G. Tower Center Faculty Fellowships

The Tower Center offers a limited number of fellowships to SMU faculty with the aim to support and enhance research and undergraduate instruction and to provide seed monies to conduct preliminary research that may lead to outside funding. The purpose of these awards is to increase research and scholarship and to enhance teaching effectiveness. Grants are also made for the purchase of research materials, equipment, and supplies.

Click here for past recipients of the John G. Tower Center Faculty Fellowships