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
(804) 287-6086
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
(804) 287-6045
Associate Dean for Student & External Affairs
Specialties:
- Community-based Learning
- Diversity and Difference
(804) 287-6082
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Traditional Leadership
- Governance in Weak States
- African Politics
- Historical Political Economy
(804) 287-6694
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Educational Inequalities
- Academic Freedom
- Education Policy
- Comparative and International Education
(804) 287-6335
Professor Emerita
Specialties:
- Leadership Ethics
- Business Ethics
- International Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Philosophy of Work
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Biomedical Ethics
- Public Health Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Ethics of Technology
(804) 287-6451
Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics & Democratic Values
Specialties:
- Ethics
- Bioethics
- Political Philosophy
(804) 287-6353
Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Group Dynamics
- Social Behavior
- Psychology of Morality
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Political Leadership
- Russian Politics
- Governance and Bureaucracy
- Experimental Methods
(804) 287-6411
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
(804) 287-6097
Dr. Lauren N. Henley
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- African American History
- Ethics of Crime
- History of Serial Killers
(804) 287-6891
Professor Emerita
Specialties:
- Organizational Leadership
- Leading Change
- Invisible Leadership
- Leadership during Personal Crisis
Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Political Philsophy
- Applied Ethics
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Pedagogy
(804) 287-6365
Professor of Leadership Studies and Psychology and the Colonel Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Beliefs Systems (e.g., Mindsets, Stereotypes, and Ideologies)
- Stigma, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
- Social Inequities
(804) 287-6825
Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
- Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)
(804) 289-8003
Dr. Bo Yun Park
She/Her
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
(804) 287-6088
Associate Professor of Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Status Hierarchy
- Leader Emergence and Effectiveness
- Evolution of Cooperation and Morality
- Social Gradient of Health
- Small-scale Societies
- Origins of Personality Differences
(804) 287-6098
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
(804) 287-6494
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
(804) 287-6542
Professor Emeritus
Specialties:
- Intellectual History of Leadership
- Leadership in Historical Contexts
- Leadership and the Law
- Leadership Education
Affiliated Faculty
Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life, University Chaplain, and Jessie Ball duPont Chair of the Chaplaincy
Contact: (804) 289-8500
Program Chair, Graduate Education
Associate Professor, Education
Associate Professor, Leadership Studies
Member, SPCS Speakers Bureau
Adjunct Instructor, Executive Education
Specialties:
- Educational Leadership
- School & Housing Segregation
- Changing Demographics in RVA
- Ethics & Leadership
(804) 289-8524
