Dr. Janie Leatherman
Director of International Studies and Professor of Politics
 Dr. Janie Leatherman is director of international studies and professor of politics. Her most recent publications include Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance, edited with Julie Webber (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); From Cold War to Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change and the OSCE (Syracuse University Press, 2003); and Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises (Kumarian, 1999). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), conflict early warning and prevention, gender and violence, sex-trafficking, foreign policy and transnational politics. She is currently working on an edited volume on Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control, and a book on Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict (under contract with Polity Press).
Dr. Leatherman has served as a trainer in conflict resolution, and has consulted with an array of agencies and international organizations, including the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, the United Nations University, Catholic Relief Services, Search for Common Ground, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). She has nearly two dozen grants from national and international funding sources, totaling over $175, 000, including the United States Institute of Peace, the Social Science Research Council, Pew Foundation, Swedish Government, and also the Fulbright-Hayes and American Scandinavian dissertation fellowships. She has delivered more than 50 public addresses and dozens of conference papers in national and international forum.
Dr. Leatherman was previously director of international affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, and co-director of peace and conflict resolution studies, and professor in the Department of Politics and Government from 1997 to 2006. She was a visiting fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (1992-1997), and visiting assistant professor at Macalester College (1989-1991). She served as Director of Brethren Colleges Abroad and taught at the University of Barcelona from 1991 to 1992. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies in 1991. Dr. Leatherman's Curriculum Vitae | 
