Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

For biographies of part-time and adjunct faculty members, click the first letter of the faculty member's last name.

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James Van Hook: Professorial Lecturer
He may be contacted at jlvanhook@cox.net.

Beth Vann:
Ms. Vann specializes in the issues around violence against women and children in complex humanitarian emergencies. Since 1998, her work has focused on gender-based violence technical advising, training, capacity building, writing, and research with displaced communities, NGOs, UN agencies, and host governments. Professor Vann has over 25 years experience developing and managing public health and social services programs and has worked in 19 countries. She holds a master's degree in social work and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Professor Vann is a part-time faculty member at GWU and works as a consulting technical advisor and educator with international NGOs and UN agencies.

Warren Van Wicklin: Professorial Lecturer
Professor Van Wicklin is an international development consultant specializing in social development, policy analysis, and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on community participation, NGOs, and involuntary resettlement. He worked in the World Bank's environment, social development, and evaluation departments from 1993-2001. Since then he has continued to consult for the World Bank, as well as the International Finance Corporation, the Asian Development Bank, and the UK Department for International Development. He was the team leader of evaluations of participation, involuntary resettlement, and safeguard policies and has field experience in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has written one book (Involuntary Resettlement: Comparative Perspectives, Rutgers, NJ: Transaction, 2000) and several articles on participation and involuntary resettlement. His PhD (1990) is in political science from MIT. His doctoral dissertation was on US NGOs and their development projects in Central America and the Caribbean. He can be reached at wvanwicklin@yahoo.com.