» Dr. Donald Will

Professor, Director, Peace Studies Program

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Peace Studies

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Political Science

Phone:

(714) 997-6620

Email:

will@chapman.edu

Education

Haverford College, Bachelor of Arts
University of Denver, Master of Arts
University of Denver, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Will is Chair and Professor of Political Science and holds the Delp-Wilkinson Chair in Peace Studies.  He has been a member of the Chapman faculty since 1987, and received his Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver.  His research emphasis includes the comparative study of conflict and social change.  For eleven years he served as a non-governmental observer at the United Methodist Office for the United Nations.  He teaches courses such as Introduction to Peace Studies, Nonviolent Social Change, Race and Change in South Africa and the US, Peace and Conflict in the Middle East, Vietnam: War, Peace, and Legacy, Social Change in Cuba, Literature of Peace and Justice, Noam Chomsky: Intellectual and Dissident, and the Chapman University Freshman Seminar: The Global Citizen.

Professional Career

• June 2007 - Associate Dean
  Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Chair, Department of Political Sciences
• June 2005-2007 - Associate Dean of Social Science Wilkinson College of Letters and Sciences
  Chapman University
• Fall 2001 - Delp - Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies
  Professor, Department of Political Science
  Director, Peace Studies Program
  Chapman University

Education

• Ph.D., M.A. in International Studies
• Graduate School of International Studies
• University of DenverB.A. in Political Science
• Haverford College

Fields of Specialization

Peace StudiesComparative PoliticsPolitical EconomyPolitics of Southern Africa and the Middle EastComparative Revolutions