Roger Kangas
Adjunct Professor - Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
Dr. Roger Kangas is the Academic Dean and a Professor of Central Asian Studies at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense regional center. Previously Dr. Kangas served as a Professor of Central Asian Studies at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Deputy Director of the Central Asian Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Central Asian Course Coordinator at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute; Research Analyst on Central Asian Affairs for the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, Czech Republic; and as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi.
Dr. Kangas has been an advisor to the Combatant Commands, NATO/ISAF, and various US government agencies on issues relating to Central and South Asia, Russia, and the South Caucasus. He has written refereed articles and book chapters, as well as lectured to a range of audiences, on these topics. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Dr. Kangas holds a B.S.F.S. in Comparative Politics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University.