Experts
Our experts research and teach on a variety of energy-related topics across disciplines ranging from international relations, to literature, culture, science, security studies, and beyond.
Faculty Research Leads
Energy Security
Rory Miller
Director, Energy Studies Certificate; Lead, Energy Security Research. A professor of International Politics, Dr. Miller teaches and researches on international relations, small state and regional security, international security, and alliances and theories of external intervention.
Energy Humanities
Trish Kahle
Energy Humanities Co-Lead. Historian of energy, work, and politics in the modern United States and the world.
Victoria Googasian
Energy Humanities Co-Lead. Literature scholar with a focus on environmental humanities, animal studies, and narrative fiction in 20th- and 21st-century American literature.
Firat Oruc
Energy Humanities Co-Lead. Global literature scholar with a focus on the Middle East and Indian Ocean world, particularly film and media cultures.
Associated Staff
Nala Mouqbil
Energy Humanities Program Assistant. GU-Q alumna and co-author, with Professor Alexis Antoniades of the policy brief “Gulf Monetary Union Relaunch“
Affiliated Scholars
Valentini Pappa
Program Director of New Academic Initiatives, GU-Q. Energy Studies Adjunct Faculty with expertise in Clean Energy Science, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation, Energy Transition, Sustainability, and the Water-Energy Nexus.
Muez Ali
Research and Policy Associate, Earthna. Energy Studies Adjunct Faculty with expertise in food security, climate change in the MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa, electrification and energy access, and the political economy of development.
Rowan Ellis
Assistant Teaching Professor of Science, GU-Q. Her research interests lie in geography, urban studies, and sustainable International development, focusing on political ecology and socio-hydrology.