UAH: Department of Political Science

Dr. Kathy Hawk

Department Chair
Office: Morton Hall 250
Phone: (256) 824-6192
Email: hawkk@uah.edu

*Dr. Kathy H. Hawk will not have scheduled courses or office hours for the 2007 fall semester.

Dr. Kathy Hawk is an associate professor and the Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, and U.S. National Security Policy, Comparative Politics and Foreign Governments, Government and Politics of Industrializing Countries, and Government and Politics of Modernizing Countries. Professor Hawk received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Alabama in 2001. She earned her MA in Latin American Studies and her BA in Political Science (Minor in Journalism) from George Washington University. She attended the Foreign Service Institute in 1992 and 1994. Her education included intensive study of the Arabic language. She has also studied in Costa Rica, Argentina, and Spain. Professor Hawk has been a member of the faculty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville since 1995. Professor Hawk has served as a faculty member at the National Intelligence College in Washington, D. C. She was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and worked at the U. S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. She has also held positions with the Strategic Defense Initiative organization, the Department of the Air Force, and she served as Press Secretary to then-Congressman (now Senator) Byron Dorgan. Professor Hawk is a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve and is now assigned to active duty in Iraq. Kathy is married to Howard Hawk, a Circuit Judge in Marshall County, Alabama. Professor Hawk is the author of the book, Constructing the Stable State: Goals for Intervention and Peacebuilding (Greenwood Press, 2002). She has published a number of articles, reviews, and technical papers primarily in the area of National Security and Missile Systems. Professor Hawk was selected as a Truman Scholar and she is the representative on campus for the Truman and Boren public service scholarship programs.