David Mendeloff

Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs

• BA (International Relations) Pitzer College, PhD (Political Science) MIT

David Mendeloff is currently Associate Dean (Faculty Affairs) in the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs. He served as FPA’s Associate Dean (Academic) from 2018-23. In that role he helped develop and shepherd new academic programs and curricular changes and innovations; worked with units on cyclical program reviews; managed the TA allocation process; oversaw teaching regulations and academic policies; and represented FPA on numerous university committees.

David joined the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in 2001, where he is currently Associate Professor. From 2005-14 he was Director of NPSIA’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies. He has taught courses on international conflict analysis, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction, and transitional justice at NPSIA and in the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management program. A political scientist, David is a specialist of the politics of accountability for wartime atrocity and the impact of international criminal justice on wartime civilian violence, war termination and post-war state-building. He was most recently co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights, examining the impact of the International Criminal Court on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding. He holds a PhD (Political Science) from MIT and a BA (International Relations) from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.