David Mendeloff ( He/Him )

Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs

• Ph.D. (MIT), B.A. Hons (Pitzer College, Claremont)
• 383 Loeb Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• Email David Mendeloff
• 613-520-2600 ext 1373

As Associate Dean (Faculty Affairs), David works closely with the Dean and the other Associate Deans in advancing the Faculty and supporting academic units in all areas. He is specifically responsible for supporting the Dean with planning, budgeting and Faculty initiatives, academic program quality assurance, Faculty governance, and academic staff and labour relations. He represents FPGA on the Senate Quality Assurance and Planning Committee (SQAPC) and the Senate Academic Governance Committee (SAGC). He currently serves as Interim Secretary of FPGA Faculty Board, chairs the FPGA Faculty Board Executive Committee, and sits as a University Senator, As of Fall 2025, he chairs the Senate Committee on Curriculum, Admissions and Studies Policy (SCCASP). 

David joined the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in 2001, where he is currently Associate Professor. He is also faculty associate of Carleton’s Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS) and the Centre for Security, Intelligence and Defence Studies (CSIDS). From 2006-15 he was Director of NPSIA’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS). From 2018-2023 he served as Associate Dean (Academic) in FPGA, before assuming his current role as Associate Dean (Faculty Affairs). During the 2024-25 academic year he also served as Interim Director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs.

He teaches 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BA Hons. in International Relations from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.