Carol J. Pretlow, M.A., J.D., LL.M

Director

Carol J. Pretlow  is a tenured associate professor of Political Science and founding Director of the Consortium for Strategic and Global Studies in the Department of Political Science at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia. A graduate of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (B.A. Political Science), Norfolk State University (M.A., Mass Communications); Professor Pretlow holds both a Juris Doctor (J.D.) and a Masters of International Legal Studies from The Washington College of Law of the American University of Washington, D.C. The professor's post graduate studies have included studies in international relations at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; studies on the International Criminal Court at the Irish Center for Human Rights of the National University of Galway, Ireland and recently studies in national security at Galillee College in Nahalal, Israel (2007) and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (2008).

Professor Pretlow has been an adjunct professor of foreign policy at The National Defense University Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, a visiting professor of International relations at Tongji Universiy in Shanghai, China  and a guest lecturer  at The United States Joint Forces Command for Operational Analysis in Suffolk, Virginia. A former research fellow in national security at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Studies of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.; Professor Pretlow is currently a research fellow at The Lauterpachet Centre of International Law of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom (appointment from 2005-2009).

A traveling scholar  under the auspices of The University of Hawaii East West Center, Professor Pretlow has traveled to Malaysia and South Korea and has represented Norfolk State University  at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, UK. and The International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in both Cambridge, UK (Summer, 2005) and Paris, France (Summer, 2007).

As a guest columnist to local newspapers, Professor Pretlow has contributed op-ed pieces to The Smithfield Times of Smithfield, Virginia and The Spartan Connections of Norfolk State University, and WVEC Channel 13's web magazine; as well as authored an Instructor's Manual on Logic and Critical Thinking published by Prentice Hall in 2004. The professor’s other publications include Contemporary Issues in Foreign Policy and World Politics 2nd Edition (2004), published as a Foreign Affairs Custom Textbook by Foreign Affairs Quarterly and Among Nations Readings in International Relations: Foreign Policy and World Politics in a Post 9/11 World (2006), published by Pearson Custom Publications. Professor Pretlow has also edited three classified publications for the United States Department of Defense.

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