Amy Reed-Sandoval is an associate professor of philosophy and participating faculty in UNLV's Latinx and Latin American Studies program. Her areas of expertise include political philosophy, with a special interest in issues of migration; Latin American and Latinx philosophies; bioethics; and feminist philosophy.

Reed-Sandoval's most recent research explores how crossing U.S. state and national borders for pregnancy-related medical care (including prenatal care, labor and delivery, and abortion care) impacts pregnant people’s self-trust and autonomy. She also studies what these medical encounters and related experiences can teach us about gender and global justice.

She is the founding director of the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, she launched its offshoot — Philosophy for Children Without Borders, a free online philosophy course for Spanish-speaking children and youth.

Reed-Sandoval is the author of Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Steven Landis is an expert on environmental security, economic development, and political violence. He provides insight on climate security, intrastate conflict, and questions of measurement in both time and space.

His research specialties include IR and foreign policy, environmental politics, and quantitative research methods.

Landis’ work has appeared in journals such as Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Peace Research, Political Analysis, Political Geography, and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Austin Horng-En Wang is an expert on voting behavior, East Asian politics, and political psychology. His dissertation examined the relationship between temporal discounting and political participation through survey and experiments in the U.S., Taiwan, and Ukraine. His current research explores the long-term effect of political repression and attitude toward war in East Asia.

Wang’s commentary on Asian politics have appeared in The Washington Post, The National Interest, and Huffington Post, among others. His research has been published in highly respected journals, including Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Studies, Asian Survey, and Social Science Research.

Nerses Kopalyan is an associate professor-in-residence of political science at the UNLV. His fields of specialization include international relations, polarity and superpowers, political theory, and philosophy of science. He has conducted extensive research on analytic philosophy, feminist theory, and paradigm building. He is the co-author of Sex, Power, And Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is also the author of World Political Systems After Polarity (Routledge, 2017). His current research concentrates on political violence and terrorism, and its impact on geopolitical and great power relations.

Christopher Stream is director of the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He conducts research on issues of local government and public policy. His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Political Research Quarterly, International Journal of Economic Development and State and Local Government Review.

Over the past 15 years, Stream has served as a policy consultant for a variety of government and nonprofit organizations. He has worked with state/local governments and community organizations to evaluate and improve policies and programs. Currently he directs the Masters of Public Administration projects in which he and a team of MPA students conduct yearlong evaluation studies for local governments and nonprofit organizations in Clark County, Nevada.

Gregory S Brown is an historian of European culture from the age of Enlightenment and democratic revolutions to the present day. He has published numerous books and articles on political and cultural institutions in France and Europe. He teaches courses on European and World History, focusing on political culture, urban history, and democratic ideals. He has formerly been a research associate of the Ecole normale superieure in Paris is currently general editor of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, published by the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford, where he is a Senior Research Fellow.

Christian Jensen is an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

His research and teaching interests focus on democratic institutions and political parties, with particular focus on the politics of the European Union.  His work has been widely published in a variety of scholarly journals including the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, and Political Studies.   

Before coming to UNLV, he taught political science at the University of Iowa.  He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Mannheim and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.