Staff
Between 1984 and 2000, post-doctoral fellows managed TISS. Since then a part-time coordinator has taken care of the day-to-day affairs of the organization. The current program and outreach coordinator is former TISS post-doctoral fellow Carolyn Pumphrey, who also teaches history at North Carolina State University and, periodically, at Duke's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLI). In October 2008 she was joined by Nicole McWhirter, part time program assistant.
Biographies
Carolyn Pumphrey is Program and Outreach Coordinator for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) and Teaching Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Though born in the United States, and a long-time resident of North Carolina, she spent more than twenty years living overseas (England, France, and Switzerland). She has taught a wide variety of courses at college level, including "War and Society in Ancient and Medieval Times," and the "History of Restraints on War." Her research interests focus on the European Middle Ages. She was the Post-Doctoral Fellow for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies between 1997 and 2000. She is the editor of Transnational Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies (SSI: 2000); The Rise of China: Security Implications (SSI: 2002); and (with Rye Schwartz Barcott) Armed Conflict in Africa (Scarecrow Press, 2003). Her undergraduate degree (Literature and History, Upper II honors) is from the University of York, U.K. and her doctorate (1985) is from Duke University.
Nicole McWhirter is a part-time Program Assistant for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). Nicole holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. Nicole has recently returned to the United States after spending the last 5 years in South America. She currently resides in Hillsborough, NC with her husband and 2 children.
