Greetings, and thank you for visiting my website. It is my pleasure to share with you some details about my teaching, research, service, books I've written, projects I've worked on, and goals for the future. Shown below are four areas among those I've had the opportunity to be involved in. Click on each for additional details.

My most recent book is Making Decisions: Analytics, Cognition, and Application, with Cambridge University Press, where I've linked three disciplines and three approaches to decision making: (1) Optimal models from Operations Research and Management Science that provide best solutions when parameters are known; (2) Descriptive models from Cognitive Psychology that describe and predict how people will make decisions; (3) Applied decision making to address real-world problems and situations.  

I genuinely enjoy teaching the undergraduate and graduate students at William & Mary. They are bright, curious, focused, and goal-oriented. My primary teaching responsibilities are courses on Research Methods and Decision Theory. Students, see our Blackboard site for additional details or email to me any time. My primary research area is how people make resource-allocation decisions. Click below for links to several journal articles on the topic -- co-authored with William & Mary undergrads -- or see the book Resource-Allocation Behavior, co-authored with William & Mary graduate students.

For over 30 years I was involved in the United Nations. First, I was a member of the US Delegation to the United Nations and my portfolio included UN Peacekeeping, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, The Special Political Committee, and several others. After that, I founded a global nonprofit that provided e-learning to United Nations Peacekeepers. I retired from that and turned the leadership over to a new generation. The organization currently meets demand for 100,000 enrollments annually from essentially every nation.

In two books, The Psychology of Peacekeeping, and the Psychology of Diplomacy, both edited volumes, I have tried to show the links and overlaps between our human behavior, international relations, and conflict resolution. I ask why it is that we consider international relations and peacekeeping to be the realm only of statesmen, and I encourage my colleagues in the Social Sciences -- Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and others -- to make useful contributions to these fields.