Political Science & History Faculty
Atty. Damien L. Bevelle
Assistant Professor and Director of Hampton University's Pre-Law Institute
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 126
Phone:757.728.6083
E-mail:damien.bevelle@hamptonu.edu
Damien L. Bevelle, Esq., Assistant Professor of Political Science, History, and International Studies and Director of the Hampton University Pre-Law Institute (HUPLI). With an ethos of Justitia et Aequitas per Veritas et Rationem (Justice and Equity through Truth and Reason) and through a comprehensive program featuring a carefully curated curriculum, HUPLI prepares Hampton University students for admission to and success in law school and/or other graduate study programs. Atty. Bevelle, a native of New York City, earned a B.S. in Finance from Hampton University and he received his Juris Doctorate degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. Prior to returning to his alma mater, Atty. Bevelle practiced law in the realm of complex commercial litigation in the New York City based law firm of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP. Atty. Bevelle also completed clerkships in United States District Court in New Jersey and in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Atty. Bevelle brings a wealth of legal practice as well as mentorship experience to his roles as classroom instructor, student pre-law advisement, and Directorship of HUPLI.
Dr. Shu-Shan Lee
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 204
Phone:757-727-5732
E-mail:shushan.lee@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: Comparative Political Theory
Dr. Lee is a Fulbright Scholar from Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Virginia in 2015. Dr. Lee is a comparative political theorist specializing in Western and Chinese political traditions. His current study focuses on the theory of political obligation in Classical Confucianism and how it shaped the politics of Imperial China. In addition to the philosophical and historical analysis, he is also conducting an interview study in China to examine the contemporary relevance of Confucianism to Chinese citizens’ everyday political lives. One of his papers based on this research project has won the 2020 Best Essay Award by Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. At Hampton University, Dr. Lee teaches Introduction to Political Science, American National Politics, Scope and Methods of Political Science, and various courses in Political Theory.
Dr. Arturo Luna Loranca
Assistant Professor of Political Science, History, and International Studies
Location: Martin Luther King Building 207
Phone: 757-727-5619
E-mail: arturo.lunaloranca@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: Colonial Latin American History, Urban History, and Animal History
Dr. Arturo Luna Loranca
Assistant Professor of Political Science, History, and International Studies
Location: Martin Luther King Building 207
Phone: 757-727-5619
E-mail: arturo.lunaloranca@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: Colonial Latin American History, Urban History, and Animal History
Dr. Catherine Lee Porter
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 249B
Phone: 757-727-5749
E-mail:catherine.porter@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: Comparative Politics & Global History, Women's and Gender History, Military
History, Digital Humanities
Dr. Catherine L. Porter area of research is in the Global Cold War focusing in Central Africa, most notably the Congo Crisis. This extends to the Mai Mai Bakata militia movement in the Copperbelt region and how it is a replicating factor from the Cold War secession with lingering attachment to the iconography. This is being written as a manuscript and peer reviewed articles that are examining the Katangan secessionist crisis within the greater Global Cold War scholarship and new revisionist arguments about independent African political conversation via the lens of local autochthonous groups. She has also begun a project that intertwines geospatial analysis and data harvesting, to digitally map the Congo Crisis and its succeeding wars in a non-linear fashion.
Dr. Porter has served in several capacities in governmental and non-governmental organizations, such as the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations and currently hold a political appointment on the Commission on Updating Virginia Law to Reflect Federal Recognition of Virginia Tribes.
Dr. Porter was a Fulbright Scholar to the Democratic Republic of Congo and is a member of the African Studies Association, the Society for Military History, ASEN, and the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies. Dr. Porter holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She also has a Master’s from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland and a Master’s in Liberal Arts and African Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dual Bachelor’s in History and International Studies are from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Professor Randy Singleton
Assistant Professor of History
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 211
Phone:757-727-5749
E-mail:randy.singleton@hamtponu.edu
Expertise: African American History, US History, State & Local Government
Professor Singleton specializes in U.S. and African American History, having taught various History & Political Sciences courses at St. Leo University for 20 years as an adjunct instructor. He taught History, Geography, and Government classes for Chesapeake Public Schools for 24 years, and Norfolk Public Schools for 11 years. Professor Singleton worked for State Operated Programs teaching incarcerated youth at Chesapeake Juvenile Services before retiring from public schools with 35 years of service to the state of Virginia.
Professor Singleton has served as the Community Affairs Correspondent for the New Journal and Guide newspaper (Virginia’s oldest African American newspaper) for the last 15 years, publishing numerous articles on public affairs and cultural events. He has also worked for the Richmond Free Press. Professor Singleton earned a MA in History from Old Dominion University and a BA in History Education from Norfolk State University
Dr. Eteri Tsinsadze-Maass (Dr. Etuna)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 209
Phone:757-727-5349
E-mail:eteri.maass@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: International Relations, Ontological Security, Nationalism, and Post-Soviet Politics
Dr. Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass (a.k.a. Dr. Etuna) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and History at Hampton University. Her research and teaching focus on international relations and security. She has published articles on the psychological underpinnings of terrorist radicalization and the effects of national identities on states’ threat perceptions and security choices. Currently, Dr. Tsintsadze-Maass is working on several projects examining the social construction of state survival, states’ responses to major crises and associated insecurities, as well as non-state sources of ontological security. Her long-term project is a book manuscript based on her Dissertation: Why Weak States Balance: National Mobilization and the Security Strategies of Post-Soviet States. Prior to joining Hampton University, Dr. Tsintsadze-Maass worked as the Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies (GPIS) at Old Dominion University, where she also taught political science courses for the Department of Political Science and Geography. She is a board member and the chair of the Great Decisions committee at the World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads. Dr. Tsintsadze-Maass holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky, with primary specialization in international relations and secondary specialization in comparative politics. She has also earned an MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Psychology from Tbilisi State University.
Professor Robert C. Watson
Assistant Professor of History
Location: Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, 214
Phone:757-727-5349
E-mail:robert.watson@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: African American History, Caribbean History, Reconstruction, West African History