Dr. Catherine M. Banks is the Assistant Program Director for Graduate Education and Strategic Research Planning. She is also an adjunct professor of Political Science at ODU.

Dr. Banks received her B.A. at Christopher Newport University, her M.A. and Ph.D. at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her dissertation was an analysis of the executive-legislative relationship, constitutional war power, and Congress’s role over the use of military force.

Dr. Banks has traveled throughout Europe, China, Korea, Turkey, and Mexico. In 2000, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation invited Dr. Banks to attend a conference in Brussels, Belgium focusing on NATO expansion and challenges facing the European Union. In 2001, she was again invited to attend a conference in Berlin and Rostock, Germany to discuss economic development and security strategy in the Baltic States. She has been teaching since 1999 focusing on her specialization in American Foreign Policy and Contemporary World History.

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