Christopher Kukk, Ph.D., is The Wilma Register Sharp & Marc Boyd Sharp Dean of the Cormier Honors College for Citizen Scholars and Professor of Political Science at Longwood University. Dr. Kukk is also the HarperCollins author of "The Compassionate Achiever," Fulbright Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Boston College and his B.A. in political science from Boston University. He was also an international security fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is the former Director of both the Kathwari Honors Program and the Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation at Western Connecticut State University. Dr. Kukk was also a counter-intelligence agent for the United States Army, Dire