B. Welling Hall joined the Earlham faculty in 1986 with a B.A. from Oberlin (Classical Greek) and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University (Political Science). Her doctoral research focused on Soviet foreign policy and international efforts to resolve environmental problems. Welling has been the recipient of research, teaching, and public policy fellowships from the International Peace Research Association, the Ford Foundation, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Arms Control Association, the Joyce Foundation, the Academic Council for United Nations Studies, and the American Society of International Law. She has served as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Comparative Politology in Moscow, a consulting scholar to the YMCA's Statesmanship Program, and Chair of the International Law section of the International Studies Association. Welling teaches courses in Politics, International Studies, and Peace and Global Studies such as: Welling is currently writing a text of contemporary issues in international law for undergraduates (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Previously her research has focused on two different areas: the impact of information technology on change in international relations, and the politics of transformation in the former Soviet Union. Welling's publications include Women, Politics, and Environmental Action, articles in International Studies Perspectives, Alternatives, The Journal of Peace Research, The Mershon International Studies Review, PS, International Studies Notes, Polis, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, Political Psychology, the instructor's manual for the first and second editions Dynamics of International Relations, and several chapters in edited volumes on various topics in International Relations.

Welling is married to Joseph A. Ventresca and has a son, Cory Hall Ventresca, born in 1994. She enjoys international travel, singing in the symphony chorus and around a campfire, and reading Dr. Seuss (sometimes even in class). You can send email to wellingh@earlham.edu.