Faculty

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Arts and Sciences

Research Areas: Global health, the environment, and development, including a particular focus on how political-economic factors shape patterns in disease and environmental degradation in less-developed nationsGlobal health, the environment, and development, including a particular focus on how political-economic factors shape patterns in disease and environmental degradation in less-developed nations

Recent Courses Offered: GS 390: Readings in Global Studies

Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Chair of International Relations

Research Areas: International Political Economy, International Security, Citizenship, Civil Society, Democratization, Social Capital
Political Islam in the Sahel, Malian Politics

Research Areas: Comparative politics and globalization

Recent Courses Offered: GS 001: Introduction to Global Studies, GS 339: The Rise of the State in East Asia

Research Areas: Urban anthropology, visual and media anthropology, post-socialism, late industrialism, infrastructure, energy politics

Recent Courses Offered: GS 126: Urban Anthropology, GS 106: Cultural Studies and Globalization

Research Areas: Mass migration, collective memory, trauma, nostalgia, national identity, race and gender

Director of Global Studies Program

Research Areas: Soviet and post-Soviet art and literature

Recent Courses Offered: GS 090: Is Censorship Necessary?, GS 070: Other Voices: Being Human Around the Globe

Research Areas: Caribbean and Atlantic world history, history of slavery, modern France, intellectual and cultural history of imperialism; law and social history

Recent Courses Offered: GS 101: Histories of Globalization, GS 184: Paris: The Global City

Research Areas: Transnational migration, Sub-Saharan Africa, diaspora, Islam, the state in Africa, population dynamics, contemporary polygamy

Recent Courses Offered: GS 317: So You Want to Save the World, ANTH 011: Cultural Diversity and Human Nature