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

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

Director of LVAIC Minor in Documentary Storymaking

Research Areas: News and Mythology; News Language; News and Metaphor; Media and Migration

Recent Courses Offered: GS 102: The Sports Documentary

Director of Global Studies Program

Research Areas: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Labor, Middle East, Politics of Representation, Narrative, Public Archaeology, Tourism, Science and Technology Studies, Social Network Analysis

Recent Courses Offered: GS 106: Cultural Studies and Globalization, GS 173: Archaeology of the Middle East

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: Modern and contemporary Spanish cultural production that span a breadth of critical points of reflection intersecting in urban studies, gender studies, and political theory

Recent Courses Offered: SPAN 141: Advanced Spanish Grammar

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