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Peter Andreas

Peter Andreas

Interim Director and Professor of Political Science and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Borders and smuggling; transnational crime and crime control; and the political economy of conflict and intervention.

 

Faculty

 

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: democracy, urban governance, racism, social movements, civil society, and Brazil.

Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth

Faculty Fellow and Director of IR and DS Programs

Areas of Interest: international political economy, and specifically the politics of ideas, how institutions and disciplines change, political parties, and the politics of finance.

 

Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Dupee Faculty Fellow

Areas of Interest: comparative politics, political economy and the Middle East, social welfare and human security, identity politics, and the politics of economic development

Nitsan Chorev

Nitsan Chorev

Faculty Fellow

Areas of Interest: global political economy, development, comparative-historical sociology, global health, trade

 

Beshara Doumani

Beshara Doumani

Faculty Fellow and Director of Middle East Studies

Areas of Interest: The history of social groups, places, and time periods that have been silenced or erased by conventional scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East; Middle East family history and the social history of the Palestinians

Patrick Heller

Patrick Heller

Professor of Sociology and International Studies and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Development

Areas of Interest: development and comparative political economy, globalization, urban governance, democratization and civil society, the production of inequality; focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.

 

Michael D. Kennedy

Michael D. Kennedy

Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge institutions, networks, and media; cultural articulation of democracy, peace, and energy security

Catherine Lutz

Catherine Lutz

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Military, war, and society; Automobility and inequality; Race and gender; Democracy; US and Asia-Pacific

 

Richard Snyder

Richard Snyder

Faculty Fellow and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Areas of Interest: comparative politics of development; comparative political economy; Latin American politics; knowledge production in the social sciences.

Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney

Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Director of the Brown-India Initiative

Areas of Interest: ethnicity and nationalism; political economy of development; and South Asian politics and political economy.

 

 

Research Faculty

 

Keith Brown

Keith Brown

Professor (Research) and Director of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes

Areas of Interest: Social and cultural dimensions of political and economic processes; Macedonia and the Balkans – and the international and transnational linkages that run through the region; the evaluation of democracy promotion programs; identity politics in diasporic communities; and what the US military learned about culture from its experience in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Barbara Stallings

Barbara Stallings

William R. Rhodes Research Professor and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Development

Areas of Interest: Economic reform and development in Latin America and East Asia; finance for development; development strategy; international political economy.

 

 

Professors at Large

 

Ricardo Lagos Escobar

Ricardo Lagos Escobar

Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: political and economic development.

Romano Prodi

Romano Prodi

Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: industrial economics, organization, and policy, competition regulations and the development of small and medium businesses, relations between states and markets, and the dynamics of different capitalistic models.

 

William R. Rhodes '57 LHD'05 (Hon.)

William R. Rhodes '57 LHD'05 (Hon.)

Professor at Large, Member of the Board of Overseers Emeritus

Areas of Interest: international finance.

 

Fellows

 

Sue E. Eckert

Sue E. Eckert

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: national security policy and decisionmaking, economic sanctions, terrorism, cybersecurity, and other economic aspects of contemporary international security issues.

Peter B. Evans

Peter B. Evans

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: comparative political economy of development, globalization and global governance, labor, social movements and transnational civil society.

 

Susan Graseck

Susan Graseck

Senior Fellow and Director of the Choices Program

Areas of Interest: education, civic engagement in international and public policy, and renewal of American democracy.

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Nukhet A. Sandal

Nukhet A. Sandal

Postdoctoral Scholar in International Studies

Areas of Interest: religion in global politics, secularization, human rights, international relations theory, conflict resolution, political violence, politics of divided societies.

Bhrigupati Singh

Bhrigupati Singh

Postdoctoral Scholar in International Studies and Anthropology

Areas of Interest: power and inequality, religious and secular modes of aspiration, rural poverty in South Asia, anthropology of religion and ethics, political theologies, critical theory/continental philosophy.

 

 

Adjunct, Visiting, and Emeriti Faculty

 

Thomas J. Biersteker

Thomas J. Biersteker

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: International political economy of development and international relations theory.

Katrina Burgess

Katrina Burgess

Visiting Scholar in International Studies

Areas of Interest: Latin America, politics of economic reform, political parties, labor unions, impact of a crisis of traditional political institutions on linkages between the state and civil society.

 

Timothy Edgar

Timothy Edgar

Visiting Fellow in International Studies

Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties, intelligence, open government and information sharing, U.S. national security policy process, Congressional process.

Abbott Gleason

Abbott Gleason

Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History Emeritus

Areas of Interest: National identity in Russia/Soviet Union and United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War.

 

Patricia Herlihy

Patricia Herlihy

Professor of History Emerita

Areas of Interest: Social, economic, and religious history of Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jane S. Jaquette

Jane S. Jaquette

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: Women and feminism in politics, development, foreign policy, and democracy; Latin America, international relations, comparative development politics.

 

Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues.

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: American foreign policy, Latin American politics, the construction of democratic governance worldwide, Global California's policy challenges, and the California-Mexico connection.

 

David Pedersen

David Pedersen

Visiting Scholar in International Studies

Areas of Interest: Transnational migration and remittance circulation; capitalism and liberalism in the Americas; U.S. military doctrine and strategy

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: Human rights, UN and OAS human rights mechanisms, democratic transition and consolidation in Latin America, violence, authoritarian legacies, un-civil society.

 

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Professor of Sociology Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Social theory and comparative historical research, especially regarding state and politics and the political economy of development.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Adjunct Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: Sociology of art, gender studies and urban developments in communist and postcommunist societies.

 

Newell Stultz

Newell Stultz

Professor of Political Science Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, South Africa.

 

Brown Faculty Associates

 

Matthew Gutmann

Matthew Gutmann

Vice President for International Affairs and Professor of Anthropology

J. Timmons Roberts

J. Timmons Roberts

Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies

 

John Savage

John Savage

An Wang Professor of Computer Science

Roberto Serrano

Roberto Serrano

Interim Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance

 

Leah VanWey

Leah VanWey

Associate Professor of Sociology

Vazira F-Y Zamindar

Vazira F-Y Zamindar

Director of South Asian Studies and Associate Professor of History