Howard R. Swearer Director of the Watson Institute; Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge institutions and networks, cultural articulation of democracy, peace, and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow

Areas of Interest: Information and communication technologies (ICTs), media and international development; social entrepreneurship; Latin American baseball.

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies; Director, International Relations Program

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

Associate Professor of International Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Development Studies Program

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

Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International security, nuclear weapons and nuclear crises, the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.

Associate Professor (Research)

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.

Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International relations theory, international security, information technology, and media studies.

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: National security and nonproliferation policy and decisionmaking, economic sanctions, the intersection of national security and information technology issues.

Senior Fellow; Director, Choices Program

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

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: The former Soviet Union's transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition; the creation of a criminal society in Russia resulting from the mistakes in the early stages of market reformation; the history of the Cold War and the turning points in relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and Kennedy periods; and the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role, from 1958-1968.

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow

Areas of Interest: Information and communication technologies (ICTs), media and international development; social entrepreneurship; Latin American baseball.

Professor (Research), Watson Institute; Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Military, war, and society; race and gender; democracy; subjectivity and power; photography and cultural history; critical theory; anthropological methods; sociocultural contexts of science; U.S. twentieth-century history and ethnography; and the Pacific Rim.

Assistant Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International environmental politics; global governance; environment and development; firm environmental decisionmaking and performance; social movements; climate change and energy policy in the United States, European Union, Brazil, India, and Mexico.

William R. Rhodes Research Professor

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

Associate Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International institutions and norms in security, nuclear weapons.

Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies and Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence, social movements and political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies; also documentary film and media issues.

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: Democracy, China.

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: global transformations, economic zones as states of exception, international organizations, East-West security, disarmament

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: transnational diffusion of economic development ideas in transition countries (especially Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Latin America); the influence of international private actors on domestic development strategies; research departments of public international organizations as global governance actors; comparative industrial, labor and tax policy in developing countries; and the political economy of migration flows between Eastern and Southern Europe.

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: torts, legal aspects of the globalizations of cities, local government law, law and space, and law and political thought.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: security studies, U.S. security state apparatus, antiterrorism.

Visting Scholar

Areas of Interest: renewable energy systems, sustainable development, Kyoto Protocol, politics in international agreements.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: media, media policy, globalization, governance, labor and high-tech development.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: international trade and economic law, globalization, Third World, international refugee and humanitarian law, and human rights

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: cultural sociology, political sociology, theory, and comparative nationalisms in Japan and the United States.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: His recent research has focused on competition and administrative law, constitutional law, human rights and litigation, and socioeconomical rights.

Visiting scholar

Areas of Interest: international law, international relations, democratic governance, legal theory, rule of law under security.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: U.S.-Saudi relations, viewpoints from the Arab world on U.S. policy, and women and development in the Middle East.

Assistant Director, Academic Programs; Lecturer

Areas of Interest: Theory of democracy and democratization, electoral reform, comparative democratization, political representation, Latin America, Venezuela, Mexico.

Visiting Scholar

Areas of Interest: Post-Soviet Studies.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: State-building; democratization; non-profits and civil society; social policy in new democracies; the welfare states of advanced industrialized countries; nationalism and education; and comparative political economy.

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: corporate governance, financial systems, international taxation, money laundering and terrorism financing.

Visiting Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: global governance, European security.

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: Innovation in learning, business, health, and civic engagement in communities in economic and social need; comparing end of twentieth, seventeenth, and fourteenth centuries as times generating moves away from central institutions to local learning communities.

Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Development and comparative political economy, globalization, democratization and civil society with a focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: international affairs, history.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: international trade and environmental politics, emissions trading, bureaucratic management.

Visiting Fellow

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

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: political economy and development, democracy, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, governance, political organization, and educational policymaking.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: public international law, human rights law, and international environment law.

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: political and economic development.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Media and international affairs.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Global media.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: humanitarian law, human security, civil rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reconciliation and transitional justice.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: human rights, legal pluralism, gender and women's studies, and forced migration and refugees.

Director of International Affairs and Lecturer

Areas of Interest: human rights, ethnic conflict, feminism, women's rights, and women in the Third World.

Visiting Fellow
Brown University

Areas of Interest: Land use/land cover change in Israel, trans-border environmental cooperation in the Middle East, population and environment interactions, demographic and environmental conflicts in land use planning, and ecological impact of urban sprawl.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: American and Caribbean literature, especially the literature and folklore of Puerto Rico.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Climate and forestry issues, product development and project management services for nonprofit organizations, businesses, and communities.

Visiting Professor

Areas of Interest: international law and legal theory, environmental law, globalization, international trade, corporate form and sovereignty, and religious freedom and state secularity.

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.

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: gender issues in law, labor law and policy, global social governance, and economic and social rights in emerging African democracies.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: global security, civil-military relations, security sector reform, private security and governance in Afghanistan, Giorgio Agamben's method in philosophy.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Global media.

Visiting Professor in International Studies

Areas of Interest: international law, trade, and development.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: critical and normative theories of globalization, global governance, security studies, surveillance technologies, and terrorism/counterterrorism.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: cultural anthropology, ethnography, environmental politics, globalization, corporations, inequalities, oil industry, development, Latin America.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: organizing processes, collective action, and social movements; relations between civil society and state; and social participation experiences when formulating, executing, and controlling public politics.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: globalization and Islam.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: international law, legal theory, and globalization.

Visiting Fellow in International Studies, International Writers Program

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: interlegality of transnational private law, transnational governance, and trade law and development.

OIP Fellow

Areas of Interest: human rights, international public law, international relations.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Transboundary conservation zones or "peace parks," causes of environmental conflicts between indigenous communities and mining companies, as well as the environmental and social impact of gemstone mining worldwide.

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Soviet and Russian studies, globalization, national identity formation, Caspian politics, and environment and development of Caspian Sea and transcaspian region.

Visiting Associate Professor

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.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: International law, international society and organization, and peace operations.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and social change, political anthropology, genocide studies.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Economic dimensions of grand strategy; postcommunist transitions; diplomacy; policy; military relations, strategy, and transformation; defense industry; national security; international relations theory.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary analysis of environmental and urban issues; sociology of science and technology; Middle East environmental issues; transport and the politics of mobility.

Adjunct Professor; 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.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Middle East, Iran, US policy and strategy in the Persian Gulf, technology and education, and women and politics.

Adjunct Professor; Professor of History Emeritus

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

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Architecture, architectural history, and urban studies and planning in developing nations.

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Population-environment interactions, and population and household projections.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Asia, security, space policy, U.S. and international policy, civil-military interaction.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Research methodology, international security, nuclear weapons policy and nuclear crises, and the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.

Adjunct Professor

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.

Adjunct Associate Professor
George Washington University

Areas of Interest: Political violence, long-term displacement and socio-political change in Africa; humanitarian action and post-conflict development.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, religion and politics, democratization and governance in developing countries, development administration and planning, government and politics of Subsaharan Africa, and genocide studies.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, global politics, and European affairs.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Global climate change, population-environment interactions, and links between the science and policy of environmental issues.

Adjunct Professor
Brown Univeristy

Areas of Interest: Human rights, Brazil, Latin America, Burma/Myanmar.

Adjunct Professor; Professor of Sociology, Emeritus

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

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: The sociology of art and gender studies in communist and postcommunist societies.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Environmental issues, philosophy, science and religion, and education.

Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Modern Latin America; the television, politics, and the transition to democracy in Latin America; Brazil.

Adjunct Professor; Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, South Africa.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Political culture and human rights institutions in Colombia, globalization and transnational movements, violence and law, and nationalism and state in Latin America.

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Feminist theory, gender studies, IR theory, ethnicity, nationalism, regional conflict, and conflict resolution and peace.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: European Union and environmental policy, environmental security, global environment, climate change.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Security studies – in particular critical and feminist perspectives; women, violence, and conflict; 9/11 and the "war on terror"; feminist international relations; information technology and media.