Carolyn J. Dean
Interim Director and John Hay Professor of International Studies
Areas of Interest: the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe, in particular postwar France, Italy, and Germany, holocaust and genocide studies.
Faculty
Peter Andreas
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.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Associate Professor of International Studies
Areas of Interest: democracy, urban governance, racism, social movements, civil society, and Brazil.
Mark Blyth
Faculty Fellow, 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.
Patrick Heller
Professor of Sociology and International Studies
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
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
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
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest: comparative politics of development; comparative political economy; Latin American politics; knowledge production in the social sciences.
Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Areas of Interest: ethnicity and nationalism; political economy of development; and South Asian politics and political economy.
Research Faculty
Keith Brown
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.
James Der Derian
Professor (Research)
Areas of Interest: international theory, international security, information technology, documentary film, and media studies.
Barbara Stallings
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.
Professors at Large
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
University Professor at Large
Areas of Interest: political and economic development.
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.)
Professor at Large, Member of the Board of Overseers Emeritus
Areas of Interest: international finance.
Fellows
Geri Augusto
Watson Fellow; Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy (Taubman Center)
Areas of Interest: science and technology policy in the Global South; indigenous knowledges/lay expertise/biosciences in contestation and collaboration; transformation of higher education in pluralist societies; the race/inequality nexus in global higher education; political-epistemics of citizenship/knowledge/territory/identity in Brazil and the Andes; organizational culture, learning, and practitioners' knowledge in public organizations.
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
Senior Fellow
Areas of Interest: comparative political economy of development, globalization and global governance, labor, social movements and transnational civil society.
Susan Graseck
Senior Fellow; Director, Choices Program
Areas of Interest: education, civic engagement in international and public policy, and renewal of American democracy.
Catherine McArdle Kelleher
Senior Fellow
Areas of Interest: conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues.
Sergei Khrushchev
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.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Cornel Ban
Postdoctoral Scholar of International Studies, Deputy Director of the Development Studies Program
Areas of Interest: international political economy, with a focus on the transnational spread of economic ideas and varieties of capitalist development.
José Carlos Orihuela
Postdoctoral Scholar in International Studies
Areas of Interest: how institutions change and why they matter for development, comparative political economy, Amazon governance, economic and environmental history of Latin America.
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
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 and Visiting Faculty
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
Professor of History Emeritus
Areas of Interest: Social, economic, and religious history of Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ruben Oliven
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: urbanization, national and regional identities, symbolic meanings of money, popular culture, and popular music.
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
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Sociology of art, gender studies and urban developments in communist and postcommunist societies.
Newell Stultz
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, South Africa.
International Relations Adjunct and Other Faculty
Arnulf Becker Lorca
International Relations Program Visiting Faculty
Areas of Interest: Public international law, history and theories of international law, laws of war, law and development, comparative law, law in Latin America
Claudia Elliott PhD '99, MA '91
Lecturer, Associate Director, International Relations Program
Areas of Interest: Theory of democracy and democratization, electoral reform, comparative democratization, political representation, Latin America, Venezuela, Mexico.
Lyle J. Goldstein
International Relations Program Visiting Faculty
Linda B. Miller
International Relations Program Visiting Faculty
David Wyss
International Relations Program Visiting Fellow


