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Carolyn J. Dean

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

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

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Associate Professor of International Studies

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

 

Mark Blyth

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Der Derian

Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: international theory, international security, information technology, documentary film, and media studies.

 

Barbara Stallings

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

Ricardo Lagos Escobar

University 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

 

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.

 

Wenli Xu

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: Democracy, China.

 

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