Faculty
DEVELOPMENT-RELATED FACULTY LISTED BY DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM
* - indicates faculty who have been past masters theses advisors
Africana Studies
Anthony Bogues
Major research and writing interests include intellectual and cultural history, radical political thought and critical theory as well as Caribbean and African politics. He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics and intellectual history.
Lundy Braun
Current scholarship focuses on the constructions of race in science, public health, and medicine. Research interests: technology, ideas about difference, lung function, and occupational health policy in the U.S. and South Africa and asbestos and asbestos-related diseases in the U.S. and South Africa and its relation to race since the late 19th century.
Anani Dzidzienyo
Anthropology
Lina Fruzzetti
Women's issues of change, including political development, economic policy questions as they affect values and ideology, alternative development modes for third world countries (grassroots approach to modernization).
Matthew Gutmann
Change in a variety of contexts, with special emphasis on gender/sexuality, ethnicity-race-nationalism, and health in the Americas, especially Mexico and among Latinos in the United States. Current research is in Oaxaca exploring negotiating men's reproductive health and sexuality and the relationship between culture and the medicalization of reproduction and sexuality.
Marida Hollos*
Education in the third world, the status of women and how it is affected by migration and fertility. Research has centered on Nigeria and Tanzania , and on sub-Saharan Africa generally.
Phillip Leis
Interrelationships of social, economic, and ecological factors affecting development (both stimulating and inhibiting) in rural villages, especially in West Africa and Zimbabwe.
Daniel Smith*
Intersection of culture, health and population processes in sub-Saharan Africa , particularly Nigeria. Current research examines the impact of rural-urban migration on reproductive behavior and HIV/AIDS risk.
Patrica Symonds*
HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, women's issues, refugees and minorities.
Bio-Med/Community Health
Charles Carpenter
Epidemiology and health strategies, the spread of AIDS in the United States and the Philippines, oral rehydration therapy.
Mark Lurie*
The impact of migration on the spread of HIV, social and behavioural determinants of sexually transmitted infections, social epidemiology, public health impact of antiretroviral therapy.
Stephen T. McGarvey
Teaches UC107: Burden of Disease in Developing Countries and has advised students with health-development interests.
Sally Zierler*
The interface between social and medical questions, particularly the relationship between medicine and public health on one side and discrimination of various types on the other, HIV and health in pediatric and perinatal fields, attitudes toward homosexuality in developing countries.
Comparative Literature
Elliot Colla
Modern Arabic and English literature. The Arabic novel. Travel literature. Postcolonial theory. Aesthetics.
Economics
Andrew Foster
Household decision-making and health in the development process.
Oded Galor
Economic growth, human capital, technology, inequality, and development.
Vernon Henderson
Urbanization and economic development.
Peter Howitt
Economic growth, technological change.
Ashley Lester
He works primarily in the area of economic growth. His thesis develops a theoretical framework that considers how ethnic and tribal divisions affect the process of economic through limiting the development of market-based institutions. He has also studied how labor market processes effect the growth in inequality both within and across countries.
Kaivan Munshi
Economic Development, Population and Demography, Economic Analysis of Institutions with a particular emphasis on Community-Based Institutions in Developing Countries.
Mark Pitt
Microeconomic analysis of fertility and of intra-household food distribution, international trade issues. Has worked professionally in Bangladesh , Indonesia , and Mauritiu
Louis Putterman*
Economic systems, development strategy, determinants of the rate of economic growth, rural development, property rights, incentives, organization. Research has focused on the People's Republic of China and Tanzania.
Nancy Qian
Her research focuses on issues related to developing economies. This includes economics of the household, demography, inequality and returns to investment in public goods.
David Weil
Economic growth, population and growth.
English
Olakunle George
African literature, postcolonial studies, literary and cultural theory.
Josefina Saldaña*
Chicana/Chicano, development discourse and post-colonial theory, social movements. Research focus on Mexico.
History
Douglas Cope
Colonial Latin America and Mexican history with long-range perspective. Research has centered on colonial Latin America, particularly on race relations and urban history.
Engin Akarli
Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Professor of History, Modern Middle East.
Nancy Jacobs*
Environmental history in Africa; looking at how people differentiated by race, class and gender have different access to and ability to exploit the natural environment. History of food production, distribution, and diet. Geographical specialization is southern Africa.
Rhett Jones
Comparative study of race in the 18 th century Americas with a focus on the ways in which race was viewed by the period, the changing construction of race, and the emergence of blackness and whiteness over the course of the 1700's. The impact of 18 th century race relations on events in our own century; relations among native Americans, European Americans, and African Americans.
James McClain
Development of Japan , particularly in the pre-modern era. Research has centered on urban development in the early Tokugawa period.
Thomas Skidmore
Politics of economic policy-making in 19th- and 20th-century Latin America. Research has been primarily on Brazil and Argentina. Also Cuba, labor, and labor history.
International Relations
Peter Andreas
Border controls and smuggling, the political economy of internal wars, the internationalization of crime and crime control, the relationship between national security and law enforcement institutions and missions, prohibition norms and symbolic politics.
Thomas J. Biersteker
Multi-national corporations, international finance, international financial institutions (IMF and World Bank) and the political economy of development.
P. Terrence Hopmann
Professor Hopmann's primary research concerns international negotiation and conflict resolution. His substantive research focus has been primarily on issues of security in Europe, especially on negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe and in the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Hopmann's research recently focused as well on the security implications of the disintegration of the Soviet empire and of the developing relations among the semi-sovereign entities that have emerged from the former Soviet Union across a broad range of issues.
Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Specializes in communist and postcommunist societies. Also works extensively in the sociology of art and in gender studies.
Barbara Stallings
Economic reform and development in Latin America and the Caribbean, regional integration and development policy.
Political Science
Melani Cammett*
Comparative politics and political economy, globalization, institutional change, state-society relations, economic development, business and labor politics. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative politics, development, globalization and Middle East politics.
Linda J. Cook
The politics of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe , comparative politics, the politics of democratic transitions and welfare states.
Richard Snyder
Comparative politics, political economy. Regional focus on Latin America.
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Onesimo Almeida
Direct (applied) interest in Portugal and Latin America , theoretical focus on issues such as values, ideologies, and cultural structures.
Adeline Becker
Ethnic identities; immigration; comparative education; bilingualism and language policy; the response of the public education system to minority populations in the U.S.
Luiz Valente
19th and 20th century Brazilian literature and history.
Nelson Vieira
Modern Brazilian history and literature, marginal groups of all types in Brazil.
Sociology
Patrick Heller*
Development, comparative states, globalization, and democratization and civil society with focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.
Paget Henry*
Problems of political and cultural development in Third World societies, particularly the Caribbean.
Dennis Hogan
My areas of research involve the interrelationships of the family lives of individual persons and their social environments. Comparative approach, including studies of race, ethnic and immigrant groups and majority populations in the United States over the twentieth century, Italian social history, and contemporary Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, and Japan.
José Itzigsohn*
Ethnicity and race, with regional focus on Central and Latin America , migration entrepreneurship (including in Rhode Island ), structural adjustment.
David Lindstrom*
Relationship between economic development and demographic change, the influence of local economic conditions in Mexico on migration patterns, the impact of temporary U.S. migration on fertility behavior and family structure in Mexico.
David Meyer*
Systems of cities in developed and developing nations, the relationship between rural development and urban growth, the causes of urban-industrial growth in the world system of cities, with a focus on the role of financial organizations.
Other DS Related Faculty/Thesis Advisors
Kay Warren (Anthropology); David Pugatch (Bio Med Pediatrics); Chris Zarcadoolas (Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America); Wilbur Johnson (Education); James Morone (Political Science); Brooke Harrington (Sociology); Richard Wetzler (Watson Institute); Jae H. Ku (Watson Institute); Stephen Lubkemann (Watson Institute)
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