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Advising
In order to design a coherent program of study with clearly stated goals, concentrators are encouraged to discuss their course plan and thesis interests with a DS faculty advisor (listed below).
The filing and revision of concentration forms is to be done with the DS Deputy Director, Prof. Ban. The Advisor must also be consulted about any curricular exceptions or about matters involving policies concerning the Development Studies concentration. Students are encouraged to speak with either the Advisor or the Director about any concerns or comments they might have about the DS concentration.
The Watson Institute’s Academic Programs Coordinator is available during office hours to speak with students about routine matters concerning the concentration or other procedural issues that may arise in dealing with the University’s administrative offices.
Development Studies Faculty Advisors, Fall '10
Cornel Ban (DEVL 1980), Deputy Director and Principal Advisor, Development Studies
Areas: Comparative Political Economy, Policy Diffusion, Social Policy and Labor Market Deregulation in the EU, Eastern Europe
Office Hours: Tues. 1:30-3:30 & Fri. 3-4:30pm, WIIS 207
Cornel_Ban@brown.edu
DS_Advising@brown.edu
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Development Studies and Sociology Department
Areas: Civil Society, Local Government, Theory. Latin America, esp. Brazil
Gianpaolo_Baiocchi@brown.edu
Keith Brown, Watson Institute for International Studies
Areas: South Eastern Europe, Democracy promotion in post-conflict settings History and Memory.
Office Hours: Wed. 9-10:30am, WIIS, 336
Keith_Brown@brown.edu
Lina Fruzzetti, Anthropology Department
Areas: Social anthropology, gender in India, nationalism and postcolonial studies, development and culture, ethnographic film making. identity and citizenship within Islam and Hinduism, East and North Africa communities
Office Hours: Thurs. 10-Noon, Anthro, 214
Lina_Fruzzetti@Brown.edu
Patrick Heller, Sociology Department
Areas: Development and comparative political economy, globalization, democratization and civil society with a focus on South Asia and Southern Africa, Brazil, labor and inequality
Office Hours: Mon. 11-1pm, WIIS, 356
Patrick_Heller@brown.edu
Paget Henry, Sociology and Africana Studies Departments
Areas: Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Caribbean Studies, Political Sociology, Critical Theory, culture and development, Colonial Cultures
Office Hours: Wed. 3-5pm, Churchill 207
Paget_Henry@Brown.edu
José Itzigsohn, Sociology Department
Areas: Racial and ethnic identity formation, Latino migration, Labor and self-management, development and the labor market.
Office Hours: Wed. 10:30-11:30am; 1:30-2:30pm, Maxcy Hall 203
Jose_Itzigsohn@Brown.edu
Geoffrey Kirkman, Watson Institute for International Studies
Areas: Information and communication technologies (ICTs), media and international development; social entrepreneurship; Latin American baseball, UNDP Human Development Report
Office Hours: email for appointment, WIIS 249
Gkirkman@brown.edu
Louis Putterman, (Graduate Advisor, DS MA Program) Development Studies and Economic Departments
Areas: Development Economics, Experimental Economics
Office Hours: Mon. 10-10:50am and Fri. 3-3:50pm, Robinson Hall 206
Louis_Putterman@brown.edu
Daniel Smith, Anthropology Department
Areas: The relationship between socio-cultural and demographic processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; rural-urban migration; medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS; contemporary marriage; reproductive health and behavior; corruption in Nigeria
Office Hours: Tues.2-4pm
Daniel_J_Smith@Brown.edu
Richard Snyder, Political Science
Areas: comparative politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development, political regimes, and Latin American politics, Neoliberalism, esp. in Mexico
Office Hours: Mon. by appt, Prospect House, 206
Richard_Snyder@brown.edu
Faculty
DEVELOPMENT-RELATED FACULTY LISTED BY DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM
Lina Fruzzetti, Anthropology Department
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, Anthropology Department
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, Anthropology Department
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.
Daniel Smith, Anthropology Department
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, Emerita, Anthropology Department
HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, women's issues, refugees and minorities.
Kay Warren, Anthropology Department
Cultural anthropology, political minorities and their public intellectuals, violence/terrorism and peace processes, ethnic nationalism and indigenous rights, documentary film and realist representation; Latin America and its foreign aid donors, especially Japan.
Charles Carpenter, BioMed/Community Health
Epidemiology and health strategies, the spread of AIDS in the United States and the Philippines, oral rehydration therapy.
Stephen T. McGarvey, BioMed/Community Health
Teaches University Course 107 and has advised students with health-development interests.
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.
Sriniketh Nagavarapu, Economics Department
Mark Pitt, Emeritus, Economics Department
Microeconomic analysis of fertility and of intra-household food distribution, international trade issues. Has worked professionally in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Mauritius.
Louis Putterman, Economics Department
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.
Josefina Saldaña, English Department
Chicana/Chicano, development discourse and post-colonial theory, social movements. Research focus on Mexico.
Douglas Cope, History Department
Colonial Latin America and Mexican history with long-range perspective. Research has centered on colonial Latin America, particularly on race relations and urban history.
Nancy Jacobs, History Department
Southern Africa; twentieth-century Africa; African environmental history; history of science in Africa.
Rhett Jones, History Department
Comparative study of race in the 18th 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 18th century race relations on events in our own century; relations among native Americans, Europ. Americans, and Afr. Americans.
James McClain, History Department
Development of Japan, particularly in the pre-modern era. Research has centered on urban development in the early Tokugawa period.
Peter Andreas, Watson Institute and Political Science
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.
Melani Cammett, Political Science
Comparative politics and political economy, globalization, institutional change, state-society relations, economic development, business and labor politics.
Linda J. Cook, Political Science
The politics of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, comparative politics, the politics of democratic transitions and welfare states.
Richard Snyder, Political Science
Comparative politics, political economy. Regional focus on Latin America.
Barbara Stallings, Watson Institute
Economic reform and development in Latin America and the Caribbean, regional integration and development policy.
Onesimo Almeida, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Direct (applied) interest in Portugal and Latin America, theoretical focus on issues such as values, ideologies, and cultural structures.
Luiz Valente, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
19th and 20th century Brazilian literature and history.
Modern Brazilian history and literature, marginal groups of all types in Brazil.
Nitsan Chorev, Sociology Department
Globalization, the sociology of law, global politics of AIDS, trade liberalization, and the World Trade Organization.
Patrick Heller, Sociology Department
Development, comparative states, globalization, and democratization and civil society with focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.
Paget Henry, Sociology Department
Problems of political and cultural development in Third World societies, particularly the Caribbean.
José Itzigsohn, Sociology Department
Ethnicity and race, with regional focus on Central and Latin America, migration entrepreneurship (including in Rhode Island), structural adjustment.
David Lindstrom, Sociology Department
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.
Nancy Luke, Sociology Department
Reproductive health, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, gender relations in developing countries, marriage, family, and household decision making.
David Meyer, Sociology Department
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.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Sociology Department (Emeritus)
The role of the state in development, development and democracy, theories of development, economic and institutional analysis of development.
OTHER ADVISORS
Many other advisors have worked with Development Studies concentrators, including Engin Akarli (History); Jeffrey Albert (Pol.Sci); Chris Amirault (Education); Wanni Anderson (Anthro); Roger Avery (Sociology); Adeline Becker (Portug. and Brazil.); Bruce Becker (Comm. Health); William Beeman (Anthro); Thomas J. Biersteker (Watson and Political Science); Douglas Cope (History); Anthony Bogues, (Africana); Lundy Brown, (Africana); Mari Jo Buhle (Am. Civilization); Elliott Colla (Comp. Lit.); Anne DeGroot (Bio.Med); Ann Dill (Sociology); Anani Dzidzienyo (Africana); Andrew Foster (Economics); Rachel Friedberg (Economics); Oded Galor (Economics); Miguel Glatzer (Dev. Studies); Calvin Goldscheider (Judaic); Frances Goldscheider (Sociology); Sandra Golopentia (French); James Green (History); J.V. Henderson (Economics); Barrett Hazeltine (Engineering); Peter Heywood (BioMed); P. Terrence Hopmann, (Political Science); Joy James (Africana); Caroline Karp (Env. Studies); Shriram Krishnamurthi (Comp.Sci); Robert Lee (Am. Civilization); Phillip Leis (Anthro); Stephen Lubkeman (WIIS); Mark Lurie (Bio-Med.); Catherine Lutz (Anthro); Rene Mayorga (Lat. Am. Studies); James Morone (Pol. Sci.); Kaivan Munshi (Economics); Simone Pulver (WIIS); Nancy Qian (Economics); Patricia Risica (Bio.Med); Marilyn Rueschemeyer (WIIS); Richard Schmitt (Philosophy); Thomas Skidmore (History); Mark Swislocki (History); Alvaro Tinajero (Bio-Med); Nicholas Townsend (Anthro); (Susan Short (Sociology); Hilary Silver (Sociology); John Silverman (Mod. Media and Culture); Susan Cu-Uvin (BioMed); David Weil (Economics); Richard Wetzler (WIIS), Michael White (Sociology)
Contact Us
- Prof. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Director and Principal Advisor ds_advising@brown.edu
- Margareta Levitsky, Program Coordinator Margareta_Levitsky@brown.edu
Address:
Development Studies Program
Watson Institute for International Studies
111 Thayer Street, Box 1970
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tel: 401 863.3318
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