Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
Global Economics and Development explores topics in international commerce, economic and human development, political economy, and risk analysis. Students who plan to take the economics (ECON) courses within this specialization should have a strong academic background in economics or have completed m...
Iccha Basnyat (PhD, MPH) is an Associate Professor of Global Health Communication in the Global Affairs Program with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication. Dr. Basnyat received her B.A. in Communication from the University of Utah, MPH from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an...
Eric McGlinchey is Associate Professor of Politics at the Schar School of Policy and Government. He is the author of Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). McGlinchey’s areas of research include U.S. foreign policy in Eurasia and Central A...
Cortney Hughes Rinker (Director of the Global Affairs Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology) has a chapter in the volume, Anthropological Perspectives on Aging (University Press of Florida), edited by Britteny M. Howell and Ryan P. Harrod. Her chapter, “The A...
Cortney Hughes Rinker has a new chapter that appears in the Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East edited by Suad Joseph and Zeina Zaatari (Routledge 2023) titled, “Women’s Health and Aging in the Middle East.” Hughes Rinker’s chapter focuses on the impacts of an aging population on women’s h...
