All Faculty

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  • Changwoo Ahn

    Changwoo Ahn

    Professor

    Wetland ecosystem ecology, ecological engineering, system ecology, ecological sustainability, urban ecosystems, undergraduate research and scholarship, art-science collaboration,

  • Amobire Akolga

    Amobire Akolga

    Adjunct Faculty

    My primary research interests include hegemonic regional and global security governance; political economy of intrastate armed conflicts; and democratic backsliding in Africa.

  • Jennifer Ashley

    Jennifer Ashley

    Associate Professor

    Digital media, television, news media, melodrama, parody, political campaigns, Political subjectivity, politics of affect, democratization, social movements, human rights, memory, urban studies, Latin America

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  • Iccha Basnyat

    Iccha Basnyat

    Associate Professor

    Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia

  • Jim Blevins

    Jim Blevins

    Professor

    morphology, syntax, quantitative linguistics, history of ideas

  • Johanna Bockman

    Johanna Bockman

    Associate Professor

    Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC

  • Lisa C Breglia

    Lisa C Breglia

    Associate Professor

    Globalization; Mexico, Latin America; Ethnography; Immigration in Washington, DC; Political economy of resources; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Museums, Heritage, Cultural Policy

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  • Jason Dunick

    Jason Dunick

    Associate Professor

    labor economics, education policy, economic development, and economic education

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  • Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

    Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

    Director

    Professor

    Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

  • Niklas Hultin

    Niklas Hultin

    Associate Professor

    West Africa, Scandinavia, human rights, security studies, small arms, conflict prevention/early warning, dis/misinformation, anthropology.

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  • Yasemin Ipek

    Yasemin Ipek

    Assistant Professor

    Activism and civil society, crisis, political imagination, citizenship and belonging, decoloniality, sectarianism, nationalism, class, refugees and humanitarianism, migration, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

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  • Albert Kim

    Albert Kim

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Younsung Kim

    Younsung Kim

    Professor

    Environmental governance, climate change policy, corporate environmentalism and public policy, public policy analysis and evaluation

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  • Gyu Tag Lee

    Gyu Tag Lee

    Professor

    Cultural Studies, Media Criticism, Popular Music, K-Pop and Hallyu, etc.

  • Ji Hye Lim

    Ji Hye Lim

    Associate Professor

    International and Comparative Political Economy

  • Mariely Lopez-Santana

    Mariely Lopez-Santana

    Associate Professor

    Comparative welfare states, comparative federalism (including intergovernmental relations, multilevel governance, and decentralization), Europeanization, governance (international and domestic).

  • Yehuda Lukacs

    Yehuda Lukacs

    Emeritus Faculty

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  • Peter Mandaville

    Peter Mandaville

    Professor of International Affairs

    Islam, international relations, religion, development

  • Eric McGlinchey

    Eric McGlinchey

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society

  • Ilona Moore

    Ilona Moore

    Assistant Director

    Assistant Professor

    Global south-north relations; geopolitics of development; food, agriculture and hunger; political economy; critical social theory; human security; food security; Indo-US relations; South Asia; US foreign policy.

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  • Manjusha Nair

    Manjusha Nair

    Associate Professor

    Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Decolonizing Methods, Postcolonialism, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa

  • Helon Habila Ngalabak

    Helon Habila Ngalabak

    Professor

    fiction

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  • Jonathon Repinecz

    Jonathon Repinecz

    Associate Professor

    Modern African literatures and cultures; Modern francophone literatures and cultures; Intersections of literature and anthropology; Genocide studies; Folklore and oral literature; Postcolonial theory; Wolof (advanced reading) and Swahili (beginner).

  • Janeth Esmeralda Rodriguez

    Janeth Esmeralda Rodriguez

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Rashmi Sadana

    Rashmi Sadana

    Professor

    Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

  • Laura Aileen Sauls

    Laura Aileen Sauls

    Assistant Professor

    land rights, forests, biodiversity conservation, climate change, extractive industries, migration, earth observation, political ecology, Central America

  • Paul Smith

    Paul Smith

    Professor

    Marxism, political economy and culture, postcolonial studies, globalization, media and technology, critical race and gender theory, art and music industries, theories of culture, Cultural Studies

  • Byunghwan Ben Son

    Byunghwan Ben Son

    Associate Professor

    International & Comparative Political Economy, Global Finance, Politics in Asia, Politics of Inequality, Political Communication, Quantitative Methodology, Social Media, #Rstats, computational text analysis

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  • Matthew E. West

    Matthew E. West

    Associate Professor

    Globalization; legal and economic anthropology; the anthropology of science and technology; patents, copyright, property, and piracy; creativity, copying, and the knowledge economy; semiotics; social media; environmental capitalism; China; Hong Kong; Taiwan.