Core Faculty
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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
Associate Professor
Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia
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Johanna Bockman
Associate Professor
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
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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
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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
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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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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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).
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Laura Aileen Sauls
Assistant Professor
land rights, forests, biodiversity conservation, climate change, extractive industries, migration, earth observation, political ecology, Central America
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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
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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
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.
