Global Studies Faculty

A. Aneesh

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Research & Teaching Interests: Globalization, international migration, science and technology, economic sociology, sociological theory, ethnographic Mmethods, intellectual property

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Contexts for Global Management, Intellectual Property in the Global Information Economy, Globalization and Information Technology, Language, Media, and Social Practice in Global Communications

 Kal Applbaum

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research & Teaching Interests: Practice of psychiatry and mental healthcare in Japan, globalization of pharmaceuticals, privatization of public works, social entrepreneurship

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Contexts for Global Management

Robert Beck

Associate Professor of Political Science
Director of Academic Technology, Center for International Education
Ph.D., Georgetown University
  
Research & Teaching Interests: International relations, international law, and foreign policy

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics, Think Tank

Erica Bornstein

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine

Research & Teaching Interests: Philanthropy, charity and humanitarianism, non-governmental organizations, human rights, political anthropology, anthropology of religion, economic anthropology, ethnographic methods, southern Africa, India

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Global Politics of Human Rights

Sandra Braman

Professor of Communication
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research & Teaching Interests: Macro-level effects of the use of digital technologies and their policy implications or, phrased alternatively, the co-construction of society, technology, and the law

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Globalization and Emerging Technologies

Elizabeth Buchanan

Associate Professor of Information Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Research & Teaching Interests: Information ethics, information policy, research methods, research ethics,distance education

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Think Tank

Timothy Ehlinger

Research & Teaching Interests: The cause and effect relationships between human-induced stressors and the ecological integrity of lakes, streams and rivers

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment

Tracey Heatherington

Research & Teaching Interests: Resistance to eco-development, questions related to political ecology and environmental justice, cultural politics, environmentalism, Europeanisation, post-national citizenship, Italy, Europe

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment, Global Security Capstone

Uk Heo

Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Research & Teaching Interests: International relations, Asian politics, the political economy of defense, and research methods

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics, Rethinking Global Security

William Holahan

Professor of Economics
Chair of UWM Economics Department
Ph.D., Brown University

Research & Teaching Interests: Microeconomic theory, industrial organization, law and economics, water  and economics

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Global Management Capstone

Shale Horowitz

Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research & Teaching Interests: International and ethnic conflict, the politics of international trade and finance, the politics of market transition and institutional change in the post-communist countries and East Asia, and the politics of agricultural policy

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics

Doug Howland

Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research & Teaching Interests: Modern China and Japan, cultural interaction, international law and the state

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Rethinking Global Security

 Ingrid Jordt

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research & Teaching Interests: Processes of political legitimation, lay/monastic rela tions in Buddhist Burma, Buddhist meditation movements in Southeast Asia, ethnographic methods, social theory

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Freshman Seminar: Social Movements and the Internet

Dick Kawooya

Lecturer for the School of Information Studies 

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Globalization and Information Technology 

Nan Kim

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research & Teaching Interests: Modern Korea, family, war memory, intersections between history and anthropology

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Think Tank

Andrew Kincaid

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Minnesota       

Research & Teaching Interests: Urbanism, modernism, Postcolonial Theory, and Irish Studies

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment

Edward Levitas

Associate Professor of Business
Ph.D., Management, Texas A&M University
M.B.A., Finance, Case Western Reserve University

Research & Teaching Interests: Organizations, strategic management,  technology and new product development and strategic alliances, financial asset availability, technology transfers, and managerial incentives affect firm innovation and survival

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Global Strategy, Global Management Capstone

 Sali Li

Research & Teaching Interests: The phenomenon of technological resource abandonment in innovation management, the application of comparative advantage theory in strategic management, and Chinese entrepreneurship.

Global Studies course(s) taught: Cross-Cultural Management

Tae-Seop Lim

Professor of Communication
Ph.D., Michigan State University        

Research & Teaching Interests: Intercultural (Cross-cultural) communication, face and facework across cultures, speech and verbal behavior in Asia, language and social interaction, quantitative research methods

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Access, Security and Intercultural Context of Global Communications

Thomas Malaby

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard     

Research & Teaching Interests: Risk, modernity, history and futurity, globalization projects, urban criminality, medical anthropology, social theory, ritual and performance

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics, Global Communications Capstone

 Andrew Martin

Associate Professor of English, Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Iowa     

Research & Teaching Interests: Film studies, science fiction, war and cinema, vietnam, British Cinema, classical and contemporary film theory and criticism, American Literature-late 19th Century and 20th Century, Realism, caturalism, American Modernism, theories of mass culture, cultural studies

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Globalization and Information Technology, Global Security Capstone

Ghada Masri

Research & Teaching Interests: Urban geography of the Middle East, globalization, nationalism, tourism, post-colonial and feminist theories

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics, Globalization and Information Technology

Linda McCarthy

Associate Professor of Geography
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis     

Research & Teaching Interests: Comparative urban and regional economic development and planning, brownfield redevelopment

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment

 Matt McGinty

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz      

Research & Teaching Interests: International trade, environmental economics, game theory

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment

Aims McGuinness

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research & Teaching Interests: Latin America, global history

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics, The Global City in History

Hamid Mohtadi

Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Michigan  

Research & Teaching Interests: Economic growth & development, microeconomic theory

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Economics and the Environment

Tasha Oren

Associate Professor of English
Director of Film Studies Program
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison     

Research & Teaching Interests: Film and media studies, media history, popular culture, globalization and media, Middle Eastern media history and film, Asian American studies

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Globalization and Information Technology

Peter Paik

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Cornell University

Research & Teaching Interests: World cinema, theology, myth and the creative imagination, science fiction, anime, and the graphic novel

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Rethinking Global Security

Patrice Petro

Professor of English
Senior Director of the Center for International Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa  

Research & Teaching Interests: Film history, criticism, and theory, theories of modernism and modernity, feminist and critical theory

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Think Tank

Mai Phillips

Program Coordinator, Conservation and Environmental Sciences
Ph.D., Plant Genetic Resources, University of Hawaii

Research & Teaching Interests: Sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, genetic mechanisms of invasive species, genecology, plant genetic resources conservation

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Think Tank

Steve Redd

Research & Teaching Interests: Foreign policy decision making, international relations, U.S. foreign policy, political psychology, nuclear weapons and world politics, conflict studies

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: People and Politics

Rob Ricigliano

Adjunct Professor of Communication
Director of the Institute of World Affairs
Director of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Program
J.D., Harvard Law School

Research & Teaching Interests: Negotiation, international mediation, integrated approaches to peacebuilding, peace processes and conflict resolution, engaging armed groups, facilitation and complex public disputes

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Strategies for Realizing Security in Global Contexts 

Kris Ruggiero

Professor of History
Ph.D., Indiana University

Research & Teaching Interests: Medicine and public health in Latin America, law and criminology in Latin America, social movements in Latin America, globalization, human rights and peace accords, gender issues

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Think Tank

Peter Sands

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton  

Research & Teaching Interests: American Studies; rhetoric and composition, computers and pedagogy, critical theory and cultural Studies, science fiction and utopian studies

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Globalization and Information Technology

Mark Strite

Associate Professor of Business
Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Florida State University
M.B.A., Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration

Research & Teaching Interests: Technology acceptance across national cultures, the influence of emotions on group decision-making, and quantitative issues in information systems, database management systems, telecommunications, quantitative methods, and information technology for managers

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Contexts for Global Managment, Globalization and Information Technology

K.E. Supriya

Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research & Teaching Interests: South Asian sexual communication through film, offshoring discourses about/in India, US-India economic communication, South Asian gender identity, intercultural, international, and global communication, gender communication

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Global Communications Capstone

William Van Pelt

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz, English and German Literature

Research & Teaching Interests: Emerging communication technologies, contemporary rhetorical theory, and cultural factors influencing eeb design

Global Studies Course(s) Taught: Language Media & Social Practice