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 Methods, Intellectual Pro perty

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

Adjunct 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

Timothy Ehlinger

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Ph.D., Michigan State University

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

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research/teaching interests: Resistance to ecodevelopment, 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
Ph.D., Brown University

Research/teaching interests: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Law 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 t rade 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 

Andrew Kincaid

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

Sali Li

Assistant Professor of Business
Ph.D., University of Utah

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 M. Malaby

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard     

Research/teaching interests: Risk, modernity, history and futurity, globalization p rojects, 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: Introduction to 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, Naturalism, American Modernism, Theories of Mass Culture, Cultural Studies

Global Studies course(s) taught: Globalization and Information Technology, Global Security Capstone

 

Ghada Masri

Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies
Ph.D., University of California-Davis

Research/teaching interests: Urban geography of the Middle East, Globalization, Nationalisms, 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

Assistant 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, Micro. 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 fi lm, 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

Steve Redd

Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Brigham Young University

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

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

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, U.S.A - India economic communication, South Asian gender identity, intercultural, international, and global communication, gender communication

Global Studies course(s) taught: Global Communications Capstone