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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
Associate Professor of Biological SciencesPh.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
Associate Professor of AnthropologyPh.D., Harvard University
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
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 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
Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies Ph.D., University of California-Davis
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
Associate Professor of Political SciencePh.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
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


