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David Kennedy '76

David Kennedy '76

Interim Director, Watson Institute

Areas of Interest: issues that relate to law, such as sovereignty, international law, global governance, economic development, war, and humanitarianism.

Geoffrey S. Kirkman '91

Geoffrey S. Kirkman '91

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow

Areas of Interest: Information and communication technologies (ICTs), media and international development; social entrepreneurship; Latin American baseball.

 

 

Core Faculty

 

Peter Andreas

Peter Andreas

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies; Director, International Relations Program

Areas of Interest: Border controls and global smuggling; the internationalization of crime and crime control; global prohibition norms; the relationship between law enforcement and national security institutions and missions; the political economy of war, humanitarian intervention, and post-conflict reconstruction.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Associate Professor of International Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Development Studies Program

Areas of Interest: Democracy, urban governance, racism, social movements, civil society, and Brazil.

 

James G. Blight

James G. Blight

Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International security, nuclear weapons and nuclear crises, the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.

Keith Brown

Keith Brown

Associate Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: Social and cultural dimensions of political and economic processes; Macedonia and the Balkans – and the international and transnational linkages that run through the region; the evaluation of democracy promotion programs; identity politics in diasporic communities; and what the US military learned about culture from its experience in Bosnia and Kosovo.

 

James Der Derian

James Der Derian

Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International relations theory, international security, information technology, and media studies.

Sue E. Eckert

Sue E. Eckert

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: National security and nonproliferation policy and decisionmaking, economic sanctions, the intersection of national security and information technology issues.

 

Susan Graseck

Susan Graseck

Senior Fellow; Director, Choices Program

Areas of Interest: Renewal of American democracy, education, civic engagement in international and public policy.

Sergei Khrushchev

Sergei Khrushchev

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: The former Soviet Union's transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition; the creation of a criminal society in Russia resulting from the mistakes in the early stages of market reformation; the history of the Cold War and the turning points in relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and Kennedy periods; and the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role, from 1958-1968.

 

Geoffrey S. Kirkman '91

Geoffrey S. Kirkman '91

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow

Areas of Interest: Information and communication technologies (ICTs), media and international development; social entrepreneurship; Latin American baseball.

Catherine Lutz

Catherine Lutz

Professor (Research), Watson Institute; Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Military, war, and society; race and gender; democracy; subjectivity and power; photography and cultural history; critical theory; anthropological methods; sociocultural contexts of science; U.S. twentieth-century history and ethnography; and the Pacific Rim.

 

Simone Pulver

Simone Pulver

Assistant Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International environmental politics; global governance; environment and development; firm environmental decisionmaking and performance; social movements; climate change and energy policy in the United States, European Union, Brazil, India, and Mexico.

Barbara Stallings

Barbara Stallings

William R. Rhodes Research Professor

Areas of Interest: Economic reform and development in Latin America and East Asia; finance for development; development strategy; international political economy.

 

Nina Tannenwald

Nina Tannenwald

Associate Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International institutions and norms in security, nuclear weapons.

Kay Warren

Kay Warren

Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies and Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence, social movements and political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies; also documentary film and media issues.

 

Wenli Xu

Wenli Xu

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: Democracy, China.

 

Visiting Faculty

 

Behnam Abu al-Soof

Visiting Professor

Areas of Interest: Archaeology, Mesopotamin archaeology, Middle Eastern history and prehistory.

Daniel Aragão

Office of International Programs Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: role of transnational corporations as political actors in the United Nations, particularly in human rights and development issues.

 

Jonathan P.G. Bach

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: global transformations, economic zones as states of exception, international organizations, East-West security, disarmament

Cornel Ban

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: transnational diffusion of economic development ideas in transition countries (especially Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Latin America); the influence of international private actors on domestic development strategies; research departments of public international organizations as global governance actors; comparative industrial, labor and tax policy in developing countries; and the political economy of migration flows between Eastern and Southern Europe.

 

Yishai Blank

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: torts, legal aspects of the globalizations of cities, local government law, law and space, and law and political thought.

Philippe Bonditti

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: security studies, U.S. security state apparatus, antiterrorism.

 

Douglas Bushey

Visting Scholar

Areas of Interest: renewable energy systems, sustainable development, Kyoto Protocol, politics in international agreements.

Lincoln Chafee '75

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: environment, foreign policy, economic and energy policy.

 

Brian Connor

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: cultural sociology, political sociology, theory, and comparative nationalisms in Japan and the United States.

Eleanor Doumato

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: U.S.-Saudi relations, viewpoints from the Arab world on U.S. policy, and women and development in the Middle East.

 

Claudia Elliott PhD '99, MA '91

Assistant Director, Academic Programs; Lecturer

Areas of Interest: Theory of democracy and democratization, electoral reform, comparative democratization, political representation, Latin America, Venezuela, Mexico.

Mark Garrison

Visiting Scholar

Areas of Interest: Post-Soviet Studies.

 

Miguel Glatzer

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: State-building; democratization; non-profits and civil society; social policy in new democracies; the welfare states of advanced industrialized countries; nationalism and education; and comparative political economy.

Richard K. Gordon

Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: corporate governance, financial systems, international taxation, money laundering and terrorism financing.

 

Shirley Brice Heath

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: Innovation in learning, business, health, and civic engagement in communities in economic and social need; comparing end of twentieth, seventeenth, and fourteenth centuries as times generating moves away from central institutions to local learning communities.

Patrick Heller

Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Development and comparative political economy, globalization, democratization and civil society with a focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.

 

Richard C. Holbrooke '62 LLD'97 (hon.)

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: international affairs, history.

Sikina Jinnah

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: international trade and environmental politics, emissions trading, bureaucratic management.

 

Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues.

Stephen Kosack

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: political economy and development, democracy, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, governance, political organization, and educational policymaking.

 

Gregory S. Krauss

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: public international law, human rights law, and international environment law.

Ricardo Lagos Escobar

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: political and economic development.

 

Minh A. Luong

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Public affairs, management, communications, and crisis management.

Christopher Lydon

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Media and international affairs.

 

Koji Masutani '05

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Global media.

Zinaida Miller

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: humanitarian law, human security, civil rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reconciliation and transitional justice.

 

Vasuki Nesiah

Director of International Affairs and Lecturer

Areas of Interest: human rights, ethnic conflict, feminism, women's rights, and women in the Third World.

Daniel Eli Orenstein PhD'06

Visiting Fellow
Brown University

Areas of Interest: Land use/land cover change in Israel, trans-border environmental cooperation in the Middle East, population and environment interactions, demographic and environmental conflicts in land use planning, and ecological impact of urban sprawl.

 

Juan Otero Garabís

Visiting Faculty

Areas of Interest: American and Caribbean literature, especially the literature and folklore of Puerto Rico.

Richard Polonsky

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Climate and forestry issues, product development and project management services for nonprofit organizations, businesses, and communities.

 

Ileana M. Porras

Visiting Professor

Areas of Interest: international law and legal theory, environmental law, globalization, international trade, corporate form and sovereignty, and religious freedom and state secularity.

Frederik Rosén

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: global security, civil-military relations, security sector reform, private security and governance in Afghanistan, Giorgio Agamben's method in philosophy.

 

John Phillip Santos

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Global media.

Clara Saraiva

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: funerary rituals and conceptions of death (American funeral directors; extensive work on Portuguese death rituals; funerary rituals and religion among the people of Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde islands), and, more recently on issues of transnational religions and transnational therapeutic practices among migrants from Guinea-Bissau and Brazil in Lisbon.

 

Nisha Shah

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: critical and normative theories of globalization, global governance, security studies, surveillance technologies, and terrorism/counterterrorism.

Elana Shever

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: cultural anthropology, ethnography, environmental politics, globalization, corporations, inequalities, oil industry, development, Latin America.

 

Marcelo Silva

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: organizing processes, collective action, and social movements; relations between civil society and state; and social participation experiences when formulating, executing, and controlling public politics.

Thida

Visiting Fellow in International Studies, International Writers Program

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Saleem H. Ali

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Transboundary conservation zones or "peace parks," causes of environmental conflicts between indigenous communities and mining companies, as well as the environmental and social impact of gemstone mining worldwide.

Thomas J. Biersteker

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: International political economy of development and international relations theory.

 

Douglas W. Blum

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Soviet and Russian studies, globalization, national identity formation, Caspian politics, and environment and development of Caspian Sea and transcaspian region.

Katrina Burgess

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Latin America, politics of economic reform, political parties, labor unions, impact of a crisis of traditional political institutions on linkages between the state and civil society.

 

Jarat Chopra

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: International law, international society and organization, and peace operations.

Susan E. Cook

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and social change, political anthropology, genocide studies.

 

Peter Dombrowski

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Economic dimensions of grand strategy; postcommunist transitions; diplomacy; policy; military relations, strategy, and transformation; defense industry; national security; international relations theory.

Yaakov Garb

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary analysis of environmental and urban issues; sociology of science and technology; Middle East environmental issues; transport and the politics of mobility.

 

Abbott Gleason

Adjunct Professor; Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History Emeritus

Areas of Interest: National identity in Russia/Soviet Union and United States from 1830-1930, and the history of the Cold War.

Jo-Anne Hart

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Middle East, Iran, U.S. policy and strategy and Persian Gulf, and women and politics.

 

Patricia Herlihy

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Social, economic, and religious history of Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Elizabeth Dean Hermann

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Architecture, architectural history, and urban studies and planning in developing nations.

 

Jane Jaquette

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Women and feminism in politics, development, foreign policy, and democracy; Latin America, international relations, comparative development politics.

Leiwen Jiang

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Population-environment interactions, and population and household projections.

 

Joan Johnson-Freese

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Asia, security, space policy, U.S. and international policy, civil-military interaction.

janet M. Lang

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Research methodology, international security, nuclear weapons policy and nuclear crises, and the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.

 

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: American foreign policy, Latin American politics, the construction of democratic governance worldwide, Global California's policy challenges, and the California-Mexico connection.

Stephen C. Lubkemann

Adjunct Associate Professor
George Washington University

Areas of Interest: Political violence, long-term displacement and socio-political change in Africa; humanitarian action and post-conflict development.

 

William F.S. Miles

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, religion and politics, democratization and governance in developing countries, development administration and planning, government and politics of Subsaharan Africa, and genocide studies.

Linda B. Miller

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, global politics, and European affairs.

 

Brian C. O'Neill

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Global climate change, population-environment interactions, and links between the science and policy of environmental issues.

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Adjunct Professor
Brown Univeristy

Areas of Interest: Human rights, Brazil, Latin America, Burma/Myanmar.

 

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Adjunct Professor; Professor of Sociology, Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Social theory and comparative historical research, especially regarding state and politics and the political economy of development.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: The sociology of art and gender studies in communist and postcommunist societies.

 

Eilon Schwartz

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Environmental issues, philosophy, science and religion, and education.

Thomas E. Skidmore

Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Modern Latin America; the television, politics, and the transition to democracy in Latin America; Brazil.

 

Newell Stultz

Adjunct Professor; Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, South Africa.

Winifred Tate

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Political culture and human rights institutions in Colombia, globalization and transnational movements, violence and law, and nationalism and state in Latin America.

 

J. Ann Tickner

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Feminist theory, gender studies, IR theory, ethnicity, nationalism, regional conflict, and conflict resolution and peace.

Stacy D. VanDeveer

Adjunct Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: European Union and environmental policy, environmental security, global environment, climate change.

 

Annick T. R. Wibben

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Security studies – in particular critical and feminist perspectives; women, violence, and conflict; 9/11 and the "war on terror"; feminist international relations; information technology and media.