Howard R. Swearer Director of the Watson Institute; Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge institutions and networks, cultural articulation of democracy, peace, and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow; Lecturer, Brown School of Engineering

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

Professor of Political Science and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Borders and smuggling, transnational crime and crime control; political economy of conflict and intervention.

Fellow of International Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy (Taubman Center)

Areas of Interest: Science & technology policy in the Global South, colonial sciences, interaction between technosciences and indigenous knowledge systems, public sector organizational culture and learning, politics of knowledge, transformation of higher education in pluralistic societies, black transnationalism, critical global humanities, Southern Africa, Brazil, and Afro-descendent communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Associate Professor of International Studies; Director, Development Studies Program

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

Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture (Research)

Areas of Interest: the relationship of internationalism to nationalism, colonialism, and religion; modernism and the avant-garde; the law of war.

Faculty Fellow

Areas of Interest: comparative and international political economy, particularly regarding questions of uncertainty and randomness in complex systems.

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.

Professor (Research)

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

Senior Fellow

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

Senior Fellow; Director, Choices Program

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

Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow; 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.

Howard R. Swearer Director of the Watson Institute; Professor of Sociology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge institutions and networks, cultural articulation of democracy, peace, and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.

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.

Deputy Director, Watson Institute; Watson Fellow; Lecturer, Brown School of Engineering

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

Professor (Research), Watson Institute; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies

Areas of Interest: Military, war, and society; Automobility and inequality; Race and gender; Democracy; Subjectivity and power; Photography and cultural history; Critical theory; Anthropological methods; Sociocultural contexts of science and technology; U.S. twentieth century history and ethnography; Asia-Pacific.

Faculty Fellow and Professor of Political Science

Areas of Interest: effects of "lootable wealth" on political order, the responsiveness of democratic regimes to marginalized citizens in Latin America, and how dependence on foreign funding affects the social sciences in poor countries.

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.

Associate Professor (Research)

Areas of Interest: International institutions and norms in security, nuclear weapons, human rights and the laws of war.

Faculty Fellow, Professor of Political Science

Areas of Interest: ethnicity and nationalism; political economy of development; and South Asian politics and political economy.

Senior Fellow

Areas of Interest: Democracy, China.

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.

Visiting Fellow

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

Visiting 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.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: international law, international relations, democratic governance, legal theory, rule of law under security.

Assistant Director, Academic Programs; Lecturer

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

Visiting Professor of International Studies

Areas of Interest: global governance, European security.

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: international affairs, history.

University Professor at Large

Areas of Interest: political and economic development.

Visiting Fellow

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

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: media and international affairs.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: global media.

Areas of Interest: urban governance, participatory democracy, citizenship, civil society and social movements.

Visiting Fellow in International Studies

Areas of Interest: how institutions change and why they matter for development, environmental governance, comparative political economy, development and environmental history of Latin America.

Professor-at-Large

Areas of Interest: industrial economics, organization, and policy, competition regulations and the development of small and medium businesses, relations between states and markets, and the dynamics of different capitalistic models.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: representations of conflict, militarization and US foreign policy (particularly the Vietnam War); gender (with a focus on militarized masculinities); popular and visual cultures (including film, television and other electronic media).

Visiting Fellow in International Studies

Areas of Interest: religion in global politics, secularization, international relations theory, security studies, conflict resolution, political violence, politics of divided societies.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: Global media.

Visiting Professor in International Studies

Areas of Interest: international law, trade, and development.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: theories of international relations, border politics, illicit markets, illicit political economy, international organizations.

Visiting Fellow

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

Areas of Interest: historical truth, the political importance of academic research, and the different roles played by universities, think-tanks, and media in the production of knowledge.

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Interest: globalization of law and global governance; administration and regulatory state; state reform and global South; law, development, and globalization; sociology of neoliberalism.

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.

Adjunct Professor

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

Professor (Research)

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

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.

Visiting Fellow

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: Middle East, Iran, US policy and strategy in the Persian Gulf, technology and education, and women and politics.

Adjunct Professor; Professor of History Emeritus

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

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

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

Areas of Interest: Poverty and economic development; education, health, fertility, and gender; the role of markets in alleviating poverty.

Adjunct Professor

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

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

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.

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Interest: urbanization, national and regional identities, symbolic meanings of money, popular culture, and popular music.

Adjunct Professor

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

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.

Adjunct Professor

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

Adjunct Professor; Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, South Africa.

Adjunct Professor

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