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Gianpaolo Baiocchi Director, Development Studies Program Areas of Interest: Democracy, urban governance, racism, social movements, civil society, and Brazil.	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.
Yaakov Garb Visiting 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.	Patrick Heller 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.
Leiwen Jiang Assistant Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Population-environment interactions, and population and household projections.	Ricardo Lagos Escobar Professor at Large Areas of Interest: political and economic development
Catherine Lutz Professor of Anthropology; Professor (Research), Watson Institute 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 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 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.

Global Security

Peter Andreas Director, International Relations Program; Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies 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.	Thomas J. Biersteker Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: International political economy of development and international relations theory.
James G. Blight Professor of International Relations (Research) Areas of Interest: International security, nuclear weapons and nuclear crises, the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.	Lincoln Chafee '75 Distinguished Visiting Fellow Areas of Interest: environment, foreign policy, economic and energy policy.
Susan E. Cook Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and social change, political anthropology, genocide studies.	Neta C. Crawford '85 Adjunct Professor Areas of Interest: International relations and security; economic sanctions; humanitarian intervention; ethics; and international organization.
James Der Derian Director, Global Security Program; Professor of International Studies (Research) Areas of Interest: International relations theory, international security, information technology, and media studies.	Peter Dombrowski Adjunct Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Economic dimensions of grand strategy; postcommunist transitions; diplomacy; policy; military relations, strategy, and transformation; defense industry; national security; international relations theory.
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.	Mark Garrison Visiting Scholar Areas of Interest: Post-Soviet Studies.
Abbott Gleason Visiting Fellow; Barnaby Conrad & 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.	Joan Johnson-Freese Adjunct Professor Areas of Interest: Asia, security, space policy, U.S. and international policy, civil-military interaction.
Catherine McArdle Kelleher Visiting Fellow Areas of Interest: Conventional and nuclear arms control, German, Russian, and European security issues.	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.
janet M. Lang Adjunct Associate Professor, International Relations (Research) Areas of Interest: Research methodology, international security, nuclear weapons policy and nuclear crises, and the psychology and recent history of US foreign policy.	Stephen C. Lubkemann Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Political violence, long-term displacement and socio-political change in Africa; humanitarian action and post-conflict development.
Koji Masutani '05 Visiting Fellow Areas of Interest: Global media.	Linda B. Miller Adjunct Professor of International Studies (Research) Areas of Interest: U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, global politics, and European affairs.
John Phillip Santos Visiting Fellow Areas of Interest: Global media.	Nina Tannenwald Associate Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: International institutions and norms in security, nuclear weapons.
J. Ann Tickner Adjunct Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Feminist theory, gender studies, IR theory, ethnicity, nationalism, regional conflict, and conflict resolution and peace.	Annick T. R. Wibben Adjunct Faculty 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.
Wenli Xu Senior Fellow Areas of Interest: Democracy, China.

Global Environment

Saleem H. Ali Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Areas of Interest: Transboundary conservation zones or "peace parks," causes of environmental conflicts between indigenous communities and mining companies, as well as the environemntal and social impact of gemstone mining worldwide.	Yaakov Garb Visiting 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.
Steven P. Hamburg Director, Global Environment; Ittleson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Areas of Interest: Ecosystem ecology; the impacts of land use history, climate change, and natural disturbances on forest ecology, as well as the role of science in the development of environmental policy.	Elizabeth Dean Hermann Visiting Associate Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Architecture, architectural history, and urban studies and planning in developing nations.
Leiwen Jiang Assistant Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Population-environment interactions, and population and household projections.	Brian C. O'Neill Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Global climate change, population-environment interactions, and links between the science and policy of environmental issues.
Daniel Eli Orenstein PhD'06 Visiting Fellow 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.	Richard Polonsky Visiting Fellow Areas of Interest: Climate and forestry issues, product development and project management services for nonprofit organizations, businesses, and communities.
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.	Eilon Schwartz Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Environmental issues, philosophy, science and religion, and education.
Stacy D. VanDeveer Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: European Union and environmental policy, environmental security, global environment, climate change.

Political Economy of Development

Peter Andreas Director, International Relations Program; Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies 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.	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; sending state strategies; and the political economy of migration flows between Eastern and Southern Europe.
Thomas J. Biersteker Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: International political economy of development and international relations theory.	Katrina Burgess Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research 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.
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.	Marsha Pripstein Posusney Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Contemporary political and economic reforms in the Arab countries of the Middle East.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Social theory and comparative historical research, especially regarding state and politics and the political economy of development.	Marilyn Rueschemeyer Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: The sociology of art and gender studies in communist and postcommunist societies.
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.

Politics, Culture, and Identity

Liza Bakewell, PhD '91, MA, '83 Research Associate Areas of Interest: Contemporary culture, identity, language, ethnicity and gender, visual communication, Mexico.	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.
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.	Patricia Herlihy Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Social, economic, and religious history of Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Catherine Lutz Professor of Anthropology; Professor (Research), Watson Institute 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.	William F.S. Miles Adjunct Professor (Research) 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.
Marsha Pripstein Posusney Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: Contemporary political and economic reforms in the Arab countries of the Middle East.	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.
Winifred Tate Adjunct Faculty 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.	Kay Warren Director, Politics, Culture and Identity; Professor of Anthropology; Professor (Research), Watson Institute 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.

Cross-cutting Initiatives

Behnam Abu al-Soof Visiting Professor Areas of Interest: Archaeology, Mesopotamin archaeology, Middle Eastern history and prehistory.	Thomas J. Biersteker Adjunct Faculty Areas of Interest: International political economy of development and international relations theory.
Jane Jaquette Adjunct Professor (Research) Areas of Interest: Women and feminism in politics, development, foreign policy, and democracy; Latin America, international relations, comparative development politics.	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.
Abraham F. Lowenthal Adjunct Professor (Research) 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.	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.

Choices for the 21st Century Education Program

Susan Graseck
Director, Choices for the 21st Century Education Program; Senior Fellow
Areas of Interest: Renewal of American democracy, education, civic engagement in international and public policy.

Instructional Programs

Peter Andreas
Director, International Relations Program; Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
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
Director, Development Studies Program
Areas of Interest: Democracy, urban governance, racism, social movements, civil society, and Brazil.

Claudia Elliott PhD '99, MA '91
Assistant Director, Academic Programs, and Lecturer, International Relations Honors Program
Areas of Interest: Theory of democracy and democratization, electoral reform, comparative democratization, political representation, Latin America, Venezuela, Mexico.

Patrick Heller
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.