List of Affiliated Faculty in IS: These faculty serve as IS major advisors and on senior comp boards. (rev. August 2022)
Economics:
- Chris Finaret Regional focus: Central Africa, Colombia. Areas of interest: development economics; policy, strategy, and programming evaluation.
- Steve Onyeiwu Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, with secondary interest in North Africa/the Middle East. Areas of interest: structural adjustment, multinational corporations, globalization, economic/industrial development, and political economy.
History:
- Kalé Haywood Regional focus: Latin America. Areas of interest: colonialism and the era of independence, Mexican history, and ecclesiastical and institutional history.
- Brian Miller Regional focus: Middle East, Germany. Areas of interest: transnational migration, history of development, gender studies, nationalism, and press censorship.
- Ken Pinnow Regional focus: Russia, Eastern Europe. Areas of interest: history of medicine, global health, and the technologies of modern governance (statistics, censuses, social science criminology, etc.).
- Guo Wu Regional focus: China. Areas of interest: late Imperial China, 20th century Chinese intellectual history, print culture, nationalism, liberalism and anarchism, modern Chinese literature and film.
World Languages & Cultures:
- Sami Alkyam, Chair Regional focus: Middle East. Areas of interest: Modern Arabic literature and cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; trauma and war novel; Arabic dictator novels; film and television studies; postcolonial and literary theory; Arabic literary translation; African literature in translation.
- Wilfredo Hernández Regional focus: Latin America. Areas of interest: gender studies in modern and contemporary Latin America with a focus on Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, same-sex issues in the Hispanic world.
- Teresa Herrera Regional focus: Spain. Areas of interest: nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Spanish theater, ideology studies, and Spanish television during the transition.
- Reem Hilal Regional focus: Middle East. Areas of interest: contemporary Arabic Literature, Arab American literature, identity, diasporic Muslim and Arab communities.
- Briana Lewis Regional focus: France. Areas of interest: nineteenth-century French literature, particularly the novel and the works of Victor Hugo; questions of individual, political, and social identity.
- Julia Ludewig Regional focus: German-speaking countries. Areas of interest: GDR history; current cultural and political developments in German speaking countries; popular culture, especially visual culture
- Tommy Conners Latinx, Ethnic, and Latin American Studies; queer, affect, and critical race theories
- Barbara Riess Regional focus: Latin America. Areas of interest: Translation Studies, Women’s Studies, feminism and feminist criticism, nationalisms and intellectual history, Latino identity and cultural production in the U.S.
Political Science:
- Shanna Kirschner Regional focus: Middle East. Areas of interest: Middle Eastern politics, especially in the Levant, ethnic conflict, and civil war, international organizations, human rights, and democratization.
- Shannan Mattiace Regional focus: Latin America. Areas of interest: criminal violence in Mexico, ethnic politics and social movements in Mexico and Latin America, immigration to the U.S., U.S.-Mexico border issues.
- Rebecca Oliver Regional focus: Europe. Areas of interest: European politics, comparative political economy, political institutions, inequality, social policy, and labor politics.
- Sharon Wesoky Regional focus: China. Areas of interest: gender, globalization and state-society relations in China and East Asia, feminism, civil society, and intellectual criticism in contemporary China.