Center Faculty & Staff


Luciano Tosta
  • Director, Center for Global & International Studies
  • Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Brazil's transnational movements in literature, music, & cinema
  • REGION: Brazil and other Lusophone countries

Brittnee Carter
  • Associate Director, Center for Global & International Studies
  • Director, GIST Interagency Studies MA Program
  • Associate Professor, Political Science
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Terrorism and counterterrorism, interstate conflict and security studies
  • REGION: Global

Brian Lagotte
  • Dir. of Undergraduate Programs, Global & International Studies
  • Associate Teaching Professor, Global & International Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Anthropology of education; critical curriculum studies; politics of education
  • REGION: Japan, US, Global

Elizabeth MacGonagle
  • Associate Professor, History
  • Director of Graduate Programs, Global & International Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Formation of identity
  • REGION: Africa, African diaspora