Core Instructional Faculty

Nazli Avdan
Nazli Avdan
  • Associate Professor, Political Science
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: International security; international migration
  • REGION: Global
Hannah Britton
Hannah Britton
  • Associate Professor, Political Science
  • Associate Professor, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Intersection of gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity
  • REGION: Southern Africa
Phillip Drake
Phillip Drake
  • Associate Professor, English
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Human-nonhuman relationships as seen through literature, public discourse, cultural practices, political movements
  • REGION: Southeast Asia
Stephen Egbert
Stephen Egbert
  • Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Sciences
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Remote sensing; geopolitical aspects of genocide; impacts of Native land allotment
  • REGION: Global
Eric Hanley
Eric Hanley
  • Associate Professor, Sociology
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Political, economic, & environmental sociology; globalization
  • REGION: Global, Peru, China
Marike Janzen
Marike Janzen
  • Associate Professor, Slavic, German, & Eurasian Studies
  • Director, Max Kade Center for German-American Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Literature of human rights; literature of the international left
  • REGION: Global, Germany
Jay Johnson
Jay Johnson
  • Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Sciences
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Indigenous geographies
  • REGION: New Zealand, the Pacific, North America
Brian Lagotte
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
Elizabeth MacGonagle
  • Associate Professor, History
  • Director of Graduate Programs, Global & International Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Formation of identity
  • REGION: Africa, African diaspora
Brent Metz
Brent Metz
  • Director, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
  • Professor, Anthropology
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Indigenous reformulation
  • REGION: Latin America, Guatemala, Honduras
Erik Scott
Erik Scott
  • Director, Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
  • Professor, History
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Global history; migration & diaspora; legacies of the Cold War
  • REGION: Russia, Eurasia
Akiko Takeyama
Akiko Takeyama
  • Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Professor, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Changes in gender, sexuality, & class dynamics in the context of globalization
  • REGION: Japan
Luciano Tosta
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
Barney Warf
Barney Warf
  • Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Sciences
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Globalization; social theory; economic geography
  • REGION: Global
Michael Wuthrich
Michael Wuthrich
  • Associate Director, Center for Global & International Studies
  • Associate Professor, Political Science
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Role of political parties, electoral behavior, religion, gender, & nationalism in Middle East politics
  • REGION: Middle East, Turkey, Iran
Rami Zeedan
Rami Zeedan
  • Associate Professor, Jewish Studies Program
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Politics & history of modern Israel; Druze studies
  • REGION: Israel