FACULTY
Sami Alkyam
Assistant Professor of Arabic; Chair of International Studies
Modern Arabic literature and cultural studies; film and television studies; gender and sexuality studies; trauma and war novel; Arabic dictator novels; postcolonial and literary translation theory.
Thomas Conners
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and World Languages & Cultures
Latinx, Ethnic, and Latin American Studies; queer, affect, and critical race theories
Chris Finaret
Assistant Professor
Development economics; policy, strategy, and programming evaluation; Central Africa; Colombia
E. Kalé Haywood
Associate Professor of History
Latin America; colonialism and the era of independence; Mexican history; ecclesiastical and institutional history
Wilfredo Hernández
Professor of Spanish
Contemporary Latin American production; Venezuelan literature; Gender and Transgender Studies; Hispanic cinema; and the culture of illicit drugs in the Americas
Teresa Herrera-de la Muela
Associate Professor of Spanish
Theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries; popular culture; ideology studies; Spanish television during the transition
Reem Hilal
Associate Professor of Arabic
Contemporary Arabic Literature; Arab American literature; identity; diasporic Muslim and Arab communities
Shanna Kirschner
Associate Professor
Middle Eastern politics, especially in the Levant, ethnic conflict, and civil war; international organizations, human rights, and democratization
Briana Lewis
Associate Professor of French
19th century French literature, particularly the novel and the works of Victor Hugo; questions of individual, political, and social identity; narrative and narrative forms; women in literature
Julia Ludewig
Associate Professor of German
Literary theory and history of literary criticism; graphic novels; pedagogy of current issues in German politics and culture; GDR history; popular culture, especially visual culture
Shannan Mattiace
Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Criminal violence in Mexico; ethnic politics and social movements in Mexico and Latin America; immigration to the U.S.; U.S.-Mexico border issues
Brian Miller
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Turkey; Modern Germany; Middle East and North African Studies; Migration & Diaspora Studies; Transnational & Globalization Studies
Rebecca Oliver
Assistant Professor of Political Science
European politics; comparative political economy; political institutions; inequality; social policy; labor politics
Stephen Onyeiwu
Andrew Wells Robertson Professor of Economics
Management of innovation and technology; managerial economics; economic development (with a focus on Africa and the Middle East); globalization and international political economy
Ken Pinnow
Professor of History
The History of Medical Ethics, Criminology, and the Social Sciences in Russia and the Soviet Union; Modern European History; Eastern Europe and Russian History; Medical History
Barbara Riess
Professor of Spanish; Chair of World Languages and Cultures
20th-century Latin American culture; literature of the Cuban Revolution; Latin American women’s literature; translation studies; feminist and postmodern debates
Sharon Wesoky
Professor of Political Science
Chinese politics; transnationalism; gender politics and society; globalization and state-society relations in China and East Asia; feminism, civil society, and intellectual criticism in contemporary China
Guo Wu
Associate Professor
Imperial and Modern China; Intellectual History; the Chinese Communist Movement; Women’s History; Military History
Aisha Yusuf
Assistant Professor