IGS Committee Academic Interest

IGS Committee Academic Interest

Name Academic Focus Region
Rebekah Hurwitz
Craig Lair
Hakim Williams School violence, educational inequity, community development, youth studies, peace education, international development Caribbean/ African Diaspora
Abou Bamba Africa; international development; transnationalism, migration Africa; France
William Bowman Modern Europe (Germany, Russia, UK, France; 19th and 20th centuries) Modern Europe (Germany, Russia, UK, France; nineteenth and twentieth centuries. )
Alvaro Kaempfer Colonialism and globalization cultural processes (interdisciplinary) The Americas, Latin America, the Iberian speaking world, the Mediterranean
Douglas Page Political science and European politics Europe (broadly defined)
Donna Perry Neoliberalism, agrarian transformation, Islam, human rights, cross-border trade, language revitalization, indigenous rights Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
Dina Lowy East Asia, history, gender history East Asia, world history
Yoko Nishimura East Asian Studies, archeology Japan and Turkey
Megan Adamson Sijapati Contemporary Muslim world and Islam, religious nationalism, Hinduism, religious conflict/violence, culture/society, ethics, the body South Asia (particularly India, Nepal and Pakistan) and North America
Lindsay Reid (from broad to narrow): As a political scientist, international relations. My specific focus within IR is the study of civil wars and their resolution. My research expertise focuses on mediation, peace agreement design, peacebuilding, and women's empowerment in the aftermath of civil wars Cross-national, but some expertise on civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa
Marta Maras Global business Predominantly Europe and the US
Gokcer Ozgur History of economic thought, political economy, money and macro US and Turkey
César Leal Music and culture Paris fin-de-siecle
Megan Benka-Coker Global health, air pollution, energy policy Central America, East and West Africa
Abdulkareem Said Ramadan Arabic, Linguistics, Education, Culture, Interdisciplinary Middle East and North Africa