Faculty
The success of the International Studies program depends on the participation of faculty members from across the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Faculty members teach essential courses, mentor students, attend special events, serve on Distinction Committees, and contribute to program policies and development.
The Faculty Advisory Committee’s primary responsibility is to review curricular issues related to the International Studies major and minor. During its regular meetings, the Committee addresses a range of such issues, including potential courses, course access and program development.
The International Studies Affiliated Faculty are less formally involved with curricular issues, and play an important role through their teaching, mentoring and insight on program development.
| Werner Baer (PhD Harvard, Professor of Economics) Industrialization of Latin America and its consequences. The process of privatization in Latin America Contact: 218 David Kinley Hall; 217-333-8388; wbaer@uiuc.edu |
| Maimouna Barro (PhD University of Illinois, Associate Director of African Studies ) Issues of gender, language and literacy in Senegal and West Africa, curriculum development, internationalizing undergraduate education. Contact:210 International Studies Building ; 217-333-6335; barro@uiuc.edu |
| Ericka Beckman (PhD Stanford, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) 19th-century Latin American literature, economics and culture, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Studies Contact: 4030 FLB; 217-333-8058; ebeckman@uiuc.edu |
| Marilyn Booth (PhD Oxford, Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature; Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) Aesthetics and historicity in early Arab feminisms; 19th-century Arabic novel and "arabizations" of European novels; theory and practice of auto/biography transculturally; masculines/feminines in Arabic nationalist and feminist discourses; theorizing popular culture and dialect literatures in Arabic and English; literary translation, theory and practice; contemporary fiction in Arabophone societies and concepts of postcoloniality; human rights and literary practice. Contact: 221 International Studies Building; 244-7331; mbooth@uiuc.edu |
| Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (PhD UC Santa Cruz, Associate Professor of History) Transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context, Social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity. Contact: 445A Gregory Hall; 217-244-2652; bghamari@uiuc.edu |
| Zsuzsa Gille (PhD UC Santa Cruz, Associate Professor of Sociology) Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Eastern Europe Contact: 319 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-1316; gille@uiuc.edu |
| Andrew Orta (PhD Chicago, Associate Professor of Anthropology) Sociocultural anthropology, colonial/postcolonial studies, missionization, ethnicity and nationalism, memory and history, personhood; Latin America, Andes. Contact: 382 Davenport Hall; 217-244-7108; andyorta@uiuc.edu |
| Robert Tierney (PhD Stanford, Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative and World Literature) Film and Popular Culture, colonial and post-colonial studies, gender and sexuality, the practice and theory of translation. Contact: 2090A Foreign Languages Building; 217-244-2725; rtierney@uiuc.edu |
| John Vasquez (PhD Syracuse, Professor of Political Science) International relations theory and foreign policy; war and conflict; peace science. Contact: 361 Lincoln Hall; vasqueja@uiuc.edu |
| International Studies Affiliated Faculty represent a range of academic units, including African Studies, Anthropology, Comparative and World Literature, East Asian Languages and Culture, Economics, Geography, French, Germanic Languages and Literature, History, Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Speech Communications. |
| AFRICAN STUDIES |
| Maimouna Barro (PhD University of Illinois, Associate Director) Issues of gender, language and literacy in Senegal and West Africa, curriculum development, internationalizing undergraduate education. Contact:210 International Studies Building ; 217-333-6335; barro@uiuc.edu |
| ANTHROPOLOGY |
| Janet D Keller (PhD UC Berkeley, Professor) Linguistic anthropology, cognition and symbolism, narrative, language and visualization, activity and practice theories; Oceania and contemporary US, Adjunct coordinator Spurlock Museum Contact: 395 Davenport; 217-333-3529; jdkeller@uiuc.edu |
| Frederic K Lehman (PhD Columbia, Professor) Linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, cognitive theory, formal analysis of cultural and social systems, kinship; Southeast Asia, India Contact: 209H Davenport; 217-333-8423; f-lehman@uiuc.edu |
| Martin F Manalansan IV (PhD Rochester, Assoc Professor) Sociocultural Anthropology, sexuality and gender, anthropology of the body, cities, foodways, death narratives, immigration and diaspora, globalization, health and culture, Asian Americans; Southeast Asia, Philippines. Contact: 387 Davenport; 217-244-3500; manalans@uiuc.edu |
| Ellen Moodie (PhD Michigan, Assistant Professor) Semiotics, narrative and mass media, violence, death and human rights, post-conflict transition; Central America, El Salvador Contact: 391 Davenport Hall; 217-244-7849; emoodie@uiuc.edu |
| Andrew Orta (PhD Chicago, Associate Professor) Sociocultural anthropology, colonial/postcolonial studies, missionization,ethnicity and nationalism, memory and history, personhood; Latin America, Andes Contact: 382 Davenport hall; 217-244-7108; andyorta@uiuc.edu |
| COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITRATURE |
| Marilyn Booth (PhD Oxford, Associate Professor, Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) Aesthetics and historicity in early Arab feminisms; 19th-century Arabic novel and "arabizations" of European novels; theory and practice of auto/biography transculturally; masculines/feminines in Arabic nationalist and feminist discourses; theorizing popular culture and dialect literatures in Arabic and English; literary translation, theory and practice; contemporary fiction in Arabophone societies and concepts of postcoloniality; human rights and literary practice. Contact: 221 International Studies Building; 244-7331; mbooth@uiuc.edu |
| Robert Tierney (PhD Stanford, Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures) Film and Popular Culture, colonial and post-colonial studies, gender and sexuality, the practice and theory of translation. Contact: 2090A Foreign Languages Building; 217-244-2725; rtierney@uiuc.edu |
| EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE |
| Karen Kelsky (PhD Hawai'i, Associate Professor and Department Head) Global cultures, race, gender, identity, media, narratives; Japan Contact: 2090 FLB; 217-244-5920; kelsky@uiuc.edu |
| ECONOMICS |
| Richard Akresh (PhD Yale, Assistant Professor) Development Economics Contact: 470E Wohlers Hall; 217-333-3647; akresh@uiuc.edu |
| Werner Baer (PhD Harvard, Professor) Industrialization of Latin America and its consequences. The process of privatization in Latin America Contact: 218 David Kinley Hall; 217-333-8388; wbaer@uiuc.edu |
| Hadi Esfahani (PhD UC Berkeley, Professor) Theoretical and empirical issues in the political economy of development; the role of country institutions in the formation and reform of fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies Contact: 210 David Kinley Hall; 217-333-2681; esfahani@uiuc.edu |
| GEOGRAPHY |
| Thomas J. Bassett (PhD UC Berkeley, Professor) Africa, Third World development, African agrarian systems, political ecology, Agricultural development & socio-cultural change, History of cartography. Contact: 126 Davenport Hall; 217-244-3200; bassett@uiuc.edu |
| Colin Flint (PhD Colorado, Associate Professor) Political Geography, Geography of War and Peace, Hate Groups Contact: 126 Davenport Hall; 217-333-0415; flint@uiuc.edu |
| Ezekiel Kalipeni (PhD North Carolina, Associate Professor) Medical Geography, Population Studies, Environmental Issues, Health Care, Africa Contact: 122 Davenport Hall; 217-244-7708; kalipeni@uiuc.edu |
| FRENCH |
| Alain Fresco (PhD Indiana, Assistant Professor) Monograph on Camara Laye novels, Comprehensive bibliography of works devoted to Camara Laye; Preparation for publication of interviews with Andrée Chedid. Contact: 2090K FLB; 217-244-2723; afresco@uiuc.edu |
| Armine Mortimer (PhD Yale, Professor and Department Head) Narrative literature, especially of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Balzac and on Barthes, currently working on Sollers' novels Contact: 2090H FLB; 217-333-7813; armine@uiuc.edu |
| GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES |
| Anna Stenport (PhD UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor) Turn-of-the-century Scandinavian, German, and French literary and geographical relations, with a particular focus on urban and literary theory Scandinavian and German film, Old Norse prose narration, and post-colonial and feminist theory. Anna has published several articles on August Strindberg’s drama and prose, as well as on gender relations in late nineteenth-century fiction about Stockholm Contact: 217-265-4037; aws@uiuc.edu |
| Mara Wade (PhD Michigan, Professor and Department Head) Early Modern literature, court festivals, music and literature, women's studies, Jewish authors of German literature, emblematics, German film, Günter Grass Contact: 3120 FLB; 217-333-8777; mwade@uiuc.edu |
| HISTORY |
| Ken Cuno (PhD UCLA, Associate Professor) Social history of Egypt, 18th – 20th centuries, early modern and modern history of the Middle East Contact: 414 Gregory Hall; 217-333-1245; kmcuno@uiuc.edu |
| Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (PhD UC Santa Cruz, Associate Professor) Transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context, Social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity. Contact: 445A Gregory Hall; 217-244-2652; bghamari@uiuc.edu |
| Nils Jacobsen (PhD UC Berkeley, Associate Professor) Latin American history, with emphasis on the Andes, and comparative rural history. Current research focusing on politics and society in nineteenth century Peru, Indian communities, and land in Latin American history Contact: 418 Gregory Hall; 217-333-2324; njacobse@uiuc.edu |
| LINGUISTICS |
| Elabbas Benmamoun (PhD USC, Professor and Department Head) Comparative Syntax with special emphasis on Arabic dialects, Morphology with special focus on the issue of the nature of lexical relations in Arabic and the status of the root, and Arabic as a second language 4040 FLB Contact: 217-333-3563; benmamou@uiuc.edu |
| Rakesh Bhatt (PhD UIUC, Associate Professor) World Englishes, Language Learning, Teaching, and Use of Second/Non-native Languages; Language Contact and Variation; Language Ideology, Language Planning, Language Maintenance and Shift; Heritage Language Acquisition and Use Contact: 4080 FLB; 217-265-6308; rbhatt@uiuc.edu |
| Eyamba Bokamba (PhD Indiana, Professor) Syntax of Bantu languages, multilingualism; Language policies vis-a-vis education in Africa; Language acquisition and teaching (with particular emphasis on African languages) Contact: 3154 FLB; bokamba@uiuc.edu |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE |
| Todd Allee (PhD Michigan, Assistant Professor) Resolution of trade disputes through the WTO; the use of non-tariff barriers to trade; the impact of international institutions and international law on state behavior; the link between domestic political institutions and international conflict, International organizations; international trade; international political economy; international conflict; theories of international relations. Contact: 371 Lincoln Hall; 217-244-1822; tallee@uiuc.edu |
| Merle Bowen (PhD Toronto, Associate Professor) Agrarian and rural issues; social movements and globalization in the postcolonial world; and politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, Comparative politics in developing countries; Pan Africanism in the Americas, Europe and Africa; Global Africa; Introduction to the African Diaspora; Social movements and globalization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Contact: 499 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-2956; bowen@uiuc.edu |
| Paul Diehl (PhD Michigan, Professor and Interim Department Head) Enduring rivalries; UN peacekeeping; and conflict management, War and peace; international organizations; international law; ethnic conflict Contact: 383 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-9356; pdiehl@uiuc.edu |
| Zachary Elkins (PhD UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor) Democracy and democratization; institutional and constitutional reform; national identity; Latin American politics; methodology, comparative politics of developing nations; methods; democratization; comparative political behavior; constitutional design. Contact: 260 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-0796; zelkins@uiuc.edu |
| Derrick Frazier (PhD Arizona, Assistant Professor) Third party behavior in conflict management, International conflict and conflict management; International security US foreign policy. Contact: 384 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-1858; dvfrazie@uiuc.edu |
| Robert Pahre (PhD UCLA, Associate Professor) Politics of international trade; the European Union, International relations, International political economy; politics and culture of the European Union Contact: 382 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-2851; pahre@uiuc.edu |
| John Vasquez (PhD Syracuse, Professor) International relations theory and foreign policy; war and conflict; peace science. Contact: 361 Lincoln Hall; vasqueja@uiuc.edu |
| SOCIOLOGY |
| Zsuzsa Gille (PhD UC Santa Cruz, Associate Professor) Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Eastern Europe Contact: 319 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-1316; gille@uiuc.edu |
| Anna-Maria Marshall (PhD Northwestern, Associate Professor) Sociology of Law, Law and Society, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Feminist Theory, Women and Law 216 Lincoln Hall; 333-1950; amarshll@uiuc.edu |
| Jan Nederveen-Pieterse (PhD University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Professor) Globalization, development studies, transnational sociology and cultural studies. Contact: 329 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-1210; jnp@uiuc.edu |
| SPANISH, ITALIAN AND PORTUGUESE |
| Ericka Beckman (PhD Stanford, Assistant Professor) 19th-century Latin American literature, economics and culture, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Studies Contact: 4030 FLB; 217-333-8058; ebeckman@uiuc.edu |
| Silvina Montrul (PhD McGill, Associate Professor) Adult second language acquisition, Bilingualism and Language loss in children and adults, Psycholinguistics, Theoretical linguistics applied to language acquisition, Acquisition of syntax, morphology, lexical-semantics, syntax-pragmatics, Acquisition of the lexicon, Spanish and other Romance languages, Research and teaching of heritage languages Contact: 4120 FLB; 217-333-8279; montrul@uiuc.edu |
| Diane Musumeci (PhD UIUC, Associate Professor and Department Head) Second language acquisition, History of L2 teaching and learning, Content-based instruction, and Instructional technology Contact: 4080 FLB; 217-244-3250; musumeci@uiuc.edu |
| SPEECH COMMUNICATIONS |
| Michele Koven (PhD Chicago, Assistant Professor) The role of culture in verbal interaction; how speakers perform and infer cultural identities in their own and others' talk; style shifting and code switching in discourse; bilingualism; intercultural communication; sociolinguistics; oral narrative Contact: 166 Lincoln Hall; 217-333-8969; mkoven@uiuc.edu |