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Global Studies

Division of Social Sciences
Social Sciences and Media Studies 2006
Undergraduate email: global-advising@ucsb.edu; Telephone: (805) 893-7860
Graduate email: gd-global@global.ucsb.edu; Telephone: (805) 893-4668
Website: www.global.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Anshu Malhotra
Vice Chair: Aashish Mehta 


 
Faculty
Paul Amar, PhD, New York University, Professor (human rights, national security, police, prisons, race/sexuality, Latin America, Middle East, urban politics, globalization)
Javiera Barandiaran, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (development and environment, democratic institutions and states in transition, energy, environmental policies)
Alison Brysk, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (human rights, global governance, civil society, gender, Latin American politics) Joint Appointment: POLS
Nicole Cerpa Vielma, Assistant Professor
Jia-Ching Chen, PhD, UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor (Development and Environment, Political Ecology, Urban Studies, Energy Studies)
Charmaine Chua, PhD, University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor (global political economy, infrastructure studies, empire and imperialism, and ocean studies)
Raymond Clemencon, PhD, University of Zurich, Continuing Senior Lecturer (International and comparative environmental politics, sustainable development, international organizations, political economy, European Integration)
Nadege Clitandre, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (African Diaspora, Gender and Transnationalism, Caribbean Literature, Haiti)
Bishnupriya Ghosh, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (global media theory, 20th-century British and postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality studies) Joint Appointment: ENGL
Charlie Hale, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Race, Anti-racism, Activist Anthropology, Latin America) Joint Appointment: ANTH
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, PhD, Stanford University, Assistant Professor (global migration and displacement; refugee studies; history of the modern Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus)
Ricado Jacobs, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor (agrarian change, global political economy, urbanization, political ecology, race/ indigeneity, Africa)
Esther Lezra, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor (Caribbean and transatlantic cultures and literatures, cultural theory)
Anshu Malhotra, PhD, University of London, Professor (gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, autobiography studies and histories of South Asia, Punjab and the Sikhs)
Aashish Mehta, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Professor (international economic development, applied economics)
Mae Miller-Likhethe, PhD, City University of New York, Assistant Professor (Black diaspora studies, transnational social movements, critical human geography, (post) colonialism, cultural studies and aesthetics)
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, PhD, University of Nijmegen, Professor (globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies) Joint Appointment: SOC
Satyajit Singh, PhD, Delhi University, Professor (governance, public policy & institutional reforms, Indian politics, development and environmental issues) Joint Appointment: POLS
Kai Thaler, PhD, Harvard University, Assistant Professor (Conflict and violence, civil wars, state building, genocide and mass killing, development, African and Latin American politics)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Richard Appelbaum, PhD, University of Chicago Joint Appointment: SOC
Sucheng Chan, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: ASAM
Giles Gunn, PhD, University of Chicago Joint Appointment: ENGL
Mark Juergensmeyer, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: SOC
Gurinder Mann, PhD, Columbia University Joint Appointment: RELST

 
Affiliated Faculty
Janet Afary, PhD (Religious Studies)
Ralph Armbruster, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Jean Beaman (Sociology)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, PhD (Sociology)
Eileen Boris, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Juan Campo, PhD (Religious Studies)
Tim Cooley, PhD (Music)
John Foran, PhD (Sociology)
Sabine Fruhstuck, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)
Lisa Hajjar, PhD (Sociology)
David Lopez-Carr, PhD (Geography)
Patrick McCray, PhD (History)
Kathleen Moore, PhD (Religious Studies)
Rita Raley, PhD (English)
Dwight Reynolds, PhD (Religious Studies)
William Robinson, PhD (Sociology)
Leila Rupp, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Michael Stohl, PhD (Communication)
Casey Walsh, PhD (Anthropology)
Mayfair Yang, PhD (Religious Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)