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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: Javiera Barandiaran
Vice Chair: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky 

Overview

Please visit the department website at www.global.ucsb.edu for up to date information about the Department of Global Studies.

Faculty

Paul Amar, PhD, New York University, Professor
Specialization: human rights, national security, police, prisons, race/sexuality, Latin America, Middle East, urban politics, globalization

Javiera Barandiaran, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor
Specialization: development and environment, democratic institutions and states in transition, energy, environmental policies

Alison Brysk, PhD, Stanford University, Professor
Specialization: human rights, global governance, civil society, gender, Latin American politics
Joint Appointment: Political Science

Nicole Cerpa Vielma, Assistant Professor

Jia-Ching Chen, PhD, UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Development and Environment, Political Ecology, Urban Studies, Energy Studies

Nadege Clitandre, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor
Specialization: African Diaspora, Gender and Transnationalism, Caribbean Literature, Haiti

Bishnupriya Ghosh, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor
Specialization: global media theory, 20th-century British and postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality studies
Joint Appointment: English

Charlie Hale, PhD, Stanford University, Professor
Specialization: Race, Anti-racism, Activist Anthropology, Latin America
Joint Appointment: Anthropology

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, PhD, Stanford University, Assistant Professor
Specialization: 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
Specialization: agrarian change, global political economy, urbanization, political ecology, race/ indigeneity, Africa

Esther Lezra, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor
Specialization: Caribbean and transatlantic cultures and literatures, cultural theory

Anshu Malhotra, PhD, University of London, Professor
Specialization: gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, autobiography studies and histories of South Asia, Punjab and the Sikhs

Aashish Mehta, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Professor
Specialization: international economic development, applied economics

Mae Miller-Likhethe, PhD, City University of New York, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Black diaspora studies, transnational social movements, critical human geography, (post) colonialism, cultural studies and aesthetics

Jan Nederveen Pieterse, PhD, University of Nijmegen, Professor
Specialization: globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies
Joint Appointment: Sociology

Satyajit Singh, PhD, Delhi University, Professor
Specialization: governance, public policy & institutional reforms, Indian politics, development and environmental issues
Joint Appointment: Political Science

Kai Thaler, PhD, Harvard University, Assistant Professor
Specialization: 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: Sociology

Sucheng Chan, PhD, UC Berkeley
Joint Appointment: Asian American Studies

Giles Gunn, PhD, University of Chicago
Joint Appointment: English

Mark Juergensmeyer, PhD, UC Berkeley
Joint Appointment: Sociology

Gurinder Mann, PhD, Columbia University
Joint Appointment: Religious Studies

Affiliated Faculty

Janet Afary, PhD

Ralph Armbruster, PhD

Jean Beaman

Eileen Boris, PhD

Juan Campo, PhD

Tim Cooley, PhD

Sabine Fruhstuck, PhD

Lisa Hajjar, PhD

David Lopez-Carr, PhD

Patrick McCray, PhD

Kathleen Moore, PhD

Rita Raley, PhD

William Robinson, PhD

Leila Rupp, PhD

Casey Walsh, PhD

Mayfair Yang, PhD

Janet Afary, PhD


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