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 

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 (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 with: 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 Clémençon, PhD, University of Zurich, Continuing Senior Lecturer (International and comparative environmental politics, sustainable development, international organizations, political economy, European Integration) Joint appointment with: SOCL

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 with: ENGL

Charlie Hale, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Race, Anti-racism, Activist Anthropology, Latin America) Joint appointment with: ANTH

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 with: SOC

Satyajit Singh, PhD, Delhi University, Professor (governance, public policy & institutional reforms, Indian politics, development and environmental issues) Joint appointment with: 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)

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)

Emeriti Faculty

Rich Appelbaum, PhD, University of Chicago  Joint appointment with: SOC

Sucheng Chan, PhD, UC Berkeley  Joint appointment with: ASAM

Giles Gunn, PhD, University of Chicago  Joint appointment with: ENGL

Mark Juergensmeyer, PhD, UC Berkeley  Joint appointment with: SOC

Gurinder S. Mann, PhD, Columbia University  Joint appointment with: RELST

Affiliated Faculty

Janet Afary, PhD  

Ralph Armbruster, PhD  

Jean Beaman  

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, PhD  

Juan Campo, PhD  

Tim Cooley, PhD  

John Foran, PhD  

Lisa Hajjar, PhD  

David Lopez-Carr, PhD  

W. Patrick McCray, PhD  

Kathleen Moore, PhD  

Rita Raley, PhD  

Dwight Reynolds, PhD  

William Robinson, PhD  

Leila Rupp, PhD  

Michael Stohl, PhD  

Casey Walsh, PhD  

Mayfair Yang, PhD