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Nicholas Brown, English and African American Studies, recently published Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth Century Literature, a book-length study of postcolonial literature, European Modernism, and the relationship of each to crises in the global economic system. Interests include African literature and global music studies.

Hui-Ching Chang, Department of Communication, examines communication theory including interpersonal and intercultural communication. She is an editor of International & Intercultural Communication Annual and Howard Journal of Communication.

Xiangming Chen , Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Urban Planning and Policy, his research focuses on the multiple facets of global-local relations in the urban and regional contexts of China and Asia. He is co-author (with Anthony Orum) of The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective and author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim.

Jonathan Daly History, studies and teaches about the interaction of state and society in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia. He is the autor of The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2004) and Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Kirk Hoppe History department, received his PhD from Boston University. He studies and teaches about African and World History at the Graduate and Undergraduate level. He recently published Lords of the Flies: Environmental Images and Social Engineering in British East African Sleeping Sickness Control, 1903-1963 (Greenwood Press, 2004)
Lynette Jackson, Gender and Women's Studies and African American Studies, and the Chair of the International Studies Program, specializes in African History, Africa Women's and Gender Studies and the History and Politics of Health in Africa. Her current research focuses on gender and forced migration. She is the author of Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908 1968, Cornell University Press, 2005.
Rasma Karklins, Political Science, specializes in comparative politics, East European politics, ethnic relations, comparative public policy, transitions to democracy, protest and collective action, political participation, citizenship and integration, and corruption. Author of The System Made Me Do It: Corruption in the Post-communist Region; New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005, Ethnic Politics and Transition to Democracy: The collapse of the USSR and Latvia, Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, and Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspective from Below(Boston and London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Paperback Unwin & Hyman,1988)
George Karras is Professor of Economics. He specializes in Macroeconomics and International Economics. He has published more than 60 papers, including articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the European Economic Review, and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He is listed in the Who’s Who in Economics and he is also the author of Macroeconomic Theory, a graduate-level textbook. He has received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Favorite MBA Professor Award.
Mark Liechty, Anthropology and History, considers the relationship between media consumption and consumer culture in processes of modernization and class formation in the third world periphery. He is co-editor of Studies in Nepali History and Society.
Matthew R. Lippman, Criminal Justice, writes gross and persistent violations of human rights including summary and arbitrary executions, disappearances, torture and the law of war. He is the leading legal expert on the Nazi holocaust.
Dagmar Lorenz, Germanic Studies, focuses on nineteenth-century literature, Jewish studies, holocaust studies and women's studies. She is an editor of German Quarterly and the Vice-President of the International Association of German Studies.
Lawrence Officer, Department of Economics, received his PhD from Harvard University with a focus in International Economics. His current research interests are in Monetary History and Real Price and Worth. He is the author of Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History (Routledge, 2007). He has been awarded the College of Business Administration , Alumni Award for Distinguished Research, 1994, and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2002.
Suzanne Oboler, Latin American and Latino Studies, focuses on race, citizenship and national belonging in the Americas, including South American immigration and the transnational experience of Latinos in the United States. She is founding editor of the journal Latino Studies. Her publications include Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re) Presentation (U. of Minn Press, 1995); Neither Enemies  nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (co-edited with Anani Dzidzienyo, Palgrave, 2005).
Amalia Pallares, Associate Professor of LALS and Political Science. Ph.D. from University of Texas, Latin American/Latino Politics. Forthcoming: Contesting Membership: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the Contemporary Indigenous Movement, Solicited book chapter for inclusion in Highland Indians and the State, edited by Kim Clark and Marc Becker. Under consideration by University of Arizona Press.
Gayatri Reddy, Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies, researches the intersections of sexuality, health, and the politics in identity formation in India as well as the diasporic South Asian community in the United States. She is an editor of Feminist Studies. Author of With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Sultan Tepe, Political Science, currently analyzes democratization and religious politics, political moderation, judicial reform, perceptions of religious party supporters, and comparative politics of Israel and Turkey.
Maria de los Angeles Torres, Her work has focused on Cuba and its exiles as well as on Latino politics in the U.S.43 She has authored two books, In the Land of Mirrors: Cubans Exile Politics in the US and The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the US and the Promise of a Better Future. Her editing work includes a volume of essays, By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and Out of Exile, and co-editing the book Borderless Borders: Latinos. Latin Americans and the Paradoxes of Interdependence. She is currently working on two research projects: Children and Youth’s Politics in the Age of Globalization and Comparative Civic Engagement in three Latino Communities.
Javier Villa-Flores, Latin American and Latino Studies and History, focuses on Mexican Colonial History. Author of the book Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico.
 
   
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