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Stuart Schrader
Associate Professor, History
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Research Interests: Policing, racial inequality in criminal punishment, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Faculty Board
Alessandro Angelini
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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Research Interests: Brazil, ethnography, material practices, commodification of urban poverty, surveillance
Education: PhD, City University of New York
P.J. Brendese
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics
Education: PhD, Duke University
Erin Aeran Chung
Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
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- 410-516-4496
Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
Nathan D. B. Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
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- 410-516-7983
Research Interests: The interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Johaina Katinka Crisostomo
Assistant Professor, English
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Research Interests: Research Interests: Asian/Asian American Literatures, Latinx/Latinx American Literatures, Political Philosophy, Religion, Comparative Empire Studies
Education: PhD, University of California Berkeley
Zophia Edwards
Assistant Professor, Sociology
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Research Interests: Research Interests: Development, Global & Transnational, Labor & Labor Movements, Postcolonial, Political, Race & Ethnicity, Comparative & Historical, Quantitative Methods
Education: PhD, Boston University
François Furstenberg
Professor, History
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- Gilman 306
- 410-516-0158
Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Clara Han
Professor, Anthropology
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- 410-516-2864
Research Interests: Violence, care, urban poverty and everyday life; affliction and illness experience; death and dying; anthropology and philosophy ; Chile, the Southern Cone, Latin America; the United States; and connections and intersections with Asia
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Jared Hickman
Associate Professor, English
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- 410-516-3843
Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects
Education: PhD, Harvard University
H. Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor, History
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- Gilman 330A
Research Interests: gender, Japan, history of medicine and psychiatry, colonialism
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Julian Lim
Associate Professor, History
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- Gilman 330B
Research Interests: Research Interests: Immigration, North American Borders And Borderlands, Race; Law, U.S. West, Pacific World, 19th-20th Century U.S. History, And U.S. Expansion And Empire
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Nandini Pandey
Associate Professor, Classics
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Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman history, politics, and visual culture; race, identity, and diversity; classical reception (especially across ages, media, and cultures); public humanities
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
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Research Interests: racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, the consequences of rising economic polarization
Education: PhD, Harvard University
graduate
Ronay Bakan
Graduate Fellow
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Research Interests: war and violence, peacebuilding, urban politics, race and ethnicity, gender studies, and critical methodologies
Education: BA & MA, Bogazici University
April Ma
Graduate Fellow
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Research Interests: critical security, threat construction, post-Cold War, racial political imaginaries, knowledge production
Education: BA, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tali Ziv
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Research Interests: urban inequality, addiction, incarceration, and community reentry from jail/prison, ethnography
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
RIC Lecturer
Jasmine Blanks Jones
Executive Director, Center for Social Concern, and Assistant Research Scholar
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- Gilman 90
Research Interests: Youth cultural production, global citizenship education, social determinants of health, Black performance and embodied knowledges, youth in Africa
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania