People

co-directors
P.J. Brendese

Co-Director | Assistant Professor, Political Science
PhD, Duke University

pbrende1@jhu.edu 354 Mergenthaler
Erin Aeran Chung

Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
Director, Program in East Asian Studies
Co-Director, Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program
PhD, Northwestern University

410-516-4496 echung@jhu.edu 365 Mergenthaler

Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics
Clara Han

Interim Co-Director | Associate Professor, Anthropology

410-516-2864 clarahan@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 463

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
affiliated faculty
Rina Agarwala

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, Princeton University

410.516.5169 agarwala@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 527

Research Interests: International development, gender, labor, migration, globalization, India
Katrina Bell McDonald

Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Davis

410.516.7624 mcdon@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 540

Research Interests: Sociology of the family, gender/ethnic identity, race and social class
Ryan Calder

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

410-516-6678 rcalder@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 435

Research Interests: Islamic law, jurisprudence (fiqh), and pious practice under conditions of contemporary capitalism and globalization
Nathan D. B. Connolly

Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan

410-516-7983 nconnol2@jhu.edu Gilman 390

Research Interests: The interplay between racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century
Stefanie Deluca

Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University

410-516-7629 sdeluca@jhu.edu PIRL/Abel-Wolman
Kathryn Edin

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
PhD, Northwestern University

410-516-6261 kathy_edin@jhu.edu PIRL/Abel-Wolman
William Egginton

Chair and Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities
PhD, Stanford University

410-516-7510 egginton@jhu.edu Gilman 470

Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American literature, early modern European literature and thought, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy
François Furstenberg

Professor of History
PhD, Johns Hopkins University

410-516-0158 f.furstenberg@jhu.edu Gilman 306

Research Interests: The history of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries
Meredith Greif

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, Penn State University

410-516-4942 mgreif1@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 530

Research Interests: The intersection of race, space, and housing
Jane Guyer

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

410-516-4690 jiguyer@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 459

Research Interests: Social and economic anthropology, money and culture, household and gender; West Africa
Michael Hanchard

Research Professor

410-516-4993 mhancha1@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 332

Research Interests: Nationalism, social movements, racial hierarchy and citizenship
LingXin Hao

Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Chicago

410.516.4022 hao@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 509

Research Interests: Sociology of the family, public policy, immigration, social inequality, sociology of education, quantitative methods
Jared Hickman

Associate Professor of English

410-516-3843 jhickman@jhu.edu Gilman 30C

Research Interests: The nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects
Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Assistant Professor of English

410-516-5845 jjacks98@jhu.edu Gilman 30A
Jessica Marie Johnson

Assistant Professor of History

jmj@jhu.edu Gilman 372

Research Interests: The histories of slavery and the slave trade; women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora; and digital history and new media
Naveeda Khan

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Columbia University

410-516-7274 nkhan5@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 460
Robert Lieberman

Professor of Political Science
PhD, Harvard University

rlieberman@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 338

Research Interests: Race and inequality
Kenneth Moss

Associate Professor of History
PhD, Stanford University

410-516-3325 kmoss5@jhu.edu Gilman 326

Research Interests: The history of Jewish social and political thinking in the 20th century, particularly Jewish conceptions of the state, capitalism, nation, and race between the two world wars; the history and sociology of Jewish nationalism; Yiddish and Hebrew culture and the Jewish encounter with ideas of secular culture and aesthetic culture; theory and practice of cultural history
Anand Pandian

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

410-516-7267 pandian@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 454
Gabriel Paquette

Professor of History

gabriel.paquette@jhu.edu Gilman 322

Research Interests: European, Latin American, and Global History, with a focus on the Portuguese and Spanish empires
Robbie Schilliam

Professor of Political Science
PhD, University of Sussex

410-516-0875 r.shilliam@jhu.edu 341 Mergenthaler Hall

Research Interests: Re-reading classical political economy through its intimate relationship to Atlantic slavery, anti-colonial anti-fascism from the 1930s onwards, South-South anti-colonial connections
Daniel Schlozman

Assistant Professor of Political Science
PhD, Harvard University

dschloz1@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 278
Adam Sheingate

Professor and Chair of Political Science
PhD, Yale University

410-516-7531 adam.sheingate@jhu.edu 335 Mergenthaler

Research Interests: American politics and comparative public policy
Todd Shepard

Associate Professor of History
PhD, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

tshep75@jhu.edu Gilman 316

Research Interests: 20th-century France and the French Empire, with a focus on how imperialism intersects with histories of national identity, state institutions, race, and sexuality
Ronald Walters

Professor of History
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

410-516-7588 rgw1@jhu.edu Gilman 302

Research Interests: Social and cultural history of the United States with special interest in radicalism, reform, race, and popular culture
Emily Zackin

Assistant Professor of Political Science

ezackin1@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 276
staff
Sabrina Axster

Graduate Student Assistant
BA University of the West of England; MSc University of Amsterdam; MS Rutgers University

saxster1@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 224

Research Interests: International Relations & Comparative Politics Theories of Migration and Migration Concepts; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Social Movements and Non-State Actors in Migration; Neoliberalism; International Relations Theory.
Heba Islam

Graduate Student Assistant
BSc Lahore University of Management Sciences; MA Columbia University

hebaislam@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 224

Research Interests: Surveillance, security, law enforcement, expert authority, policing, militarization, South Asia

co-directors

Co-Director | Assistant Professor, Political Science PhD, Duke University

Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics Director, Program in East Asian Studies Co-Director, Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program PhD, Northwestern University

Interim Co-Director | Associate Professor, Anthropology

affiliated faculty

Assistant Professor of Sociology PhD, Princeton University

Associate Professor of Sociology PhD, University of California, Davis

Assistant Professor of Sociology PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History PhD, University of Michigan

Associate Professor of Sociology PhD, Northwestern University

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor PhD, Northwestern University

Chair and Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities PhD, Stanford University

Professor of History PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Assistant Professor of Sociology PhD, Penn State University

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

Research Professor

Professor of Sociology PhD, University of Chicago

Associate Professor of English

Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Professor of History

Associate Professor of Anthropology PhD, Columbia University

Professor of Political Science PhD, Harvard University

Associate Professor of History PhD, Stanford University

Associate Professor of Anthropology PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of History

Professor of Political Science PhD, University of Sussex

Assistant Professor of Political Science PhD, Harvard University

Professor and Chair of Political Science PhD, Yale University

Associate Professor of History PhD, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Professor of History PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor of Political Science

staff

Sabrina Axster

Graduate Student Assistant BA University of the West of England; MSc University of Amsterdam; MS Rutgers University

Heba Islam

Graduate Student Assistant BSc Lahore University of Management Sciences; MA Columbia University

Co-Director | Assistant Professor, Political Science
PhD, Duke University

Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
Director, Program in East Asian Studies
Co-Director, Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program
PhD, Northwestern University

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, Princeton University

Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Davis

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan

Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
PhD, Northwestern University

Chair and Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities
PhD, Stanford University

Professor of History
PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, Penn State University

Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Chicago

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Columbia University

Professor of Political Science
PhD, Harvard University

Associate Professor of History
PhD, Stanford University

Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of Political Science
PhD, University of Sussex

Assistant Professor of Political Science
PhD, Harvard University

Professor and Chair of Political Science
PhD, Yale University

Associate Professor of History
PhD, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Professor of History
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Student Assistant
BA University of the West of England; MSc University of Amsterdam; MS Rutgers University

Graduate Student Assistant
BSc Lahore University of Management Sciences; MA Columbia University