Shane J. Barter, PhD
Professor of Comparative Politics
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Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Southeast Asia, Armed Conflict, Democracy, Religion & Politics
Courses Taught
Introduction to European Studies (INTS 140); Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies (INTS 150); Democracy & Democratization (INTS/POLI 305); Politics in Asia (INTS 320); State & Society (INTS/POLI 365); Political Islam (INTS 381); Political Buddhism (INTS 382); Armed Conflict in Southeast Asia (INTS 450); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Murrell Brooks, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of African Politics and Economic Development
Research Interests
African Studies, Tanzania, coffee export industries, Middle East relations
Courses Taught
Introduction to African Studies (INTS 190)
Hong-Yi Chen, PhD
Professor Emerita of Economics
Research Interests
Development Economics, Institutional Economics, Pacific Asian and China’s Economic Development
Sarah England, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology (INTS Affiliate)
Research Interests
Cultural Anthropology, history and ethnography of Central America, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Racism, Central American immigrants and the deportation regime. Author of Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space (University Press of Florida, 2006) and Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala (Lexington Books, 2018). She is currently working on a study of the effects of current US immigration policies on Honduran Garifuna asylum seekers.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin American Studies (INTS 130); Latin American/US Transnational Migration (INTS 313); Inequality, Repression, and Resistance in Central America (INTS 325); Gender & Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective (INTS 348); Violence and Oppression in Latin America (INTS 404)
Chika Esiobu, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies and Economic Development
Research Interests
African studies, especially as it relates to Indigenous knowledge, Education, Environment, Health, Postcoloniality, Agriculture and Culture.
Courses Taught
Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge (INTS 290); Traditional Medicine around the World (LRNCLSTR 200); Traditional Ecological Knowledge (INTS 290); Ancient and Medieval African History (INTS 390); Modes of Inquiry (Inquiry 100); and Introduction to Contemporary Africa (INTS 290)
Dongyoung Hwang, PhD
Professor of Asian Studies
Research Interests
Radicalism and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Eastern Asia, The Guomindang Leftists in the 1920s, and Wartime Collaboration in China during the Pacific War
Courses Taught
East Asia: A Historical Survey (INTS 120/HIST 140); History of East Asian-American Relations (INTS/HIST 221); Modern China: Roots of Revolution (INTS 261/HIST 231); Third World & The West (INTS 283/HIST 234); Ideas of East & West (INTS 316/HIST 315); Women in East Asia (INTS/HIST 326); Modern China in Literature & Film (INTS/HIST 330); China Since 1949 (INTS 333/HIST 335); The Emergence of Modern Japan (INTS/HIST 371); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Junyi Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics (INTS Affiliate)
Research Interests
International Economics and Development Economics, Public Health and Political Economy, Asian Economy
Courses Taught
Principles of Economics (INTS/ECON 100); Macroeconomics (ECON 302); International Economics (INTS/ECON 362); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Lisa MacLeod, PhD
Associate Professor of International Studies
Director, International Studies Concentration
Research Interests
The United Nations & Security Council Politics, UN Peace Operations, Human Rights, and International Law
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations; Introduction to Peace Studies; Introduction to Human Rights; The United Nations and World Politics; Peace & Conflict Resolution; International Law; Race, Ethnicity and Human Rights
Tetsushi Ogata ’05, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Research Interests
Genocide and mass atrocities, mass political violence, identity conflict, extremist violence, genocide & atrocity prevention, post-conflict memories and narratives, denialism of past violence, early warning tools of prevention
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations (INTS 111); Introduction to Peace Studies (INTS 114); Introduction to Human Rights (INTS 205)
Fatima Rahman, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
Research Interests
Islam and Politics, Politics of the Middle East, Rights of Religious Minorities, Islam and women.
Courses Taught
Introduction to International Relations (INTS 111); Introduction to Middle East and North African Studies (INTS 160); Peace and Conflict in the Middle East (INTS 240); Research Design in International Studies (INTS 275); Political Islam (INTS 381); American Experience
Ian Olivo Read, PhD
Professor of Latin American Studies
(On Sabbatical AY 2023-2024)
Research Interests
Brazil, Latin America, History, Health and Disease
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin American Studies (INTS 130); US-Latin American Relations (INTS 210); Brazil, Mexico, and the Nation (INTS 303); Political Economy of Latin America (INTS/SBS 323); Plagues & Peoples (INTS 410); The Americas in the Era of Slavery (INTS/HUM 390: Special Topics); Introduction to the Pacific Basin
Michael Weiner, PhD
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of East Asian History and International Studies
Research Interests
Current research interest include the history of medicine in Japan with particular reference to the social history of leprosy and leprosy control. A co-authored article that compares disease control in modernizing states (Chile and Japan) is currently in progress, and a single authored monograph, A Social History of Leprosy and Leprosy Control in Japan, is planned. A second book (edited) project, Race and Ethnicity in Asia, will be published by Routledge.
Courses Taught
The Emergence of Modern Japan (INTS/HIST 371); Media & Society in Pacific Asia (INTS 345); War & Memory in Pacific Asia (INTS 405); Human Rights & Civil Society in East Asia (INTS 406); Introduction to the Pacific Basin