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Faculty
David Chioni Moore
Associate Professor of International Studies and English
Chair of International Studies
African and Black Atlantic literary and cultural studies; African
American international writing; postcolonial studies and globalization.
B.A. magna cum laude, Brown University, 1986
Université de Dakar, Senegal, 1986-87
Ph.D., Duke University, 1996
Amanda Ciafone 
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Cultural history and cultural studies of Latin America and the Americas; culture and media industries; global capitalism; theories of globalization; social movements
B.A. magna cum laude, Brown University, 2000
M.A., Yale University, 2003
Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
Nadya Nedelsky 
Associate Professor in International Studies and Russian, Central, and Eastern European area studies
International human rights; Ethnicity, nationalism, and civic belonging; Central and Eastern Europe, Czech and Slovak studies; transitional justice and reparation.
B.A. magna cum laude, Augustana College (SD), 1992
M.A., University of Toronto, 1994
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2001
Ahmed I. Samatar (Sabbatical Academic Yr 2011-12)
James Wallace Professor of International Studies
Global political economy; political and social theory; African politics; leadership and the state; Somali studies; Islam and globalization.
B.A. magna cum laude, University of Wisconsin (LaCrosse), 1978
M.A., University of Denver, 1981
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1984
James von Geldern
Professor of International Studies and Russian Studies
Attorney at Law
Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history; comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration; international law and legal frameworks; cultural studies.
B.A., Tufts University, 1980
M.A., Brown University, 1981
Ph.D., Brown University, 1987
J.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
Christy Hanson
Hubert H. Humphrey Visiting Professor of International Studies
Research focuses on the dynamics between poverty, health care seeking behavior and health system response, particularly for the care of infectious diseases.
B.A., St. Thomas University
MPH, University of Minnesota
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
 Igor Tchoukarine
Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies
Cultural and political history of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 20th century; the history of tourism; Italy and the Slavs; bodies of water and culture
B.A., University of Sherbrooke, 2000
M.A., University of Toronto, 2003
Ph.D., École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 2010
Jenna Rice  (Fall 2011)
Visiting Lecturer in International Studies
Anthropology of the Middle East and Islam; charity and philanthropy; the gift and sociality; Syrian studies.
B.A., UC Berkeley, 2005
M.A., Stanford University, 2009
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2014 (Anticipated)
 Jessica Ka Yee Chan (Spring 2012)
Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies
Chinese revolutionary cinema and Sino-Soviet exchange; cinematic realism; critical translation theory; debates on comparative literature
B.A., Colby College
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012
Boyd Cothran (Spring 2012) 
Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies
Popular Cultural and Critical Indigenous Studies; Memory Studies and Historiography; Comparative Colonialism, Violence, and Native Resistance; History of the American West; Labor Studies.
B.A. summa cum laude, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
M.A. University of Minnesota, 2008
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012
Dana Schumacher-Schmidt (Spring 2012)
Visiting Instructor in International Studies
Early modern British and American literature; domesticity; memory; women’s writing, Shakespeare in a global context
B.A., Stetson University, 2006
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2012 (anticipated)
Additional Faculty Teaching in International Studies
Amy Damon
Assistant Professor of Economics
Research interests include investigating the impacts of international migration from Central America to the United States and the impact that this migration process has on families living in Central America.
B.A., University of Vermont,
1997
M.S., Michigan State University, 2001
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008
Frederik Green 
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Research interests include Republican period literature and film, Hong Kong literature and Sino-Japanese relations.
B.A.,
Cambridge University, UK, 2000
Tokyo University
Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
Gitta Hammarberg
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Russian
Eighteenth century Russian literature; Russian women’s writing, gender, and domesticity; Russia’s “literary South” and Muslim encounters; translation studies.
Diplom, Handelshogskolan vid Abo Akademi, Finland, 1964
A.M., Purdue University, 1977
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1982
Casey Jarrin
Assistant Professor of English
Twentieth-century British and Irish literature, transnational modernism, post-war film, post-colonial studies, criminality, masculinity, and the aesthetics of violence. Professor Jarrin cross-lists her course “Diasporic London” with International Studies.
B.A. Yale University, 1998
Ph.D. Duke University, 2006
Gary J. Krueger 
Professor of Economics
Chair of Economics
Comparative economic systems, transition to market in Eastern Europe, industrial organization and applied econometrics.
B.A., University of Illinois, 1981
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989
Erik Larson
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology of law, political sociology, economic sociology, and comparative-historical sociology. Professor Larson cross-lists his course “Indigenous Peoples Movements” with International Studies.
B.A ., Hamline University, 1992
M.A., University of Minnesota, 1997
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2004
William Moseley 
Professor of Geography
Human-environment interactions, development geography, African studies, and agricultural policy.
B.A., Carleton College, 1987
M.S., Environmental Policy, University of Michigan, 1993
M.P.P., University of Michigan, 1993
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2001
Lara Nielsen 
Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance
Critiques of subjectivity, movement, and the state; globalization and cultural studies; contra-area studies Americas; gender and feminist criticism; orality, ethnography, and multimedia documentary methodologies.
B.A., Boston College, 1990
M.A., University of Minnesota, 1995
Ph.D., New York University, 2002
Margaret (Molly) Olsen
Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Specializes in Trans-Atlantic literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as Afro-Caribbean texts of the colonial and contemporary periods.
B.A., Ohio State University, 1989
M.A., Ohio State University, 1991
Ph.D., Tulane
University, 1998.
Roopali Phadke 
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Community based environmentalism; citizens and citizens groups in technical and scientific decision making. Comparative and international environmental studies.
B.A., Wellesley College, 1994
M.A., Cornell University, 1998
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003
Raymond Robertson
Professor of Economics
International economics, labor economics, Latin America, economic restructuring, and trade.
B.A., Trinity University, 1991
M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Sonita Sarker 
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / English
Twentieth century British and postcolonial literature with an emphasis on women’s writing; literary and feminist theory.
B.A., Loreto College, Calcutta, India, 1984
M.A., Calcutta University, Calcutta, India, 1987
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
Christopher Scott
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Modern Japanese literature and film, Koreans in Japan (zainichi Koreans), Japanese colonial literature, diasporic writing in Japanese (Nihongo bungaku), gender and sexuality
B.A., East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 1993
M.A., Japanese, Stanford University, 1999
Ph.D., Japanese, Stanford University, 2006
Dianna Shandy
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Refugees and forced migration; East Africa and contemporary African diaspora; internal displacement, exile, and U.S. African immigrant communities.
B.S., Georgetown University, 1990
M.A., Columbia University, 1995
M.Phil., Columbia University, 1999
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001
Wendy Weber
Visiting Instructor of Political Science and International Studies
Global governance; humanitarianism; gender and global politics
B.A. University of Manitoba, Canada, 1992
M.A. University of Manitoba, Canada, 1995
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