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Faculty
David Chioni Moore
Associate professor of International Studies and English
Chair of International Studies
Director of African 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
 Smadar Lavie
Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies
Borders; Race and Minority Discourse; Colonialism; Nationalism; Feminist
Theory of Color; Religion and Ritual; Performance; the Middle East -- Egypt,
Israel, Palestine.
B.A., The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1980
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989
 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
James Wallace Professor of International Studies
Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
Global political economy; 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
Chair of 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
Additional Faculty Teaching in International Studies
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
Assistant 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
Scott Morgensen
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sexuality, gender, and race; colonial studies; Native studies;
HIV/AIDS; transnational activism. Ethnographic and archival research in
the U.S., Canada, and Indonesia.
B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1990)
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (2001)
William Moseley 
Associate 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)
Roopali Phadke 
Assistant 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
Associate 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
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
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