Faculty & Staff
Full Time Faculty
![Ahmed Samatar](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2019-09-30-at-4.16.45-PM-150x0-c-default.png)
- Ahmed Samatar
- James Wallace Professor of International Studies & Chair
- Global political economy; political and social theory; African politics; leadership and the state; Somali studies; Islam and globalization.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6564
![Alix Johnson](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2022/10/Headshot-1-1-scaled-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Alix Johnson
- Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Digital infrastructure and information technology; spatial politics; surveillance; empire; ethnography
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6913
![David Chioni Moore](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/davidmoore-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- David Chioni Moore
- Associate Professor, International Studies and English
- Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6242
![Nadya Nedelsky](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/SaraElisabethPhotography_Nadya_SQ_0967-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Nadya Nedelsky
- Professor of International Studies
- International human rights; ethnicity, nationalism, and civic belonging; Central and Eastern Europe, Czech and Slovak studies; transitional justice.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6479
![James Von Geldern](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/jamesvongeldern-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- James Von Geldern
- Russian and International Studies, and Chair of Russian Studies
- Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history; comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration; international law and legal frameworks; cultural studies.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6568
![Vanessa Voller](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2020/08/Vanessa-headshot-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Vanessa Voller
- Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Global health justice and the theory and practice of social medicine with an area focus on Latin America
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- she/her/hers
Part Time Faculty
![Jenna Rice Rahaim](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/JDRice-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Jenna Rice Rahaim
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Charity, Humanitarianism, and Gifts; Empathy and Obligation; Migration and Refugees; National and Sectarian Sentiment; Genealogy and Kinship; Postcolonial and feminist literatures; the Middle East and Islamic World
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6847
![Wendy Weber](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/WendyWeberPoliticalScience-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Wendy Weber
- Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6653
Staff
![Janessa Cervantes](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/JCervantesphoto-e1598472759715-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Janessa Cervantes
- Department Coordinator
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6050
- she/her/hers
Additional Faculty Teaching in International Studies
![Amy Damon](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/amydamon-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Amy Damon
- Associate Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies
- Rural and agricultural development, economic development, education in developing countries, and Central America-U.S. migration
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6862
![Gary J. Krueger](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/garykrueger-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Gary J. Krueger
- Cargill Professor of International Economics
- Comparative Economics, Transition Economics, Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6222
![Erik Larson](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/eriklarson-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Erik Larson
- Professor of Sociology
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6309
![Bill Moseley](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/billmoseley-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Bill Moseley
- Professor
- Political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6126
![Margaret (Molly) Olsen](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/Molly-Olsen-Web-Photo-7.14-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Margaret (Molly) Olsen
- Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies
- Trans-Atlantic literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries, and colonial and contemporary Afro-Caribbean texts
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- 651-696-6885
![Roopali Phadke](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/roopaliphadke-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Roopali Phadke
- Professor of Environmental Studies
- Environmental policy and politics
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- 651-696-6802
![Sonita Sarker](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/sonitasarker-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Sonita Sarker
- Professor Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
- Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; “minoritized” literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6316
![Karin Vélez](https://www.macalester.edu/international-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/569/2017/10/KarinVelez-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Karin Vélez
- Associate Professor
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- Old Main 306, 651-696-6254