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Social Sciences

Anthropology

Farha Ghannam

Farha Ghannam

Label: Eugene Lang Research Professor of Anthropology
  • Anthropological theories
  • Globalization & transnationalism
  • Contemporary Islamic practices
  • Identities, gender, & sexuality in the Middle East
  • History of ethnography
Farha Ghannam

Economics

Amanda Bayer

Amanda Bayer

Label: Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics
  • Race, ethnicity & gender diversity in economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Game theory
  • Labor markets
Amanda Bayer
Syon Bhanot

Syon Bhanot

Label: Assistant Professor of Economics
  • Behavioral economics
  • Public policy
  • Experimental economics
  • Decision-making
  • Public economics
Syon Bhanot
Erin Todd Bronchetti

Erin Todd Bronchetti

Label: Professor of Economics
  • Public health & economics

  • Labor economics

  • Public policy

Erin Todd Bronchetti
John Caskey

John Caskey

Label: Joseph Wharton Professor of Economics
  • Community Development

  • Delivery of financial services to low-income

  • Americans Economics of liberal arts colleges

  • The domestic financial system

John Caskey
Mark Kuperberg

Mark Kuperberg

Label: Professor of Economics
  • Inflation
  • Public finance
  • Law & economics
Mark Kuperberg
Ellen Magenheim

Ellen Magenheim

Label: Professor of Economics
  • Using behavioral economics to improve outcomes in health and financial behavior

  • Healthcare

  • Industrial economics

  • Antitrust

Ellen Magenheim
Stephen O'Connell

Stephen O'Connell

Label: Professor of Economics
  • Political economy of Africa

  • International trade

  • Economic policy in developing countries

  • Monetary policy & foreign aide

Stephen O'Connell
Jennifer Peck '06

Jennifer Peck '06

Label: Assistant Professor of Economics
  • Labor economics

  • Environmental policy & economics

  • Energy economics

  • Development economics

Jennifer Peck '06
Marc Remer

Marc Remer

Label: Assistant Professor of Economics
  • Antitrust & mergers

  • Industrial organization

  • Retail gasoline industry

  • Collusion

Marc Remer

History

Diego Armus

Diego Armus

Label: Professor of History
  • Latin American history

  • History of disease & public health in urban settings

  • Urban & socio-cultural issues in Latin America

Diego Armus
Megan Brown

Megan Brown

Label: Associate Professor of History
  • 20th-century France and French empire
  • European integration, empire, and borders
  • EU and former colonial territories
Megan Brown
 Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke

Label: Professor of History
  • Modern African history
  • Environmental history of Africa
  • The social history of consumption
  • Popular culture: Video games, cartoons, advertising
Timothy Burke
Bruce Dorsey

Bruce Dorsey

Label: Professor of History
  • Colonial and Revolutionary America History of Gender in America

  • American Cultural History

  • History of Religion in America

  • American Political History

Bruce Dorsey
Vivian Truong

Vivian Truong

Label: Assistant Professor of History
  • Asian American history
  • 20th century U.S. history
  • Policing
  • Social movements
Vivian Truong
Robert Weinberg

Robert Weinberg

Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations

  • Russian history since the 18th century
  • The Jewish experience in the Soviet Union
Robert Weinberg

Peace and Conflict Studies

Lee Smithey

Lee Smithey

Label: Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Nonviolent social movements and conflict

  • Northern Ireland

  • Ethnopolitical conflict

Lee Smithey
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Sa'ed Atshan ’06

Label: Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Contemporary Palestinian society and politics
  • Global LGBTQ+ social movements
  • Quaker studies
  • Christian minorities in the Middle East
Sa'ed Atshan ’06

Philosophy

Krista Thomason

Krista Thomason

Label: Associate Professor of Philosophy
  • Shame & shaming
  • Moral emotions & Psychology
  • Ethics
  • Social/Political philosophy
Krista Thomason

Political Science

Benjamin Berger

Benjamin Berger

Label: Associate Professor of Political Science
  • Modern American politics

  • Engaged Scholarship

  • Civic engagement

  • Community-based learning

  • Democratic politics

Benjamin Berger
Ayse Kaya

Ayse Kaya

Label: Professor of Political Science
  • Multilateral economic institutions: International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
  • Global inequality & poverty
  • International political economy
  • Global environmental governance
Ayse Kaya
Keith Reeves '88

Keith Reeves '88

Label: Professor of Political Science
  • The impact of race on electoral politics

  • Racial politics & voting rights policy

  • Poverty & public policy

  • American government

Keith Reeves '88
Susanne Schwarz

Susanne Schwarz

Label: Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • American political development
  • Women in politics
  • U.S. historical political economy
  • Race and incarceration in the 19th century American South
  • Public policy research
  • Voter mobilization and Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) campaigns
Susanne Schwarz
Dominic Tierney

Dominic Tierney

Label: Professor of Political Science
  • U.S. Foreign policy
  • International politics
  • Public opinion and war
  • International security issues
Dominic Tierney
Tyrene White

Tyrene White

Label: Professor of Political Science
  • East Asian politics

  • Chinese women & culture

  • Birth planning in China

  • Local political influence of Chinese NGO's

Tyrene White

Psychology

Frank Durgin

Frank Durgin

Label: Elizabeth and Sumner Hayward Professor of Psychology
  • Perception & cognition

  • Cognitive Science & Neuroscience

Frank Durgin
Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward

Label: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology
  • Self-regulation and control

  • Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

  • Social Perception

  • Controlling obsessive thoughts

Andrew Ward

Sociology

Nina Johnson

Nina Johnson

Label: Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Race, class & inequality
  • Prisons & carceral policy
  • Urban sociology & public policy
  • Black political thought & culture
  • Stratification & class mobility
Nina Johnson
Daniel Laurison

Daniel Laurison ’99

Label: Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Social class
  • US politics
  • Class inequality
Daniel Laurison ’99