Faculty Advisors & Staff

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Dr. Sharon G. Feldman
She/Her
Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies
William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages
Interdisciplinary Program Co-Coordinator, Global Studies
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
  • Spanish and Catalan theatre and performance
  • Theatre translation and translation theory
Contact:
(804) 287-6419
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Dr. Manuella Meyer
Associate Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Interdisciplinary Program Co- Coordinator, Global Studies
Africana Studies Ex-Officio Advisory Board Member
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
  • Political and Cultural History of Latin America
  • Welfare and Philanthropy in Latin America
  • Sociology of Medical Knowledge
Contact:
(804) 287-6374
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Dr. Chris Bischof
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
  • Modern Britain and the World
  • History of Education
  • British Emancipation
Contact:
(804) 289-8335
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Dr. David Brandenberger
Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
  • Imperial Russia / Soviet Union / Post-Soviet space
  • Ideology & Propaganda
  • Nationalism
  • Interdisciplinary methodology (esp. concerning literature and film)
Contact:
(804) 289-8667
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Dr. Mary Finley-Brook
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
Specialties:
  • Natural resource management
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Land tenure
  • Regional integration
  • Climate change mitigation and carbon markets
Contact:
(804) 287-6307
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Dr. Jeffrey Hass
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Specialties:
  • Social change
  • Russia and East Europe
  • West Europe (esp. the United Kingdom)
  • Post-socialism
  • War (specifically, the Blockade of Leningrad)
  • Power and culture
  • Institutions and Institutional change
  • Economic sociology
  • Political sociology
  • Complex organizations
Contact:
(804) 289-8075
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Dr. Yvonne H. Howell
Professor of Russian and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
  • Russian literature and culture
  • Czech literature and culture
  • Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
  • History of science (Soviet Union)
Contact:
(804) 289-8101
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Dr. Sandra F. Joireman
Weinstein Chair of International Studies
Professor of Political Science
Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science
Specialties:
  • Comparative Politics
  • International Development
  • Property Rights
  • Customary Law
  • Legal Development
  • Post-conflict Migration
Contact:
804-289-1757
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn
Assistant Professor of History
Specialties:
  • Modern Europe
  • 20th Century Germany
  • History of Migration
  • Race, Gender, Sexuality
  • Far-Right Extremism
Contact:
(804) 289-8346
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Maia Linask
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
  • International Trade
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Industrial Organization
Contact:
(804) 287-6520
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Dr. Stephen B. Long
Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
  • International rivalry
  • Political causes of military effectiveness
  • Reputation-building
  • Alliance politics
  • Nuclear proliferation
Contact:
(804) 484-1566
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Dr. Tze M. Loo
Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
  • Japanese Colonialism
  • Okinawan History
  • Heritage Studies
Contact:
(804) 289-8334
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Dr. Jennifer Pribble
Professor of Political Science and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
  • Latin American Politics
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Comparative Welfare States
  • Comparative Politics
  • Political Parties
Contact:
(804) 289-8532
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Ms. Nancy Propst, CAP, PACE
Academic Administrative Specialist
Contact:
(804) 287-6693
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Dr. David S. Salisbury
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Environmental Studies Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change
Specialties:
  • Human environment interface
  • Amazonia
  • Political ecology
  • Cartography
  • Conservation and development
Contact:
(804) 289-8661
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Dr. L. Carol Summers
Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance, Culture and Communications
Specialties:
  • Colonial Africa
  • History of Education
  • Nationalism and Decolonization
Contact:
(804) 289-8976
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Dr. Yucel Yanikdag
Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
  • Turkey and Ottoman Empire
  • The Middle East
  • Nationalism
  • World War I
Contact:
(804) 289-8336
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Tom Zylkin
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
  • International Trade
  • International Economics
  • Quantitative Methods
Contact: