Faculty & Staff
Professor of Russian and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Global Studies
Specialties:
- Russian literature and culture
- Czech literature and culture
- Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
- History of science (Soviet Union)
(804) 289-8101
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Britain and the World
- History of Education
- British Emancipation
(804) 289-8335
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)
(804) 289-8667
Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Climate justice
- Just energy transition
- Political geography
- Economic geography
- Human rights
- Community-based participatory action research
- Virginia’s Piedmont and Tidewater
- Central America, South America and the Caribbean
(804) 287-6307
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
(804) 289-8075
Weinstein Chair of International Studies
Professor of Political Science
Specialties:
- Comparative Politics
- International Development
- Property Rights
- Customary Law
- Legal Development
- Post-conflict Migration
804-289-1757
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Europe
- 20th Century Germany
- Far-Right Extremism
- Neo-Nazism and Holocaust Denial
- Migration and Mobility
- Race and Racism
- Gender and Sexuality
- Global/Transnational History
(804) 289-8346
Associate Professor of Economics
Robins Teaching Fellow
Specialties:
- International Trade
- Applied Microeconomics
- Industrial Organization
(804) 287-6520
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
(804) 484-1566
Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Japanese Colonialism
- Okinawan History
- Heritage Studies
(804) 289-8334
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
(804) 289-8532
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Chair, Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Environmental Studies Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change
Specialties:
- Human environment interface
- Amazonia
- Political ecology
- Cartography
- Conservation and development
(804) 289-8661
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
(804) 289-8976
Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Turkey and Ottoman Empire
- The Middle East
- Nationalism
- World War I
(804) 289-8336
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Trade
- International Economics
- Quantitative Methods