Undergraduate Program

The IR curriculum, which includes eight semesters of secondary language training, is expressly designed to enrich, to challenge and to appeal to students with a broad range of interests and abilities. The multi-faceted nature of the IR major ensures students are exposed to the kind of mind-broadening knowledge of paramount importance in today's world. It also helps train our majors to become skilled critical thinkers and innovators, prepared to take on current and future global challenges. Recent IR graduates have gone on to careers in the public and private sectors, to positions in international organizations and to further study at the world's top graduate schools.

BA in International Relations

Students can tailor their education in International Relations through one of our six available concentrations in the program.

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Program Director

Tatiana Chudakova

Associate Professor and Director of International Relations

Medical anthropology, science and technology, environment, ethnicity and indigeneity, nationalism, post-socialism. Geographic focus: Russia; North Asia My first book, Mixing Medicines: the Politics of Health in Postsocialist Siberia (Fordham 2021), follows Russia's official medical sector's attempts to reinvent itself through state-led initiatives of "medical integration" that aim to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region on the border of Russia and Mongolia known for its post-Soviet revival of "Tibetan medicine" and shamanism, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows. My current research project explores how the use of "smart drugs" reconfigures discourses and experiences of clinical, social, and work-related efficacy, as they circulate across borders and enter divergent pharmaceutical, medical, and ethical regimes between Russia and the United States. Focused on a contentious category of pharmaceuticals labeled "nootropics" – a chemically fluid taxonomic classification that encompasses a variety of synthetic and naturally-derived substances designed to enhance cognitive functions – the project interrogates what types of selves, regimes of labor, therapeutic ideologies, and temporalities of embodiment these substances help mediate and enact.