Faculty

The International Relations program faculty depends on a network of collaborating faculty from over 20 different departments and programs across Tufts University. Our faculty members are award winning, nationally and internationally known leaders in their respective fields as well as dedicated educators, mentors and advisors. These talented scholars are ideally placed to share with students both theoretical and empirical knowledge and invaluable political, economic, historical and socio-cultural context during these challenging and politically turbulent times.

IR students must select a faculty member from the following list when seeking to declare their IR Major or submit an application for Directed Research, Senior Honors Thesis, or Internship Credit.

Anthropology

Amahl Bishara

Media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, ethnography of place My research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. I am currently working on two book projects. The first, tentatively entitled "Permission to Converse: Laws, Bullets, and other Roadblocks to a Palestinian Exchange," addresses the relationship between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, two groups that are positioned slightly differently in relation to Israeli settler-colonialism. Through ethnographies of protest as well as of more everyday forms of expression, I analyze the barriers to these two groups speaking to and with each other. I argues that speech is always an embodied and emplaced act. My second ongoing project examines Palestinian popular politics in a West Bank refugee camp. It examines how Palestinians in this refugee camp strive to resist three authorities, the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority administration, and the United Nations Relief Works Agency through struggles over land, water, bodies, and expression. My first book, Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013) is an ethnography of production of US news during the second Palestinian Intifada. It asks what we can learn about journalism and popular political action when we place Palestinian journalists at the center of an inquiry about U.S. journalism. In addition to academic writing, I also regularly write for such outlets as Jadaliyya, Middle East Report. I have produced the documentary "Degrees of Incarceration" (2010), an hour-long documentary that explores how, with creativity and love, a Palestinian community responds to the crisis of political imprisonment. Finally, I have been involved with the production of bilingual Arabic and English children's books about refugee lives, including The Boy and the Wall.

Tatiana Chudakova

Associate Professor

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.

Sarah Pinto

Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology

I am interested in histories and cultures of medicine, especially as they pertain to gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday intimacies, with a regional focus on South Asia. I am also interested in the ways knowledge about bodies and minds moves across time and place, and how, in such movements, colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial scientific imaginations seed critical genealogies, often counterintuitively. In the diverse ways people make use of medicine and science, I am drawn to the forms of creativity, imagination, and ethical world-making that emerge in the interstices of authority and power. My research has considered childbirth, infant mortality, and birth-work in Uttar Pradesh, India, noting the way reproductive health interventions reiterate caste and the marginalization of Dalit women; women's movement through psychiatric care settings in urban north India and the intersections of kinship dissolutions with crisis and care; and histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in South Asia as they pertain to women's lives and gendered diagnoses, notably "hysteria" and its avatars.

History of Art and Architecture

Peter Probst

Museum and Heritage Studies, African Arts, Institutional Theories, Value and Valuation, Historiography

Jacob Stewart-Halevy

Associate Professor

Child Study and Human Development

Jayanthi Mistry

Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Student Diversity, Inclusion, & Success in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering

Theoretical perspectives on the integration of culture and human development; Narratives of identity and place in communities; Navigating multiple cultural worlds, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities; Interpretive and Narrative Analysis methods in the study of children and families.

Civic Studies

Peter Levine

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies

Civil & Environmental Engineering

David Gute

environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety

Daniele Lantagne

Research Professor

water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies

Mark Woodin

Senior Lecturer

epidemiologic methods

Classical Studies

Gregory Crane

Professor, Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship, and Department Chair of Classical Studies

Greek & Latin Language, Digital Humanities

J. Matthew Harrington

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Ancient Art and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (PIE Linguistics), Roman Satire, Post-Augustan Literature, Latin and Greek Pedagogy

Steven Hirsch

Associate Professor Emeritus

Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, and ancient Chinese history

R. Bruce Hitchner

Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

Riccardo Strobino

Associate Professor

Medieval Latin Philosophy; Classical Arabic Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Logic; Aristotle; Avicenna

Community Health

Rosemary CR Taylor

Associate Professor

The response of societies and their governments to cross-border health threats; social theory and the development of sociological approaches to political problems: eg. the 'new institutionalism' in sociology and political science; the impact of cultural frameworks and social institutions on population health; the comparative historical study of epidemics; the generation and international transfer of scientific knowledge; risk regulation in the face of scientific uncertainty and globalization.

Computer Science

Ming Chow

Associate Teaching Professor

cyber security, web engineering

Economics

Marcelo Bianconi

Professor and Department Chair of Economics

Applied and Theoretical Economic Models and Empirics

Drusilla Brown

Associate Professor

Applied General Equilibrium Models, International Trade Policy, International Labor Standards, Child Labor

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Development, Water

Kyle Emerick

Associate Professor

Development Economics, Agricultural Economics

Federico Esposito

Assistant Professor

International Trade, International Finance

Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

Associate Professor

Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, Macro-Climate, International Macroeconomics, Macro Development

Laura Gee

Associate Professor

Behavioral / Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Diversity/Discrimination

Anna Hardman

Senior Lecturer Emerita

Urban Economics, Housing, International Migration, Development Economics

Yannis Ioannides

Professor and Max and Herta Neubauer Endowed Chair in Economics

Macroeconomics

Eoin McGuirk

Assistant Professor

Political Economy, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Margaret McMillan

Neary Family Professor of International Relations

International Trade and Investment, Structural Change, Industrialization, Africa

Daniel Richards

Industrial organization, merger analysis

Enrico Spolaore

Seth Merrin Professor

Political Economy, International Economics, Economic Growth and Development

Adam Storeygard

Development and Growth, Urban Economics

English

Modhumita Roy

Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of English

Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora South Asian Literature Litertures of Empire Post-colonial Theory Feminist Theory Literary Theory

Ichiro Takayoshi

Associate Professor

Modern Literature (American, British), Modern Intellectual History (American, British), Aesthetics, Literary Theory

Environmental Studies Program

Ninian Stein

Senior Lecturer

History

Rachel Applebaum

Associate Professor

Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the global Cold War, global communism, transnational history

Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe

Professor and Darakjian Jafarian Chair of Armenian History

Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe

David Ekbladh

U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History

Leila Fawaz

Professor Emerita and Founding Director, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Elizabeth Foster

Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa

Ayesha Jalal

Mary Richardson Professor

South Asia, the Muslim World

H. Muoki Mbunga

Assistant Professor

Modern East Africa

David Proctor

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations

Alisha Rankin

Professor and Department Chair of History

Early Modern Europe, the History of Science and Medicine, Women's History, the History of the Body and Sexuality

Reed Ueda

Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration

Man Xu

Associate Professor

Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture

International Literary and Cultural Studies

Rana Abdul-Aziz

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language acquisition, high school political science and philosophy instruction

Gregory Carleton

Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Comparative Literature; Reception studies

Hosea Hirata

Modern Japanese Literature, fiction, poetry, criticism. Literary and Film theory. Postmodernism. Avant-garde art. Experimental film.

Charles Inouye

Premodern and modern Japanese literature, figurality and the development of modern consciousness, gothic studies, realism, lyricism, animism, and eschatology.

Susan Napier

Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Interim Department Chair of International Literary and Cultural Studies

History and theory of animation Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) Modern Japanese literature Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy Contemporary constructions of gender and the body Technology and culture Fan culture Representations of trauma and loss

Kamran Rastegar

Comparative literature, film studies, modern Arabic literature, modern Persian literature, memory studies, postcolonial studies

Markus Wilczek

Associate Professor

Seventeenth to twenty-first century German literature in its European context; Literature and the Environment, Discourses of Sustainability; Literary and Cultural Theory, Theories of Reading; Intersections of Literature, Science, and Philosophy; Media Studies, Aesthetics of the Human Voice; Post-dramatic Theater; History of Germanistik in the United States 1933-1945

Xueping Zhong

Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Culture, Film

Music

Richard Jankowsky

Music, ritual, and trance; music and minoritized people; musics of North Africa, Sufism, and Islam; rhythmic theory; global jazz

Stephanie Khoury

Arts in post-colonial, post-war, migration and diasporic contexts; Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Music and social justice; Intangible cultural heritage in relation to transnationalism and globalization; Digital humanities and digital sound archives; Soundscapes and the musical construction of place; Southeast Asian performing arts, and contemporary pop music.

Melinda Latour

Associate Professor

Expertise: Musicology; Research interests: 16th and 17th c. Music; the Cultural History of Philosophy; Stoicism and Neostoicism; Tone and Timbre; Mexican Music.

Peace and Justice Studies

R. Bruce Hitchner

Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

Philosophy

Nancy Bauer

Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Philosophical Method, Philosophy and Film

Erin Kelly

Fletcher Professor of Philosophy

Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Lionel McPherson

Associate Professor

Ethics, Political and Social philosophy

Political Science

David Art

Professor and Department Chair of Political Science

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Europe

Michael Beckley

Associate Professor

International Relations

Consuelo Cruz

Associate Professor

Comparative Politics, Latin America

Robert Devigne

Political Theory

Kelly Greenhill

Associate Professor

International Relations, Security Studies

Fahd Humayun

Assistant Professor

Peter Levine

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies

Nimah Mazaheri

Associate Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs

Comparative Political Economy, International Development, Oil and Energy, Environmental Studies, the Middle East

Malik Mufti

International Relations, Middle East

Elizabeth Remick

Comparative Politics, East Asia, family policy

Pearl Robinson

Comparative Politics, Africa, African-American Politics

Oxana Shevel

Associate Professor and Director of International Relations program

Comparative Politics, post-Communist region

Vickie Sullivan

Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science

Political Theory

Jeffrey Taliaferro

International Relations, Security Studies, International Relations Theories

Psychology

Keith Maddox

Social Cognition, Stereotyping, Prejudice, Discrimination

Religion

Yonatan Brafman

Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: Modern Jewish thought; Jewish law and ethics; philosophy of religion; moral, legal and political philosophy. Areas of Competence: Medieval Jewish thought; rabbinic literature; pragmatism; 20th century philosophy; theories of religion.

Heather Curtis

Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in Comparative Religions

Global Christianity American Religious History Religion, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy Religion, Health and Healing Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Religion and Reform Movements Gender and Women's Studies in Religion

Kenneth Garden

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religion

Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib, Sufism, Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

Brian A. Hatcher

Packard Professor of Theology

Modern and contemporary Hinduism; religion and colonialism in modern South Asia; Bengal and Sanskrit learning

Joseph Walser

Associate Professor

Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, religion in early South Asia, Chinese Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religious Philosophy

Romance Studies

Gerard Gasarian

19th- and 20th-Century French Poetry, with an emphasis on Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton and Bonnefoy French Symbolism and French Surrealism Poetry and Philosophy Poetry and music

Nina Gerassi-Navarro

Professor and Department Chair of Romance Studies

Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture

Pedro Palou

Fletcher Professor of Oratory

Vincent Pollina

Associate Professor

Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature

Pablo Martín Ruiz

Associate Professor

Twentieth century Latin American fiction; song and songwriting; poetry and poetics; translation studies; Jorge Luis Borges; Oulipo

School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Eulogio Guzman

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

He specializes on the sculpture and architecture of the Mexica (Aztec) and socio-political history and visual culture of colonial Mexico. His interests include visual manifestations of indigenous governance, Pre-Columbian architecture and urbanism, global interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, colonial and post-colonial visual strategies, Open Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico, the Habsburg empire, kunstkammer, museum studies, and modern architectural history.

Sociology

Felipe Dias

Assistant Professor and Director of Latin American Studies

Race and Gender Stratification; Labor Markets; Immigrant Incorporation; Quantitative Methods; Field Experiments; Comparative Sociology; Latin America

Rosemary CR Taylor

Associate Professor

The response of societies and their governments to cross-border health threats; social theory and the development of sociological approaches to political problems: eg. the 'new institutionalism' in sociology and political science; the impact of cultural frameworks and social institutions on population health; the comparative historical study of epidemics; the generation and international transfer of scientific knowledge; risk regulation in the face of scientific uncertainty and globalization.