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Baldomero-Quintana, Luis
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields: International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics
Email: [[labaldomeroqui]]
Office (Phone): Chancellors 268 (757-221-2366)
Butler, Michael
Adjunct Assistant Professor
office: Blair 307
email: [[mabutler01]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: International Relations
Clemens, Clay
Professor Emeritus of Government-Adjunct Professor
Links: [[cmclem, Email]]
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Europe/Germany
Corney, Frederick
Professor, History
Office: Blair 331
Email: [[fccorn]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Europe and Russia
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, Cultural and Intellectual History, Historiography and Historical Memory
Daileader, Philip
Professor, History
Office: Blair 342
Email: [[phdail]]
Regional Areas of Research: Medieval Europe, especially Spain and France
Thematic Areas of Research: Social History, Religious History, and Historiography
Farber, Reya
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: [[rdfarber]]
Office: Boswell Hall 224
Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025 - Spring 2026
Research Areas: Medical Sociology; Global Health; Gender Studies; Globalization; Science, Technology, and Medicine Studies; Qualitative Methods
Feldman, David
Professor of Economics
Fields: Education, Trade, Political Economy
Email: [[dhfeld]]
Office (Phone): Chancellors 266 (757-221-2372)
Galeana-Rodriguez, Fernando
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Integrative Curriculum
Office: G547M, Hive, Swem Library
Email: [[fgaleanarodrig]]
Office Hours: M/T/W/R: 3:30pm - 5:00pm by appointment only, email or schedule via online booking page: http://bit.ly/3NIUTpq
Research Areas: Political Ecology, Sociology of Development, Property Rights and Land Governance
Hafez, Farid
Associate Teaching Professor of International Relations
Office: Chancellors 237
Links : [[fhafez, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesday, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Research Interests: far-right populism, Islamophobia, international relations, and coloniality
Holmes, Marcus
Department Chair of Government, Professor
Office: Chancellors 361, 757-221-2575
Links: [[mholmes, Email]] and {{http://www.marcusholmes.com/, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Wednesday, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Research Interests: International Security/Diplomacy and Political Psychology
Jafari, Peyman
Assistant Professor, History and International Relations
Office: Blair 355
Email: [[pjafari]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Middle East and Indonesia
Thematic Areas of Research: Labor, Environmental and Infrastructural History, Energy and Natural Resources (oil), Revolutions, Empires and Imperialism, Commodity Frontiers and Capitalism.
Jo, Eun A
Assistant Professor of Government
Office : Chancellors 238
Links : [[ejo, Email]]/
Website: www.eunajo.com
Office Hours: By appointment only;
https://calendly.com/ejo-wm/30min;
Zoom appts. available
Research Interests: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democracy and Autocracy, East Asia
Kaku, Archana
Assistant Professor
Office: Chancellors 368, 757-221-4776
Links: [[abkaku, Email]]
Office Hours: Thursday, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, and by appointment, https://cwm.zoom.us/j/81130649076
Research Interests: Violence, Necropolitics, Feminist Politics, Queer Theory
Kaplow, Jeffrey
Associate Professor of Government
Office: Chancellors 356, 757-221-7878
Links: [[jkaplow, Email]] and {{http://www.jkaplow.net, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Research Interests: International Security, Conflict, Nuclear Proliferation
Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 310
Email: [[akstump]]
Regional Areas of Research: Pre-modern Middle East, with a focus on Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman rule
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural and social history; religion; constructions of heresy and orthodoxy; sectarianism; Sufism; Alevi-Bektashi communities; Ottoman-Safavid relations; women, gender, and sexuality; historiography and historical memory
Kitamura, Hiroshi
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 340
Phone: 757-221-3740
Email: [[hxkita]]
Regional Areas of Research: East and South Asia, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, International Relations, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Popular Culture and Media
Konefal, Betsy
Associate Professor of History
Office: Blair 341
Email: [[bokone]]
Regional Areas of Research: Latin America and the Caribbean
Thematic Areas of Research: Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Labor
Langholtz, Harvey
Professor, Psychology
Office: Integrated Science Center, Room 1139
Phone: 757 221 3880
Email: [[hjlang]]
CV: {{http://www.wm.edu/as/psych-sciences/documents/cvs/archive/langholtz_cv.pdf, pdf}}
Lombardini, John
Associate Professor, Government
Office: Chancellors 256, 757-221-2082
Links: [[jlombardini, Email]] and {{https://sites.google.com/d/12eFgiMm472ReZdcbhk-VHSZfjT26qpOb/p/1n59-zTysBDy8ZuV2lgQQaI5_jXO_BvWl/edit, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm; Thursday, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Research Interests: Political Theory; Ancient Political Thought (Greece, Rome, and China)
Lopresti, John
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields: International Trade
Email: [[jwlopresti]]
Office (Phone): Chancellors 243 (757-221-2432)
Maliniak, Daniel
Associate Professor & Director of International Relations Program
Office: Chancellors 426A, 757-221-2266
Links: [[dxmali, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesday, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Research Interests: International Relations/Political Economy, Environment
Mapp, Paul
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 315
Phone: 757-221-3765
Email: [[pwmapp]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, British Empire, Comparative and Transnational, Imperialism and Colonialism, French Atlantic, Historiography and Historical Memory, Iberian Empires, International Relations, North American West, Pacific World/Pacific Rim
Mehrez, Ameni
Assistant Professor of Government
Office : Chancellors 357
Links : [[amehrez, Email]]
Office Hours: Monday, 3:30 pm-5:30 pm: in person, drop-in, no appointment needed
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Middle East and North Africa
Middleton, Simon
William E. Pullen Associate Professor of History
Office: Blair 317
Email: [[smiddleton]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Social/Cultural, Political Economy
Mullen, Rani
Weingartner Term Associate Professor of Government
Office: Chancellors 234, 757-221-3033
Links: [[rdmull, Email]] and {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rdmull, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, and by appointment (in-person or Zoom)
Research Interests: Comparative Politics/South Asia
Oakes, Amy
Associate Professor, Government
Office: Chancellors 354
Links: [[acoake, Email]] and {{https://sites.google.com/email.wm.edu/amy-oakes-website/home?authuser=0, Webpage}}
Office Hours: On leave for AY 2025-2026
Research Interests: International security, national security strategy, foreign policy analysis, and international relations theory
Ozdemir, Yonca
Visting Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Advising, International Relations Program
Office: Chancellors 416
Links: [[yozdemir, Email]]
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Research Interests: neoliberalism, political economy of Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, Cyprus problem, foreign aid, populism in Turkey, populism in Israel, political economy of Latin America, financial crises, development policy
Park, Rio
Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental & Sustainability Program
Office : Chancellors 350
Links : [[rpark02, Email]]
Office Hours: Tuesday, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Research Interests: Environmental Politics, Trade Policy, International Political Economy
Peterson, Sue
Professor Emeritus of Government-Adjunct Professor
Office: Chancellors
Links: [[smpete, Email]]
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Research Interests: International Relations; International Security; Comparative Foreign Policy; Global Health
Pickering, Paula
Richard S. Perles Professor of Government
Office: Chancellors 343, 757-221-3038
Links: [[pmpick, Email]] and {{https://sites.google.com/view/paulampickering/home, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Wednesday, 9:00 am-11:00 am; Thursday, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm, and by appointment
Poliquin, Etienne
Associate Teaching Professor of Government
Office: Chancellors Hall 345, 221-7683
Links: [[epoliquin, Email]]
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm, and by appointment
Research Interests: International Relations, International Law, Global Governance
Quark, Amy
Professor, Sociology
Email: [[aaquark]]
Office: Boswell Hall 214
Office Hours: T/R: 12:30pm - 1:30pm, and by appointment
Phone: 757-221-1608
Research Areas: Globalization; Uneven Development; Transnational Governance; Food and Agriculture
Roessler, Philip
Professor, Government
Office: Chancellors 334, 757-221-3045
Links: [[proessler, Email]] and {{http://philiproessler.net, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Friday, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm, and by appointment/Please sign up here: https://calendly.com/proessler/office-hours
Research Interests: African Politics; Digital Technology; Conflict; Long-run Development
Shiferaw, Admasu
Associate Professor of Economics and Africana Studies
Fields: Development
Email: [[ashiferaw]]
Office (Phone): Chancellors 263 (757-221-2369)
Shrestha, Ranjan
Associate Teaching Professor, Economics
Fields: Development, Health, Demography
Email: [[rshrestha]]
Office: Chancellors 461
Smith, Dennis
Teaching Professor, Government and Associate Chair of Government
Office: Chancellors 358
Office Phone: 757-221-5086
Email: [[dasmi2, Email]]
Office Hours: By appointment only on Thursday 10:00 pm - 2:00 pm/Contact me by email for a Zoom link
Sohoni, Deenesh
Professor, Sociology
Email: [[dssoho]]
Office: Boswell Hall 212
Office Hours: T/R: 1:30pm - 3:00pm, and by appointment
Research Areas: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Asian American Studies, Law and Citizenship
Throckmorton, Nathaniel
Associate Professor, Economics
Fields: Monetary Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics
Email: [[nathrockmorton]]
Office (Phone): Chancellors 433 (757-221-1318)
Tierney, Michael
George and Mary Hylton Professor of International Relations; Director, Global Research Institute
Office: The Hive, Swem Library ground floor, G43
Links: [[mjtier, Email]] and {{https://mjtierney.weebly.com/, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:00 pm
Research Interests: International Relations, International Organization, Development Policy, China's Development Finance, and Academic-Policy Divide
van der Veen, A. Maurits
Associate Professor, Government
Office: Chancellors 335, 757-221-3029
Links: [[amvanderveen, Email]] and {{http://www.maurits.net/index.html, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Thursday, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zutshi, Chitralekha
Class of 1962 Professor, History
Office: Blair 306
Email: [[cxzuts]]
Regional Areas of Research: South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Thematic Areas of Research: Islam, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, Nationalism and National Identity, British Empire, and Cultural/Intellectual History
Zvobgo, Kelebogile
Mansfield Associate Professor of Government
Links: [[kzvobgo, Email]] and {{https://www.zvobgo.com, Webpage}}
Office Hours: By appointment only
Research Interests: Human rights, transitional justice, international law and courts
