Faculty Directory

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 Lecturer
Office: Chancellors 364
Links: [[cmclem, Email]]
Office Hours: Thursday 9:00 am - 11:30 am. or by appointment over Zoom.
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, Rebecca
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: Boswell Hall 213
Email: [[fgaleanarodrig]]
Office Hours: Monday – Thursday, 3:30 – 5:00 PM (@Boswell 213). Email fgaleanrodrig@wm.edu to book an appointment or visit my booking page (https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/f8e61f6754b44a9395f45b9c2e46bce7@wm.edu/meetingtype/SRtCsmaqQkev45WupwP-xw2?anonymous&ep=mLinkFromTile)
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 318A, 757-221-2575
Links: [[mholmes, Email]] and {{http://www.marcusholmes.com/, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday, 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.

Kaku, Archana
Assistant Professor
Office: Chancellors 368, 757-221-4776, Virtually by appointment
Links: [[abkaku, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm and by appointment
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: Wednesday, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
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/langholtz_cv.pdf, pdf}}

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 426B, 757-221-2266
Links: [[dxmali, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesday, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm; Sign up {{https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/f1f7a868c3264222a0ef75acba90cf43@wm.edu?anonymous&ismsaljsauthenabled&ep=plink, here}} at this convenient URL our Outlook calendars produce.
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

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: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 pm-4:30 pm and by appointment
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

Peterson, Sue
Professor Emeritus of Government-Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Chancellors
Links: [[smpete, Email]] and {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/smpete/home, Webpage}}
Office Hours: By appointment
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: Tuesday, 9:00 am-10:00 am; Thursday, 10:00 am-12:00pm and by appointment

Poliquin, Etienne
Associate Teaching Professor of Government and Director of Advising, International Relations Program
Office: Chancellors Hall 345, 221-7683
Links: [[epoliquin, Email]]
Office Hours: Friday, 9:00 am - 11:00 am or by appointment
Research Interests: International Relations, International Law, Global Governance

Quark, Amy
Professor, Sociology
Email: [[aaquark]]
Office: Boswell Hall 214
Office Hours: M/W 12:00pm - 1:30pm, or 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, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm or 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 Tuesday and 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 11:00am to 12:00pm, W 1:30pm-3:30pm, 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: Friday, 11:15 am-12:15 pm
Research Interests: International Relations, International Organization, Development Policy, China's Development Finance, and Academic-Policy Divide

van der Veen, A. Maurits
Associate Professor of Government
Office: Chancellors 335, 757-221-3029
Links: [[amvanderveen, Email]] and {{http://www.maurits.net/index.html, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday, 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: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm or by appointment/Schedule via Calendly (https://calendly.com/wm-profzvobgo/20min)
Research Interests: Human rights, transitional justice, international law and courts