For DS students looking for thesis advising, please know that all of the faculty at Watson are viable options. Check the Watson faculty page and search by area of interest.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Indigenous and other subjugated knowledge systems, science and technology policy in the Global South, Black transnationalism and history of black resistance (USA, Southern Africa, Brazil), critical black geographies, transformation of higher education systems.
Charles Evans Hughes 1881 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Labor, environment, commodities, agriculture, plantations, ethical trade, gender, development, Himalayas, India, environmental justice, ethics.
Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods.
Director of Climate Solutions Lab
Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International order; energy; climate change; oil politics; causes of war
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development, globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Latin American economic development, international competitiveness and development strategy.
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Caribbean history, Theories of development, Migration, International trade, Regional integration schemes , Regional trade agreements
IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Medical Anthropology, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Global Health, Infectious Disease, Cities, Human-Animal Relations, Bioethics, Climate Change, Latin America
Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative sociology: political, economic, organizational
Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Development
Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of development, social welfare, identity politics including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics, politics of South Asia and East Asia.
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Africa Initiative
Areas of Interest: Nigeria, Africa, development, medical anthropology, gender, population processes, infrastructure, corruption
Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics of development, comparative political economy, Latin American politics, knowledge production in the social sciences.
Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Dean's Professor of China Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director of the China Initiative
Areas of Interest: Political economy of contemporary China, political economy of global production and innovation, political economy of energy.
Director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Areas of Interest: lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.