Director, Middle East Studies
Robert Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Areas of Interest: Middle East; gender; feminism; war and conflict; migration and diaspora studies
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Transnational crime and crime control, borders and border security, immigration and drug control policy.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2018-2019
Areas of Interest: International migration, refugee studies, law, human rights, race and ethnicity, gender, inequality, conflict and post-conflict societies.
Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science
Areas of Interest: Legislative behavior, use and abuse of Congressional procedure; campaigns and elections; appropriations process, the budget process and earmarks; roots and history of ideological and partisan polarization in the American political culture.
Security Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, International Relations Concentration
Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International security, international relations theory, asymmetric conflict theory, insurgency/counterinsurgency, military intervention, cyber security strategy and policy, sex (gender) and war. Regional areas of expertise include: the Russian Federation (foreign policy, grand strategy, military), Afghanistan, and Norwegian and British defense and foreign policy.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: US Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Development Cooperation, Congressional War Powers, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Transitions, Europe and Africa.
Development Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, Undergraduate Development Studies Concentration
Gerard Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Africana Studies
Areas of Interest: Local/indigenous knowledge systems, colonial sciences, environmental studies, and the politics of knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora, Science and technology policy and national systems of innovation in the Global South, Black transnationalism and history of black resistance (USA, Africa, Brazil), Transformation of higher education systems, Communities-of-practice, epistemologies of practice, and organizational cultures, International development in Eastern and Southern Africa.
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History
Areas of Interest: Modern European History, modern warfare, Nazism, Holocaust, genocide, interethnic relations, borderlands, modern Jewish history.
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities
Areas of Interest: Temporality and historiography, corporeality, Sufism, Shi’ism, Iran, Central Asia, South Asia.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Nationalism, identity, European politics, comparative political behavior, quantitative methods.
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.
Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods.
Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International and Comparative Political Economy, Banks and Finance, Europe, Monetary Policy.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Diplomacy, foreign policy, China, South Asia.
Director, Graduate Program in Development
Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Global Health, Foreign Aid, International Organizations, Globalization, Neoliberalism.
Director of Security Studies
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Energy politics, causes of war, political revolutions.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties, intelligence, open government and information sharing, U.S. national security policy process, congressional process.
Senior Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, transitions theory, Latin American politics, political representation and electoral reform.
Faculty Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative political economy of development, globalization and global governance, labor, social movements and transnational civil society.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Political economy of regulation, Political development of the regulatory state, European Union, Comparative public policy, European public opinion.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Diplomacy, defense policy, China, Middle East, Africa, South Asia.
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Tax and budget policy, education policy, retirement policy, labor markets.
Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Physics: Supersymmetry, Supergravity, Superstring theory; Mathematics; Public Policy: Education Policy, Science & Technology Policy (PCAST; Obama Administration), National Commission on Forensic Science (NCFS), Maryland State Board of Education
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Borders and borderlands; migration and mobility; militarization; modern south Asia; transnational feminism; labor and citizenship; and agrarian studies.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Former Director, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Areas of Interest: Energy innovation, climate policy, oil and gas sector, science and technology
Director, Brazil Initiative
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Chair of Latin American History
Areas of Interest: Modern Brazilian history and society, U.S.-Latin American relationships, gender and sexuality in Latin America.
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI)
Areas of Interest: Gender, men + masculinities, sexuality, politics, globalization, health, militarism, Mexico/Latin America, China.
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Public economics, education economics, household finance, behavioral economics, industrial organization and antitrust regulation, marketing, energy and environmental economics.
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.
Associate Professor of History
Areas of Interest: Africa, the Maghrib, empire, nationalism, decolonization, humanitarianism, public health and international organizations.
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Chinese foreign policy, bureaucratic politics, international security
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge and universities, social movements, cultural politics and social change in Europe and Eurasia, cultural politics and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.
Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science
Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies
Areas of Interest: Italian politics and society, role of symbolism and ritual in politics, history of Vatican relations with the Italian state, modern history of anti-Semitism, the history of the family in Europe.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: American foreign policy; US intervention; Latin America, Turkey, Iran, Rwanda.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Domestic women’s issues, including health, economic issues, violence and sexual assault, and sexual harassment and discrimination; global women’s issues, with a particular focus on women’s human rights and integration of women’s issues into international development and diplomacy.
Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Adoption, aging, anthropological demography, caregiving, childhood, development, family, gender, migration, population, reproduction, Peru/Latin America, Spain/Southern Europe.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Areas of Interest: Disasters, emerging infectious diseases, humanitarian emergencies, human rights.
Policy & Governance Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, Undergraduate Public Policy Concentration
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Intergovernmental relations, fiscal policy, subnational government, education, finance and management, post-communist Europe, international development.
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Regional integration studies, small states development, Caribbean political economy.
Provost, Brown University
Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalization and labor standards, global supply chains, sustainability.
Professor of Economics
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
Areas of Interest: Applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: War and security, militarization, peacekeeping, automobility, photographic representation, gender.
Director of Postdoctoral Program
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations
Areas of Interest: International relations, American Foreign and Defense Policy, psychological aspects of decision-making, especially risk taking and emotion, gender, biological and genetic aspects of political attitudes and preferences, social identity, experiments, intelligence, cyber
IJC Assistant Professor of Economics
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History and International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor of History and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Modern Middle East, economic history, British Empire, late Ottoman Empire
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.
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
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Areas of Interest: Education, race and social policy, history of education, Federal education policies, punishment, policing, school discipline.
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics
Areas of Interest: Health economics, development economics.
Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and Sociology
Areas of Interest: Social stratification, education, race/ethnicity, gender, organizations, social demography, population health.
Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science
Director, Master of Public Affairs Program
Areas of Interest: The politics of policymaking, health policy, fiscal politics, policy reform, implementation, the welfare state, Congress.
President, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: The relationship of economic factors to health and welfare over the life course, particularly on the health and welfare of children.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Professor of Political Science
Chair of Political Science
Areas of Interest: United States Congress, political history, gender and politics.
Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative sociology: political, economic, organizational
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: Medical anthropology, political culture, anthropology and population, gender, migration, corruption, HIV/AIDS, development, Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Economic reform and development in Latin America and East Asia, finance for development, development strategy, international political economy.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
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.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Histories of the United States and Latin America, U.S.-Mexican Relations, Drug Control, Interventionism, Militarization, Political Violence, Immigration, Borderlands
Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: North & Central America; Comparative Migration; Latinx & Black Diasporas; Racial Formation; Gender and Queer Studies; Political Economy; Social Movements; Childhood/Youth, Ethnography.
Director of the 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.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Transnational history, carceral studies, international legal and political thought, comparative colonialism and anticolonialism, social movements, racism and antiracism, policing and prisons, state violence, inequality, archives, public memory, new media.
Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Social policy in the US and Europe, urban politics and policy.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative historical sociology, empire, nationalism, revolution, Russia and China.
Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research)
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany.