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.
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.
Senior Fellow 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.
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.
Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Areas of Interest: Modern European History, modern warfare, Nazism, Holocaust, genocide, interethnic relations, borderlands, modern Jewish history.
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 the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Political Economy and finance.
Harmon Family Professor of Sociology
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Global Health, Foreign Aid, International Organizations, Globalization, Neoliberalism.
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
Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Education
Areas of Interest: Race and ethnic politics, education politics and policy, urban politics, state and local politics, democratic theory
Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Digital policy, cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties, intelligence, open government and information sharing, U.S. national security policy process.
Senior Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, transitions theory, Latin American politics, political representation and electoral reform.
Research Associate/Lecturer, Chair for International Relations, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University Munich
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2021
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, Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, Strategy, China and the Middle East.
Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Chair of the Economics Department
Areas of Interest: Public Economics and Political Economy
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Senior Principal, Climate Intelligence Program, RMI
Areas of Interest: Energy innovation, climate policy, oil and gas sector, science and technology
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Chair of Latin American History
Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Areas of Interest: Modern Brazilian history and society, U.S.-Latin American relationships, gender and sexuality in Latin America.
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
Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology
Areas of Interest: US-Mexico border, security, migration, emergency medical services, crime, violence, gun policy and gun trafficking
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.
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice
Areas of Interest: Disasters, emerging infectious diseases, humanitarian emergencies, human rights.
Director, Undergraduate Public Policy Concentration
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Intergovernmental fiscal relations, education finance and governments, post-communist Europe, 'decentralization'
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
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 and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
Director of Academic Programs
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.
Assistant Professor in the Education Department, Brown University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2019-2021
Areas of Interest: Education, race and social policy, history of education, Federal education policies, punishment, policing, school discipline.
JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor in Economics
Areas of Interest: Health economics, development economics.
Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science
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.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Gender and Development, Africa, South Asia
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Director, Military Fellows Program
Areas of Interest: Military planning, strategy development, humanitarian response, human security, leadership.
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science
Professor of Political Science
Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
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
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
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.
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.
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets
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.
Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Social policy in the US and Europe, urban politics and policy.
Interim Director of the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program
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.