Watson Faculty Fellows

Geri Augusto

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.

• +1 401 863 9068
• geri_augusto@brown.edu

Omer Bartov

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.

• omer_bartov@brown.edu

Shahzad Bashir

Director, Middle East Studies

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities

Areas of Interest: Temporality and historiography, corporeality, Sufism, Shi’ism, Iran, Central Asia, South Asia.

• +1 401 863 2147
• shahzad_bashir@brown.edu

James N. Green

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.

• +1 401 863 7311
• james_green@brown.edu

Matthew Gutmann

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.

• +1 401 863 7732
• gutmann@brown.edu

David Kertzer

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.

• david_kertzer@brown.edu

Jessaca Leinaweaver

Professor of Anthropology

Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Areas of Interest: Adoption, aging, anthropological demography, caregiving, childhood, development, family, gender, migration, population, reproduction, Peru/Latin America, Spain/Southern Europe.

• +1 401 863 3237
• jessaca_leinaweaver@brown.edu

Adam C. Levine, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Areas of Interest: Disasters, emerging infectious diseases, humanitarian emergencies, human rights.

• +1 401 863 1536
• adam_levine@brown.edu

Patsy Lewis

Director, Development Studies Undergraduate Concentration

Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Regional integration studies, small states development, Caribbean political economy.

• +1 401 500 6255
• patsy_lewis@brown.edu

Wendy J. Schiller

Professor of Political Science

Chair of Political Science

Areas of Interest: United States Congress, political history, gender and politics.

• +1 401 863 1569
• wendy_schiller@brown.edu

Daniel Jordan Smith

Professor and Chair of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Medical anthropology, political culture, anthropology and population, gender, migration, corruption, HIV/AIDS, development, Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa.

• daniel_j_smith@brown.edu

Nina Tannenwald

Director, International Relations Concentration

Senior Lecturer in Political Science

Areas of Interest: International security, arms control and nonproliferation, human rights, laws of war.

• +1 401 863 7431
• ninat@brown.edu