Watson Faculty Fellows

Geri Augusto

Development Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration

Interim 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.

• +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 5438
• shahzad_bashir@brown.edu

Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

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

• +1 401 863 6452
• sylvester_gates@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

James Head

Louis and Elizabeth Schreck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences

Areas of Interest: National and International Human and Robotic Space Exploration and related national policies with particular emphasis on United States, European Space Agency, Russia and China.

• +1 401 863 2526

Jennifer Johnson

Associate Professor of History

Areas of Interest: Africa, the Maghrib, empire, nationalism, decolonization, humanitarianism, public health and international organizations.

• +1 401 863 3691
• jennifer_johnson1@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.

• +1 401 863 1938
• david_kertzer@brown.edu

Jessaca Leinaweaver

Professor of Anthropology

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

Interim 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.

• +1 401 863 5443
• 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

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.

• +1 401 863 1938
• daniel_j_smith@brown.edu