International Development and Social Change Faculty

Program Faculty

Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Political economy, feminist and critical development theory, post-colonial studies, cultural politics, Latin America

David Bell, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Practice - International Development and Social Change
IDCE Assistant Director
Community empowerment, social transformation, teacher education and social change, educational policy reform, power relations and empowerment, peace building and conflict transformation, service learning, South Africa

Anita Fábos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Ethnicity and race, gender, urban refugees, Sudanese immigrants and refugees, Middle Eastern immigration and naturalisation policies, transnationalism and citizenship, transnational Islam, narratives of exile, Hungarian refugees

Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Economic development and political economy, with emphasis on non-profit organizations, environment, gender, and child labor, particularly in South Asia

William F. Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of International Development and Social Change
IDCE Director
Anthropology, social movements and development, global civil society, NGOs, involuntary resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia

Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa (specifically in Senegal), gender and household health, reproductive care and fertility and healthcare reform

Liza Grandia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Undergraduate International Development and Social Change Program
Political economy and corporate capitalism, the commons, political ecology and the politics of biodiversity conservation, peasants and agrarian change, Mesoamerica and the Q’eqchi’ Maya people, DR-CAFTA and the Puebla to Panama Plan, indigenous knowledge and cultural survival, the global cancer epidemic

Heidi Larson, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor of International Development and Social Change
Risk analysis, risk communications, public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and child health and vaccines, particularly focusing on the socio-cultural and political determinants of health, including the role of religion and belief systems

Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
States and state-effects, political violence, extractive industries, displacement and irregular migration, humanitarian interventions, (late- and post-) socialism, legal regimes, science and technology studies, and comparative cartographies

Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D. candidate
Visiting Instructor of International Development and Social Change
Disparities in obstetric care, migration and identity, culture in clinical encounters, diasporic health, bioethics, demographic anthropology, Participatory Action Research (PAR), history of obstetrics, Somali history and culture, globalization and health, advocacy anthropology, Social Networks Analysis (SNA), rumors in health care, Arab culture and identity

Adjunct Faculty

Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Beverly C. Grier, Ph.D.
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.
James T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
B. L. Turner, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty

John Baker, Ph.D.
Lois Bruinooge, J.D.
Donna Hicks, Ph.D.

Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.