faculty advisory board
Beverly Silver
Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 513
- 410-516-7635
Research Interests: Historical capitalism, comparative and world-historical research methods, global inequality and development, labor and social movements
Education: PhD, SUNY, Binghamton
Zophia Edwards
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 560
Research Interests: Impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state formation and human development in the Global South
Education: PhD, Boston University
François Furstenberg
Professor, Department of History
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- Gilman 306
- 410-516-0158
Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries; French Atlantic
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Ho-fung Hung
Professor, Department of Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 523
- 410-516-7051
Research Interests: Global political economy, contentious politics, nationalism, and social theory
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
M. Ali Khan
Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics
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- Wyman Park 528
- 410-516-8545
Research Interests: Mathematical economics, economic theory, history of economic thought, international and development economics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Christopher Nealon
Professor, Department of English
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- Gilman 18
- 410-516-6046
Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Stuart Schrader
Associate Professor, Department of History
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- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Racial Inequality In Criminal Justice, War And Empire, Historical-Comparative Methods, Social Theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Robbie Shilliam
Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 341
- 410-516-0875
Research Interests: The political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in global order
Education: PhD, University of Sussex
Lester Spence
Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 273
- 410-516-7537
Research Interests: American politics, black politics, race and politics, urban politics, American political behavior and public opinion
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Christy Thornton
Associate Professor, Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 521
- 410-516-5608
Education: PhD, New York University
research scientists
Sefika Kumral
Assistant Research Scientist
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Research Interests: Social movements, ethnicity/ethnic conflict, political sociology; extreme right, democratization, development
Education: Ph.D.
Corey Payne
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University Writing Program
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Research Interests: war, labor, globalization, climate change
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
staff
Haohang Guo
Research Assistant
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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Fairness
Education: BA/BS, University of Texas at Austin
Wei Zhou (She/Her)
Research Assistant
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Research Interests: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Sustainable Development, China
Education: BA, Johns Hopkins University