faculty advisory board
Beverly Silver
Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Information
- silver@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- zedward2@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- f.furstenberg@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- hofung@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- akhan@jhu.edu
- 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 and Chair, Department of English
Contact Information
- nealon@jhu.edu
- Gilman 18
- 410-516-6046
Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Robbie Shilliam
Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- r.shilliam@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- unbowed@gmail.com
- 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
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Contact Information
- christy.thornton@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 521
- 410-516-5608
Education: PhD, New York University
research scientists
Sahan Savas Karatasli
Assistant Research Scientist
Contact Information
- skaratasli@jhu.edu
- 260 Mergenthaler
Research Interests: Comparative-historical sociology, historical capitalism, social movements, nationalism, global social change and development, global inequality
Education: PhD
Sefika Kumral
Assistant Research Scientist
Contact Information
Research Interests: Social movements, ethnicity/ethnic conflict, political sociology; extreme right, democratization, development
Education: Ph.D.
Daniel Pasciuti
Assistant Research Scientist
Contact Information
- pasciuti@jhu.edu
- United States
Research Interests: Historical and contemporary forms of urbanization and urban development, urban governance, comparative-historical sociology, historical capitalism, global social change and development, global inequality
Education: PhD