Beverly Silver

Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology

PhD, SUNY, Binghamton

• 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

François Furstenberg

Professor, Department of History

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

• f.furstenberg@jhu.edu
• Gilman 306
• 410-516-0158
• Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries; French Atlantic

Ho-Fung Hung

Professor, Department of Sociology

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

• hofung@jhu.edu
• Mergenthaler 523
• 410-516-7051
• Research Interests: Global political economy, contentious politics, nationalism, and social theory

M. Ali Khan

Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics

PhD, Yale University

• akhan@jhu.edu
• Wyman Park 528
• 410-516-8545
• Research Interests: Mathematical economics, economic theory, history of economic thought, international and development economics

Christopher Nealon

Professor and Chair, Department of English

PhD, Cornell University

• nealon@jhu.edu
• Gilman 18
• 410-516-6046
• Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history

Robbie Shilliam

Professor, Department of Political Science

PhD, University of Sussex

• r.shilliam@jhu.edu
• Mergenthaler 341
• 410-516-0875
• Research Interests: The political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in global order

Lester Spence

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

PhD, University of Michigan

• 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

Christy Thornton

Assistant Professor, Sociology

PhD, New York University

• christy.thornton@jhu.edu
• Mergenthaler 521
• 410-516-5608