Beverly Silver

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

PhD, SUNY, Binghamton

Research Interests: Historical capitalism, comparative and world-historical research methods, global inequality and development, labor and social movements

Zophia Edwards

Assistant Professor

PhD, Boston University

Research Interests:  Impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state formation and human development in the Global South

François Furstenberg

Professor, Department of History

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries; French Atlantic

Ho-fung Hung

Professor, Department of Sociology

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

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

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

Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history

Robbie Shilliam

Professor, Department of Political Science

PhD, University of Sussex

Research Interests: The political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in global order

Lester Spence

Professor, Department of Political Science

PhD, University of Michigan

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