faculty advisory board

Beverly Silver
Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies
Professor, Department of Sociology
PhD, SUNY, Binghamton
Mergenthaler 513410-516-7635
silver@jhu.edu
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
Mergenthaler 560zedward2@jhu.edu
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
Gilman 306410-516-0158
f.furstenberg@jhu.edu
Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries; French Atlantic

Ho-fung Hung
Professor, Department of Sociology
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Mergenthaler 523410-516-7051
hofung@jhu.edu
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
Wyman Park 528410-516-8545
akhan@jhu.edu
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
Gilman 18410-516-6046
nealon@jhu.edu
Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history

Robbie Shilliam
Professor, Department of Political Science
PhD, University of Sussex
Mergenthaler 341410-516-0875
r.shilliam@jhu.edu
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
Mergenthaler 273410-516-7537
unbowed@gmail.com
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
Mergenthaler 521410-516-5608
christy.thornton@jhu.edu
research scientists

Sahan Savas Karatasli
Assistant Research Scientist
PhD
260 Mergenthalerskaratasli@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Comparative-historical sociology, historical capitalism, social movements, nationalism, global social change and development, global inequality

Sefika Kumral
Assistant Research Scientist
Ph.D.
skumral1@jhu.eduResearch Interests: Social movements, ethnicity/ethnic conflict, political sociology; extreme right, democratization, development

Daniel Pasciuti
Assistant Research Scientist
PhD
United Statespasciuti@jhu.edu
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