faculty advisory board
![Beverly Silver](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/01/silver-200x300.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2022/09/edwards-1-300x286.png)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/09/FrancoisFurstenberg_JHU8641_web-300x200.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/01/hung-200x300.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/01/kahn-200x300.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/01/nealon-portrait-198x300.jpg)
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
![Stuart Schrader](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/07/Schrader-300x280-1.jpg)
Stuart Schrader
Associate Research Professor, Center for Africana Studies
Contact Information
- stuart.schrader@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Racial Inequality In Criminal Justice, War And Empire, Historical-Comparative Methods, Social Theory
Education: PhD, New York University
![Robbie Shilliam](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/rob-shilliam-e1536271903846-242x300.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/01/lester_spence72-300x199.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/09/Thornton-website-picture_2021-scaled-1-225x300.jpeg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2015/03/SahanSavasKaratasli_small-min-1-205x300.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/s200_sefika.kumral-e1500841172175.jpg)
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](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2015/04/Dan-Square-300x300.jpg)
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
![Corey Payne](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/07/IMG_4592_2-271x300.jpg)
Corey Payne
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University Writing Program
Contact Information
Research Interests: war, labor, globalization, climate change
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
staff
![Haohang Guo](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/09/ghh-265x300.png)
Haohang Guo
Research Assistant
Contact Information
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Fairness
Education: BA/BS, University of Texas at Austin
![Wei Zhou](https://krieger.jhu.edu/arrighi/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/09/WechatIMG315-284x300.png)
Wei Zhou (She/Her)
Research Assistant
Contact Information
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Sustainable Development, China
Education: BA, Johns Hopkins University