Global Issues
Hooshang Amirahmadi
Distinguished Service Professor
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Politics in Iran, U.S.-Iran relations, Middle Eastern affairs
Hooshang Amirahmadi is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the founder and president of the American-Iranian Council, a research and policy think tank devoted to improving understanding between the peoples of Iran and the United…
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Mark Baker
Professor
Department of Linguistics
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Syntactic theory, morphology and its relationship to syntax and semantics, linguistics, the grammar of Amerindian languages and African languages, implications of linguistics for the study of the human mind
Professor Baker received his Ph.D. from MIT. His interests include comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic syntax and Amerindian and African languages. Recent books written include Lexical Categories, Cambridge University…
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Ulla Berg
Assistant Professor
Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies / Anthropology
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Latin American migrations to the United States; the impact of US-bound migration on Latin American Societies.
József Böröcz
Professor
Department of Sociology
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Historical sociology, comparative sociology, global structures, social change, economic discourse
József Böröcz is an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. He is also a member of the Institute for Political Science and the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest. In 2006, Böröcz received the Knight's Cross of the Medal of…
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Charlotte Bunch
Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor
Department of Women's Gender Studies, Center for Women's Global Leadership
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Women's Human Rights Globally, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, Gender and Diversity, Women and Leadership, Women Peace and Security, United Nations Policies on Gender and Women, UN Secretary General Selection and Women candidates
Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership and Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, has been an activist, writer and organizer in the…
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Barbara Cooper
Professor
Department of History
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Culture and political economy, gender, religion, family life, Niger, West African Sahel
Barbara Cooper, Ph.D., is a professor of history. She is interested in the intersections between culture and political economy, focusing upon gender, religion, and family life. Drawing upon archival sources as well as oral interviews in the Hausa…
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Roger Daniel Kelemen
Professor
Department of Political Science
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: The European Union, European politics, and the euro currency
R. Daniel Kelemen is a professor of political science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union (EU) Politics at Rutgers University, where he also previously served as Director of the Center for European Studies. His research interests include the…
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Rupa Khetarpal
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Coordinator of the VAWC Certificate Program
School of Social Work
Key topics: Refugee mental health; gender-based violence locally and globally (forced marriage, female genital mutilation, acid attacks, etc.)
Rupa M. Khetarpal joined the School of Social Work as Assistant Professor of Teaching after 15 years of experience of clinical practice with survivors of trauma, both domestic and international including Africa, South Asia, Middle East,…
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Deepa Kumar
Associate Professor
Department of Journalism and Media Studies
School of Communication and Information
Key topics: Islam/Muslims and the West; political Islam and media; labor, labor struggles, and globalization; South Asian and Middle East history; U.S. imperialism
Deepa Kumar is a critical media studies scholar whose work is driven by an active engagement with the complex issues that characterize our era of globalization and war. Her areas of research include media, war, and imperialism; media,…
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Roy Licklider
Professor
Department of Political Science
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: American foreign policy, terrorism, homeland security, civil wars, international organizations
Roy Licklider has taught courses in international relations, foreign and military policy, terrorism, research design, international political economy, and the comparative politics of higher education. His early research was concerned with nuclear…
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Mark Robson
Professor and Director
Department of Entomology, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences/NJAES
Key topics: Pesticides, toxicology, human health, environmental health, risk assessment, international and global environmental issues.
Dr. Robson is Director of the NJ Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) and Professor of Entomology at Rutgers and Professor of Environmenal Health at UMDNJ School of Public Health. Dr. Robson is an expert in the field of environmental and…
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Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui
Associate Professor
American Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: US Latino/a culture and issues, Latin American culture
Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ph.D., teaches a variety of undergraduate courses on Latin American and U.S. Latino/a literature, film, performance theory, and cultural practices.
He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity…
Meredeth Turshen
Professor Emerita
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Gender & sexuality; violence against women; Violence against women in the new African wars; African child poverty: the gender dimension; Race relations, gender, and violence in the Congo
Meredeth Turshen is Professor Emerita; she taught at Rutgers University for 35 years. She has written six books, Women's health movements: a global force for change (2019, 2007), The political ecology of disease in Tanzania (1984), The politics…
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