Program Faculty

Program Faculty

Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Coordinator of the Graduate International Development and Social Change Program
Political economy, feminist and critical development theory, post-colonial studies, cultural politics, Latin America

David Bell, Ed.D.
Community empowerment, social transformation, teacher education and social change, educational policy reform, power relations and empowerment, peace building and conflict transformation, service learning, South Africa

Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Economic development and political economy, with emphasis on non-profit organizations, environment, gender, and child labor, particularly in South Asia

William F. Fisher, Ph.D.
IDCE Director
Anthropology, social movements and development, global civil society, NGOs, involuntary resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia

Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Coordinator of the Undergraduate International Development and Social Change Program
Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa (specifically in Senegal), gender and household health, reproductive care and fertility and healthcare reform

Liza Grandia, Ph.D.
Political ecology, peasants and agrarian change, conservation and development, indigenous knowledge, Mesoamerica, globalizations (corporate, grassroots), hegemony and cultural survival

Heidi Larson, Ph.D.
Risk analysis, risk communications, public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and child health and vaccines, particularly focusing on the socio-cultural and political determinants of health, including the role of religion and belief systems

Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Ethnographic studies of violence, governance and governmentality, (late and post-) socialism, legal regimes, anthropology and history, science and technology studies

Adjunct Faculty

Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Beverly C. Grier, Ph.D.
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
Laurence A. Lewis, Ph.D.
James T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
B. L. Turner, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty

John Baker, Ph.D.
Lois Bruinooge, J.D.
Donna Hicks, Ph.D.

Research Faculty

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.