International Development and Social Change (IDSC)
IDSC Core Faculty
Nada Ali, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Gender, race, 'difference' and intersectionality; gendered processes of conflict, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction; the interrelationship between theory, policy and praxis; global health (especially HIV/AIDS and women's reproductive health and rights), feminist theory and praxis; human rights, governance and development, qualitative research methods and ethics, exile, refugees and forced migration; organizing, coalition-politics and transformation. Regional and country specialization: Africa (especially East and Southern Africa), the Middle East and North-Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Zambia and Egypt.
Kiran Asher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin American studies
David Bell, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Practice - International Development and Social Change
IDCE Assistant Director
Research Interests/Specialization: Education, empowerment, social transformation and community development
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Nigel O.M. Brissett, Ed.D.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
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Research Interests/Specialization: Educational policy and leadership; globalization and education; higher educational access and equity; critical policy analysis; postcolonial studies; critical theory; public policy
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Cynthia Caron, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Land and property rights, political and environmental sociology, disaster and conflict-induced displacement, resettlement and reconstruction programming, monitoring and evaluation, qualitative and ethnographic research, and South Asia.
Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Ethnicity and race, gender, urban refugees, Sudanese immigrants and refugees, Middle Eastern immigration and naturalisation policies, transnationalism and citizenship, transnational Islam, narratives of exile, Hungarian refugees
Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Economic development and political economy, with emphasis on non-profit organizations, environment, gender, and child labor, particularly in South Asia
William J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of International Development and Social Change
IDCE Director
Research Interests/Specialization: Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia
Ellen Foley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Anthropology of development, gender, Islam, knowledge systems, medical anthropology and West Africa
Ken MacLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: States and state-effects, political violence, extractive industries, displacement and irregular migration, humanitarian interventions, (late- and post-) socialism, legal regimes, science and technology studies, and comparative cartographies
Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Research Interests/Specialization: Disparities in obstetric care, migration and identity, culture in clinical encounters, diasporic health, bioethics, demographic anthropology, Participatory Action Research (PAR), history of obstetrics, Somali history and culture, globalization and health, advocacy anthropology, Social Networks Analysis (SNA), rumors in health care, Arab culture and identity
Research Faculty
Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: The interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Resource trends and resource management in Africa, community participation and sustainable development, conflict mediation, community-based planning, monitoring and evaluation
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Physics, energy studies, atmospheric transport, risk analysis and management
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations
Adjunct Faculty
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.
Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology
Director, Peace Studies Program
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Professor, School of Geography
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics
Amy Ickowitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
James T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Geography
Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
Paul Ropp, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of History
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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Part-time Faculty
Sarah Woodside, M.A.
Adjunct Lecturer, International Development and Social Change
Denise Bebbington, Ph.D.
Adjunct Lecturer, International Development and Social Change
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Lawrence Were
(IDSC '10)
Lawrence Were characterizes IDCE as a place that encourages students to think critically. He says: "In our Development Theory class, we criticized mainstream development, which was fun, but also somewhat frustrating. The most frustrating thing was that I was interested in solutions to the world's problems—solutions that drive social change."
However, after a while it became clear to Lawrence that the world is too multi-dimensional to expect easy answers to the problems we face. So, driven by his desire to explore different perspectives and skill sets that could bring new light to social issues, he pursued a directed study on social entrepreneurship within Clark's Graduate School of Management.
Admissions Calendar
Application Deadline: January 15, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 (Dual Degrees)
Late Applications:
Contact the Admissions Office at 508-793-7205
or idce@clarku.edu