Education:

• PhD, Spanish Literature, Penn State, 1999
• MA, Spanish Literature, University of Ottawa - Canada, 1996
• BA, Spanish Literature and Linguistics, University of Valencia - Spain, 1995
• BA, Catalan Linguistics and Literature, University of Valencia - Spain, 1995
• BA, Piano, “Joaquín Rodrigo” Conservatory, Valencia - Spain, 1994

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

Hola! I am a Professor of Spanish and Head of the new Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. Our students and faculty travel in and out of the classroom across regions and cultures to tackle global issues from a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective. Of course, we also look at the effects of globalization on our local communities here in the US.

In my research I study the role of classic cultural icons, particularly Don Quixote, in 21st century political and social justice discourse. In my scholarship and pedagogy, I explore the interplay between the traditional humanities, youth organizations, and digital storytelling.

I have published two books on early modern prose: La verosimilitud en el Siglo de Oro: Cervantes y la novela corta (Juan de la Cuesta, 2002) and Monstruos que hablan: El discurso de la monstruosidad en Cervantes (U of North Carolina P – Chapel Hill, 2008). My latest book project, tentatively entitled Living Quixote: Don Quixote, Politics, and Social Justice in 21st-century Spain and the Americas, examines appropriations of Don Quixote in public discourse in contemporary Spain and the Americas, particularly in Brazil.

I enjoy travel, all cultural expressions, good food, the empowering awkwardness of speaking languages other than your own, and tennis.

Selected Publications:

• “Lessons From Migrant Youth: A Digital Storytelling Course in Springfield, Massachusetts” Learning From Diverse Latina/o Communities: Social Justice Approaches to Civic Engagement. Ed. Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski. New York: New York UP, 2016
• “Don Quijote de las Américas: Activismo, teatro y el hidalgo Quijano en el Brasil contemporáneo.” El Quijote desde América (Segunda parte). Ed. James Iffland, DOJ Ayalamacedo e Ignacio Arellano. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 2016
• "Latina/o Community Media Activism: Digital Storytelling and the Latino Youth Media Institute in Springfield, MA.” The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media. Ed. María Elena Cepeda and Dolores Inés Casillas. New York: Routledge, 2015
• “Beyond the Classroom Wall: Engaging Local Communities in Five Words.” ADFL Bulletin 43.3 (2015)
• “Seeing Quixote: Teaching Don Quixote in the 21st Century.” Approaches to Teaching Don Quixote. Ed. James A. Parr and Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2014. 359-64
• “Don Quixote Among Brazilians: Um tal de Dom Quixote (Márcio Meirelles and Cleise Mendes, 1998)." Homenaje a Frederick de Armas (tentative title), 2015
• “The New Mission and Location of Spanish Departments in the United States: The Mount Holyoke Experience.” Profession, December 2013
• “Righting Wrongs: Don Quixote’s ‘Other History’ in Brazilian Youth Theater.” Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections. Ed. James A. Parr and Matthew Warshawsky. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2013. 203-22.
• “The ‘Don Quixote of the Streets’: Social Justice Theater in São Paulo, Brazil.” Cervantes 31.1 (2011): 159-70
• “Nación de quijotes: Don Quijote en el discurso político contemporáneo en España.” USA Cervantes. 39 cervantistas en Estados Unidos. Ed. Georgina M. Dopico Black y Francisco Layna Ranz. Madrid: Polifemo, 2009. 895-924
• “O Projeto Quixote em São Paulo: reflexões sobre cultura e transformação social.” Translated into Portuguese by Laura Calejón. Revista UNICSUL 15 (2007, published in 2008): 58-65

Education:

• MA, French Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Research Interests:

• Language acquisition pedagogy
• Teaching writing
• 17th and 18th century French literature
• Women writers
• Translation

Bio:

Brenda Dyer is a lecturer of French whose communicative approach to language teaching is designed to help students develop the linguistic and cultural skills necessary to function in a French-speaking environment, providing them with skills that they can use in their lives after graduation and to help them become better citizens of the world. She has a particular interest in the areas of cross-cultural studies, global competency and French for Business.

Professor Dyer takes a collaborative approach to teaching and is a frequent participant in Drexel Center for Academic Excellence workshops designed to improve her teaching skills. She also has received a certificate in Teaching Business Language from the CIBER program at the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Specialization:

Language acquisition pedagogy, teaching writing, seventeenth and eighteenth century French literature, women writers, translation.

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, University of Surrey, 2006

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Emerging Technologies and Biocapital
• Media and Democratic Cultures
• Radical Social Movements
• Sociology of Markets
• Political Sociology
• Ethnographic Methodologies

Research Projects

• Two-Year Colleges and the Invention of Nano-Labor: Between Promise and Possibility. Co-Principal Investigator. A collaborative research project with Dr. Amy Slaton (History & Politics, Drexel University) with support from the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) investigating technical education in nanomanufacturing and the links to the development of a nanotech-based economic sector in the Philadelphia region.
• Translational machines: Nanobiotechnologies in two postindustrial regions, Philadelphia and Milan. Principal Investigator. Collaborative research with Prof. Paolo Milani (Physics, University of Milan) on technological transfer in the nanobiotech sector as it is emerging in Philadelphia and Milan. Support provided by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Faculty Development and Equity, Drexel University.
• Pharmaceutical advertising and ethnography of marketing. Principal Investigator. Support provided by the Advertising Educational Foundation, New York, NY.

Bio:

Mary Ebeling is associate professor of sociology and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Drexel University. Mary is an ethnographic sociologist and researches the intersections of marketing, health, biomedical science and digital life. Her new book, Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) is focused on data brokers, data mining, marketing surveillance, private health data, and algorithmic identities.

Her work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the European Union (5th Framework Programme). She has been awarded a Regional Faculty Fellowship at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2017-18 academic year.

She collaborates with scientists, artists and urban farmers to reimagine presents and futures, particularly Paolo Milani, Rachel Ellis Neyra, RAIR, the Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia and alternative art spaces and collectives, such as Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, and several artists’ collectives in Philadelphia including Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi.

More information about Mary can be found at: maryebeling.net

Specialization:

Sociology of science and technology, data brokers and big data, healthcare privacy, marketing communication, medicine, health, knowledge and power in late capital, the production of value and alternatives, anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces, collectives and feminist methodologies

Selected Publications:

• Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects (Palgrave, 2016)
• Ebeling, M. and Amy Slaton (2016) “Promise Her Anything: Education for Work in the American ‘Nano-economy’ International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, Volume 5 (in press).
• Ebeling, M. (2014) “Marketing Mediated Diagnoses: Turning Patients into Consumers,” in Jutel, A. and Dew, K. (eds.) Sociology of Diagnosis: A Guide for Practitioners. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Ebeling, M. (2011) "'Get with the Program!': Pharmaceutical marketing, symptom checklists and self-diagnosis," Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011): 825-832.
• Ebeling, M. (2010) “Marketing Chimeras: The biovalue of rebranded medical devices,” in Aronczyk, M. and Powers, D. (eds.) Blowing Up the Brand Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. Pp. 241-259.

Education:

• BA, English and Psychology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
• MA, History, Villanova University
• PhD, University of Delaware

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Research Interests:

• Atlantic World
• Jewish Migration and Diaspora
• Economic Culture
• Trade Networks
• Colonial American History

Bio:

I am an assistant teaching professor of History and Co-Director of the Judaic Studies program at Drexel University. I teach courses in American history and Jewish history and culture.

I am currently working on a manuscript that examines Philadelphia’s earliest Jewish merchants and traders, in the late colonial, revolutionary and early national periods. I look at the ways they, as newcomers, established their business and how they sustained them as they sought out new opportunities locally and further afield. I also explore the ways they built economic networks. Merchants and traders depended on associates to conduct trade, and I trace the kinship, ethnic, and cross-cultural networks, analyzing the complicated dynamics that that facilitated – and sometimes undermined – commerce.

I also work on a project that gathers material on Jamaica’s Jewish history, including cataloging and conserving cemeteries and archival collections.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• “Separated from us as far as West is from East: Eighteenth-Century Ashkenazi Immigrants in the Atlantic World.” American Jewish History, Vol. 102, No. 2 (April 2018)
• “Commerce and Community: Philadelphia’s Early Jewish Settlers, 1740-1776.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 140, no. 3 (Oct., 2016)

Education:

• PhD, Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
• MA, International Communication, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC
• BA, English Writing, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:

Higher education; international education; education policy; equity and access

Bio:

Rebecca Clothey is a faculty member at Drexel University’s School of Education. Her research interests include international higher education policy, public policy and community activism, online social activism, and issues of ethnicity, equity and access. Administrative appointments have included Director of Drexel’s Higher Education program (2007 – 2010), and Director of Drexel’s Global and International Education program (2008 – 2012). Prior to moving to Philadelphia, Clothey lived in China for five years where she was based at various higher education institutions throughout the country. She speaks Mandarin and has a working knowledge of Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang where her most recent research has been focused. In the past she was also seconded by the US State Department to conduct elections training for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina. She has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships for her research, one to China and one to Uzbekistan, and is the recent recipient of a Spencer Fellowship to study community-based schools in Argentina (with Kai Heidemann of Maastricht University). She has a PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

Specialization:

Higher education; international education; education policy; equity and access

Education:

• PhD, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
• MA, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
• MA, English, Temple University, 2007
• BA, English, Colgate University, 2004

Research Interests:

• Early modern cultural production
• Ecology and representation
• History and sociology of science
• Historical bibliography
• Politics and poetics of translation

Bio:

Steve Vásquez Dolph is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies & Modern Languages at Drexel. His research and teaching look at early modern Iberian and transatlantic literature and human ecology. He was the 2016-17 Brizdle-Shoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts and co-founder of the Early Modern Iberia (EMI) Study Group at Penn. His current project, Third Nature, examines representations of ecological crisis in Renaissance Spain, with a focus on landscapes and ethics in the pastoral literature of the early 17th century.

Specialization:

Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology, University of Montreal, 2014
• MA, Anthropology, University of Montreal, 2009
• BA, Philosophy, UQAM, 2006

Research Interests:

• Science, technology and medicine
• Digital infrastructures, spaces and technologies
• Development and global health
• Medical anthropology
• Cultural and media theory

Bio:

My primary areas of research include digital spaces/technologies, global health, development, and relations between India and Africa.

My current book project, "Bandwidth for Life: Anthropological Incursions into the Pan-African e-Network", explores a transnational network through which tertiary hospitals in India provide medical teleconsultations to health centers across Africa. This is a colossal network, aimed at caring for patients at a distance. Drawing upon extensive field research carried in India and West Africa, the book examines how digital technology transforms the space of clinical work and reconfigures the distribution of medical care. It suggests that the network points towards new practical horizons of intelligibility within which human lives come to matter to people, to take shape as objects of medical knowledge and intervention. The book also investigates how the Pan-African e-Network contributes to the emergence of new transnational markets between India and Africa.

Over the past two years, I have also explored the impact of mobile connectivity on global health. In collaboration with colleagues from the Centre de recherche en santé de Nouna (CRSN), I have studied the effects of mobile devices on medical monitoring and care in rural Burkina Faso. To do so, I have examined the implementation process – challenges, limitations, and unintended consequences – of a mobile health (mHealth) network, MOS@N. My research aims to: a) explore the impact of data connectivity on the daily operations of primary healthcare centers and the lives of patients and laypersons; b) gain a better understanding of how mHealth forges new relations between technology, social life, and healthcare; c) provide ethnographic insight into issues of scaling and replicability which are ubiquitous in the global health world.

Finally, I am currently developing a research project devoted to the problematic use of media devices in urban India. Specifically, I aim to explore the enigmatic, contested yet severe mental health condition of Internet addiction (IA). On the one hand, I want to examine what the debates surrounding IA as a diagnostic category reveal about socially accepted, digital forms of life. On the other hand, I will work with specialized treatment centers to understand the experience, and therapeutic management of IA in India.

Specialization:

Digital spaces/technologies, global health, development, and relations between India and Africa.

Selected Publications:

• “Life at a Distance,” Limn, invited paper for a special issue on “Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods,” forthcoming. See limn.it.
• “Situating mobile health: a qualitative study of mHealth expectations in the rural health district of Nouna, Burkina Faso,” with Yé, M. et al., Health Research Policy and Systems, 15(Suppl 1):47, pp. 44-53, 2017. See: health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-017-0211-y.
• “Inhabiting Media: An Anthropology of Life in Digital Speed,” Cultural Anthropology, 32 (1): 20-26, 2017. See: culanth.org/articles/880-inhabiting-media-an-anthropology-of-life-in.
• “Speed: An Introduction,ˮ Nguyen, V-K & T. Sanchez-Criado, Cultural Anthropology, 32 (1): 1-11, 2017. See: culanth.org/articles/878-speed-an-introduction.
• “The map and the territory: an ethnographic study of the low utilisation of a global eHealth network,” Journal of Information Technology, 31(4): 334-346, 2016
• “Anthropotechnique: sur la relation entre technologie et humanité chez Peter Sloterdijk,” Sociétés, 131: 41-49, 2016.
• “Spacecraft(ing)” in “Translating Vitalities” series, with Farquhar, Judith et al., Somatosphere, 2016. See: somatosphere.net/2016/03/spacecrafting.html.
• “Global eHealth: Designing Spaces of Care in the Era of Global Connectivity,” Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2(1):154-164, 2015. See: medanthrotheory.org/read/4925/global-ehealth.
• “A Win-win Renaissance? ICT, Healthcare, and Indo-African Economic Resurgence,” Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 2(1): 7-34, 2014.
• “Building Capacities: The Resurgence of Indo-African Technoeconomic Cooperation,” India Review, 11(4): 209-225.

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1977

Research Interests:

• Patient and support networks
• Ethnic factors in treatment of elderly
• Factors in residential choice
• Cross-cultural and comparative aging

Specialization:

Comparative gerontology, planned communities, continuing care communities, retirement, faculty development

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 2009

Research Interests:

• Visual and socio-cultural anthropology
• The global circulation of fashion, music and aesthetics
• DIY, amateur, and independent media
• New media and mediated subjectivities
• Street fashion, streetwear, and street style blogging
• Youth culture in the United States and Indonesia

Bio:

Brent Luvaas is a visual and cultural anthropologist interested in the production and global circulation of fashion, music, and photography. He is the author of "Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging" (Bloomsbury 2016) and "DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture" (Berg 2012). He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant and the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. He is also the blogger behind Urban Fieldnotes (urbanfieldnotes.com).

Specialization:

DIY and independent media production; transnational consumer culture; popular music; new media and mediated subjectivities; youth culture in the US and Indonesia.

Selected Publications:

• Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• “Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style,” in Fashion Theory, 2013.
• “Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand,” in Cultural Anthropology (in press — February 2013.
• DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2012.
• “Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut ’n’ Paste” in Visual Anthropology Review 26(1): 1-16, 2010.
• “Dislocating Sounds: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop,” in Cultural Anthropology 24(2): 246-279, 2009.
• “Re-Producing Pop: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of a Contemporary Dance Music,” in International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2): 167-187, 2006.

Education:

• University of Iowa, MA in Spanish
• Yale University, BA in Spanish with Distinction
• PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, graduate study in Brazilian Arts and Letters
• PUCMM, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy
• The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga
• Theater in Spanish and Portuguese
• Hispanic and Brazilian Film
• Latin American and Iberian Music

Bio:

Celeste Dolores Mann has taught Spanish and Portuguese for years, at various universities. Before coming to Drexel, she taught at Villanova University. As a student, Celeste specialized in Spanish medieval literature, Afro-Cuban poetry and Brazilian literature. She has an extensive background in opera and theater, and integrates the performing and visual arts in her language teaching whenever possible. Celeste has taught computer education and enjoys using technology to enhance the learning of languages. In her language teaching she hopes to inspire students to excel in their ability to speak, read, understand and write Spanish and Portuguese, and to appreciate the beauty, enchantment and diversity of the many Latin American and Iberian cultures.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Celeste Dolores Mann and Robert Simon, “It Takes a Village: Professional Development for Faculty in Portuguese.” In Handbook for Portuguese Instructors.  Editors: Margo Milleret and Mary Risner. July 2017.
• “Chiquinha Gonzaga: O legado da maestrina.”  Ao redor do mundo II. Atlantico Books. January 2013.  p. 19-26.
•  “The Search for Identity in Afro-Brazilian Women’s Writing:  A Literary History.”  In:  Moving Beyond Boundaries Part I:  Critical Responses.  Eds. Carole Boyce Davies and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie.  Pluto Press:  1995. p. 173-178.
• “Translations.”  In:  Moving Beyond Boundaries Part II:  Women Weaving Words.  p. 116-119; 202-213.
• “O Geraldo Viramundo de O Grande Mentecapto:  Um carnavalizador carnavalizado.”  Torre de Papel.  University of Iowa, June 1993.

Research Interests:

• Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching

Specialization:

Education:

• BA, Psychology and Communication Studies (Joint Honours), Tel-Aviv University, 2000
• MA, Department of Sociology, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK, 2002
• PhD, Department of Sociology, New York University, 2017

Research Interests:

• Political Economy
• Social Movements
• Middle East Studies
• Gender Studies
• Revolutions
• Inequality

Bio:

I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Global Studies and Modern Languages and Sociology. My research interests are in political economy, social movements and gender studies; I primarily investigate questions of structural inequality and social change in the Middle East.

I am currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Road to Tahrir: Origins and Sustainment of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011". I examine the background conditions and the social forces that brought about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. By studying changes in Egyptian capitalism and state policies since the 1980s, I highlight the structural changes that facilitated the generation of a revolutionary process in Egypt in the 2000s. I then look closely at how the Egyptian youth and democracy movements took advantage of the political opportunity and mobilized against the regime.

In a related project, I have written a paper on gender and labor in Egypt; and I have also co-authored a paper on the Second Palestinian Intifada, which is published in the European Journal of Sociology.

Selected Publications:

• Matta, Nada and Rene Rojas. 2016. “The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena”, European Journal of Sociology, 57 (01): 65-113.
• Matta, Nada. 2003. “Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism.” Holy Land Studies, 2 (1) 85-107.
• Achcar, Gilbert and Nada Matta. 2016. “Gilbert Achcar On the Arab Upheaval: Facts and Fiction.” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 18 (1): 1-15. (translated to Arabic in Bidayat Journal).
• Matta, Nada. 2005. “Disparities Between Arab and Jewish Local Authorities in the Social Welfare Ministry Budget.” Sikkuy Report.

Education:

• PhD, Spanish, Temple University, 1999

Research Interests:

• Spanish Linguistic Variation in the U.S.
• The relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and in the United States
• Second Language Acquisition
• Language Variation in media

Specialization:

Language variation in Spanish, the relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and the United States, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, theater, baroque and contemporary literature.

Selected Publications:

• Road to Kenny: Migration and Affricate /č/. Southwest Journal of Linguisitcs. 2008, vol. 27 Issue 2, p 65-78, 2007.
• Affricate /č/ in an Immigrant Community. PAMAPLA 28 / ACALPA 28. Papers from the Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Université de Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada, 2007.
• Linguistic Variation in Mexican Spanish as Spoken in Two Communities-Moroleón, Mexico and Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. (2002). New York: Mellen Press, 2002.

Education:

• BA, Economics, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India, 1972
• MA, Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, 1987
• PhD, Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1995

Research Interests:

• Hindu society and civilization
• Goddess worship
• Family dynamics
• Gender relations
• Morality
• Concepts of the self
• Women’s well-being

Bio:

Usha Menon grew up in India, receiving a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics in 1972 from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. In 1987, she completed her Masters in Anthropology from Utkal University, in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, and in 1995, she earned a PhD with Honors in Human Development from the University of Chicago. From 1995 through 1997, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. She has taught at Drexel University since September 1997.

Specialization:

Self, identity & personhood, emotional functioning, Hindu morality, gender relations in Hindu society, adult development, popular Hinduism, post-colonial feminism, Hindu religious nationalism and Islamic radicalism.

Selected Publications:

• Menon, U. (forthcoming). The Three Selves of Adulthood. In Concepts of Self and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective edited by Girishwar Misra, Delhi: Centre for Study on Civilizations.
• The Hindu Child. The Chicago Companion to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• The Hindu Concept of Rasa and the Cultural Psychology of the Emotions. Psychological Studies, Delhi: NAOP, 2009.
• Menon, U. Forecasting Iraq’s Future: Democracy à la Islam or Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again? In A. Shostak (ed.) America: Moving Ahead, Volume 2, in a 4-book series entitled Tackling Tomorrow Today. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

Education:

• PhD, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
• JD, Private Law, University of Tunis, Tunisia
• MS, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
• MA, Public Affairs, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Research Interests:

• The intersection between religion and law
• Gender politics
• Constitutional transition
• Language education

Bio:

Amel Mili holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, Newark. She also holds a JD in Private Law from the Law School of Tunis and a Master’s in Public Administration from The University of Tunis. From 1991 to 2009, Amel served as a Magistrate in the Administrative Tribunal of Tunisia. From January 2010 to May 2017, Amel served as director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program at the Lauder Institute for International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.

Amel’s professional interests include the intersection between religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transition, and language education. She has published articles in journals and conferences. Amel’s forthcoming book (co-edited with Sahar Khamis, PhD) entitled “Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation” is due to appear in October 2017.

Specialization:

The intersection between religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transition, and language education

Selected Publications:

• Mili, Amel. (co-editor, Sahar Khamis, PhD). “Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation”. Forthcoming, October 2017.

Education:

• BA, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University, 2008
• MS, Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

Bio:

Ni Ou was appointed assistant teaching professor in Fall 2017. Ni earned her BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from East China Normal University in 2008 and her MS in Education from the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania in 2011. Ni taught all levels of Chinese classes and coordinating intensive Chinese courses at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2017. Ni was also coordinating and developing a beginning business Chinese course at Penn. In addition to working at Penn, Ni has also worked at several language programs including CIEE (2007-2008), Columbia Business Chinese Program in Shanghai (2008), Princeton in Beijing Instructor, 2012) and Startalk Penn High School Chinese Academy as an instructor, curriculum designer and course coordinator (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014).

Education:

• PhD, Anthropology and Archaeology, Temple University, 2007

Research Interests:

• Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete
• Archaeoastronomy
• Early state formation
• Archaeology and anthropology of frontiers
• Mass communication

Bio:

The current pursuit of Academics constitutes a second career. My undergraduate degree is in Radio-TV (Baylor University), leading to a career in mass media. Initially, this was on radio, fulfilling an adolescent ambition to be a disc jockey. I also found, to my gratification and dismay, that I had some talent for writing and producing radio commercials. Upon finally outgrowing radio, the field of video production beckoned, which eventually resulted in an encounter with my first anthropologist (interested in having a video done about one of his projects).

My interest in this field took off, but it was determined that an advanced degree was called for. So with the immense understanding of my wife, Virginia, we came to Philadelphia, where I attended Temple University and earned my Doctorate.

Specialization:

Education:

• MS, Science, Technology and Society, Drexel
• EdD, Educational Leadership, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Research Interests:

• Educational Leadership in Higher Education
• Issues of Identity, Leadership in a Globalizing Work Environment
• Conflict Resolution in Multicultural Environments
• Reflective Practice as a Tool in Intercultural, Communication, Global Learning Environments
• International Business Communication (Germany and the US), Language Policy and Planning with a focus on Foreign Language Acquisition
• German Post-War History through Film and Literature, Development of Writing Assessment Tools for German Minor, Foreign Language Learning and Technology

Bio:

Simone Schlichting-Artur is a practitioner-researcher in the field of educational leadership and multiculturalism. Her research focuses on developing leadership strategies in multicultural learning and work environments.

Specialization:

International business communication (Germany and the U.S.), public health policy and languages, German post-war history through film and literature, development of writing assessment tools for German minor.

Selected Publications:

• "The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists?" in Alexander G. Nikolaev, Ernest Hakanen, eds. Leading to the War: The Global Media Debate. New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 149-163, January 2006.

Education:

• PhD, History, Emory University, 2014
• MA, Literature, Jadavpur University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

Modern South Asian history, urban environmental history, legal history, history of economic thought and subaltern studies

Bio:

My current research addresses two broad questions: how environment and ecological formations shaped law and economy from the eighteenth century onwards; and how the contingencies through which legal and economic imaginaries developed and globalized across the world in turn reshaped colonial environments. In particular I am interested in tracing how the specific geography of the colony, its rivers, seas, swamps, deltas and seasons, which were different from the temperate climate of Europe, shaped the legal and economic technologies during the period of European expansion and came to occupy the position of universal knowledge and science. I explore these themes from a South Asian perspective, especially by focusing on the Bay of Bengal delta, one of the active deltas connecting India and Bangladesh.

I am also interested in the transnational financial history of the early-modern and colonial maritime world of the Bay of Bengal region by exploring litigations, petitions, letters and private papers of merchants and traders. My second project focuses on shipwrecks in the Bay of Bengal in order to investigate how climactic and environmental changes from the eighteenth century shaped ideas about risk and instruments of insurance of imperial trade.

As a graduate student I was also involved in an ethnographic project for documenting how homeless people in Kolkata envisioned their rights to the city. My research was awarded the Junior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies and The History Project funded by the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard University (USA) and Cambridge University (UK). Before joining Drexel, I researched and taught at Jadavpur University (India), Heidelberg University (Germany) and Emory University (USA).

At Drexel I offer a range of courses on South Asian history, global environmental history, science and empire, environment and empire and legal history. My research and teaching explores the ways in which urban, environmental and economic histories intertwine in what is increasingly known as spatial history or historical geography. I am also an elected member to the Professional Division of American Historical Association.

Specialization:

South Asian History, Urban and Environmental Studies, Legal History, Transnational History, Postcolonial Theory, Subaltern Studies, History of Modern Economic Thought and Feminist History.

Selected Publications:

Books:

• Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, Studies in Environment and History (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Monsoon Landscapes: Credit, Climate and Calamity (in progress)

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “Land Acquisition and Dispossession in South Asia,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian Studies. Under Review
• “Provincializing the History of Speculation from Colonial India,” History Compass. (invited). Under Review
• “Indian City and its ‘Restive Publics’: A Review Essay,” Modern Asian Studies (invited). Under Review
• “Speculation: A Concept History,” Public Culture special issue on “Concept History of the Urban.” Under Review
• “Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal,” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient. 61, no. 5-6 (2018): 1036-73. Special Issue on “Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights and Law across Modern/Early Modern Divide,” doi:10.1163/15685209-12341466
• “Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta,” Global Environment 11, (2018): 236-257. Special Issue Environment, Disaster and Property, (With an introduction by Theodore Steinberg), doi:10.3197/ge.2018.110203
• “Ethics/ Reading /Sex: How do We Read?” Feminist Formations 29, no. 3 (2017): 193-7. doi:10.1353/ff.2017.0041
• “Hoarding Land: Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 3, December 2016: 465-482. doi: 10.1215/1089201x-3699007
• “The History of Eminent Domain in British Colonial Thought and Legal Practice in South Asia,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. L, no. 50 (December 2015): 45-53.

Refereed Book Chapters:

•  ‘Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta’ in Gyanendra Pandey, ed., Unarchived Histories: The mad and the trifling in the colonial and postcolonial world (New York: Routledge, 2013), 144-158.
• ‘Nation-less Bodies and National Identity in Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga Opar Ganga’ in Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann and Bo Petersson, eds., Narrative and Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Critical Analyses (Trier: Wissenschaftler Verlag Trier, 2008), 127-140.
• ‘Of Shadows and Silences: Militant Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines’ in Klaus Stierstorfer and Annette Kern-Stähler, eds., Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Case Book (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2008), 75-88.

Opinion Pieces/Studies/Entries:

• Co-authored with Seth Denbo, “When a Journal is a Scam: Predatory Journals and Scholarship as Public Good,” Perspectives in History.
• Introduction “Discovery of India(s): Resisting the National Biography,” special issue edited by Arvind Elangovan in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018 doi:10.1080/00856401.2018.1485621.
• Co-authored with Adam Knowles, “Ideal Subject of Totalitarianism,” Revue des femmes philosophes, 127-138 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0026/002655/265538m.pdf.
•  “Arbit” Special Issue on Everyday Keywords in South Asia, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies November 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2017.1292602
• “Being River: The Law, the Person and the Unthinkable,” World Legal History, H-Law. https://networks.h-net.org/node/16794/blog/world-legal-history-blog/177310/being-river-law-person-and-unthinkable
• “Soaking Ecologies: Rethinking Asian Urbanism,” International Institute of Asian Studies Newsletter, 76. http://iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/soaking-ecologies-rethinking-asian-urbanism
• “Manufactured Landscapes: Law and Hydraulics in the Bengal Delta,” Technology Stories: Past and Present, June 2016. http://www.technologystories.org/manufactured-landscapes-law-and-hydraulics-in-the-bengal-delta/
• “Wall Street Theke,” Anandabazar Patrika, November 6, 2012 (in Bengali)

Education:

• BA, English, Rutgers University, 1975
• PhD, Comparative Literature, CUNY, 1984

Research Interests:

• Latin American and Caribbean Literature
• American Ethnic Literature
• Memoir and Documentary Film
• Women and Literature

Bio:

Specialization:

Comparative Literature; Cuban and Latin American Fiction

Selected Publications:

• Tradition and Renewal in La gloria de don Ramiro. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1986.
• Latin American Writers: 30 Stories(ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
• Inventing America: Readings in Identity and Culture (ed., with Miles Orvell). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Education:

• PhD and MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BA, Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

• Politics of knowledge
• Gender and education 
• Women and educational leadership
• Feminist pedagogies
• Gender mainstreaming
• Transnational feminisms
• Intersectionality
• Training and adult education
• Gender policy
• Race/class/gender/sexuality
• Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Bio:

Kristy Kelly, PhD joined the Drexel faculty in 2012, serving as director of the Global and International Education Program until 2015. She is simultaneously affiliated with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, where she was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies from 2010-2012. She serves as an Expert Advisor on Training for Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming to the United Nations, and is a Fulbright Core Specialist on Gender Equality. She also chairs the Global Education Colloquium at Drexel University.

Kelly is a sociologist who uses gender and education as critical lenses to examine social change in Southeast Asia. She teaches courses on gender and education, education diplomacy, education and development, qualitative research methods, and the political economy of education reform. She is completing a book titled "Whatever Happened to Comrade? The Politics of Gender and Development in Vietnam", which is a multi-year ethnography of Vietnamese feminist engagement with gender and development discourses, policies and practices, and with the state, development institutions and each other in post-socialist Vietnam. Her book illuminates training as a key feminist space, place and process for transforming social relations and development practice. She has also published on higher education in Vietnam; gender, land and corruption in Africa; women and educational leadership; feminist pedagogies and online learning; transnational feminisms; and the politics of gender, class and citizenship in Asia.

Prior to joining Academia, she worked for a variety of development organizations, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Hong Kong, the Center for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement (CSEARR) in San Francisco, and Volunteers in Asia (VIA) in Vietnam. She established the first Vietnam office of the Institute of International Education (IIE) in Hanoi, where she lived from 1992 to 2000. She continues to consult and advise on gender, education and development issues for multilateral and humanitarian aid organizations in Asia and Africa.

Specialization:

Politics of knowledge, Gender and education, Women and educational leadership, Feminist pedagogies, Gender mainstreaming, Transnational feminisms, Intersectionality, Training and adult education, Gender policy, Race/class/gender/sexuality, Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Selected Publications:

• Kelly, Kristy. 2015. Social Learning, Adult Learning and Feminist Pedagogies. Santo Domingo: UN Women Training Centre.
• Kelly, Kristy, Lucy Ferguson and Khaitsa Wasiyo. 2015. United Nations Milestones and Engagements with Gender Equality (http://www.alignedcoursedesign.com/). Santo Domingo: UN Women Training Centre.
• Dao The Duc, Hoang Cam, Le Ha Trung, Lee Kanthoul and Kristy Kelly. 2012. Gender-Based Violence and Masculinities in Vietnam: Life History Analysis of the Associations between Violence and Masculinities in Two Sites in Vietnam. Hanoi, Vietnam: UN Women, UNIFEM and Partners4Prevention.
• Kelly, Kristy. 2011. Vietnam Case Study: Gender Equality in Educational Leadership and Management. Paris, France: UNESCO, International Institute for Educational Planning.
• Baer, Susanne, Lucy Nowottnick, Maria Bustelo, Emanuela Lombardo, Amaia Pérez-Orozco, Myra Marx Ferree, Kristy Kelly, Mieke Verloo, and Kathrin Zippel. 2009. Manual for Gender+ Trainers and Commissioners. Prepared for Transnational Applied Research on Gender Equity Training (TARGET) Project. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• Kelly, Kristy. 2007. Gender and HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: A draft report prepared on behalf of the Gender and Sexuality Sub-group of the HIV/AIDS Technical Working Group. Hanoi, Vietnam: Pact Vietnam.
• Kelly, Kristy. 2000. “The Higher Education System in Vietnam.” World Education News and Reviews 13(3).

Specialization:

Economic development, technological change, growth, industrial organization, macroeconomics and monetary economics

Selected Publications:

Articles

• Laincz, Christopher. "R&D Subsidies in a Model of Growth with Dynamic Market Structure" Journal of Evolutionary Economics 19.5 (Oct 2009):31
• Laincz, Christopher, Dennis, Benjamin and Zhu, Lei. "Which Exchange Rates Matter for FDI? Evidence for Japan" Southern Economic Journal 75.1 (Jul 2008):19
• Laincz, Christopher. "Entry and Exit in the Nonprofit Sector" Berkeley Economic & Policy Electronic Journal 8.1 (Jul 2008):42
• Laincz, Christopher and Peretto, Pietro. "Scale Effects in Endogenous Growth Theory: An Error of Aggregation Not Specification" Journal of Economic Growth 11.3 (Sep 2006):263-288
• Laincz, Christopher. "Market Structure and Endogenous Productivity Growth: How does R&D Policy Affect Market Structure?" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29.1 (Jan 2005):187-223

Education:

• BA, History and Government, Cornell University
• MPhil, International Relations, Oxford University
• PhD, Political Science, Brown University

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

I am a professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University, specializing in international relations. My primary areas of research include international organizations, international finance, development and human rights. I have published three books; on how U.N. agencies design and implement human rights policies, on the ability of international organizations to act independently on the international stage, and on the rights-based approach to development in India. I have also published on the rights of indigenous peoples, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the meaning of “equity” among develop experts, as well as other topics. Classes that I have taught include courses on international relations theory and practice, human rights, international organizations, and ethical issues in international affairs.

My current research continues my interest in international organizations (IOs) and human rights. A 2014 article in the journal Global Governance, and a 2017 book from Oxford University Press, look at the link between development and human rights in India. I am also researching human rights and development issues related to Africa and Asia, and the World Bank’s “Equity Agenda.” In 2018-2019 I will be living in Benin, on a grant from the Fulbright Foundation, teaching at the University of Abomey-Calavi and researching anti-corruption efforts.

I have also been the organizer and convener of the “ISA at UNAI” program, which brings together academic experts and UN practitioners in a series of workshops to discuss issues of common interest. This has been in conjunction with the International Studies Association and United Nations Academic Impact. From 2007-2018 I was the Director of the International Area Studies/Global Studies major at Drexel.

When not teaching, reading or writing, I enjoy rowing on the Schuylkill River and am a member of the Vesper Boat Club.

Specialization:

International organizations, international finance, development, human rights

Selected Publications:

• “The World Bank’s Equity Agenda.” Forthcoming from Global Governance.
• “SDG 10: Reduce Inequality in and Among Countries.” Social Alternatives 37, 2018.
• "Sexual orientation and gender identity in Nepal: Rights promotion through UN development assistance". Forthcoming from The Journal of Human Rights.
• Human Rights and Development: Rhetoric and Reality in India. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• "The United Nations and the Rights-Based Approach to Development in India." Global Governance 20 (March 2014).
• "Teaching Ethics and International Affairs: A Colloquium," International Studies Perspectives 3 (February 2012).
• "International Organizations as Independent Actors: A Framework for Analysis." Editor. Routledge, 2012.
• "Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations". Georgetown University Press, 2007.

Education:

• BA, Comparative Literature (Italian), University of Iowa, 1991
• MA, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997
• PhD, English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

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Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis
• Communication and Information Seeking (especially among Youth in West and Central African Contexts, including Nigeria and Cameroon)
• Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration
• Semiotics and Pragmatics

Bio:

I grew up in Chicago, which has long been an immigrant-receiving city. From the get go, I have been interested in international foods, communicating across cultures and learning languages, born out through lifelong dabbling in Spanish, German, French and Italian. As a 21 year old, I ran off to Italy to find myself immersed in other immigrant communities, especially among Eritreans, Ethiopians and Egyptians who came to Rome in the late 80s. That is when I decided to learn more about what motivates emigration, settlement and return. Upon my return to Chicago in 1991, I worked for an immigrant settlement agency and lived in the Pilsen neighborhood where I used my Spanish a lot. Eventually, however, I learned about World Englishes through a fascination with brain drain and Nigerian immigration and did my PhD in English linguistics.

As a Fulbright Scholar in 2010-11, I was a visiting professor in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in Central Africa, where I learned about migration and language shift, and I studied challenges for study abroad ambitions among both English and French-speaking African students. In general, I work on understanding what migration means to young people and families, how immigration and immigrants are represented in the media, and how people find, generate and share information about migration as a lived experience of globalization. Ideationally, I look at the political economy of development by asking what does migration do for people and to people.

Specialization:

Sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, globalization and the rhetoric of community, political economy of immigration, race and ethnicity, new African immigrants in the United States, Igbo studies.

Selected Publications:

• El-Burki, Imaani and Reynolds, Rachel R. It’s no secret that Justin wants to be black: Comedy Central’s Justin Bieber Roast and Neoliberal Race Representation. In Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age, Alison Novak and Imaani El-Burki, Editors, IGI-Global, 2016.
• Reynolds, R. R. Toward Understanding a Culture of Migration among Elite African Youth: Igbo College Students in the United States. In Kane, A. and Leedy, T. Migrations In and Out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives. Indiana University Press. 2013.
• Everyday Ruptures: Children and Migration in Global Perspective. Cati Coe, Debbie Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae Espinoza and Rachel R. Reynolds (Eds.). Vanderbilt University Press, 2011.
• Heritage Language Learners in First-Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes. Rachel R. Reynolds, Kathryn Howard, and Julia Deak. Foreign Language Annals, Volume 42, No. 2, Summer 2009.
• Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA. Global Networks. Volume 9(2): 209-226, April 2009.

Education:

• BA, Mount Holyoke College
• MA, University of Belgrade
• PhD, New York University

Bio:

Julie Mostov, PhD, is a Professor Emerita and formerly served as the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at Drexel University. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, her MA from the University of Belgrade (Yugoslavia) and her PhD from New York University. Under Professor Mostov’s leadership, the Office of International Programs brought a global dimension to university life, promoting a wide range of strategic initiatives from study abroad and exchanges to major research collaborations and centers, international cooperative agreements, conferences, co-curricular programming and cultural events.

Her academic research explores the politics of national identity, sovereignty, citizenship and gender with a special focus on Southeastern Europe. Her recent work looks at violence, borders, and space and promotes the notion of soft-borders, transnational citizenship, and relational sovereignty. Publications related to these themes include: Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); her book with Rada Ivekovic, From Gender to Nation, (University of Bologna/Longo Editore, 2002 and Zubaan Press, New Delhi: India, 2004); "Soft Borders and Transnational Citizens;” “‘Our Women’/ ‘Their Women’: Symbolic Boundaries, Territorial Markers, and Violence in the Balkans;” “The Use and Abuse of History in Eastern Europe;” “Endangered Citizens;” and “La formation de l’ethnocratie.”

In addition to this academic research, Mostov has been a consultant for the United States government and the European Union and has been actively involved in development projects in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Moldova, securing over $2,000,000 in U.S. State Department funding.