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:

• 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:

International education; education policy; equity and access; cultural transmission; China

Bio:

Rebecca Clothey, PhD, has been a faculty member at Drexel University since 2006. Her vast international experience started in India, where she attended an international school as a youth. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, she lived in China for five years where she was based at various higher education institutions throughout the country. Clothey’s current research on maintenance and transmission of Uyghur culture spans several countries, including China, the US, and Turkey, where she was a visiting scholar in 2018-19. Uyghurs are an ethnic group indigenous to China’s northwestern-most Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where she was a visiting scholar in the fall of 2014. Prior to completing her PhD 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 in Sarajevo. She has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships for her research, one to China and one to Uzbekistan, a Spencer Fellowship to study community-based schools in Argentina (with Kai Heidemann of Maastricht University in the Netherlands), and an ARIT-NEH Fellowship to study cultural transmission among the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey. 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:

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

Curriculum Vitae:

Bio:

I am 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 conditions of independence for international organizations, and on the rights-based approach to development. 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, among 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 and human rights based approaches to development. My 2017 book from Oxford University Press examined the link between development and human rights in India. Current research focuses on how the Universal Periodic Review process can inform UN development policy, and how global power shifts are changing the UN Secretariat.

I have been a visiting Research Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Abomey-Calavi, in Benin. I am currently Chair of the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association (ISA). I founded and directed the “ISA at UNAI” program, which brings together ISA scholars with their counterparts at the UN for discussion of important issues. 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:

• “Headwinds and Tailwinds to the Rights-based Approach to Development,” forthcoming from The Journal of Human Rights
• “The World Bank’s Equity Agenda After Ten (or so) Years” Global Governance 24, 2018.
• “SDG 10: Reduce Inequality in and Among Countries.” Social Alternatives 37, 2018.
• Human Rights and Development: Rhetoric and Reality in India. Oxford University Press, 2017. 
• "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:

• 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:

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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:

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

Research Interests:

• Visual Anthropology
• Digital technologies and mediated cities
• Photography and the urban imagination
• Street photography, street fashion, and street style blogging
• DIY, amateur, and independent media
• New Media and Mediated subjectivities
• United States and Southeast Asia

Bio:

Brent Luvaas is a visual and socio-cultural anthropologist interested in digital technologies and their impacts on creative practice and everyday urban experience. 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), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. Visit his personal website and see his visual work at brentluvaas.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:

• The Anthropology of Dress and Fasion: A Reader (editor, with Joanne Eicher) London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Street Style Geographies: Re-Mapping the Fashion Blogipelago, in International Journal of Fashion Studies 5(2): 289-308, 2018.
• Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style, in Fashion Studies 1(1): 1-20, 2018.
• Unbecoming: The Aftereffects of Autoethnography, in Ethnography, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1466138117742674?ai=1gvoi&=3ricys&af=R, 2017.
• The Affective Lens, in Anthropology & Humanism 42(2): 163-179, 2017.
• What Does a Fashion Influencer Look Like? Portraits of the Instafamous, in Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture 4(3): 341-364, 2017.
• Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Internet Famous in Real Life: Becoming a Street Style Star at New York Fashion Week, in Cultural Anthropology 31(2) online edition, 2016.
• Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style, in Fashion Theory, 17(1): 55-76, 2013.
• Shooting Street Style in Indonesia: A Photo Essay, in Clothing Cultures 1(1): 59-81, 2013.
• Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand, in Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 127-143, 2013.
• Exemplary Centers and Musical Elsewheres: Performing Authenticity and Autonomy in Indonesian Indie Music, in Asian Music 44(2): 95-114, 2013.
• Third World No More: Re-Branding Indonesian Streetwear, in Fashion Practice 5(2): 203-228, 2013.
• DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, London and New York: Berg, 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:

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

Curriculum Vitae:

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:

Monserrat Bores holds a Diploma in Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, and a BA in Communications from Universidad Cuauhtémoc, Mexico. In 2003, Monserrat earned her MA degree in Spanish from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. In addition, she has taken several doctoral courses in Comparative and Spanish Literature, in Canada and in the United States. Her area of specialization is Colonial Latin American Literature and Early Modern Spanish Literature.

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Second Language Acquisition
• Language Pedagogy
• Colonial Latin American Literature
• Early Modern Spanish Literature

Bio:

Monserrat Bores is an assistant teaching professor in the Global Studies and Modern Languages Department at Drexel University. Before coming to Drexel, Monserrat taught at Princeton University for 9 years, as a lecturer of Spanish. At Princeton, she developed, taught and coordinated different intermediate- and advanced-level Spanish courses. From 2011 to 2012 she was the Acting Associate Director of the Spanish Program at the same academic institution. In addition to her role as an educator, she was a Fulbright Faculty Advisor for Princeton University undergraduates.

At Pennsylvania State University, Monserrat was the Co-Director of the Education Abroad Program in Puebla, in three different occasions. Her administrative role in this abroad program has been key to her development as a faculty member and student advisor.

Her work in the Hispanic community includes translating as a volunteer in the Pediatric Clinic at the University Medical Center of Princeton.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• 2016 “Dale la vuelta a la tortilla: rediseño curricular”. Co-authored with Prof. Lorena Camacho. Observatorio Publications. Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/informe_simposio_lengua_0.pdf
• 2010 “Las conversaciones culturales de Francisco Imperial: la importancia del dezir y la gaya ciencia en la construcción de la voz autorial.” Revista Internacional d’Humanitats 18 (2010): 59-64.
• 2009 “La Historia de la doncella Teodor y las (con)tensiones del discurso obsceno.” eHumanista 12 (2009): 107-126.
• 2008 “A Linguagem Obscena do Parvo No Auto da Barca do Inferno de Gil Vicente: Uma Luta de Palavras Pelos Espaços Divinos.” Romance Notes 48.2 (2008): 235-245.
• 2005 “Hacia una nueva genealogía de carácter femenino maternal: Con mi madre (2001) de Soledad Puértolas desde una perspectiva irigariana.” AnMal electrónica17 (2005): online. anmal.uma.es/numero17/Bores.htm
• 2004 “La representación de la muerte en El Caballero determinado de Hernando de Acuña.” SILVA: Estudios de humanismo y tradición clásica 3 (2004): 9-35.

Education:

• PhD, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1996
• MA, Italian Literature, Indiana University, 1993
• Laurea French Literature, German as second area, University of Turin (Italy), 1984

Academic Positions:

• 2019 - Present: Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages, Drexel University, Philadelphia
• 2015 – 2019: Professor of European Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego
• 2013 – 2015: Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 2003 – 2013: Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 1998 – 2003: Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 1997 – 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR

Academic Administration:

• 2019 – Present: Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia
• 2015 – 2019: Dean, Arts and Letters: College of Humanities and Social Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego
• 2012 – 2013: Associate Dean for Humanities and Regional Campuses (Interim), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 2010 – 2011: Chair, Program of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 2005 – 2010: Head, Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• 1998 – 2004; 2006 – 2008: Director of Italian Language Program,Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Curriculum Vitae:

Selected Publications:

Works in Progress:

• “Nation(s) and Translation: special issue of Annali d’Italianistica” (forthcoming 2020)
• “The Camps of the ‘Duce’: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943)”: co-translated and co-edited; (forthcoming with Routledge 2020)
• “Umberto Eco: Cultural Interventions from the Archives of History”

Books:

• “The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation: Umberto Eco's Alternative,” with an afterword by Umberto Eco, ed. (New York: Peter Lang, 1998)
• “Céline, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writers of the 1930s,” with a preface by Stanley Gontarski (Florida University Press 2000)
• “Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema,” ed. (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005)
• “Reading and Writing the Mediterranean: Essays by Vincenzo Consolo,” ed. with M. Lollini (Toronto University Press, 2006)
• “Italian Cultural Studies: Negotiating Regional, National and Global Identities,” ed. Special issue of Annali d’Italianistica” 24 (2006)
• “Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean,” with V. Ferme (Fordham University Press, 2011; Race & Ethnic Studies series); translated, edited and annotated.
• “Italy @ 150: National Discourse at the Sesquicentennial (1861-2011)”; guest-editor for special issue of Italian Culture XXX.1 (2012)
• “Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era,” with V. Ferme (co-authored monograph, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
• “From Otium and Occupatio to Work and Labor in Italian Culture,” co-ed. for Annali d’Italianistica 23 (2014)

Chapters in Books/Articles (Recent):   

• “Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Interruptions.” ISSA 31.1 (2018): 25-59.  
• “Umberto Eco’s Semiotic Imaginary”, with a response by Umberto Eco The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2016, 533-559.  
• “Fighting Cosa Nostra with the Camera’s Eye: Letizia Battaglia’s Evolving Icons of ‘Traumatic Realism,’” Italian Women at War, ed. Susan Amatangelo, Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2016, 165-179.
• Writing the Mediterraneity of the Italian South,” with V. Ferme, CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 222-247 (rpt.)
• “Vincenzo Consolo and His Mediterranean Paradigm,” with M. Lollini, CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 177-197 (rpt.)
• “Vincenzo Consolo and the Postmodern Writing of Melancholy,” CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 144-154 (rpt.)
• “Consolo, Lévinas, and the Ethics of Postmodernist Storytelling,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 119-128 (rpt.)
• “From Sicily to the Global South(s): Vincenzo Consolo and the Mediterranean,” Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention, ed. Summerfield and Karagoz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, 195-215.
• “European Cities Dream the ‘Great Sea’: Discourses on the Mediterranean and their Reception in the Arab and Islamic World,” Mediterranean Review 7.2 (2014): 53-82.  
• “Creative Tensions: Evolution and Involution in Eco’s Aesthetics Theory and Fictional Practice” Parol: quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia 14 (2013): 119-133.

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:

• Latin American diaspora and climate change
• Politics and poetics of translation
• Early modern cultural production
• History and sociology of science

Bio:

Steve Vásquez Dolph, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. His research and teaching examine the relationship between global diaspora and climate change, with a special focus on Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he has taught courses on sanctuary cities, food sovereignty and cultural translation. He is also the coordinator of Elementary Spanish for the Modern Languages program, and the current Vice President of Bienvenidos, the university's Hispanic/Latino faculty and professional staff association. As the 2019-20 Teaching Faculty Fellow at the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, he leads a working group on community-based global learning.

Specialization:

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

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, French and Francophone Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
• MA, French Literature, Arizona State University
• DEA Conflict Resolution, University of Abidjan-Cocody, Cote Ivoire
• Maitrise, Public Law, University of Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire
• License, Public Law, University of Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire

Research Interests:

• Francophone African and Caribbean Literature
• Human Rights in Literary Studies
• Childhood in Literature
• Postcolonial Studies
• Oral Literature

Bio:

Parfait Kouacou is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University. His research investigates the relation between Francophone African literary discourses and contemporary global issues. His research has received several honors and awards, including the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) Fellowship, the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship and the Early Research Initiative Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Public Knowledge from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His recent roles as Co-Chair of the Africa Research Group (ARG) and as Human Rights Seminar Fellow at the Henri Peyre French Institute, CUNY, translate his strong interest in global affairs.

Parfait previously worked as a journalist, a public information officer and a human rights officer with the United Nations in Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to joining Drexel University, he had enjoyed teaching French language and culture to graduate and undergraduate students for six years in Arizona and New York.

Specialization:

Postcolonial Francophone African Literature, Human Rights Critical Theories, Childhood Studies, Oral Literature

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:

• "Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women's Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Company" Politics & Society (Forthcoming).
• 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:

• 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, Emory University
• BA, MA, Jadavpur University

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

Modern South Asian history, urban environmental history, legal history, maritime history, history of economic thought and Anthropocene

Bio:

Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, explores the intersection of legal and environmental history. Professor Bhattacharyya’s research is driven by the desire to understand how legal and economic structures order our conceptualization of environmental transformations and shape how we respond to climate crisis. Her book, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 honorable mention for the best book in Urban History. The book documents how legal experimentation through the 18th and 19th century was central to reshaping the political economy of urban land and waterscapes in the Bengal delta. Through an environmentally grounded history of the urban land market, it argues that ecological change influenced practices of land speculation, urban planning and property law and shows how marshes were transformed into speculative property in the Bengal Delta.

You can hear Professor Bhattacharyya discuss her book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (July 2020), and talk about her other research, including Urbanism at Water’s Edge: The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta (May 2020), and Empire and Ecology (July 2020).

Currently, she is a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. She is at work on her second book, Monsoon Landscapes: Credit, Climate and Calamity, about the long history of how marine insurance market’s risk apprehensions shaped weather knowledge, colonial oceanographic sciences and a derivatives market in climate futures in the Indian Ocean Region. She is a member of the Collaborative Platform of Ocean Space and an international collaborator in the Narrative Science Project, London School of Economics. Her program of research has been supported by American Institute of Indian Studies, The History Project funded by the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard University, and Social Science Research Council. She held visiting fellowships at International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History (Frankfurt) and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.

Professor Bhattacharyya’s work has been published in the Journal of Social and Economic History of the Orient; Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian Studies; Economic and Political Weekly; Global Environment and Modern Asian Studies. She is the South Asia editor for History Compass and serves on the editorial boards of Environment and History and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her writings have also appeared in The Telegraph, Amrita Bajar Patrika, n+1, The Diplomat and Somatosphere.

She offers classes on South Asian History, environmental history, legal history, urban history and climate history. She was the recipient of the 2018 CoAS Teaching Excellence Award.

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)

Monographs:

2018
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348867 (Indian edition February 2019; Paperback June 2019).

Selected Articles:

2020
“Indian City and its ‘Restive Publics’: A Review Essay,” Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 4 (2020), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000301(invited).

2020
“Speculation: A Concept History,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40, no. 1 (2020), 51-56. Special Issue on “Concepts of the Urban.” https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8186038

2019
“Land Dispossession in South Asia,” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Asian Studies. ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.189

2019
“Provincializing the History of Speculation from Colonial India,” History Compass, 17: e12517 (2019).  doi:10.1111/hic3.12517

2018
“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

2018
“Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta,” Global Environment 11, (2018): 236-257. Special Issue on “Environment, Disaster and Property.” doi:10.3197/ge.2018.110203

2017
“Ethics/ Reading /Sex: How do We Read?” Feminist Formations 29, no. 3 (2017): 193-7. doi:10.1353/ff.2017.0041

2016
“Hoarding Land: Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 3 (2016): 465-82. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3699007

2015

“The History of Eminent Domain in British Colonial Thought and Legal Practice in South Asia,” Economic and Political Weekly 50, no. 50 (2015): 45-53.

Selected Book Chapters:

2020

“Politics of Dwelling: Divergent Spaces in Calcutta,” Richardson Dilworth and Timothy Weaver eds. Role of Ideas in Urban Political Development, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), 202-14.

2013

“Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta” Gyanendra Pandey, ed., Unarchived Histories: The Mad and the Trifling in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (New York: Routledge, 2013), 144-58.

Education:

• PhD, Hispanic Cultural Studies, Michigan State University, 2016
• BA, Spanish Education, University of Puerto Rico, 2004

Research Interests:

• Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures
• Latino/a Studies
• Migration Studies
• Latin American diaspora
• Critical race theory
• Gender and sexuality in a global context

Bio:

Octavio Borges-Delgado earned his PhD in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Michigan State University. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University. His research and teaching examine contemporary narrative representations of Hispanic Caribbean migrations to the United States. An important part of his research focuses on transnational issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and national identity concerning migration and postcolonialism in literature and popular (sub) cultures. He has taught courses on Spanish as a second language, Hispanic/Latinx identities, Latin American migrations to the United States, and Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures.

Specialization:

Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, Latino/a studies, migration studies, Latin American diaspora, Critical race theory, Gender and sexuality in a global context

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, 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

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis
• Violence Against Women in Mass Media
• Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration
• Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal

Bio:

I grew up in Chicago, which has long been an immigrant-receiving city, and one in which questions of race and ethnicity, inequality, geography, and access to power are always in the air. Over the course of my education, I came to approach the richness and challenges of American diversity through the study of language in interaction, the linguistic performance of group belonging, and intercultural dialog. In my early career, after fieldwork with African immigrants, I worked on developing new ideas about child and youth (im)migrants and human development.

Recently, I’ve joined a research project that looks at Violence Against Women as a global phenomenon. In particular, I am looking at streaming video on demand and how rape myths are or are not perpetuated in visual and textual discourses of popular culture.

Despite having two different research areas, I’m most engaged with trying to frame how the rich fabric and sophisticated discourses of American class, ethnic and gender difference can inform a progressive basis by which to approach the environmental and social challenges of the Anthropocene. Clearly, we need to change quickly, but out of what, and how?

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.