Faculty Advisors & Staff
Dr. Sharon G. Feldman
She/Her
Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies
William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages
Interdisciplinary Program Co-Coordinator, Global Studies
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Spanish and Catalan theatre and performance
- Theatre translation and translation theory
(804) 287-6419
Associate Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Interdisciplinary Program Co- Coordinator, Global Studies
Africana Studies Ex-Officio Advisory Board Member
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Political and Cultural History of Latin America
- Welfare and Philanthropy in Latin America
- Sociology of Medical Knowledge
(804) 287-6374
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Britain and the World
- History of Education
- British Emancipation
(804) 289-8335
Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Imperial Russia / Soviet Union / Post-Soviet space
- Ideology & Propaganda
- Nationalism
- Interdisciplinary methodology (esp. concerning literature and film)
(804) 289-8667
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Natural resource management
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Indigenous peoples
- Land tenure
- Regional integration
- Climate change mitigation and carbon markets
(804) 287-6307
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Specialties:
- Social change
- Russia and East Europe
- West Europe (esp. the United Kingdom)
- Post-socialism
- War (specifically, the Blockade of Leningrad)
- Power and culture
- Institutions and Institutional change
- Economic sociology
- Political sociology
- Complex organizations
(804) 289-8075
Professor of Russian and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Russian literature and culture
- Czech literature and culture
- Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
- History of science (Soviet Union)
(804) 289-8101
Weinstein Chair of International Studies
Professor of Political Science
Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science
Specialties:
- Comparative Politics
- International Development
- Property Rights
- Customary Law
- Legal Development
- Post-conflict Migration
804-289-1757
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Europe
- 20th Century Germany
- History of Migration
- Race, Gender, Sexuality
- Far-Right Extremism
(804) 289-8346
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Trade
- Applied Microeconomics
- Industrial Organization
(804) 287-6520
Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- International rivalry
- Political causes of military effectiveness
- Reputation-building
- Alliance politics
- Nuclear proliferation
(804) 484-1566
Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Japanese Colonialism
- Okinawan History
- Heritage Studies
(804) 289-8334
Professor of Political Science and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Latin American Politics
- Comparative Political Economy
- Comparative Welfare States
- Comparative Politics
- Political Parties
(804) 289-8532
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, Geography Advisor
Chair, Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability
Environmental Studies Advisor
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change
Specialties:
- Human environment interface
- Amazonia
- Political ecology
- Cartography
- Conservation and development
(804) 289-8661
Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance, Culture and Communications
Specialties:
- Colonial Africa
- History of Education
- Nationalism and Decolonization
(804) 289-8976
Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Turkey and Ottoman Empire
- The Middle East
- Nationalism
- World War I
(804) 289-8336
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Trade
- International Economics
- Quantitative Methods