Affiliated faculty members

Research interests

Our research interests span the globe.

• Koumari Mitra, in anthropology, has investigated social entrepreneurship among marginalized groups in India.
• Sophie Lavoie, based in the Department of Culture and Media Studies, has studied women writers in Nicaragua
• Historian Stefanie Kennedy studies the significance of disability in the Caribbean slave trade.
• Anthropologist Daniel Tubb has conducted research in rural communities living near mines in Colombia
• Murshed Chowdhury, in economics, has investigated the impact of information and communications technologies on economic growth
• Sociologist Lucia Tramonte has studied social determinants of educational achievement, using statistics from countries throughout the global south
• Political Scientist Thom Workman researches in the area of political economy and contemporary war and conflict

IDS-affiliated faculty members

Coordinator

• Murshed Chowdhury, Department of Economics

All faculty members

• John Ball, Department of English
• Murshed Chowdhury, Department of Economics
• Tia Dafnos, Department of Sociology
• Anna Hamling, Culture and Language Studies
• Catherine Holtmann, Department of Sociology
• Suzanne Hindmarch, Department of Political Science
• Stefanie Kennedy, Department of History
• Sophie Lavoie, Department of Culture and Language Studies
• Koumari Mitra, Department of Anthropology
• Constantine E. Passaris, Department of Economics
• Noah Pleshet, Department of Anthropology
• Lucia Tramonte, Department of Sociology
• Daniel Tubb, Department of Anthropology
• Thom Workman, Department of Political Science