Faculty
| Richard Keller | Chair, Development Studies Ph.D. Program, Director, Global Studies, Associate Professor, Medical History and Bioethics. History of European and colonial medicine and public health. |
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| Samer Alatout | Associate Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Water, knowledge and power in the Middle East; globalization of environmental discourse and theories of state; natural resources, identity politics and theories of power; developments in science and technology studies |
| Michael W. Apple | John Bascom Professor, Curriculum and Instruction & Educational Policy Studies. Democratic educational reforms; unequal effects of markets, national curricula, national standards, and national testing in education; schooling and social justice. Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea, China, India. |
| Bradford Barham | Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics. Industrial organization; international agricultural development; Latin America. |
| James Bockheim | Professor, Soil Science, Forest Ecology & Management, Institute for Environmental Studies. Land protection. Albania, Antarctica, circumarctic. |
| Katherine A. Bowie | Professor, Anthropology. Peasant political economy in 19th and 20th centuries; peasant political movements; nation-state formation; NGOs, village-based organizations; irrigation societies. Thailand, mainland Southeast Asia. |
| Jean-Paul Chavas | Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics. Economics of agriculture in the US and around the world including the economics of biotechnology, the linkages between agriculture and ecological management, the economics of risk and dynamics applied to agriculture and food markets, and economic and trade policy. |
| Jane L. Collins | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender & Women's Studies. Research has focused on gender and labor in family farming, global agribusiness, the global apparel industry, the low-wage service sector in Latin America and the U.S. Also commodity chains and development. |
| Ian A. Coxhead | Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics. Economic development, international trade and globalization, labor markets and migration, environment, income distribution, and poverty alleviation; East and Southeast Asia. |
| Joseph W. Elder | Professor, Sociology. Relationships between ethnic conflicts and economic change. Roles of religion in contemporary political movements. Involvement of foreign security and geopolitical concerns in local and regional economic strategies. India, Nepal, Sri Lanka. |
| Christina Ewig | Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science. Political economy, social policy, social movement, and gender and politics in Latin America. Specific research has been on gender and health policy in Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Nicaragua. https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/cewig/web/ |
| Jo Ellen Fair | Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication. Reporting of conflict and crisis in various countries in Africa. Media in developing countries, international communication, media and democracy, media and gender. |
| Jeremy Foltz | Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics. Microeconomics of technology adoption, farm structure, agricultural biotechnology, intellectual property rights, land use and economic development. |
| Ted Gerber | Professor, Sociology. Economic and political change in contemporary Russia. |
| Jess C. Gilbert | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Historical and comparative approach to the study of agriculture. Family farming and rural land ownership. New Deal farm policies to reevaluate sociological theories regarding policy intellectuals, democratic planning, and the state. |
| Gary P. Green | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Community and Environmental Sociology, urban sociology and community development, and economic sociology- particularly labor force issues. |
| Kathryn Hendley | Professor, Law and Political Science. Law and politics, transition to the market in Russia. |
| Harvey M. Jacobs | Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Public policy for land use and environmental management. Social discourse and conflict over property rights. Global spread of private property as a social institution. Conservative challenges to mainstream land use and environmental movements. U.S., Europe (western, central, eastern), southern Africa. http://urpl.wisc.edu/people/jacobs/ |
| Nancy Kendall | Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies. Affiliated with African Studies and Women's Studies. Comparative and international studies of globalized policies (e.g. Education for All, political democratization), basic education, HIV/AIDS, gender and sexuality, children affected by HIV/AIDS, policy as practice, unequal effects of economic and political processes, social justice. Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Southern and Eastern Africa; Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, HIPCs. |
| Jack R. Kloppenburg | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Social ramifications of knowledge production. Emergent social impacts of biotechnology. Distinction between scientific and local knowledge. Global political economy of access to, and control over, genetic resources, processes of genetic erosion and species extinction, prospects for sustainable agriculture. U.S., less developed nations. |
| Heinz Klug | Professor, Law. Comparative constitutional law; southern Africa. |
| Chaeyoon Lim | Assistant Professor, Sociology. Social and organizational foundations of democratic citizenship. |
| Sida Liu | Assistant Professor, Sociology. Sociology of law, work and occupations, political sociology, contemporary China. Research on the historical change, social structure, political mobilization, and globalization of the legal profession. |
| Melanie Manion | Vilas-Jordan Distinguished Achievement Professor, Political Science and Public Affairs. Good governance, institutional design, and political representation. Coordination of local elections, legislative authority to appoint leaders, and communist party control of appointments in mainland China. |
| Lisa Naughton | Professor, Geography. Biodiversity, community-based conservation of forest and wildlife, property rights. Latin America, Africa. |
| Peter Nowak | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Sociology of agriculture; environmental and resource sociology. |
| Jess Reed | Professor, Animal Science. International agriculture, animal biology, immunity and toxicology. |
| Gary Sandefur | Professor, Sociology. Race and ethnic studies, social stratification, and demography and is particularly interested in policy oriented research. |
| Gay Seidman | Professor, Sociology. Director of African Studies Program. Labor in developing countries, social movements, gender, demography. Comparing workers' movements in Brazil and South Africa. |
| Ajay Sethi | Associate Professor, Population Health Sciences. Study of epidemiology of infectious disease transmission and their faciltators including substance use, sexual behavior and the delivery of healthcare in resource-limited settings, specifically Uganda; quantitative and qualitative methods, clinical research, operations research. |
| Hemant Shah | Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication. The role of mass communication in the processes of national development. The role of migration, money and mass media in the formation of community and cultural identities. Global media industries in Asia. |
| Steve J. Stern | Professor, History. Political economy and social history of power and subaltern responses to power. Focuses on peoples of color in Indo-America and Afro-America, on gender, and on the colonial period and its legacies. |
| Randy Stoecker | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology.and Center for Community and Economic Development. Participatory action research, community organizing, community development, and community informatics. Rural and urban contexts in North America and Australia. http://comm-org.wisc.edu |
| Leann Tigges | Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology. Economic transformation and labor market inequality (class, race, and gender); women and employment; flexible employment relations. |
| Aili Tripp | Professor, Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies, and Director, Center for Research on Gender and Women. Teaching and research interests in African politics, comparative politics, and gender studies in an international context. Has published on women and politics in Africa, women's movements in Africa, women's rights in post-conflict Africa and global feminism. Uganda, Tanzania, Liberia, Angola. http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/tripp/ |
| Matthew Turner | Professor, Geography. Cultural ecology, political economy, biogeography. The effect of changing rural political economies on environmental change in Africa with a particular emphasis on vegetation dynamics, nutrient cycling, and the political ecology of agropastoralism in dryland West Africa. |
| Stephen J. Ventura | Professor, Soil Science and Environmental Studies, Director - Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility and Director - Land Tenure Center. Interests in geographic information systems, spatial process modeling, land and resource tenure, urban agriculture and food systems. |
| Thongchai Winichakul | Professor, History. Mainland Southeast Asian history, cultural and intellectual history, history of knowledge, research on the effect of modern geographical knowledge and the changing perceptions of the past, and nation formation. Politics and current issues in Thailand and in postmodern/post-colonial history. |
| Stephen Young | Assistant Professor, Geography. Economic geography, finance, South Asia, youth, masculinities, cultures of enterprise, critical geopolitics. |
| Lydia Zepeda | Professor, Consumer Science. http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/cs/Pages/facultyandstaff/biozepeda.html |
