James Anderson

Professor
Economics

A.B., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Professor Anderson has taught at Boston College since 1969. Currently he teaches courses in International Trade and Finance, Micro Theory, and American Economic History. His research interests are international economics, micro theory and applications, economic history, and economic development. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Boston College Distinguished Research Award. He is currently working on an article for the Review of International Economics entitled "Trade Reform Diagnostics with Many Households, Quotas and Tariffs."

Ali Banuazizi

Professor
Political Science

B.S., University of Michigan
A.M., The New School for Social Research
Ph.D., Yale University

Professor Banuazizi, who joined the Boston College faculty in 1971, is Professor of Cultural Psychology, Co-director of the Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and a member of the International Studies Academic Board. His scholarly interests include the cultural and social-psychological dimensions of social change and political conflict; culture and emotions; conceptions of equality and social justice; and the comparative study of religion, ethnicity, and politics in the Middle East and Central Asia. His current courses include PS 254 Cultural Psychology; PS 550 Advanced Cultural Psychology; PS 590 History and Theories of Psychology; and HS 326 History of Modern Iran.

Paul Christensen

Adjunct Associate Professor
Political Science

B.A., University of Washington
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor Christensen joined the Boston College faculty in 2000. His primary academic interests center on Russia and East Central Europe. His current course offerings include PO 432 Postcommunist Transitions; PO 402 Comparative Revolutions; PO 524 Russia, Eurasia and the World; and PO 510 Globalization.

Timothy Crawford

Assistant Professor
Political Science

A.B., San Diego State University
M.A., University of San Diego
Ph.D., Columbia University

Professor Crawford teaches courses on the Causes of War, the United Nations, Intelligence and International Security, and Security Studies. His current research is on intelligence cooperation in UN security affairs and alliance wedge strategies. He is the author of Pivotal Deterrence: Third Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Cornell University Press, 2003), which won the 2003 Edgar S. Furniss book award for best first book in international security; and co-editor (with Alan Kuperman) of Gambling on Intervention (Routledge, forthcoming), which explores the moral hazard problem of intervention in civil wars. Professor Crawford has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton's Center of International Studies, and Harvard's Olin Institute of Strategic Studies. He is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of America Abroad Media, which produces foreign affairs programs for public radio and television.

David Deese

Associate Professor
Political Science

B.A., Dartmouth College
M.A., M.A.L.D., Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Professor Deese joined the Boston College faculty in 1981. He directed the International Studies Program from 1986 to 2002. He researches and teaches the politics and institutions of international economic relations. He is the author of many publications, including a leading book on the domestic politics of foreign policy in the United States, The New Politics of American Foreign Policy and, most recently, "Democratization as a Source of Fundamental Economic Reform in Developing States," a chapter in the book Development and Democracy: New Perspectives on an Old Debate (2003). He co-edited Energy and Security with Joseph S. Nye. Currently he is completing a book, Leading Economic Globalization, which will explore the role of the World Trade Organization. He teaches PO 525 The Politics and Institutions of International Economic Relations; PO 861 Cooperation in World Politics, a graduate seminar; and PO 522 Public and Private International Institutions and Causes of International Peace and War.

Charles Derber

Professor
Sociology

A.B., Yale University
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Professor Derber has taught at Boston College since 1980. His latest book is entitled People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis. Professor Derber teaches the courses SC 092 Peace or War, and SC 346 Economic Crisis and Social Change.

Jennifer Erickson

Assistant Professor
Political Science and International Studies

B.A., St. Olaf College
Ph.D., Cornell University

Jennifer L. Erickson has a B.A. from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. Her research interests sit at the intersection of international security and political economy and focus on international reputation, states’ commitment to international rules and norms, and the role of domestic politics in promoting compliance with those commitments. She is currently completing her book manuscript on the spread of arms export controls regulating small and major conventional arms transfers to human rights violators and conflict zones, as well as a series of papers on sanctions and arms embargoes. Erickson has conducted extensive fieldwork in the United States and Europe, where she was a research fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and the Wissenchaftszentrum (WZB) in Berlin. She has also been a Research Fellow at Dartmouth College in the War and Peace Studies Program at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

Brian J. Gareau

Assistant Professor
Sociology and International
Studies

B.A., Providence College
M.S., Washington State University
Ph.D., University of CA,
Santa Cruz

Dr. Brian J. Gareau has a Master's of Science in Environmental Science, a Master's of Arts, and a Ph.D. in Sociology with a parenthetical notation in Environmental Studies. His professional work focuses on the sociology of global environmental governance, especially the governance of ozone layer depletion and global climate change. Dr. Gareau teaches courses on Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Select Topics in Environmental Studies, the Sociology of Science and Technology, a core course on Society and Environmental Transformations, and the Senior Seminar for International Studies majors.

Roberto Goizueta

Professor
Theology

B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Marquette University

Professor Goizueta teaches courses on U.S. Latino/a and Latin-American theologies. His publications–including the book Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment (1995)–examine the relationship between theology and culture, focusing especially on popular religion as a source for theological reflection.

Paul Gray

Associate Professor
Sociology

M.A., Stanford University
Ph.D., Yale University

Professor Gray has taught at Boston College for the past 29 years. His areas of interest include development and modernization, social change, business and society, and field work methodology. He is a former Director of the International Studies Minor and currently serves on the International Studies Academic Board. He teaches SC 491 Sociology of the Third World; SC 500 International Studies Seminar; and SC 511 Ethnography and Field Research. He has done comparative research in Jamaica and Ghana focusing on voluntary associations and labor unions. He also maintains a practice as a business consultant in the areas of corporate citizenship, strategic planning, and leadership development.

Donald Hafner

Professor
Political Science

A.B., Kalamazoo College
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Professor Hafner's interest in international politics has been both academic and practical. He served with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Carter Administration as an advisor and participant in the strategic nuclear arms limitation negotiations with the Soviet Union. Professor Hafner is a member of the International Studies Academic Board and is Director of the University Fellowships Committee. He teaches courses on international politics, American foreign policy, and the international politics of Europe. His research and publications have focused principally on national security and arms control issues. Professor Hafner is the chair of the International Studies Academic Board.

Raymond Helmick, S.J.

Part-Time Faculty
Theology Weston College, Hochschule St. Georgen (Frankfurt/M.), and Union Theological Seminary

Professor Helmick has taught conflict resolution in the Department of Theology since 1984. He has been involved in high-level conflict resolution and mediation efforts since 1972 in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, East Timor, Southern Africa, the countries of the former Yugoslavia, between the Israelis and Palestinians, and between the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey. His publications include Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation, co-edited with Rodney Petersen; and A Social Option: A Social Planning Approach to the Conflict in Northern Ireland with Richard Hauser. Professor Helmick teaches courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on forgiveness and reconciliation.

David Hollenbach, S.J.

Flatley Professor
Theology

B.S., St. Joseph’s University
M.A., Ph.L., St Louis University
M.Div., Woodstock College
Ph.D., Yale University

Professor Hollenbach is Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor of Theology. He teaches theological ethics and Christian social ethics. His courses include Ethics, Religion and International Politics; Christian Ethics and Social Issues; and Human Rights. His research interests are the foundations of Christian social ethics, particularly in the areas of human rights, theory of justice, and the role of the religion in social and political life. His most recent books are The Common Good and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2003). He has been visiting professor at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya, and at the Jesuit Institute of Philosophy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 1998 he received the John Courtney Murray Award for distinguished achievement in theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Seth Jacobs

Assistant Professor
History

B.A., Yale University
M.D.A., DePaul University
M.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Professor Jacobs joined the Boston College faculty in the fall of 2001. He is a political and cultural historian of America in the twentieth century, especially since World War II. His research interests focus on the connection between U.S. domestic culture and foreign policy. He believes in relating the study of geopolitics to broader trends in American society: religious revivals, race relations, gender issues, and economic "booms" and "busts." He teaches courses in American military and diplomatic history, the Vietnam War, and America in the 1950s. His dissertation on the origins of America's war in Vietnam will soon be published by Duke University Press.

Deborah Levenson

Associate Professor
History

M.A., University of Massachusetts
Ph.D., New York University

Professor Levenson teaches courses on Central America, modern Latin America, and women and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her publications include Trade Unionists Against Terror (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), and she is writing a book for Duke University Press on urban youth and modernity in Guatemala. She is a member of the editorial board of Report on the Americas, the bi-monthly publication of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). She is also an active affiliate of AVANCSO, a research institute in Guatemala City, and a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Robert Murphy

Associate Professor
Economics

B.A., Williams College
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Murphy joined the Economics faculty of Boston College in 1984. He currently teaches International Economics, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, and Monetary Economics. His research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics and international economics. His recent publications include "What's Behind the Decline in the NAIRU?" in S. Hymans, ed., The Economic Outlook for 2000, University of Michigan, 2000; "Accounting for the Recent Decline in the NAIRU," Business Economics 1999, and "Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Oil in Colombia," in F. Gunter, ed., Colombia: An Opening Economy, JAI Press, 1999. Professor Murphy was a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He currently serves as the Director of the International Studies Program.

Hiroshi Nakazato

Associate Director
International Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Political Science

B.A., University of Calgary
B.A., University of Calgary (after-degree)
Ph.D., Boston College

Professor Nakazato is the Associate Director of the International Studies Program at Boston College.

Apart from day-to-day administrative work, he serves as the Thesis Coordinator for IS majors writing senior theses, supervises independent research work and teaches courses in international politics (IN 500 Introduction to International Studies; IN 546 World Politics), public international law (IN/PO 521 International Law), security studies, and research methods (IN 540 Research Methods in International Studies). His research interests include international relations theory and U.S. civil-military relations.

David Northrup

Professor
History

B.S., M.A., Fordham University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Northrup specializes in Sub-Saharan Africa, African and Asian migrations, and world history. His current courses include Modern Southern Africa and Modern History I and II Globalization and Graduate Colloquium: Modern World History. His current work includes Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850; The Earth and Its Peoples; and The Atlantic Slave Trade.

Erik Owens

Adjunct Assistant Professor 
Theology

Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
B.A., Duke University

Professor Owens joined the Boston College Faculty in 2006. He is Assistant Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. His research explores a variety of intersections between religion and public life, with particular attention to the challenge of fostering the common good of a religiously diverse society. His scholarship is fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging the fields of theological ethics, political philosophy, law, education, international studies, and public policy. Currently at work on a book about civic education and religious freedom in American public schools, he is also the co-editor of three books: The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics (2003), Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning (2004), and Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape (2009).

David Rasmussen

Professor
Philosophy

A.B., University of Minnesota
B.D., A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Professor Rasmussen joined the philosophy faculty in 1968. His fields of interest are contemporary continental philosophy and social and political philosophy. His current courses include Paradigms of Public Reason, Theory of the Novel, Marx and Nietzsche, and Autonomy and Inter-subjectivity.

Frances Restuccia

Professor
English

B.A., MA, Occidental College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Professor Restuccia teaches film and film theory, modernism, and contemporary literary and cultural theory. In the fall of 2004, she co-taught a Women and Film course for the Radcliffe Consortium. She is the author of James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale University Press,1989), as well as Melancholics in Love: Representing Women's Depression and Domestic Abuse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), along with numerous articles in journals such as Contemporary Literature, Raritan, Genders, Genre, Lacanian Ink, literature and psychology, Clinical Studies, and American Imago. She is co-chair of the "Psychoanalytic Practices" seminar at Harvard's Humanities Center and the editor of the Contemporary Theory series at Other Press. Her current manuscript, Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.

Sergio Serulnikov

Licenciado, Universidad de Buenos Aires

M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Professor Serulnikov focuses on Colonial Latin America, Andean history and society, and social movements and colonialism. His current courses are Biographies of Power in Latin America, Colonial Latin America, Andean History and Society, and The Study and Writing of History. He served as the Director of the Latin American Studies Program from 2004 to 2005. His latest book is Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes (Duke University Press, 2003).

KalPANA SESHADRI

Associate Professor
English Department

B.A., St. Francis College
Ph.D., Tufts University

Kalpana Seshadri specializes in Postcolonial Studies with an emphasis in historical theories of imperialism and globalization. She teaches courses pertaining to British colonialism, colonial literature and non-western literatures in English. Her research field is the Philosophy of Race, focusing on questions of subjectivity, ethics, language and law. Under the aegis of the ILA, she currently co-directs the Jacques Derrida seminar and the Race and Ethics seminar.

Recent works include HumAnimal: Between Law and Language (University of Minnesota Press, 2012); "The Time of Hospitality—Again" in Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, ed. Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch (Fordham University Press, 2011) 126-144; and "Departures" Hospitality as Mediation" in Hosting the Stranger ed. Richard Kearney and James Taylor (NY: Continuum Press, 2011) 45-53.

Laurie Shepard

Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures

B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D., Boston College

Professor Shepard's fields of interest include the status of opinion in Medieval and Renaissance public discourse, Boccaccio's readers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and coblas esparsa and the decline of the troubadour tradition. Her most recent publications are Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century and "Freedom to Image: Artistic Representation in Post-Tridentine Italy." Her current course offerings are RL 336/HS 478 Renaissance Adolescents; RL 524 The Mystery of the Mafia in Fiction and Film; and RL 572 The Comparative Development of the Romance Languages. She is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Peter Skerry

B.A., Tufts University
Ed. M., M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard University

In addition to teaching political science at UCLA, Claremont McKenna College, and now at Boston College, Professor Skerry spent a decade working in Washington, DC at the American Enterprise Institute and at the Brookings Institution, where he is still a non-resident senior fellow. He was legislative director to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. His interests have focused on American social policy, with a particular emphasis on racial and ethnic issues. He has written about the emergence of Mexican Americans as a political force, as well as about the politics of government statistics and the U.S. Census. He has also done research and written about U.S. immigration policy. He is presently working on a book about Muslims in the U.S.. In recent years Professor Skerry has become very interested in race, ethnicity, immigration, and Islam from a comparative perspective. He has spent a great deal of time in Western Europe and now serves on the Trans-Atlantic North American Advisory Board of the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin, which is an affiliate of the German Green Party.