Faculty from many academic departments within the College of Arts and Sciences are associated with the International Studies Program. These faculty teach courses in the Program and in many cases are doing research related to international issues and affairs.

James Anderson

Neenan Professor of 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 International Economic Relations. His research interests are International Economics, Political Economy and Economic Development. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Boston College Distinguished Research Award. He ranks in the top 1% of economists in the world based on citations and publications, according to ideas.repec.org. He is best known for his work on the gravity model of trade (see his “The Gravity Model” in Annual Review of Economics, 2011) and the Trade Restrictiveness Index (see Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy, MIT Press, 2005).

Ali Banuazizi

Professor, Psychology

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

Professor Banuazizi's scholarly interests include political cultures of the Middle East; comparative study of religion, civil society, and politics in the Middle East & Central Asia; and Iran's social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations. Professor Banuazizi is currently the Chair of the International Studies Academic Advisory Board and the Director of the Program in Islamic Civilization and Societies (ICS). He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America(MESA) and the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS). Since joining the Boston College faculty in 1971, he has also held visiting appointments at Princeton, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.I.T, and Oxford University.

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. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board and also the Fulbright Program Administrator.

Timothy Crawford

Associate Professor, Political Science

B.A., 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, International Relations Theory, and Security Studies. 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, and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). Professor Crawford has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton’s Center of International Studies, and Harvard’s Olin Institute of Strategic Studies. He was a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the Governing Board of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association. His current research focuses on the role of wedge strategies in coercive diplomacy and alliance politics.

David Deese

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 to teach International Politics and Political Economy. He is the founding director of the International Studies Program (1986 to 2002) and a member of its Academic Advisory Board, 2002 to present. He researches and teaches the politics and institutions of international economic relations, including specifically the international dimensions of political economic reform in developing states and the Middle East region in particular; leadership of international bargaining and negotiations; and the interaction of economics and security in US foreign policy. He is the author or editor of many publications, including a leading book on the domestic politics of US foreign policy, The New Politics of American Foreign Policy; a book on leadership, negotiations, and international institutions, World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership, 2008; and most recently the eleven volume series, The Library of Essays in International Relations, concluding with his volume, Globalization: Causes and Effects, 2012. He teaches PO 518 Liberalism & Nation Building In American Foreign Policy; PO 522 International Institutions, Private & Public; PO 525 The Politics and Institutions of International Economic Relations; PO 531 Energy Politics in US, Comparative, and Global Perspective; and PO 863 Institutions in International Politics, a graduate seminar. He is the founding professor of the BC summer program in Kuwait, Oil & Politics in the Gulf, 2008-2011. He serves on the Promotion and Tenure Committee for Arts & Sciences at BC.

Charles Derber

Professor, Sociology

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

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College who teaches courses on Peace and War, and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism. He has written fifteen books, reviewed in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other leading media, and translated into six languages. His books, which include Corporation Nation, the Wilding of America, People Before Profit, Greed to Green, Marx's Ghost, and The Surplus American have been translated into five languages and focus on capitalism, corporate power, globalization, climate change, militarism, economic democracy, and social movements. He has also written for the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, Newsday, Tikkun, and many other periodicals, and is a regular contributor to WBUR/NPR's Opinion Page. Derber is a life-long activist who is active in peace, environmental, labor and other social justice movements.

Jennifer Erickson

Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Studies

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

Professor Erickson has taught at Boston College since 2010. Her research focuses on international reputation and states’ commitment to and compliance with international rules and norms. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the spread of conventional arms export controls, as well as a series of papers on sanctions and arms embargoes. Professor Erickson has conducted extensive fieldwork in the United States and Europe, where she was research fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and the Wissenchaftszentrum (WZB) in Berlin. She was also a Research Fellow at Dartmouth College in the War and Peace Studies Program at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. She teaches courses on the EU, globalization and national security, and international relations theory. She is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Scott Fulford

Assistant Professor, Economics and International Studies

B.A. and B.S., Stanford University
M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor Fulford studies developing economies. His work focuses on how financial institutions and services promote growth and change the decisions of households and firms. His interests include education, marriage, and labor markets in India, and financial decisions by poor people in the United States. He teaches courses on development economics. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

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

Professor Gareau has a Master of Science in Environmental Science, and a Master of Arts and 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. Professor 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. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

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

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

Professor Gray has taught at Boston College for the past 37 years. His areas of interest include Development and Modernization, Social Change, Business and Society, and Field Work methodology. He teaches SC 557, Sociology of Development, 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. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board and a former Director of the International Studies Minor.

Donald Hafner

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties

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

Vice Provost 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. Hafner 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.

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.

University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice, Theology

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

Professor Hollenbach holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice, is the Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and teaches in the Department of Theology. His courses include: Ethics, Religion and International Politics, Christian Ethics and Social Issues, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Crises and Refugees. His research interests are the foundations of Christian social ethics, particularly in the areas of human rights, theory of justice, and response to refugees and humanitarian crises. His recent books include Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants (2010, Georgetown University Press), The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2003), and The Common Good and Christian Ethics (2002, Cambridge University Press). 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. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Seth Jacobs

Associate Professor, History

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

Professor Jacobs is a political and cultural historian of the United States in the twentieth century, especially the period since World War II, and his research interests focus on the connection between U.S. domestic culture and foreign policy. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American military and diplomatic history, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and America in the 1950s. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) has twice honored him with its Stuart Bernath Prize: for best article published in the field of diplomatic history (2002) and for best book (2006).

Peter Krause

Assistant Professor,Political Science

B.A., Williams College
Ph.D., MIT

Professor Krause joined the Boston College faculty in 2012. His research interests are in international security, Middle East politics, non-state violence, and social movements. His current book project examines the political effectiveness of violence within social movements. His other ongoing research projects analyze the causes and effects of fragmentation within national movements as well as new approaches to the study of coercion. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, and he teaches courses on international relations of the Middle East and political violence. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies of Brandeis University, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

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.

Ben Li

Associate Professor, Economics

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Professor Li joined the Boston College faculty in the fall of 2011. His research focuses on international trade, in particular multinational firms and economic geography. He currently teaches courses on international trade at undergraduate and graduate levels. He is 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 is Director of the International Studies Program and currently teaches courses on international economics, economic growth, and macroeconomic theory and policy. Professor Murphy’s research focuses on macroeconomics and international finance. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and served as a senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors during the Clinton and Reagan Administrations. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Hiroshi Nakazato

Associate Director, International Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science

B.A., University of Calgary
Ph.D., Boston College

Professor Nakazato is 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. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

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 Associate Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. His research explores intersections between religion and public life, with particular attention to the challenge of fostering the common good of religiously diverse societies. The author of several scholarly articles and chapters on ethics and international relations, civic education and the death penalty, he is the co-editor of three books: Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape (2009), Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning (2004) and The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics (2003), the last of which was called a "must read" by Foreign Affairs in 2009. Co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and Politics section, he also sits on the steering committee of the AAR's "Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives" group.

Prasannan Parthasarathi

Professor, History

Professor Parathasarathi joined the faculty in the fall of 1998. He teaches courses on modern South Asia and the British Empire. He has recently completed a book on the economic and social history of eighteenth-century South India, and he is now engaged in a comparative study of economic development in eighteenth-century Eurasia. He is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

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, as well as Social and Political Philosophy. His current courses include Paradigms of Public Reason, Theory of the Novel, Marx and Nietzsche, and Autonomy and Intersubjectivity.

Frances Restuccia

Professor, English

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

Frances L. Restuccia is an English Professor at Boston College, where she teaches contemporary literary and cultural theory, Modernism, the world novel, and film/film theory. She is the author of four books. In 1989, she published James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP); in 2000, Melancholics in Love: Representing Women’s Depression and Domestic Abuse (Rowman & Littlefield); in 2006, Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP). The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film-with an emphasis on Kristeva’s concept of the “thought specular,” as a way of resisting the society of the spectacle–was published in March 2012 by Continuum.

She has published numerous articles in journals such as Raritan, Contemporary Literature, Novel, Genre, Genders, American Imago, JPCS (Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society), Gender and Psychoanalysis, Clinical Studies, Religion and the Arts, literature and psychology, Lacanian Ink, The European Journal of English Studies, the Journal of Lacanian Studies, Film-Philosophy, Semplokē, and Philosophy Today. She is co-chair of the “Psychoanalytic Practices” seminar at Harvard’s Humanities Center.

She has a chapter in Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (ed. Eva Ziarek & Tina Chanter) and another piece in a collection titled Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva (ed. Kelly Oliver). Her work on Volver is forthcoming in an anthology on psychoanalysis and theory published by Blackwell.

Sergio Serulnikov

Professor

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 for 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

Professor 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 Philosophy of the Race, focusing on questions of the 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 Medieval Italian Poetry, Italian Comedy in the Sixteenth Century, and the History of the Romance Languages. Her most recent publications are Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century and “Guido Cavalcanti among the Tombstones,” in Boccaccio in America. Proceeding of the 2010 Boccaccio International Conference. Her current course offerings are RL501 Dante's Inferno, and RL810 Italian Lyric Poetry. In spring 2013, she will teach a new course entitled "Business in Literature." She is a member of the International Studies Academic Board.

Matt Sienkiewicz

Assistant Professor, Communication and International Studies

B.A. Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

Professor Sienkiewicz teaches courses in global media cultures and media theory. His research focuses on the West’s investment in Middle Eastern broadcasting initiatives as well as portrayals of race and religion on the American screen. His publications include articles in Popular Communication, The Journal of Film and Video, The Velvet Light Trap and The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. In addition to his work as a scholar, Matt is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. His most recent film, Live From Bethlehem, was released by the Media Education Foundation in September 2009 and has screened worldwide, including at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Poland's WatchDocs Human Rights Film Festival, the Chicago Palestine Film Festival and London’s Frontline Club.

Peter Skerry

Professor, Political Science

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.