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- Professor and Dean of Liberal Arts
Amy Ansell's scholarly interests revolve around the intersection of race and ethnicity, political sociology, cultural studies, and human rights. Ansell is co-author, with John Solomos, of the forthcoming Race and Ethnicity: The Key Concepts (Routledge).
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Claudia Castañeda's teaching and research lie in the area of interdisciplinary studies, working at the intersection of feminist, queer, cultural, and science and technology studies, among other fields. She is committed to developing pedagogical approaches that inspire students to engage with new ideas and skills, and connect academic inquiry to the worlds they encounter.
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Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer with interests in global migration, migration policy-making, processes of racialization, Latin America, and feminist methodologies.
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Cara Moyer-Duncan recently completed her Ph.D. in African Studies at Howard University.
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Yasser Munif teaches courses on Race Relations, Urban Sociolgy, Nationalism, Political Economy, and Middle Eastern Politics and Society.
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Ms. Tocci lives and works in Barcelona, Spain and Boston. She has been teaching courses at Emerson College in interdisciplinary studies, visual art and theater since 1999.
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Erika R. Williams specializes in modernist and contemporary African American literature, focusing on theories of race, gender, and sexuality; on formations of cultural and personal identity; and on intersections and tensions betwen aesthetics and politics.
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Dr. Anderson, a performance studies scholar, focuses his research in the area of narrative theory and performance. He is the author of The Student Companion to William Faulkner (Greenwood, 2007). In addition to publishing articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, he has served as Book Review Co-Editor for the journal.
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Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins is a historian, filmmaker and 2nd generation American of Cape Verdean descent. Her scholarship focuses on French and Portuguese language African cinema.
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Elizabeth's Baeten primary teaching responsibilities are in the Ethics and Values Perspective curriculum. Though a philosopher by training and temperament, Professor Baeten's interests are broadly interdisciplinary; for example, she has worked with sophomore Honors students on the implications of evolution and natural selection on our conceptions of morality.
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Sam Binkley is Associate Professor of Sociology. While he is administratively housed in the Department of Communication Studies, he teaches in the General Education curriculum, and at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. He offers courses in the sociology of identity, cultural sociology, critical theory and cultural studies.
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Thomas Cooper is the author or co-author of six published books about media ethics and criticism including Media Fast/Fast Media, Television and Ethics: A Bibliography, Communications Ethics and Global Change, and An Ethics Trajectory. The co-publisher of Media Ethics, an independent academic and professional magazine (both on-line and in print), Cooper has written over a hundred articles and reviews.
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Dr. Honea is an ecologist interested in the response of communities, populations, and individual species to environmental change. He has taught courses on the ecology and management of forests and aquatic ecosystems as well as on general ecology and environmental and sustainability sciences.
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Roger House, associate professor in American Studies, is author of Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy. Blue Smoke was published by Lousiana State University Press in 2010. It is a finalist for the 2011 award for Excellence in Historical Writing by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.
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Dr. Kamada is a specialist in British and multi-ethnic American literatures whose interests include poetry, contemporary poetics and postcolonial, transnational and diasporic studies.
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Pablo Muchnik specializes in Kant, early modern philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy. He taught at Siena College (NY) from 2003 to 2010.
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Wyatt Oswald is an ecologist with teaching and research interests spanning the earth and environmental sciences.
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Nejem Raheem brings 10 years of experience as an environmental economist to Emerson. His expertise is in teaching and economic analysis of natural resource and environmental issues, with a focus on ecosystem services and traditional or indigenous economies. He has recently worked as a senior lecturer in economics at Kinship Conservation Fellows, and senior economist at the Center for Sustainable Economy and Global Conservation Assistance.
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Dr. Robins has extensive international media experience.
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Dr. Schwartz is a specialist in Shakespeare whose interests include literary theory, psychoanalysis, and Holocaust studies. He co-edited Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays.
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Tulasi Srinivas' research focuses on the cultural politics of religion and the processes of cultural globalization through an inter-disciplinary and comparative analysis of ideology, experience and subjectivity.
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Dr. Vashlishan is a molecular biologist with research and teaching interests at the intersection of genetics, neurobiology, and public understanding of science. Her current laboratory work utilizes genetic approaches to explore how neurons can adjust their activity in response to changes in the environment, leading to alterations in behavior.
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With degrees from Columbia and Princeton Universities, Bradford Verter is interested in American cultural history, and in theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion. He has been a fellow of the Warburg Institute, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and has held positions at Princeton, Amherst, Williams, Bennington, Boston University, and New York University.
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Dr. Wendy W. Walters specializes in African American Literature, in the larger context of diaspora studies. She is the author of At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. In 2001-2002 she was a non-resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.
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