Professor Apostolidis teaches courses in United States politics and political and social theory. He is the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press, 2000), among other publications.
Professor Beechey's major interests are in gender, race, class and sexuality in U. S. public policy. Her current research focuses on the concept of deservingness in social policies, including Social Security and welfare.
Professor Biswas' research interests include issues of nationalism, globalization, global development, postcolonial theory and South Asian politics. She has published on sovereignty, postcolonial international relations, race in international relations, and the nation-state in the context of globalization.
Professor Bobrow-Strain teaches and writes about global food politics, the cultural politics of diet, the U.S.-Mexico border, and rural development in Latin America. He is the author of Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas (Duke University Press, 2007) and White Bread: Dreamworlds of the Store-Bought Loaf (Beacon Press, forthcoming in 2011).
Professor Phil Brick's major interests are international relations, environmental policy, and East Asia. Among his publications is A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate, which he published in 1996 along with co-editor, R. McGreggor Cawley.
Professor Esarey teaches courses about East Asian politics, political communication, democratization, and international relations. He is writing a book, The Challenge of Truth: Media and Power in Contemporary China and has published articles in Asian Survey and Asian Perspective.
See his profile at the Web page of the Provost and Dean of Faculty
Professor King specializes in the history of political thought with a particular focus on the natural law tradition, liberalism and Marxism. Her research focuses on the interdependent relationship between self-interest and other-regarding, social behavior in the liberal tradition of political thought.
Professor Knowles writes and teaches about constitutional theory and jurisprudence, and constitutional law and history.
Professor Magnusson's major teaching and research interests are in international, transnational, and comparative politics, with a particular focus on Africa. His research has been published in journals such as Comparative Politics and Comparative Studies in Society and History, as well as in edited volumes on comparative and African politics. He is active in global studies, and is on the Steering Committee for the major in Race and Ethnic Studies.He is the current director of Global Studies.
Professor Morefield's major interests include 19th-20th century British liberalism, democratic theory, and the historiography of sovereignty, international relations, and imperialism. She is the author of Covenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire (Princeton University Press; 2005.)
