Global Studies

Dr Beatriz De Paiva

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (pragmatic aspects of conversational interactions between native and non-native speakers); Pragmatics in language teaching; Pragmatics in translation

Professor Colin Samson

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature

Dr Darren Thiel

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Social class and stratification; economic sociology; migration, globalisation and governance; globalisation and policing; policing terrorism; the criminal justice system; social policy

Professor Ismene Gizelis

Professor, Department of Government

SeNSS Director, Academic Section - Academic Services

Research interests: International conflict and cooperation; Empirical study of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction; Social institutions and conflict management; Empirical study of gender and conflict

Dr Jak Peake

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor Jeremy Krikler

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: the history of race and class; peasant/agrarian history labour history; comparative history; history of Southern Africa; history of imperialism; the slave trade

Professor Matthias Röhrig Assunção

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: History of slavery and post-emancipation societies; Agrarian and peasant history; Political history of Nineteenth and twentieth century Brazil; Latin American popular culture; Capoeira - combat games and martial arts in the Black Atlantic

Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Art and science/medicine; Auguste Rodin's oeuvre; Nineteenth-century French sculpture; Architecture and urban planning in nineteenth-century Paris; Auguste Rodin and science; Jean-Martin Charcot and art; Objectivity and medical imagery; Medical portraiture; Nineteenth-century medical photography; Theories of degeneration and genius

Professor Sandya Hewamanne

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Gender and Sexuality; Economic and Feminist Anthropology (and Sociology); Development; Human Rights; Medical Anthropology; South Asia

Professor Shohini Chaudhuri

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: notions of world cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema; film and human rights; gender and feminist theory; film theory and affect

Professor William Kennedy

Lecturer, Department of Economics

Dr Xun Zhou

Reader, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia; Social History of Drugs; Visual History, Southeast and East Asia; Social and Political History of Modern China; History of Public Health and Medicine in 20th century China; Food and Foodways; Global Environmental History; History of Religion in Modern East Asia; Global Public Health