Directory
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
International Business, Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Entrepreneurship, Public-Private Partnerships
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Diversity Studies, First Generation College Students, Sampling Research on Minorities
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SOCIOLOGY
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2017
Environment, Development, Governance, Religion & Ideology, Narrative
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2017
Technology, Regulatory Governance, Science-Policy Interface, Environmental Justice, Political Economy
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2014
Global Governance, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Global Culture
Social & Educational Gender Gap
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2020
Global Political Economy, Middle East studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict studies
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Professor
- Undergraduate Director
- Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
global governance and human rights
- CHICANO/A STUDIES
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Global Culture, Global Ideology, Global Governance, Civil Society, Middle East, Alternative Models of Political Organization, Affect Theory
- Associate Professor & UC Faculty Director of Chile/Argentina EAP
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2015
Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society; Middle East
- Department Chair
- Distinguished Professor
- Mellichamp Professor
International human rights
- MA Cohort 2008
- Alumni
Non-Governmental Organizations and Global Civil Society
- MA Cohort 2008
- Alumni
political economy, sustainable development, and the environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Primary Specialization: Global History, Culture and Ideology.
Secondary Specialization: Political Communication, and Global Media Production.
Doctoral Emphasis: Information Technology & Society.
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2016
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Specialization: Global Political Economy, Development and Environment.
PhD Emphasis: Environment and Society.
- Senior Continuing Lecturer
Global environmental governance, climate change, sustainable development, political economy, international organizations and governance
- Associate Professor
- African Diaspora
- Caribbean literature
- Post-colonial Literature
- Haitian literature, culture, history
- Gender and transnationalism
- Migration and identity
- MA Cohort 2011
- Alumni
global governance and human rights; political economy
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SSMS 2110
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2014
Education, Postcolonial Education Curriculum, Caribbean and Europe
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Trans-Regional Studies, Nationalism, Identity, and Culture
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2011
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2017
Middle Eastern Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Global Governance, Civil Society and Human Rights
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
political economy, sustainable development and the environment;
development theory, political economy, oil and energy politics
- SSMS 2110
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2017
Critical Infrastructure Studies, Bioeconomy, Middle East Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Discard Studies
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Global Theory and Culture
Global Ethics;
Cosmopolitanisms in a World of Global Absolutisms;
Globalizing the Humanities;
American Literary, Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious Studies
- SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences
- Assistant Professor
- MA Cohort 2011
- Alumni
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Assistant Professor
Global political economy of urbanization, ecology and agrarian change, with a focus on post-colonial Africa
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2014
Human Rights, Global Governance, and the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Politics.
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2020
Black/Africana Studies, East Asian Studies, Diasporic Studies, Social Movements
- Distinguished Professor
Global Studies as an emerging field
Global rise of religious violence
Nationalism and transnational in a global age
Sikhism and South Asian religion and politics
Global religion; conflict resolution
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2015
Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2017
Global Political Economy, Development and Environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2016
Specialization: Climate Change, Social Movements, Culture and Ideology
- Associate Professor
Specializing in the literary and cultural study of the Caribbean, Europe and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2011
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2016
Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
- Endowed Chair Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor of Sikh Studies
- Graduate Director
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Global Green Supply Chains, New Technology in the Global Economy, Global Worker/Owner Cooperatives
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2016
Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2020
Economic Development, Global Political Economy, Social/Resistance Movements, Labor Rights
- MA Cohort 2011
- Alumni
global culture, ideology and religion
- Associate Professor
Economic Development, Globalization & Structural Transformation, Inequality, Employment, Human Capital, Institutions
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2016
Global Political Economy, Global Governance, Sustainable Development, Social Entrepreneurship, Responsible Investment, Corporate Governance
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Global Governance, Human Rights, Ideology, Religion, Culture and Civil Society
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2019
Global Cultures and Ideologies, Populism and Authoritarianism, Feminism and Gender Studies, Global Governance and Civil Society
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society
- MA Cohort 2011
- Alumni
political economy, sustainable development and the environment; public policy, environmental justice, and immigrant rights
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2018
Critical Security Studies, Feminist and Queer Studies, Middle East Studies, Human Rights and Legal Studies
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
Global governance and Human Rights
Sustainability and International Development
- Distinguished Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Transnational Civil Society Networks
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Global Governance, Civil Society, Human Rights and Global Migration Policy
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2018
International Incarceration, Prison Studies, Critical Security Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Global Cultures and Ideologies
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2016
Human Rights and Global Governance, Education, Refugee Youth and Communities, Global Culture, SE Asia
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2015
Global Art and Culture, Cultural Diplomacy, Theories of Cultural Exchange
- Professor
- Vice Chair
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
Medical humanities, biopolitics, identity and the body, understanding the ‘self’, ‘othering’, pathologization, medicalization and the role of literature and language in identity expression specifically, narrative medicine or auto-pathography.
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2013
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy and the Environment
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2017
East Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Human Rights, Transitional Justice
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SSMS 2110
- Assistant Professor
Conflict and violence, civil wars, state building, genocide and mass killing, development, African and Latin American politics
- Lecturer
Sikhism and Sikh Diaspora
Diasporas and Development
International Political Economy
Indian and Chinese Development
Role of China and India in Sub-Saharan Africa
Founder-editor of the Journal of Punjab Studies (now Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies), in publication since 1994. The Journal has been published by the Center for Sikh & Punjab Studies at UC Santa Barbara since 2004. Also one of the founders and later Convenor of the Punjab Research Group which was established in the UK in 1984.
He has published widely on Indian, Punjabi and Sikh migration and on transnational practices of Sikhs, especially Sikh diaspora’s homeland relations. He is co-author (with Michael Fisher and Shompa Lahiri) of A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent, (Greenwood Press, 2007). He has co-edited two books: Punjabi Identity in a Global Context [ed. with Pritam Singh, OUP, 1999) and People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post Colonial Migration [edited with Ian Talbot, OUP, 2004). He is currently working on a book on Global Sikhism.
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2011
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2011
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2016
Critical Ontologies, Decoloniality, Alter-Politics, Indigeneity, Southern Epistemologies
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2018
Global governance; civil society; advocacy; non-profit organizations; Information technology and society
- Staff Undergraduate Advisor [Note: on leave for Winter 2021
- returning Spring 2021]
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2018
- Graduate Student
- PhD Cohort 2016
Global Culture, Diasporic Identity, Immigration, Feminism, Iran and the Middle East
- Graduate Student
- MA Cohort 2012
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment