Diversity Studies, First Generation College Students, Sampling Research on Minorities

Environment, Development, Governance, Religion & Ideology, Narrative

Global Governance, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Global Culture

Social & Educational Gender Gap

Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment

Global Culture, Global Ideology, Global Governance, Civil Society, Middle East, Alternative Models of Political Organization, Affect Theory

Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society; Middle East

International human rights

Primary Specialization: Global History, Culture and Ideology.

Secondary Specialization: Political Communication, and Global Media Production.


Doctoral Emphasis: Information Technology & Society.

Specialization: Global Political Economy, Development and Environment.

PhD Emphasis: Environment and Society.

• African Diaspora
• Caribbean literature
• Post-colonial Literature
• Haitian literature, culture, history
• Gender and transnationalism
• Migration and identity

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

global governance and human rights

Education, Postcolonial Education Curriculum, Caribbean and Europe

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

global culture, ideology and religion

Global Governance and Human Rights

Political Economy

political economy, sustainable development and the environment;

development theory, political economy, oil and energy politics

Critical Infrastructure Studies, Bioeconomy, Middle East Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Discard Studies

Sustainable Development and the Environment

Global political economy of urbanization, ecology and agrarian change, with a focus on post-colonial Africa

Black/Africana Studies, East Asian Studies, Diasporic Studies, Social Movements

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 

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

International Relations

Specializing in the literary and cultural study of the Caribbean, Europe and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

Global Governance and Global Culture

Global Green Supply Chains, New Technology in the Global Economy, Global Worker/Owner Cooperatives

Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment

Economic Development, Global Political Economy, Social/Resistance Movements, Labor Rights

Economic Development, Globalization & Structural Transformation, Inequality, Employment, Human Capital, Institutions

Global Governance, Human Rights, Ideology, Religion, Culture and Civil Society

Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society

Political Economy; Global Culture; Global Governance

Global Governance and Human Rights

Global Culture, Ideology, and Religion

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society

Global Governance, Civil Society, Human Rights and Global Migration Policy

Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society

International Incarceration, Prison Studies, Critical Security Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Global Cultures and Ideologies

Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society

Global Governance and Human Rights

Political Economy

Global Governance and Civil Rights, Feminist Studies

East Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Human Rights, Transitional Justice

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

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. 

political economy, sustainable development and the environment

Social Movements, Decoloniality, Alter-Politics, Postcolonialism, Indigeneity, Southern Epsitemologies, Black Radicl Tradition

Global Culture, Diasporic Identity, Immigration, Feminism, Iran and the Middle East