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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
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SOCIOLOGY
Environment, Development, Governance, Religion & Ideology, Narrative
Technology, Regulatory Governance, Science-Policy Interface, Environmental Justice, Political Economy
Global Governance, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Global Culture
Social & Educational Gender Gap
Migration and Refugee Studies, Housing/Land/Property (HLP) rights, Post-Conflict Reconstruction/Reconciliation, Human Rights/Global Governance
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
global governance and human rights
- CHICANO/A STUDIES
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
Non-Governmental Organizations and Global Civil Society
political economy, sustainable development, and the environment
Primary Specialization: Global History, Culture and Ideology.
Secondary Specialization: Political Communication, and Global Media Production.
Doctoral Emphasis: Information Technology & Society.
- Assistant Professor
- Undergraduate Program Director
- Affiliate faculty member in the Department of Geography and the Interdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment
Specialization: Global Political Economy, Development and Environment.
PhD Emphasis: Environment and Society.
Global environmental governance, climate change, sustainable development, political economy, international organizations and governance
- African Diaspora
- Caribbean literature
- Post-colonial Literature
- Haitian literature, culture, history
- Gender and transnationalism
- Migration and identity
global governance and human rights; political economy
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SSMS 2110
Education, Postcolonial Education Curriculum, Caribbean and Europe
Trans-Regional Studies, Nationalism, Identity, and Culture
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
Middle Eastern Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Global Governance, Civil Society and Human Rights
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy
political economy, sustainable development and the environment;
development theory, political economy, oil and energy politics
- SSMS 2110
Global Theory and Culture
Global Ethics;
Cosmopolitanisms in a World of Global Absolutisms;
Globalizing the Humanities;
American Literary, Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious Studies
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
Global political economy of urbanization, ecology and agrarian change, with a focus on post-colonial Africa
Human Rights, Global Governance, and the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Politics.
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
Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
Global Political Economy, Development and Environment
Specialization: Climate Change, Social Movements, Culture and Ideology
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
Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
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, Indigenous Rights
global culture, ideology and religion
Economic development; Globalization, structural transformation and labor; Education; Publicly provided private goods.
Global Political Economy, Sustainable Development, Alternative Economies, Cooperatives, Social Entreprises, 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
Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society
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
Global governance and Human Rights
Sustainability and International Development
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
Human Rights and Global Governance, Education, Refugee Youth and Communities, Global Culture, SE Asia
Global Cultures & Ideology, Violence Studies, Torture, Affect Theory, Gender & Queer Studies, Latin American Studies
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy
Global Art and Culture, Cultural Diplomacy, Theories of Cultural Exchange
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.
Global Governance and Human Rights
Political Economy and the Environment
East Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Human Rights, Transitional Justice
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
- SSMS 2110
Conflict and violence, civil wars, state building, genocide and mass killing, development, African and Latin American politics
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
political economy, sustainable development and the environment
Critical Ontologies, Decoloniality, Alter-Politics, Indigeneity, Southern Epistemologies
Global political economy and governance of blockchain, technological discourse and ideology, social and environmental impact of emerging distributed digital technologies
Global Culture, Diasporic Identity, Immigration, Feminism, Iran and the Middle East
Political Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment