Faculty Committee
More than 80 faculty members teach courses in the Program in International and Global Studies. Members of the Faculty Committee, in addition to teaching relevant courses, also oversee the program.
- Richard Parmentier, Chair of the new Masters Program in Global Studies, and also IGS Faculty (Brown 221, Office Hours: Monday 1:00-3:00 p.m.; Thursday 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) is a cultural anthropologist specializing in semiotic approaches to language and material culture. After undergraduate training in anthropology at Princeton University (summa cum laude, 1971) and graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago, he became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Chicago. His principal ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in Belau (Micronesia) from 1978 to 1980. His academic writings deal with Oceanic ethnography and history, semiotic theory (especially C. S. Peirce), pragmatic linguistics, and the anthropology of religion. He was co-founder and co-editor of Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. His volume The Pragmatic Semiotics of Cultures received the Mouton d'Or prize in semiotics in 1997. He is currently working on three research projects: the role of anomaly in anthropological theory, the comparative semiotics of sacred images, and temporality in Palauan narratives. Dr. Parmentier teaches a range of courses, including "Symbol, Meaning, and Reality: Explorations in Semiotic Analysis," "History, Time, and Tradition," "Crossing Cultural Boundaries," and "Verbal Art and Cultural Performance." Dr. Parmentier is affiliated with the Graduate Program in Cultural Production, the Program in International and Global Studies (serving as chair for 2007-2008), and the Program in Language and Linguistics. He is also a member of the Faculty Senate. For recreation he enjoys golf, model trains, book collecting, and early music.
- Chandler Rosenberger, Chandler Rosenberger is Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology. A historical sociologist specializing in the cultural foundations of politics, Mr. Rosenberger is especially interested in the intellectual roots of political revolutions. As a journalist he covered the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the wars of Yugoslavia; he later wrote his dissertation on the dissidents who led Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution. Mr. Rosenberger is now finishing a biography of Czech dissident playwright Vaclav Havel and has also written about the roots of al-Qaeda and the dissidents of Iran. Mr. Rosenberger teaches IGS 10a, Introduction to International and Global Studies, SOC 162a, Intellectuals and Revolutionary Politics, and GS 201a, Global Agents. Mr. Chandler will be the new IGS UAH (Undergraduate Advising Head). His email is crosen@brandeis.edu and his office will be located in Perlman 108.
- Chad Bown is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School (IBS) at Brandeis University and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His work focuses on international trade. He is responsible for the specialization in Global Economy.
- Steven Burg is the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics. He is currently participating in efforts to foster inter-ethnic accommodation and prevent further ethnic conflict in the Balkans through association with the Project on Ethnic Relations, and supervises the specialization in Global Governance.
- Janet McIntosh is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her research is based in Kenya and focuses upon ethnic relations, religion and religious contact, post-colonialism, and psychological and linguistic anthropology.
- Fernando J. Rosenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies. He specializes in Latin American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th century. His current research focuses on issues of justice as expressed in literature, film, and art in
- Dan Perlman, Associate Professor of Biology, works on ecology, conservation biology, and biodiversity. He is responsible for the specialization in Global Environment.
- George Ross is the Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought and the Director of the Center for German and European Studies. He is interested in European definitions of social market economies, the basic fault lines in international relations, and the redefinition of borders and security.
- Marion Smiley is the J.P. Morgan Chase Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy. Her research interests include moral, social, and political philosophy. She is responsible for the specialization in Inequality, Poverty, and Global Justice.
- Faith Smith, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English and American Literature, conducts research on intellectual history of the nineteenth-century Caribbean; gender, sexuality, and national sovereignty in the late 20th century. She is is responsible for the specialization in Cultures, Identities, and Encounters.