Faculty & Staff
Full Time Faculty
- Ahmed Samatar
- James Wallace Professor of International Studies & Chair
- Global political economy; political and social theory; African politics; leadership and the state; Somali studies; Islam and globalization.
- samatar@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6564
- Alix Johnson
- Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Information technology; infrastructure; spatial politics; surveillance; empire; ethnography; Iceland; the Arctic
- ajohns39@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6913
- David Chioni Moore
- Associate Professor, International Studies and English
- Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
- mooredc@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6242
- Nadya Nedelsky
- Professor of International Studies
- International human rights; ethnicity, nationalism, and civic belonging; Central and Eastern Europe, Czech and Slovak studies; transitional justice.
- nedelsky@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6479
- James Von Geldern
- Russian and International Studies, and Chair of Russian Studies
- Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history; comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration; international law and legal frameworks; cultural studies.
- vongeldern@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6568
- Vanessa Voller
- Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Global health justice and the theory and practice of social medicine with an area focus on Latin America
- vvoller@macalester.edu
- she/her/hers
Part Time Faculty
- Jenna Rice Rahaim
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Charity, Humanitarianism, and Gifts; Empathy and Obligation; Migration and Refugees; National and Sectarian Sentiment; Genealogy and Kinship; Postcolonial and feminist literatures; the Middle East and Islamic World
- jrice2@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6847
- Wendy Weber
- Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
- weberw@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6653
Staff
- Janessa Cervantes
- Department Coordinator
- jcervan2@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6050
- she/her/hers
Additional Faculty Teaching in International Studies
- Amy Damon
- Associate Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies
- Rural and agricultural development, economic development, education in developing countries, and Central America-U.S. migration
- adamon@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6862
- Gary J. Krueger
- Cargill Professor of International Economics
- Comparative Economics, Transition Economics, Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
- krueger@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6222
- Erik Larson
- Professor of Sociology
- larsone@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6309
- Bill Moseley
- Professor
- Political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security
- moseley@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6126
- Margaret (Molly) Olsen
- Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies
- Trans-Atlantic literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries, and colonial and contemporary Afro-Caribbean texts
- molsen@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6885
- Roopali Phadke
- Professor of Environmental Studies
- Environmental policy and politics
- phadke@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6802
- Sonita Sarker
- Professor Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
- Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; “minoritized” literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
- sarker@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6316
- Karin Vélez
- Associate Professor
- kvelez@macalester.edu
- Old Main 306, 651-696-6254