Speakers - International Cultures

Moses Acquaah
Associate Professor, Business Administration
PhD University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(336) 334-5305, acquaah@uncg.edu

  • Strategic Management
  • Family Business
  • Management in Transition Economies
  • Doing Business in Africa

Omar H. Ali
Associate Professor, African American Studies & History
PhD Columbia University
(212) 226-5712, ohali@uncg.edu

  • Independent Voters
  • African American Politics
  • Islam and the African Diaspora
  • History

James A. Anderson
Associate Professor, History
PhD University of Washington
(336) 334-5209, jaander2@uncg.edu

  • Modern China
  • History of the Silk Road

Mikhail Balaev
Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Oregon
(336) 334-5295, mabalaev@uncg.edu

  • International Trade and Political Process
  • Democracy and Democratization (Global and American)
  • Former USSR
  • American Power Elite
  • Corporate-Government Networks

Roberto E. Campo
Professor, International & Global Studies
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD University of Pennsylvania
(336) 334-5557 or 334-3657, recampo@uncg.edu

  • The French "spirit" as represented in early modern, modern, and contemporary accounts and media
  • Internationalizing the campus and our 21st century students
  • Cultural diversity in the global context
  • Bringing Asian Studies to our students and the greater-Greensboro community

James Revell Carr
Assistant Professor, Music Studies
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
(336) 334-5030, jrcarr2@uncg.edu

  • American Traditional Music Beyond Appalachia
  • Popular Music in Global Contexts
  • Music of the American Counterculture
  • Music of Hawaii & the Pacific
  • Music of Coastal & Seafaring Communities in America

William Crowther
Professor, Political Science
PhD University of California, Los Angeles
(336) 256-0519, wecrowth@uncg.edu

  • European Politics
  • Central European Politics
  • Russian Politics
  • International Ethnic Conflicts

Stuart Dischell
Professor, English
MFA The University of Iowa
(336) 334-5459, dischell@uncg.edu

  • Poetry and Literature
  • Paris Travel and History

Gavin Douglas
Associate Professor, Music Studies
PhD University of Washington
(336) 334-5473, gdouglas@uncg.edu

  • Music and Politics
  • Music in Southeast Asia

Anthony N. Fragola
Professor, Media Studies
Atlantic World Research Network
MFA University of Southern California
(336) 334-4138, afragola@uncg.edu

  • Defying the Mafia - The Anti-Mafia movement in Sicily
  • The Relationship Between The American and Sicilian Mafia
  • Italian Cinema and Literature
  • The Art of Screenwriting

Robert Griffiths
Associate Professor, Political Science
PhD University of Connecticut
(336) 256-0518, rjgriffi@uncg.edu

  • International Politics
  • US and International Security Policy and American Foreign Policy
  • The United Nations
  • Politics of the Non-western World, Specialist in African Politics

William Hamilton
Conflict & Peace Studies
PhD Tulane University
(336) 315-7028, bill_hamilton@uncg.edu

  • Global Terrorism, Political Violence, and Radical Orthodoxies
  • Human Rights
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Latin American Political and Intellectual History
  • Politics and Fundamentalist Religion

Ana Hontanilla
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
(336) 210-6866, amhontan@uncg.edu

  • Spanish Literature
  • Spanish Culture
  • Spanish Films, History, and Politics
  • HIstory of slavery in Latin America

Byoungho Jin
Professor, Consumer, Apparel & Retail Studies
PhD Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
(336) 256-0251, b_jin@uncg.edu

  • Apparel Industries in Emerging Markets Such as China and India
  • Retail Consumers in Korea, China, India.
  • Global Sourcing Strategies in the Apparel Industry
  • Retail Internationalization/Going Global
  • Doing Business in China & India

Corey Johnson
Assistant Professor, Geography
PhD University of Oregon
(336) 334-3919, corey_johnson@uncg.edu

  • Contemporary Germany: "Germany 20 Years After the Fall of the Wall"
  • The European Union
  • Boundaries and Borders "Weird Borders"
  • Great Plains
  • Geopolitics of Energy
  • Natural Gas Pipelines
  • Shale Gas/Hydraulic Fracturing

Jeffrey W. Jones
Associate Professor, History
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-4068, jwjones@uncg.edu

  • Russian/Soviet history
  • Islamic/Middle Eastern history, especially Afghanistan

Nir Kshetri
Associate Professor, Business Administration
PhD The University of Rhode Island
(336) 334-4530, nbkshetr@uncg.edu

  • Cybercrime
  • E-commerce
  • Marketing
  • Global entrepreneurship
  • China

Colleen Laird
Lecturer, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
MA University of Oregon
(336) 334-5655, calaird@uncg.edu

  • Japanese Cinema
  • Japanese Contemporary Culture

Seunghyun Lee
Assistant Professor, Media Studies
Study Abroad Committee, International Programs Center
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 256-8500, s_lee22@uncg.edu

  • Digital Media
  • The Internet and Global Society and Culture
  • Mobile Multimedia Use and Culture Across the World
  • Digital inclusion and social inclusion
  • Digital divide
  • Community and civic engagement
  • Online journalism and citizen journalism
  • Service-learning

Fabrice Lehoucq
Associate Professor, Political Science
PhD Duke University
(336) 334-5989, f_lehouc@uncg.edu

  • Latin American Politics
  • Global Perspectives on Electoral Reform
  • Dictatorships and Democracies
  • Health Care in International Perspective
  • Drugs and Crime in Latin America

Andreas Lixl
Professor & Department Chair, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Fellow, Center for New North Carolinians
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 334-5427, a_lixl@uncg.edu

  • Carolinian Immigrants: Literary and Historical Perspectives
  • Germany after The Wall: Immigration and Integration
  • Foreign Language Teaching Technologies: Online German

William Markham
Professor, Environmental Studies
Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Texas
(336) 334-3691, bill@uncg.edu

  • Environmental Problems of Africa
  • German Environmentalism
  • Environmental Organizations and Movements

Hannah Rose Mendoza
Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture
MFA Florida State University
(336) 334-4947, hrmendoz@uncg.edu

  • Social Justice and Community Outreach design projects
  • Utilizing millennial generation volunteerism as a platform for advocacy through design
  • Design in Mexico
  • Design in Ghana

Arthur D. Murphy
Professor, Anthropology
PhD Temple University
(336) 334-5132, admurphy@uncg.edu

  • Mexico
  • Immigration
  • Economic Development Mexico/Latin America
  • Culture and Natural Disasters

Joanne M.A. Murphy
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of Cincinnati
(336) 334-9904, jmmurph2@uncg.edu

  • Greek Archaeology: The Birthplace of Democracy
  • Landscape Archaeology: Ancestors in the Garden
  • The Greeks and the Trojan War
  • Archaeology and Religion: Evidence of Belief

David Nelson
Professor, Music Studies
PhD Northwestern University
(336) 256-1229, david_nelson@uncg.edu

  • Musical Sites of Vienna & Salzburg
  • Music of Vienna
  • Musical Travel in Europe

Jeanine Lino Perez
Lecturer, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-3524, jlcosta@uncg.edu

  • Brazil
  • Camino de Santiago (St James's Way), Spain

Elizabeth Perrill
Assistant Professor, Art
PhD Indiana University Bloomington
(812) 322-4189, eaperril@uncg.edu

  • African Art
  • South African Culture

Jerry Pubantz
Professor, Political Science
Dean, Lloyd International Honors College
PhD Duke University
(336) 256-2579, j_pubant@uncg.edu

  • American Foreign Policy
  • The United Nations
  • Middle East Politics, Including Arab and Islamic Politics
  • International Affairs

Susanne Rinner
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Georgetown University
(336) 256-1159, s_rinner@uncg.edu

  • German Literature, Film, & Cultural Studies
  • The Sixties
  • Women Writers in German Speaking Countries
  • Contemporary Germany

Jennifer Sandoval
Clinical Professor, Nursing
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-4897, jennifer_sandoval@uncg.edu

  • Ethical Concerns of New Nurses
  • Nursing in Honduras

Riikka Sarala
Assistant Professor, Business Administration
PhD Swedish School of Economics
(908) 251-4294, rmsarala@uncg.edu

  • International Business & Management
  • Doing Business in Europe
  • National Culture

Karl Schleunes
Professor Emeritus, History
PhD University of Minnesota
(336) 334-3514, kaschleu@uncg.edu

  • Holocaust
  • Modern Germany

Svi Shapiro
Professor, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations
EdD Boston University
(336) 334-3466, hsshapir@uncg.edu

  • Violence & Schools
  • Moral & Social Dimensions of Education
  • Education & Democracy
  • The Israeli / Palestinian Conflict
  • Educational Reform
  • Critical Perspectives on Standardized Testing
  • Peace Education
  • Jewish & Spiritual Perspectives on Education

Carmen Sotomayor
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 334-5655, ctsotoma@uncg.edu

  • Spain: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Issues
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Visual Arts, Literature and History

Joan M. Titus
Assistant Professor, Composition, Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Theory
PhD The Ohio State University
(336) 334-3301, j_titus@uncg.edu

  • Music
  • Russian Studies
  • North African Studies
  • Film Studies