Affiliate Members
Gifty Ako-Adounvo
Assistant Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs
ako-adounvo.1@osu.edu
Research Interests:
- Iconography of the “other” – especially Blacks
- Material Culture
Mary Anne Beecher
beecher.17@osu.edu
Research Interests:
- Visualization of mobility data
- Material culture -> storage & mobility
- Material culture -> Associations with home
- Interior Design
- Historic Preservation
- Design History and Criticism
Hollie Nyseth Brehm
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
brehm.84@osu.edu
Research Interests:
- How genocides (specifically in Rwanda and Bosnia) unfold
- How countries rebuild in the aftermath of a genocide
- Forced migration and victimization in/on the way to refugee camps
- Sociology of Law
- Criminology
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Comparative and International Sociology
- Sociology of Human Rights
- Transitional Justice
- Political Sociology
Alexander Burry
Associate Professor and Grad Studies Chair, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
burry.7@osu.edu
Research Interests:
- Film adaptation
- 19th- and 20th-century Russian lit
- Music
- Drama
- Comparative literature
Joyce Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Economics
chen.1276@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Characterizing temporary vs permanent migration
- Environmental/climate factors in migration, especially in Bangladesh
- Development Economics
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Labor Economics – household decision-making, migration, health, education, and gender
Simone C. Drake
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of African American and African Studies
drake.194@osu.edu
Research Interests
- Visual and Popular Culture
- Black Masculinities
- Transnational Black Feminism
- Critical Race, Gender, and Legal Studies
- Literature of the African Diaspora in the Americas
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Professor, School of Music
fosler-lussier.2@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Music & globalization (migration & media)
- music in international propaganda
- musicians’ experience of internationalism
- Musicology
- Diplomatic History
Reanne Frank
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
frank.219@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Population
- Health & Medical
Bernadette Hanlon
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair, City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School
hanlon.42@osu.edu
Research Interests:
- Suburban transformation in the US
- Suburban poverty
- How the changing nature of US and suburbs intersects with global mobility.
- How to better serve immigrant communities in the suburbs
- The political economy of cities and suburbs
- Environmental sustainability
- Immigration
- Urban environmental policy and planning
Richard Herrmann
Professor & Department Chair, Department of Political Science
herrmann.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- International relations, international security, and political psychology
- The role of perception and imagery in foreign policy
- The importance of nationalism and identity politics in world affairs
- American foreign policy
- The politics of the Middle East and Russia
Ludmila Isurin
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures, Center for Cognitive Science
isurin.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Memory, bilingualism, immigration and identity
- Immigration and sense of home
- Collective memory and immigration
- Psycholinguistics and bilingualism (memory, lexical access)
- First language attrition
- Second language acquisition
- Effects of the second language on the first (transfer)
- Code-switching
Lynn Itagaki
- Comparative racialization, interracial conflict
- Gendered racial formation
- Comparative race theory, feminist theory, and visual culture
- How contemporary forms of spectatorship change the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
- Interracial ethics
- Women of color feminism
- 20th/21st Century US literature by writers of color
Olga Kamenchuk
School of Communications
Research Areas:
- Cross-country comparative research (public opinion polls)
- Stereotypes, prejudice, & social distancing in intercultural & international settings.
- Migration & conflict management
- Trust in authoritarian vs democratic societies
- Internet and media regulation
Hannah Kosstrin
Assistant Professor, Department of Dance
kosstrin.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Jewishness and gender in modern and contemporary theatrical dance
- Nationalism and diaspora -> how dance and cultural discourses circulate through people’s bodies via travel and migration and what the corporeal stakes of mobility entail
- Dance History
- Critical Theory
- Laban Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Gender Studies
Erica Levin
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art
levin.1996@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema
- Mediation of political violence and forms of networked subjectivity/imagined networks (vs older notion of imagined community)
- Post-War and Contemporary Art
- Performance
- Media Studies
- Film Theory
- Visual Culture
Katherine Marino
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of History
marino.118@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- American History; US history since 1877
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History
Glenn Martinez
Professor, Hispanic Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
martinez.474@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Spanish as a Heritage Language
- Sociolinguistics of Borders
- Language and Health Care
- Language Policy and Planning
Thomas F. McDow
Assistant Professor, Department of History
McDow.4@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- African, Indian Ocean, and World History
- Mobility, Migration, Language, & Ethnicity
- Cross-cultural trade and diaspora
- HIV/AIDS, history of medicine
- Islamic History
- Comparative Empires
- Power, Culture, and the State
- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Hazel Morrow-Jones 
Professor Emerita, City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School, Associate Provost for Women’s Policy Initiatives, and Director of The Women’s Place at Ohio State
morrow-jones.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- home ownership
- Movement and mobility
- Decision making when buying a home
- Downtown redevelopment to farmland preservation
Emily Neumeier
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Department of the History of Art
neumeier.25@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Islamic calligraphy
- Frontier studies
- Modern/contemporary art
- Islamic Art and Architecture
- Ottoman Empire
Kris Paulsen 
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and the Film Studies Program
paulsen.20@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Contemporary Art, Film, Video & New Media
- Media Studies
Daniel Pratt 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
- Central European literature
- Polish literature
- Intellectual history
Ana Elena Puga 
Associate Professor, Literatures and Cultures of Latin America and the Department of Theatre
puga.5@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Aesthetics and politics in Latin American and US Latino Performance
- Latin American migration, performance, theatre – modern & contemporary
Danielle Schoon 
Lecturer, Department of Dance and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
schoon.2@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Turkish Culture
- Turkish Literature in Translation
- Romani (Gypsy) studies. Dance/performance studies.
- Forced dislocation of Romani groups in Turkish cities and the “mobility” of cultural forms, especially dance
- Education Abroad in Turkey
- The Middle East in the Media
- Ethnographies of Dance and Performance
- Dance in Global Contexts
Johanna Sellman 
Interim Librarian, African Studies and Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
sellman.13@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Literature of migration in Arab contexts
- Translation studies
- Citizenship and border studies
- Contemporary Arabic literature
- Migration and Diaspora
- Translation Studies
- Visual Culture of the Middle East
Amy Shuman 
Professor, Department of English
shuman.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Narrative
- Theory
- Ethnic Identity
- Critical Theory
- Disability Studies
- Literacy Studies
- Asylum
- Feminist Theory
Ryan Skinner 
Associate Professor, School of Music and Center for African Studies
skinner.176@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Ethnomusicology, Cultural Anthropology,
- African Studies, Diaspora Studies
Jennifer Suchland 
suchland.15@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Human Trafficking
- Post-socialism
- Decolonial & post-colonial theory
- Theory, activism, and law
- Critical Human Rights
- Feminist Political Economy
- Law & Cultural Studies
- Transnational Feminist Studies
Lorraine Wallace 
Director, Undergraduate Research Office and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
wallace.621@osu.edu
Isaac Weiner 
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies and Center for Folklore Studies
weiner.141@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Religious diversity and American public life
- Sensory/sonic cultures of American religions
- Minority religious experience in the US
- Sonic diversity of American religions
- Religion and law
- Material and sensory cultures of religion
- Theory and method in the study of religion
- Religious pluralism
- American religions
Michelle C. Wibbelsman 
Assistant Professor, Latin American Indigenous Cultures
wibbelsman.1@osu.edu
Research Areas:
- Latin American indigenous transnational migration & cosmopolitanism
- South American Indigenous Cultures
- Ethnomusicology
- Ethnographic Studies