Samer Alatout

Associate Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology

• Research Interests: sociology and politics of science and technology; social theories of power and government biopolitics; Foucault Social theories of territory with a focus on borders, political and cultural geography; environmental policy and politics; water politics in the Middle East; environmental politics on the US/Mexico and Palestine/Israel borders; International Development and the politics of sustainability
• Relevant Courses Taught: Water Policy in International Contexts; International Development, Environment, and Sustainability; Social Theories of Power; Social Theories of Border; Local and Regional Approaches to Sustainability and Vulnerability 
    

Sumudu Atapattu

Teaching Professor & Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School

• Research Interests: international environmental law; climate change; environmental rights, human rights, sustainable development; environmental rights; climate refugees
• Relevant Courses Taught: 918 SP: International Environmental Law; 920 Climate Change, Human Rights and the Environment; 919: International Law: International Human Rights Law
    

Erin Barbato

Clinical Professor & Director, Immigrant Justice Center, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Immigration law, refugees, international human rights law, transnational human rights clinics
   

Genevieve Bates

Assistant Professor | International Relations | Political Methodology, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Criminal courts and tribunals, International Criminal Court; justice and accountability; transitions from dictatorship to democracy. 
    

Joshua Braver

Associate Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: comparative constitutional law; constitutional law in South America
• Relevant Courses Taught: Advanced constitutional law; constitutional law
    

Giuliana Chamedes

Associate Professor of History, Department of History, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: How European internationalist movements tried to go global, while remaining tethered to exclusionary ideas about justice and solidarity; democracy, global history of anti-fascism, decolonization
• Relevant Courses Taught: imperialism and decolonization, internationalism, fascism and anti-fascism, religion, and political economy. 
    

Franciska Coleman

Associate Professor of Law; Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center, UW Law School

• Research Interests: political theory, critical discourse analysis, and First Amendment Law; defining multiracial, interclass democracy and its prerequisties
• Relevant Courses Taught: Constitutional Law (731) First Amendment (901); Race, Class & Democratic Legitimacy  (950)
    

Joe Conti

Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, Department of Sociology

• Research Interests: Economic Change and Development, Economic Sociology, Law and Society, Political Sociology
• Relevant Courses Taught: Soc 125: American Society: How It Really Works (Fall 2020), Soc 125: American Society: How It Really Works (Honors), Soc 210: Survey of Sociology, Soc 496: Globalization and Social Change, Soc 641: Sociology of Law (Fall 2019), Soc 925: Sociology of Economic Change and Development, Soc 942: States, International Organizations, and a Global Public Sphere
    

Mark Copelovitch

Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs | International Relations, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: International Political Economy, International Organizations, International Trade, International Finance, European Union
• Relevant Courses Taught: PS 864 International Political Economy; PS 140 Introduction to International Relations
    

Anuj Desai

Volkman-Bascom Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: How social, historical, and institutional contexts shape law
• Relevant Courses Taught: Constitutional Law: First Amendment, Copyright, Cyberlaw, Legislation, Legislation/Satutory Interpretation (746)

Khaled Esseisah

Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: History of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa.
• Relevant Courses Taught: History 229 – Transnational Islam: African Diaspora; History 600/705 – Global History of Slavery and Unfreedom

Nyamagaga R. Gondwe

Assistant Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Tax Policy; Race and the Law; Economic Justice; Poverty Law
• Relevant Courses Taught: tax policy; tax

Kate Finley

Clinical Associate Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Relevant Courses Taught: SP International Law: International Criminal Law (918)

Jeremy Foltz

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agriculatural & Life Sciences, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Technology adoption, technological change, climate resilience, economic development, political economy, climate change and Africa
• Relevant Courses Taught: AAE 350: World Hunger and Malnutrition; AAE 374: The Growth and Development of Nations in the Global Economy; AAE 477: Agricultural and Economic Development in Africa; AAE 731: Economics of Development 2
    

Kathryn Hendley

Roman Z. Livshits & Theodore W. Brazeau Professor of Law and Political Science, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Comparative Law, Contracts, Legal and economic reform in the former Soviet Union, how ordinary Russians experience law
• Relevant Courses Taught: Contracts (711)

Soeren Henn

Assistant Professor | Comparative Politics | Political Methodology, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Politics of development with a focus on fragile state settings, informal institutions, and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Great Lakes region, and Latin America. 

Francine Hirsch

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, Department of History

• Research Interests: Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History, Comparative Empires, the History of Human Rights, Russian-American Engagement
• Relevant Courses Taught: History 223: Explorations in European History – Topics: “Revolutionary Russia”, History 424: Soviet Union & World, 1917-1991, History 600: History of Idea of Human Rights, History 600: Genocide, Justice, and Postwar Human Rights, History 600: Stalin and Hitler, History 753: Comparative World History, History 850: Graduate Seminar on the History and Historiography of the Soviet Union
    

Alexandra Huneeus

Evjue Bascom  Professor of Law & Director, Center for Law, Society and Justice, UW- Madison 

• Research Interests: Public International Law, Comparative Law, Latin America, Human Rights, Judicial Politics

Sharon Hutchinson

Emerita Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology

Mark Johnson

Educational Policy Studies, School of Education, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Climate change education

Tana Johnson

Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs and Political Science

• Research Interests: International Organizations including the United Nations (UN) and the World Trade Organization (WTO); Global Governance; environmental and trade policies

J. Paul Kelleher

Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Ethical and philosophical aspects of public policy, especially climate change policy and health policy.

Kevin Kelly

Teaching Professor, UW Law School

• Relevant Courses Taught: Law of Armed Conflict; humanitarian law; national security law

Heinz Klug

John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, International Law, Property Law
• Relevant Courses Taught: Constitutional Law II (740), SP Con Law: Comparative Constitution-Making (history, theory & practice) (904), WI International Law Journal (895)

Michael Light

Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Sociology and Chicana/Latina Studies, Department of Sociology

• Research Interests: Legal and criminological consequences of international migration, relationship between racial/ethnic stratification and crime, health consequences of major social and demographic shifts, Race and Ethnic Studies, Law and Society, Social Stratification, Demography and Ecology, Deviance, Law, and Social Control
• Relevant Courses Taught: Soc 440: Ethnicity Race and Justice, Soc 443: Immigration Crime and Enforcement, Soc 875: Special Topics - Professional Writing for Sociologists
    

Sara Mckinnon

Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, Department of Communication Arts

• Research Interests: U.S. Refugee & Immigration Law and Policy; Migration Dynamics and Policy in Latin America; Foreign Policy in Latin America; International & Human Rights Law in the Americas
• Relevant Courses Taught: CA 316 – Gender & Communication; CA 373 – Intercultural Communication & Rhetoric; CA 573 – Rhetoric of Globalization & Transnationalism; CA969 – Migration, Mobility & Stoppage
    

Gregory Nemet

Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: energy systems, technological innovation, climate policy; technological change and public policy; solar energy, carbon removal, social innovation, and low energy demand
• Relevant Courses Taught: Energy systems analysis; policy analysis; international environmental policy

John Ohnesorge

George Young Bascom Professor of Law; Director for East Asian Legal Studies; UW Law School

• Research Interests: Administrative Law, Business Organizations/Corporations, Comparative Law, Law & Development
• Relevant Courses Taught: Business Organizations I (817), Business Organizations Module (950)

Jon C.W. Pevehouse

Development Chair | Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor | International Relations | Political Methodology, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Democratization, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Agreements, International Institution, International Trade, Political Economy
• Relevant Courses Taught: PS 359 American Foreign Policy; PS 988 International Relations Workshop; PS 140 Introduction to International Relations 
    

Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Constitutional Law, Islamic Law
• Relevant Courses Taught: Constitutional Law II (740), Islamic Law & Jurisprudence (785)

Maria-Fatima Santos

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Different dimensions of legal and penal state power–their relationship to how societies are organized; public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s penal courts; nlegal aid, inequality, racialized violence and state transformation. 

Gay Seidman

Martindale Bascom Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Political Sociology, Economic Change and Development, Class Analysis and Historical Change, Demography and Ecology, Social Movements and Collective Behavior
• Relevant Courses Taught: Soc 210: Survey of Sociology, Soc 630: Sociology of Developing Societies, Soc 940: Rethinking the Developmental State

Mitra Sharafi

Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: South Asian legal history, history of criminal law and forensic science, history of legal education and the legal profession, colonialism and empire, history of contract law, law and society, law and religion, law and minorities, legal consciousness, legal pluralism, history of law books, history of science and medicine
• Relevant Courses Taught: Contracts (711)

Mark Sidel

Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the United States, China, India, Vietnam and in comparative perspective; Civil society and the law in Asia; Contemporary secessionist movements in the US, Australia and Canada; Comparative constitutionalism, particularly in China, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia; Human Trafficking

Erica Simmons

Booth Fowler Professor: Comparative Politics | Political Methodology | Faculty Director, International Studies Major

• Research Interests: Civic Society, Globalization, Human Rights, Latin America, Methodology, Revolution, Social Movements

Karen Solheim

School of Nursing, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Global health nursing; international nongovernmental organization engagement with refugees and internally displaced persons. 

Steph Tai

Professor of Law, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Law and Science, Natural Resources Law
• Relevant Courses Taught: Appellate Advocacy - Moot Court (Heffernan Competition)* (815), SP Environmental Law: Food Systems Law (988)
    

Aili Tripp

Vilas Research Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science

• Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Africa, North Africa, Civil Society, Gender and Politics, Women’s Movements, Global Feminism, Conflict Resolution, Democratization
• Relevant Courses Taught: PS 862: State and Society in Comparative Perspective Spring 2023, PS 429: Gender Politics in Comparative Perspective Spring 2023, PS 329: African Politics Fall 2022, PS 948: Seminar: State & Society Fall 2022, PS 948: Seminar: Gender and Politics in Comparative Perspective Fall 2021

Sachin Tuli

Director of International Business and Global Partnerships, Wisconsin School of Business

• Research Interests: International trade; legal aspects of doing business in India
• Relevant Courses Taught: International business

David M. Trubek

Professor Emeritus, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Law and Authoritarian Resurgence, Law and Development, New Governance, Legal Profession, European law and integration

Louise G. Trubek 

Clinical Professor Emerita, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Health Law and Policy, United States and Global Public Interest Law, Regulation and Governance, Transnational Public Interest Law, United States and Global Public Interest Law, Access to Justice, Legal Profession

Andres Uribe

Assistant Professor: Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Democracy, violence, and the state in the Americas; how armed non-state groups seek to influence the democratic process.

William Whitford

Professor Emeritus, UW Law School

• Research Interests: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection and Taxation
• Relevant Courses Taught: Business Law, Contracts

Matthew Wolfgram

Researcher, Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, UW-Madison

• Research Interests: Ethnography of communication focused on the education and practice of an indigenous system of medicine in Kerala (South India) called Ayurveda; how refugee resettlement populations in Wisconsin experience the college-workforce transition