International/Globalization Studies at Macalester College

11 faculty and 40 courses in International/Globalization Studies at Macalester College.

Faculty

• Ahmed Samatar, James Wallace Professor of International Studies & Chair
  In the areas of leadership and the state in Somalia, and globalization and the rise of Islamic consciousness. In the special commissioned volume of Bildhaan which focuses on the exigencies of transition in Somalia, Samatar’s artic
• Alix Johnson, Assistant Professor of International Studies
• Bill Moseley, Professor
  I have research interests in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, and livelihood security. Most of my fieldwork has been undertaken in West and Southern Africa. My research over the past several years
• David Chioni Moore, Professor, International Studies and English
• James Von Geldern, Russian and International Studies, and Chair of Russian Studies
• Jenna Rice Rahaim, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Es on migration and religious, economic, and ethical practice in the Middle East. Her dissertation, Imagining Debt, Practicing Obligation: Family, Charity, and Humanitarianism in Saida, Lebanon examines changing sensibilities towards charit
• Karin Velez, Associate Professor
• Margaret Olsen, Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies
  Es on textually recuperating discourses that have been historically suppressed. Much of her research, for example, reveals the complex levels at which peoples of African descent have participated in the writing of the New World. Professor O
• Nadya Nedelsky, Professor of International Studies
• Roopali Phadke, Professor of Environmental Studies
• Vanessa Voller, Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
  Es on contraception access for adolescents and emerging adult women in rural communities in eastern Bolivia. Domestically, she studies the long-term health outcomes of survivors of sex trafficking and the prevention of commercial sexual exp

Courses

• Introduction to International Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity INTL 110
• Introduction to International Studies: Literature and Global Culture INTL 111
• Introduction to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Technology INTL 112
• Introduction to International Studies: Border-crossing in the Age of Globalization INTL 113
• Introduction to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct INTL 114
• Topics Course INTL 194
• Global Media Industries INTL 202
• Globalization and Contemporary Art INTL 210
• Comparative Economic Systems INTL 225
• Infrastructure and Inequality INTL 230
• Barack Obama on the Global Stage INTL 235
• Economics of Global Food Problems INTL 239
• Introduction to International Human Rights INTL 245
• Global Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health INTL 246
• Terrorism and Art: The Spectacle of Destruction INTL 250
• Comparative Muslim Cultures INTL 253
• The Middle East Through Film INTL 258
• Digital Cultures INTL 260
• Muslim Women Writers INTL 263
• Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication INTL 265
• The Post-Soviet Sphere INTL 272
• Global Contagions, Past and Present INTL 276
• Langston Hughes: Global Writer INTL 278
• Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context INTL 280
• Introduction to International Public Health INTL 282
• Imaging the Modern City INTL 284
• Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe INTL 285
• Identity, Race, and Ethnicity in Japan INTL 288
• World to Table: Global Food Studies INTL 290
• Power and Development in Africa INTL 301
• Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters INTL 316
• Writers and Power: The European East in the 20th Century INTL 317
• Global Political Economy INTL 320
• Cultures of Neoliberalism INTL 321
• China, Russia and Central Europe in Transition INTL 325
• Surveillance and Power INTL 330
• Global Generosity INTL 335
• Advanced Themes in Human Rights INTL 345
• Transitional Justice INTL 352
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.