Robert B. Affe (INTL-I300) is Senior Lecturer, Telecommunications, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, International Studies.  Affe’s research interests include international media business and national security studies.  He has taught at several of China’s leading universities, including Peking University and Zhejiang University.  He has been recognized multiple times at IU for outstanding teaching.  Prior to joining the faculty Affe was a media executive, specializing in building media enterprises in start-up and turn-around situations.  He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the New York University School of Law.

Stephanie DeBoer (INTL-I 205) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture as well as the International Studies Program at Indiana University.  Her teaching and research interests include global media studies, Japanese and Chinese language film and media, inter-Asia cultural studies, memory and media, and critical approaches to digital media in the context of globalization. A recent recipient of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC/JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, she is currently writing a manuscript on film, television and media co-productions in the Asia-Pacific. She also has experience in the instruction and production of multimedia scholarship.

Ilana Gershon (INTL-I205) is Assistant Professor of Performance and Ethnography, Department of Communication and Culture and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2001. Gershon has a wide range of interests, with an ethnographic focus in the Pacific. Her previous research has compared Samoan migrant experiences in New Zealand and the United States, focusing in particular on the contrasts between how governments and migrants understand what it means to have a culture.
She has two current research projects. In her long-term research project, she is looking at Maori members of the New Zealand parliament, exploring how indigenous self-representation in the national legislature has contributed to the current Maori Renaissance. In her short-term project, she is studying how people end relationships using new forms of communication. By studying breaking up, she hopes to gain an understanding of when and how people experience new media as "new."

Flory Gingging (INTL-I100) is a PhD candidate in Folklore.  Her research focuses on tourism, identity politics, and nationalism in Sabah, Malaysia.

Margaret Graves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburg, 2010. Her research interests are Medieval Islamic visual culture, nineteenth-century Islamic arts, the image of architecture in paintings, sculpture and applied arts, orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art.

Amy Horowitz (INTL-I I204)and (INTL-I300) is a Visiting Lecturer in the International Studies Program and Visiting Scholar-In-Residence at the Center for the Study of Global Change. She received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, 1994. Her main interests are Mediterranean Israeli Music, (a form of contemporary popular Israeli music created by Israeli Jews from Islamic countries), the study of cultures in disputed territories, the folklore traditions of contemporary Jerusalem, and protest music as responsible citizenship. Dr. Horowitz teaches courses on music, globalization, and disputed territories through the International Studies Program. Her work in cros-cultural and multiracial coalitions complements her academic background that combines training in Jewish studies and Ethnomusicology with Folklore and Israel studies.

Hilary Kahn (INTL-I 300), Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Global Change, has been teaching within the Indiana University system since 1997 and has been involved in the internationalization of higher education since 2004. As Associate Director, she oversees and initiates programs and projects involved in the deeper internationalization of Indiana University and assists in the overall administration of the Center. She is also the Director of the Ph.D. Minor in Global Studies, the Director of "Voices and Visions: Islam and Muslims from a Global Perspective," and an adjunct professor of anthropology at IUB and IUPUI. She has taught numerous courses on topics such as anthropological theory, ethnographic methods, visual anthropology, intercultural communication, the anthropology of religion, and indigenous cultures of Central America and Mexico. She currently teaches "Human Rights and the Arts" for the International Studies Program, as well as graduate seminars and readings courses as part of the Global Studies Minor. By using videoconferencing technology to link with classrooms overseas, she has taught students in Macedonia, Indonesia, and Russia, and she directs an international service learning program in Bluefields, Jamaica. Her topical and regional areas of interest and expertise include international education, intercultural teaching and learning, visual anthropology, indigenous image-making, identity formation, intimate spaces of globalization, and Latin America and the Caribbean. She has presented at national and international conferences, published numerous peer review articles and book and film reviews, and recently published her first book "Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Guatemala and Beyond" (University of Texas Press, 2006).

Olga Kalentzidou ( INTL-I206, INTL-I400) is the Associate Director of the International Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from IU in 2001. She is a native of Greece and has conducted research in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. She has taught extensively in the Department of Anthropology and West European Studies at Indiana University. Her research interests include ethnicity, nationalism, food studies, memory, material culture and Modern Greek language. As a faculty in International Studies, she teaches the Capstone Seminar and Nations, States and Boundaries.

Daniel Knudsen (INTL-I400) is a professor in the Department of Geography and director of the International Studies Major Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include cultural geography, landscape studies, and tourism. Dr. Knudsen earned a Ph.D. in Geography with a minor in Economics in 1984 from Indiana University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Denmark in 1995 and returns there annually to pursue field research.

Stepanka Korytova (Global Human Trafficking: INTL-I300) is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Global Change and in the International Studies Program at Indiana University.  In 2009 she was a faculty member on a voyage around the world, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia. Her teaching and research interests include global migration, the history of European migration to the United States, gender and ethnicity issues, and modern East European history. A recent recipient of a Czech private foundation grant (the Josef Hlavka grant), she has finished her second book (currently in press), entitled Kde domov muj? (Where Is My Homeland? Czech and Slovak Americans and Their Ties to the Homeland, 1880-1920).  She also has experience in the instruction of the Czech and Russian languages and cultures.

Nicole Serena Kousaleos (INTL-I201, INTL-I204, INTL-I400) is a Visiting Lecturer  in the International Studies Program.  Nicole has a Ph.D. in Folklore with minors in Gender Studies and African Studies from Indiana University in 2000. Nicole has taught previously for the Folklore Department at I.U.   Areas of expertise include: ethnographic methods, medical anthropology, feminist theory, globalization, advertising, and body image, post-colonial theory, performance studies, community studies, and narrative analysis.  Nicole’s current research interests are gender and human rights:  the intersection of globalization with the local negotiation of gendered culture.  Nicole is an ethnographer who has worked in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, in the United States with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and with youth violence intervention in North Carolina.  Nicole has recently received an award for outstanding teaching.  

Todd Lindley (INTL-I100, INTL- I203, INTL-I400)is a visiting lecturer in the International Studies Program at Indiana University.  He received his PhD in Geography from IU in 2010.  He teaches courses on Global Integration and Development, Introduction to International Studies, Research Methods, World Regional Geography, and Population/Demography.  He has lived and worked in Korea, Mexico, and the Philippines and is also a member of the Population Specialty Group and Development Geographies Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. His research interests include migration, transnationalism, globalization, and intercountry adoption.

Paulette Lloyd (INTL-I 204) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching interests include globalization processes, social network methods, issues at the nexus of human rights, democracy and development, and the role of the United Nations in diffusing cultural norms. Her dissertation research used social network and correspondence analysis to test theories of world divisions using UNGA roll call votes. More recently, she has conducted a network analysis of world trade relations, which included an historical overview of research using network analysis and world systems theory. She is currently working on a project examining the human rights implications of transnational crime, and the role of culture and trust in international cooperation and exchange. She is also using UNGA roll call votes to advance current research on focus theory and balance theory.

Michael Muehlenbein (INTL-I 202, INTL-I 400) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and faculty associate in the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change. He earned his PhD and MPhil in biological anthropology at Yale University, and an MsPH in Tropical Medicine and Biostatistics at Tulane School of Public Health.  His primary research interests include biological adaptations to infectious diseases and infectious disease ecology, particularly emerging infectious diseases caused by human-wildlife contact.
Michael has also studied the physiology and ecology of malaria infections in Honduran men, HIV infection in men, upper respiratory tract infections in college students, and gastrointestinal infections in wild chimpanzees of Uganda and orangutans of Borneo. His teaching interests include global health, human variation and evolution, evolutionary medicine and behavioral endocrinology. Read about Dr. Muehlenbein's latest research at: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/14455.html

Peter Nemes (INTL-I201, INTL-I400) is a Visiting Lecturer at the International
Studies Program and a Visiting Scholar at the Landscape Studies Program
and CEUS. He is originally from Hungary where he earned his Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature. His research interests include landscape
studies, especially the influence of visual art on garden design and
history in an intercultural setting (British and Japanese) and cultural
studies. He has taught courses on literary theory, world literature,
garden history and cultural geography in various settings: in Hungary,
at IU and at an online university.

Per Nordahl (INTL-I 206, INTL-I 400) arrived at IU from Umeå, Sweden in February 2008, where he has been serving as a Research Fellow in International Studies, as well as Assistant Director of the European Union Center of Excellence. His research includes Migration and Integration Studies, as well as Scandinavian History. Per received his Ph.D. in History from Umeå University (Sweden), and has served as a Fulbright Fellow, American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow, and an IU Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. He has published a book, Weaving the Ethnic Fabric: Social Networks Among Swedish-American Radicals in Chicago 1890–1940.  He served as director of the research project “Boundaries of Swedishness” (1999–2002) and the research project “The Transatlantic Diffusion of Ideas and Attitudes through Swedish-American Returnees” (1995), both funded by The Bank of Sweden.  He served as Director of the Swedish Emigrant Institute (2002–2006), where he initiated and managed a number of EU projects.  His current research centers on policies for integration in Scandinavia and the ways in which they are implemented.

Rodrigo Penna-Firme (INTL-I 100) is an Associate Instructor in International Studies Program. His research focuses on the interface of nature conservation, poverty and ethnic identity among rural populations in Brazil, particularly quilombola communities (maroon afro-Brazilian communities). He is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches to study the processes through which rural populations and their environment co-evolve with changes in the larger society, such as those prompted by economic and social policies, global markets and development programs.

Ron Sela (INTL-I 206, INTL-I 400) is Assistant Professor of Central Eurasian History. He holds the Ph.D. in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University. His research interests are in the history of Muslim peoples, and in political and cultural self-representation in the Islamic world, focusing on Central Asia. He teaches courses on history, historiography and travel literature in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.

Terry W. Simmons (INTL-I206) is a Visiting Lecturer in International Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in International Studies and Comparative Politics from the University of Miami, 2008. His research concentrations are Russian-American Relations, American Foreign Policy and Politics of the Middle East. He has extensive experiences as a government consultant and advisor, and was recently selected as a member of Multinational Transition Command in Iraq as a Professor of Political Science, mentoring and advising Iraqi academics in the Ministry of the Interior. He is currently involved in issues relating to the Russian-Georgian War of 2008, and doing reaseach on NATO-American-Russian Cooperation on PAA ABM Aegis world-wide missle deployment.

Andrea Siqueira (INTL-I202, INTL-I204) is an Associate Researcher at ACT and adjunct faculty at the Dept of Anthropology at Indiana University. She received her PhD. in social-cultural Anthropology from Indiana University in 1997. Her research interests include development, food studies, household economy, gender, reproductive and community health, migration, conservation and environmental policies, and human rights. The focus of her research is Brazil and Latin America, and the Amazonian region in particular.