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Faculty and Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Ayse Kaya

Professor of Political Science

Program Coordinator for Global Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Trotter 311
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment only, Wednesdays 4-5:15. Sign up for a slot here: https://wase.swarthmore.edu/swarthmore/views/pages/makeappt.php?calid=621

  1. Website

Carina Yervasi

Associate Professor of French/Francophone Studies

French and Francophone Studies

Co-Coordinator, Global Studies Program

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8167
  2. Kohlberg 309
  3. Office Hours:

    Tues/Thurs: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    Also by appointment via Zoom

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Cheryl Sharp

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107
Photo of Cheryl Sharp

Debbie Sloman

Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110 Classics
  3. Trotter Hall 107 Interdisciplinary Programs
Debbie Sloman

Program Committee

Farha Ghannam

Eugene Lang Research Professor of Anthropology; Acting Chair

Sociology and Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8104
  2. Kohlberg 240
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment
    Wednesdays, 10:30am- noon

     

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Farha Ghannam looking into the camera

Steven P. Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion

2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Coordinator of Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Fax: (610) 328-7687
  3. Pearson 209
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Steven Hopkins at Collioure

José-Luis Machado

Associate Professor

Ecology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8562
  2. Singer 401
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Research: Invasive species and plant physiological ecology of temperate and tropical ecosystems

Maria Pia Olivero

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7331
  2. Kohlberg 208
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays 9:30am-10:30am &  1:30pm-4:00pm 

  1. Personal site

Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Credit Markets, Latin American Economies.

Maria Pia Olivero

Sunka Simon

Professor

Chair, Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7354
  2. Kohlberg 312
  1. Website

Sunka Simon's research focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and place in postwar German popular culture. She is the author of the book Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002) and eighteen scholarly articles on German literature, film and popular German culture. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Euro-Eyes: Regionalism and Globalization in German TV Formats.

Professor Sunka Simon

Tristan Smith

Associate Professor of Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8259
  2. Office: SC 127A, Lab: SC 127
  1. Website

Research interests: Early universe cosmology; tests of modified theories of gravity; analysis of the cosmic microwave background

Tristan Smith, Professor

In Honor of Economist and Educator Stephen Golub

Global Studies Committee Member in Memoriam
In Memoriam: In Honor of Economist and Educator Stephen Golub, Global Studies Committee Member