Faculty-Led Programs
In July 2020, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs launched a new series of programs that encompass six areas of global and international concern. Led by RCGA Faculty Fellows, these thematic programs host events that encourage discussion on a range of global topics, support courses in diverse majors and interdisciplinary programs, and help form the intellectual foundation for RCGA’s co-curricular programming.
RCGA’s Faculty Fellows Program aims to advance the Center’s core objective—producing and disseminating knowledge about international and global issues—by enabling Faculty Fellows to craft events and projects on global and international issues that foster greater awareness, help students expand and refine their own research interests, and inspire those studying today to engage in real-world global and international affairs tomorrow.
Toward these ends, Faculty Fellows help the Center develop and maintain a robust co-curricular agenda in academic and policy areas that attract substantial faculty/student interest.
The program on Global Economics explores how international and global economics have affected the world—its regions, countries, societies, and people—in the past and present, and how they may do so in the future.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Conveners:
David Munro, associate professor of economics
Sunder Ramaswamy, distinguished college professor of international economics
Germán Reyes, assistant professor of economics
The program on Global Health and Medicine engages practitioners and scholars whose work bears on complex issues that affect the well-being of people worldwide. Topics include pandemics, health care infrastructure and health systems, cultural and sociopolitical aspects of contagion and public health, linkages between health and development, health consequences of conflict, prevention and treatment of sickness across cultures, and innovative solutions to enhance global health.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Conveners:
Pam Berenbaum, professor of the practice of global health
Kristin Bright, associate professor of anthropology
The program on Global and International History presents lectures, panels, and workshops on important aspects of global and international history. Its presentations focus on relationships, connections, transfers, and movements between nations or regions of the world; they link historical events and developments to contemporary ones, and thereby employ the past to illuminate the present and future.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Conveners:
Rebecca Mitchell, associate professor of history
Max Ward, associate professor of history
The program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy features lectures, panels, and workshops on the consolidation or erosion of democracy broadly understood. Key topics include democratic backsliding, democracy and autocracy promotion, elections and their integrity, and the social media/information landscape.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Conveners:
Sebnem Gumuscu, associate professor of political science (on leave AY 2024-25)
Bert Johnson, professor of political science
Ajay Verghese, associate professor of political science
The program on Power, Wealth and Global Political Economy seeks to promote dialogue with policy experts and scholars in the field of global political economy in order to enhance understanding of how (1) economic instruments promote geopolitical goals, (2) national security strategies advance economic interests, (3) foreign policies influence global economic and political stability, and (4) external shocks such as pandemics can upend or call into question the policies, strategies, and instruments that states, societies, and people rely on.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Convener:
Obie Porteous, associate professor of economics
Gary Winslett, associate professor of political science
The program on Security and Global Affairs features lectures, panels, and presentations on global security matters—from traditional issues of war and peace, to nontraditional security challenges in the realms of cyberspace, the environment, food security and beyond. The program examines the causal factors behind these threats over time and explores their possible solutions.
RCGA Faculty Fellow Conveners:
Natalie Chwalisz, visiting assistant professor of political science
Kemi Fuentes-George, associate professor of political science
Jeffrey Lunstead, diplomat in residence
RCGA Faculty Fellows Resources
For Event Proposals
Please note: this link is exclusively for RCGA Faculty Fellows to propose events as part of the RCGA Thematic Programs.
RCGA Faculty Fellows Professional Development Fund.
Please note: this fund is only available to RCGA Faculty Fellows