Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism Seminar

Teresa Berger
Duke University, Divinity School
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Intersection of Theology, Feminist Theory
and Cultural Studies; Liberation Theology
http://www.divinity.duke.edu/FacultyAndStaff/A-F/berger/index.aspx

Craig Borowiak
Duke University, Political Science Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Global Political Economy; Discourses of Development;
Indigenous Movements; 18th C. Philosophy and Colonialism
http://www.duke.edu/~ctb3/

Ashwini Chhatre
Duke University, Political Science Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: State-making and Subject Formation;
Environmental History; Political Ecology; South Asia

Leo Ching
Duke University, Asian & African Languages & Literature
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Global Coloniality; Mass Culture;
Japanese Literature and Culture

Romand Coles
Duke University, Political Science Department
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Radical Democracy; Dialogical Ethics;
Difference; Cosmopolitanism
http://www.poli.duke.edu/people/faculty/coles.html

Jason Cross
Duke University, Cultural Anthropology Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Legal and Scientific Praxis in International Development;
Latin America.

Roberto M. Dainotto
Duke University, Romance Studies Department
Assistant Professor of Italian
Research Interests: Mediterranean Studies; Theories of “Europe”;
Regional/Universal Dynamics; Literature of Place and Region
http://www.duke.edu/~dainotto

Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Duke University, Divinity School
Research Interests: Feminist Theologies; Theology and Culture Theories;
Theological Interpretation of Scripture

William D. Hart
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Religious Studies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Theorizing Religion; Imperialism; African-American Studies

Jaya N. Kasibhatla
Duke University, English Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Postcolonial Literature and Theory;
Feminist Theory; Political Theories of Citizenship

Ralph Litzinger
Duke University, Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Globalization; Identity;
Asian Political Economy
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/CA/faculty/rlitz

Kang Liu
Duke University, Asian & African Languages and Literatures
Research Interests: Marxism and Aesthetics;
Cultural Politics and Media in China

Francisco Lopez Martín
Duke University, Romance Studies
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Legacy of Spanish Colonization; Globalization
and Anti-Globalization; Human Rights

Wahneema Lubiano
Duke University, African & African-American Studies Department
and Literature Program
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Black American Literature; Black Intellectual History;
Feminist Theory; Popular Culture

Soyini Madison
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Communications Studies
Research Interests: Gender; Critical Race Theory

Nelson Maldonado-Torres
University of California-Berkeley, Center for Ethnic Studies
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Americas;
Liberation Thought; Ethnic Studies

Walter Mignolo
Duke University, Literature Program, Cultural Anthropology Department,
Romance Studies Department
William H. Wannamaker Professor
Research Interests: Coloniality of Knowledge and of Power;
Border Thinking; Modernity/Coloniality
http://www.duke.edu/~wmignolo

Ebrahim Moosa
Duke University, Religion Department
Associate Research Professor and
Co-Director of Center for the Study of Muslim Networks
Research Interests: Islamic Law; Ethics and Human Rights;
Comparative Epistemologies; Bioethics in Islam
http://www.duke.edu/religion/home/moosa/moosa.html

Negar Mottahedeh
Duke University, Literature Program
Research Interests: Third-world and feminist cinema;
Iranian visual representations

Diane Nelson
Duke University, Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/secondary/dmnelson

Sonali Perera
Duke University, English
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Critical Theory;
Postcolonial Literature

Leah Potter
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, History
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Travel narratives; Mass Culture; Urban History
http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/gradstudents/potter.html

Beatriz E. Rodriguez-Balanta
Duke University, Romance Studies Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: National Identity; State Formation; Race;
Images of the Body

T. Camber Warren
Duke University, Political Science
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Political Theory; Development of Cultural Norms;
International Human Rights

Jini Kim Watson
Duke University, Literature Program
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Asia Pacific Literature; Korean Colonial Literature;
Modern Architecture and Spatial Theory

Joseph Winters
Princeton University, Religion Department
Graduate Student
Research Interests: History of Religious Thought; Border Thinking;
Post-Modern Critique of Universal Reason