Nationalism and nationalistic attitudes are on the rise around the world while identity continues to play a significant role in human affairs and political discourse. In their more extreme forms, nationalism and identity politics have resulted in revolts, separatist movements, civil wars, mass migrations and, in some cases, genocide. Green School faculty seek to understand the ways in which culture and language become defining elements of human societies, as they explore how these phenomena influence state-society relations, international affairs, traditional and marginalized communities, transnationalism and contribute to the currency of soft power.
| Department | Name | Faculty Research |
| Economics | Norihiko Matsuda | Works on how gender identity affects job search decisions |
| Global and Sociocultural Studies | Jorge Duany | Works on national identity and history of Cuba and Puerto Rico |
| Global and Sociocultural Studies | Juliet Erazo | Works on indigenous politics and organizing in Ecuador |
| Global and Sociocultural Studies | Guillermo Grenier | Examines history of Cuban migration and its impact on Miami, South Florida, and US politics |
| Global and Sociocultural Studies | Qing Lai | Works on the Chinese Muslim population and its relations with the Han majority, the Chinese state, and the world |
| Global and Sociocultural Studies | Jean Rahier | Works on cultural politics, identity, and the governance of multiculturalism in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| History | Tovah Bender | Works on the ways people define themselves and how that aligns with identity and social groups in 15th century Italy |
| History | Gwyn Davies | Works on identification of Romanitas in the Ancient World and indigenous resistance |
| History | Rebecca Friedman | Soviet Ideologies/Gender Languages and the Exportation of Socialist Ideas |
| History | Keyao Pan | Works on the historical relationship between the discourse of rights, nationalism, and constitutionalism in Japan |
| History | Terrence Peterson | Works on historical debates over the nature of nationalism/national identity and their reconfiguration in the 20th century |
| History | Chantalle F Verna | Works on these themes within the context of domestic and international affairs in Haiti, as part of African Diaspora and structural racism worldwide |
| History | Kirsten E Wood | Works on how constructions of gender, race, and class have intersected with constructions of early American citizenship and national belonging |
| Modern Languages | Melissa Baralt | Works on applied psycholinguistics and the cognitive effects of bilingualism, as well as how to promote language learning. |
| Modern Languages | Jazmine Exford | Work examines the intersections of language, identity, and embodiment especially within contexts of second language learning |
| Modern Languages | María Asunción Gómez | Focuses on the representation of gender and the body, motherhood, gender violence, myth and feminism, gender identity and performance, and issues related to film spectatorship |
| Modern Languages | Santiago Juan Navarro | Research explores how Cuban cinema abroad navigates the complexities of national heritage and diverse cultural influences. It reveals how transnational identities have evolved, the importance of language in transnational dialogue, and the intricate nature of transient communities in today's globalized world. In addition, he founded and curates the Cuban Diaspora Film Archive (CDFA), a transnational platform for discussions on democratic values, human rights, and historical memory. |
| Modern Languages | Medardo Gabriel Rosario | Works on literary representations of pilgrimage as a metaphor for migration and transient communities. He also works on literary and cartographical representations of the Caribbean to reflect upon the construction of (trans)national identity. |
| Modern Languages | Renee Silverman | Research deals with the configuration of modern Spanish identity in the poetry of Rafael Alberti, Gerardo Diego, and Federico García Lorca She also works on women in modernism and the avant-garde |
| Modern Languages | Maida Watson | Research examines the representation of nationalism in 19th century Latin American costumbrista literature and the development of ethnic identity in 20th-century Cuban diasporic literature |
| Politics and International Relations | Ronald Cox | Works on US foreign economic policy, international political economy, American foreign policy |
| Politics and International Relations | Todd Makse | Works on knowledge and expertise in US State Politics, Political Behavior, Legislative Politics |
| Politics and International Relations | Mohiaddin Messbahi | Works on Islam and Politics, National Security and Strategic Studies, Soviet/Russian/Central Asian Foreign Policy |
| Politics and International Relations | Richard Olson | Works on Politics of Disaster, Politics of Disaster Risk Reduction, Critical Juncture Theory, Genocide, Latin American Politics |
| Politics and International Relations | Matthew Shafer | Focuses on contemporary debates about violence and language and on the relationship between technology and ecology in social theory |