Faculty Directory

Dr. Heuring is the Associate Director of MAPSS and a Lecturer in History. Her field specialties include nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain, British imperial history, European colonialism and decolonization, the post-emancipation Caribbean, gender history, social history, and medicine and public health. For more information, please visit her homepage.

Dr. Anshumali recently completed his PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University. In his dissertation, Amit examined the effect of men’s non-farm employment on women’s economic roles in rural India, as mediated by class, caste, and education. Prior to writing his dissertation, Amit obtained an MS in Development Sociology from Cornell and a dual MS in Environmental Sciences, and Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from The Ohio State University. Amit has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He has three years of experience working as a production supervisor in a chemical manufacturing unit in Greater Mumbai, India. For more information, please visit his homepage.

Dr. Fugazzola's research interests include social movements, gender and sexuality studies, transnational sociology, and qualitative research methods. Her work focuses on the tactical use of language in the context LGBT organizing in China, and on the impact and strategic relevance of culture in the creation and diffusion of contentious discourses. For more information, please visit her homepage.

Dr. Herrera is an Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Political Science. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. Her dissertation is a comparative study of the concept of freedom in the work of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. In dialogue with historical and contemporary political theorists, Dr. Herrera’s research interrogates the terms we use to frame and evaluate political life. For more information, please visit her homepage.

Dr. Lima is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and the College; Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics.  His research interests include: monetary economics; social effects; unemployment effects of labor regulation. For more information, please visit his homepage.

Dr. Wilhoit is an anthropologist with a focus in Gender and Sexuality studies, Ella is currently completing her first book manuscript on gendered labor, kinship and governmentality in the rural Andes. In addition to gendered labor and power, Ella’s research interests include gender and sexuality in the rural south, embodiment as a culturally mediated experience, and the Anthropology of stress and anxiety. For more information, please visit her homepage.