FACULTY AND STAFF

Chiji Akoma, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor of English
(610) 519-6967

Global Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty

Samer Abboud, PhD.
Associate Professor Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Travis M. Foster
Associate Professor, English; Academic Director, Gender & Women's Studies
Kathryn Getek Soltis, STL, PhD
Director, Center for Peace and Justice Education
Associate Teaching Professor, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Latin American Studies Program
Professor of Philosophy & Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Director of Cultural Studies
Director of the Critical Theory Workshop
Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – LAP (EHESS, Paris)
Research: Modern and Contemporary Thought; Cultural Studies; Social and Political Theory; Philosophy of the Global South; Race, Gender & Class Relations
Web: http://gabrielrockhill.com
Karyn Hollis
Associate Professor, English Department and Global Interdisciplinary Studies Department; Associate Director of Cultural Studies Program; Founder and Past Director Writing Center and Writing and Rhetoric Minor
Maghan Keita, PhD
Professor of History and Global Interdisciplinary Studies; Founding Director, Africana Studies; Founding Director, Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Joseph Lennon, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, International and Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Emily C. Riley Director of Irish Studies
Co-Chair, Strategic Initiative for Climate, Justice and Sustainability
Professor, Department of English
Christine Kalleeny
Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic Language and Culture
Dana Lloyd
Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Peace and Justice Education
Olukunle Owolabi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Interdisciplinary Studies (by courtesy)
Director of Africana Studies
Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Assistant Professor of Irish Studies

Critical Languages Unit Faculty

Chinese and Cultural Studies

ChenYi Lin
Chinese Instructor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
(610) 519-6953
Thomas Noel
Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese Language and Cultural Studies
(610) 519-6975
Honglei Yuan
Chinese Instructor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
HaiLin Zhou
Teaching Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies
(610) 519-8952

Japanese and Cultural Studies

Nathan Badenoch, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies; Program Director of Asian Studies
Kayo Shintaku, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Chair for Critical Languages
Kei Walsh
Japanese Instructor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
(610) 519-8851
Japanese Instructor, Global Interdisciplinary Studies

Swahili and Cultural Studies

Swahili Instructor, Global Interdisciplinary Studies

Russian and Cultural Studies

Boris Briker
Teaching Professor of Russian
Yakov Goncharov
Russian Instructor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Inna Rayevsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor

Emerita Faculty

Masako Hamada, Ed.D.
Associate Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies, Former Director, Asian Studies Program

Staff

Andra Cain
Senior Administrative Assistant
(610) 519-6302

Associated Areas Studies Program Faculty

Chiji Akoma, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
chiji.akoma@villanova.edu
(610) 519-6967

Andra Cain, '20
Senior Administrative Assistant
andra.cain@villanova.edu
610-519-6302