Mission and Leadership
Our Mission
The Institute for Globalization Studies (IGS) promotes interdisciplinary perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, and contradictions related to the processes of globalization. Within the College of Arts and Sciences curriculum, the Institute offers a Bachelor of Arts in Globalization Studies and International Relations (a major and a minor) that combines the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering to prepare future leaders in global policy-making, international service, diplomacy, and activism. Supported by a multidisciplinary advisory board, the IGS seeks to foster scholarly collaborations on the interactions between and within global to local scales, as well as the contradictions embedded in globalization, which often result in severe economic, political, and social inequalities among people marked by territorial borders. The IGS also pays attention to the effects that globalization processes have on the environment and how, in turn, ecological degradation is contributing to the proliferation of conflicts and the securitization of human rights.
Standing in Solidarity
As the world looks upon the United States with anxious yet hopeful eyes, it is incumbent upon us all to be cognizant of the weight of our speech and actions. We are simultaneously local, national, and global citizens. Our mission at the Institute for Globalization Studies is precisely to cultivate in our students, faculty, and communities at large knowledge of the contours and dimensions of power dynamics — socio-economic, political, cultural, and geopolitical.
Leadership
IGS Director
Sophie Raynard-Leroy, Associate Professor
Melville Library, N3005
Phone: 631-632-7358
sophie.raynard@stonybrook.edu
GLI Undergraduate Advisor
Jeremy Marchese
Melville Library, N3004
Phone: 631-632-9915
jeremy.marchese@stonybrook.edu
Faculty Advisory Board
Daniel Levy, Professor
daniel.levy@stonybrook.edu
Liliana Davalos, Professor
liliana.davalos@stonybrook.edu
Eric Zolov, Professor
eric.zolov@stonybrook.edu
Shimelis Gulema, Associate Professor
shimelis.gulema@stonybrook.edu
Nancy Hiemstra, Associate Professor
nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu
Eric Beverley, Associate Professor
eric.beverley@stonybrook.edu
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Associate Professor
jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu
Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor
benjamin.tausig@stonybrook.edu
Sohl Lee, Assistant Professor
sohl.lee@stonybrook.edu