Faculty Advisory Committee

James Bingen
Professor, Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies (CARRS)

Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1983
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1967
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1966

bingen@msu.edu

James Bingen's research interests involve development policy and programs, policy dimensions of agriculture, farmer groups and development policy, pesticide policy, and alternative food and farming options.

John Davis
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
M.A., Stanford University, 1995
B.A., Cornell University, 1993

davisjrj@msu.edu

John Davis' research examines how human rights discourse is invoked to challenge "traditional" social practices and also how "tradition" is mobilized in certain politicized contexts to reconfigure human rights discourse. His teaching and research interests include human rights, Japanese society and culture, legal anthropology, social stratification, psychological anthropology, social movements, cultural nationalism, peace and justice studies, and dynamic analyses of race, class and gender.

Deogratias Ngonyani
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
M.A., UCLA, 1994
M.A., University of Dar es Salaam, 1988
B.A., University of Dar es Salaam, 1985

20ngonyani@msu.edu

Deogratias Ngonyani teaches Swahili and Linguistics. His primary research and teaching interests are in the morphosyntax of Bantu languages, particularly how morphological structure is related to phrasal structure, and comparative-historical studies of Southern Tanzanian languages. He has presented at conferences and published on the morphosyntax of applicatives in Bantu. His most recent paper on Bantu applicatives appeared in Studies in African Linguistics.  He is also working on the documentation and description of undescribed languages of the area. Other work includes studies focusing on language in education in Tanzania, and how linguistic devices are used in Swahili literature and political discourse.

Barry Stein
Professor, Department of Political Science

Ph.D., New York University, 1969
M.A., New York University, 1965
B.A., City College of New York, 1963

stein@msu.edu

Barry Stein's interests include refugees, international relations and international organizations.

Antoinette WinklerPrins
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
M.U.P., College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 1985
B.A., University of Michigan, 1983

antoinet@msu.edu

Antoinette WinklerPrins' interests include land-use models, Amazon degradation, natural resources policies in Latin America, local environmental knowledge, agricultural land-use and political ecology.