Core Faculty

MSU faculty members are affiliated with CASID as "core" faculty, linking the Center with more than 35 departments and schools. The following is a list of these affiliated faculty members and their departments.

College of Social Science

Anthropology
Kenneth David, Associate Professor
John Davis, Assistant Professor
William Derman, Professor
Elizabeth Drexler, Assistant Professor
David Dwyer, Emeritus
Anne Ferguson, Professor
Masako Fujita, Assistant Professor
Bernard Gallin, Emeritus
Robert Hitchcock, Professor
Najib Hourani, Assistant Professor
Mara Leichtman, Assistant Professor
Andrea Louie, Associate Professor
Laurie Medina, Associate Professor
Brandt Peterson, Assistant Professor
James Pritchett, Professor
Judy Pugh, Associate Professor
Adan Quan, Assistant Professor

Center for Integrative Studies
Tom Carroll, Professor

Criminal Justice
Meredith Gore, Assistant Professor
Sanja Ivkovich Kutnjak, Associate Professor
Sheila Maxwell, Associate Professor
Edmund McGarrell, Professor
Mahesh Nalla, Professor

Economics
Christian Ahlin, Assistant Professor
Lisa Cook, Assistant Professor
John Giles, Associate Professor
Susan Linz, Professor
Raoul Minetti, Associate Professor
Jinhua Zhao, Associate Professor
Susan Chun Zhu, Associate Professor

Family and Child Ecology
Mary Andrews, Emeritus
Adrian Blow, Assistant Professor

Geography
David Campbell, Professor
Guo Chen, Assistant Professor
Kenneth Corey, Professor
Kyle Evered, Assistant Professor
Assefa Mehretu, Professor
Jiaguo Qi, Professor
Cynthia Simmons, Associate Professor
Robert Walker, Professor
Jack Williams, Emeritus
Antoinette WinklerPrins, Associate Professor
Leo Zulu, Assistant Professor

History
Nwando Achebe, Associate Professor
Peter Alegi, Associate Professor
Peter Beattie, Associate Professor
Emine Evered, Assistant Professor
Laura Fair, Associate Professor
Walter Hawthorn, Associate Professor
Anne Meyering, Associate Professor
Juan Pescador, Professor
David Robinson, University Distinguished Professor
Keely Stauter-Halsted, Associate Professor
Elvira Wilbur, Professor Emeritus
Erica Windler, Assistant Professor

Labor and Industrial Relations
John Beck, Associate Professor
Ellen Kossek, Professor
Benjamin Wolkinson, Professor

Planning, Design and Construction (joint with Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Matt Syal, Professor
Mark Wilson, Associate Professor

Political Science
Ravi Bhavnani, Assistant Professor
Ana Maria Bodea, Assistant Professor
Michael Bratton, University Distinguished Professor
Eric C.C. Chang, Associate Professor
Rick Hula, Professor
Carolyn Logan, Assistant Professor
Carlos Pereira, Assistant Professor
Laura Reese, Professor
Brian Silver, Professor
Barry Stein, Professor

Social Work
DeBrenna Agbenyiga, Assistant Professor

Sociology
Marilyn Aronoff, Emeritus
Lawrence Busch, University Distinguished Professor
Soma Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor
Rita Gallin, Emeritus
Stephen Gasteyer, Assistant Professor
Craig Harris, Associate Professor
Richard C. Hill, Emeritus
Nan Johnson, Professor
Sabrina McCormick, Assistant Professor
Brendan Mullan, Associate Professor
Xuefei Ren, Assistant Professor
David Wiley, Professor
Khalida Zaki, Visiting Assistant Professor

Urban and Regional Planning
Rene Hinojosa, Professor

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Agricultural Food and Resource Economics
Adesoji Adelaja, Hannah Distinguished Professor
Richard Bernsten, Professor
Eric Crawford, Professor
Cynthia Donovan, Visiting Assistant Professor
Thomas Reardon, Professor
John Staatz, Professor
David Tschirley, Visiting Professor

Animal Science
Robert Blake, Professor

Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies
Joseph Arvai, Associate Professor
George Axinn, Professor Emeritus
Richard Bawden, Visiting Distinguished Professor
Jim Bingen, Professor
Kimberly Chung, Associate Professor
Daniel Clay, Professor
John Kerr, Associate Professor
Eddie Moore, Professor
Sarah Nicholls, Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Riedinger, Professor
Gerhardus Schultink, Professor
Murari Suvedi, Professor
Scott Witter, Professor

Crop and Soil Science
Eunice Foster, Professor
Russell Freed, Professor
Alexandra Kravchenko, Associate Professor

Entomology  (jointly with Natural Science)
Mark Whalon, Professor

Fisheries and Wildlife
Tracy Dobson, Professor

Food Science and Human Nutrition (jointly with Natural Science)
Jenny Bond, Emeritus
Leslie Bourquin, Associate Professor

Forestry
Runsheng Yin, Associate Professor

College of Arts and Letters

English
Kenneth Harrow, Professor
Salah Hassan, Associate Professor
Eng-Beng Lim, Assistant Professor
Sheng-Me Ma, Professor
Jyotsna Singh, Professor

French, Classics, and Italian
Safoi Babana-Hampton, Assistant Professor
E. Dean Detrich, Emeritus
Joseph Francese, Professor
Anne Harrison, Emeritus
Michael Koppisch, Professor
George Mansour, Emeritus

Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages
Malik Balla, Assistant Professor
Yen-Hwei Lin, Professor
Deogratias Ngonyani, Associate Professor
David Prestel, Professor

Philosophy
Stephen Esquith, Professor
Richard Peterson, Professor
Thomas Tomlinson, Professor

Religious Studies
John Hinnant, Emeritus
Robert McKinley, Associate Professor

Spanish and Portuguese
Saulo Gouveia, Assistant Professor
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli, Assistant Professor
Marilia Ribeiro, Assistant Professor

College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Journalism
Manuel Chavez, Associate Professor
James Detjen, Professor
Eric Freedman, Associate Professor
Folu Ogundimu, Associate Professor

Communication
Maria Lapinski, Associate Professor
Khadidiato Ndiaye, Assistant Professor
Joseph Walther, Professor

Telecommunication, Information and Media Studies
Johannes Bauer, Professor
Jennifer Olson, Associate Professor

College of Education

Educational Administration
Ann Austin, Professor
Amita Chudgar, Assistant Professor
Reitumetse Mabokela, Associate Professor

Teacher Education
Brian Delany, Associate Professor
Lynn Paine, Professor
John Schwille, Professor
Maria Tatto, Associate Professor

James Madison College
Mohammed Ayoob, University Distinguished Professor
Kiki Edozie, Assistant Professor
Waseem El-Rayes, Assistant Professor
Ross Emmett, Associate Professor
Norman Graham, Professor
Yasumasa Komori, Assistant Professor
Daniel Kramer, Assistant Professor
Linda Racioppi, Professor
Emmett Ross, Associate Professor
Jonas Zoninsein, Professor

Lyman Briggs College
Gerald Urquhart, Assistant Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Large Animal Clinical Science
John Kaneene, University Distinguished Professor

Centers and Institutes
Yacob Fisseha, Assistant Professor, African Studies Center
John Metzler, Assistant Professor, African Studies Center

Libraries
Talbott Huey, Librarian
Sharon Ladenson, Librarian