Online Bachelor of Arts Interdisciplinary and Area Studies Major, Global Studies

Knowledge of the cultural, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of globalization, coupled with skills in social science research methods and theory, is increasingly critical for many careers. The reality of the current job market is that many careers require flexibility in perspective, knowledge in multiple areas, and a broad and varied skill set. In recognition of these needs, the Interdisciplinary and Area Studies Major, Global Studies BA offers students the tools needed to prepare for the reality of today’s global marketplace.

Career Opportunities

Graduates will be prepared to pursue careers in diverse areas including the environmental field, civil service, business, law, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

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Dr. Simone Athayde, Associate Professor of Anthropology

She is an environmental anthropologist and interdisciplinary ecologist who has worked across the Amazonian region for over 20 years, supporting Indigenous peoples and local communities’ self-determination and sustainable livelihoods, as well as biocultural and territorial rights. Her research examines the impacts of large infrastructure projects and climate change on Indigenous peoples and local communities across the Amazon, as well as their responses and agency over these processes. She teaches undergraduate courses in Social-Ecological Research Methods and Latin American Studies.

Dr. Kevin Grove, Associate Professor of Geography

His research works across political geography, cultural geography, political ecology and security studies to examine the biopolitics of disaster management and resilience. Resilience has become an increasingly influential ordering principle for all manner of social and environmental governance initiatives, in fields as varied as international development, urban governance, disaster management, psychology and community development. Through fieldwork in Kingston, Jamaica, New York City, Miami, and the Florida Coastal Everglades, he analyzes how this resilience turn creates a new terrain for political struggle. He teaches undergraduate courses in Geography of Global Change and People, Place, and Environment of the Caribbean.

Dr. Matthew Marr, Associate Professor of Sociology

His research focuses on how experiences of inequality in contemporary urban America and Japan are shaped by contexts at different levels, from the global to the individual. His research sites include housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, “service hub” neighborhoods, and day labor markets. He combines street-level qualitative research with comparative, macro-sociological analysis to contribute to debates on inequality about the effects of globalization, welfare states, urban regimes, culture, organizations, neighborhoods, families, and individual agency. His undergraduate courses include Japanese Society in Global Perspective and Cities in Asia.

Dr. Andrea Queeley, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Her research concerns African Diasporic subject formation, migration, and the negotiation of globalized structural inequalities, exploring questions of social hierarchy and diversity within the African Diaspora. She is particularly interested in the social and economic conditions under which racialized subjects assert their cultural identities and how such assertions shift over time. She has conducted research in eastern Cuba among people of English-speaking Caribbean descent as well as the urban US. She teaches undergraduate courses in Race and Revolution in Cuba, the African Diaspora in Latin America, and Cultures of the Caribbean.

Dr. Richard Tardanico, Associate Professor of Sociology

He does research focuses on local/global inequalities, politics, conflict, and social change, mainly in Latin American and Caribbean countries. His current work deals with those topics for globalizing Miami, with a particular emphasis on how the Little Haiti neighborhood is confronting predatory gentrification. His undergraduate teaching includes courses in Research Methods, Deviance in Society, and Societies in the World.