Explore recent work by International and Global Studies faculty
Scroll below to find recent academic research output by International and Global Studies faculty from the past several years, including: books, book chapters, peer-reviewed publications, invited talks and interviews, fellowships and grants, and awards and honors. You can find a full listing of each faculty member's academic scholarship on PDXScholar.
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Book Chapters
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Invited Talks and Interviews
Fellowships and Grants
Award and Honors
Robert Asaadi, Postrevolutionary Iran: The Leader, the People, and the Three Powers, Joseph C. Parry, Ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, April 2021). Nominee for the 2022 International Studies Association Global Development Studies (GDS) Section Book Award.
Shawn Smallman and Kimberley Brown, An Introduction to International and Global Studies (Third Edition, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
Evguenia Davidova, ed. Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans: A Socio-Economic History (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016).
Evguenia Davidova, "Teaching an International Bestseller: Reflections on Encouraging Caring Global Citizenship." The Journal of General Education 69.1-2 (2021): 21-29.
Evguenia Davidova, "The Wandering Orthodox Nuns: Religion and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Central Balkans." Slavic Review 79.4 (2020): 731-754.
Evguenia Davidova, “Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies 31, 1 (2020): 48-67.
Safia Farole, “Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa.” Government and Opposition, 1-20 (2021).
Safia Farole, “Regional Security Institutions and Weak States: The Case of Somalia and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).” Comparative Strategy 37(5): 472-484 (2019) [pre-print].
Priya Kapoor, "Provincializing Whiteness: We are all Calibans," Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019): Vol. 8(4), 16-22.
Priya Kapoor, "Communicating Gender, Race and Nation in the Purvi Patel case: The State, Biopower, and the Globality of Reproductive Surveillance," Gender and Women’s Studies (2018): 1(1): 4.
Priya Kapoor, "Global Muslim audiences’ polysemic reading of ‘My name is Khan’: Toward an emergent multiculturalism," Journal of Media and Communication Studies (2018): 10(5), 34-45.
Pronoy Rai, "The Geographies of Intermediation: Labor Intermediaries, Labor Migration, and Cane Harvesting in Rural Western India," Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52 (6), (2020), 1221-1236.
Pronoy Rai, "Seasonal Masculinities: Seasonal Labor Migration and Masculinities in Rural Western India," Gender, Place & Culture, 27 (2), (2020), 261-280.
Pronoy Rai, "The Labor of Social Change: Seasonal Labor Migration and Social Change in Rural Western India," Geoform, 92, (2018), 171-180.
Leopoldo Rodriguez and Shawn Smallman, "Political Polarization and Nisman's Death: Competing Conspiracy Theories in Argentina," The Journal of International and Global Studies. Vol 8:1, (Fall 2016): 20-39.
Shawn Smallman, "Wet Markets and Avian Influenza: Public Policy Decisions in Hong Kong," The Journal of International and Global Studies. Vol.10:1 (December 2018): 15-23.
Shawn Smallman, "Zika and Conspiracy Theories," The Journal of International and Global Studies. Vol 9:2 (June 2018): 1-13.
Gerald Sussman, “Making Enemies: The Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy,” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Brill Pub. (2020), 19(1-2):138-156.
Evguenia Davidova, “Echoes of Tumultuous Wars: Prosperity and Poverty of the Balkan Entrepreneurial Strata (1800s-1880s),” in European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans. Nationalism, Violence, and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Dimitris Stamatopoulos (London: I.B Tauris, 2019), 93-111.
Evguenia Davidova, “Women Travelers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe,” in Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th-19th Centuries, ed. Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 200-227.
Priya Kapoor, "Shah Rukh Khan: Journey from Charisma to Celebrity," in C. Wilkinson-Weber and A.I. Viswamohan’s, "Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times," Springer Publishers, National Research Foundation Grant, South Korea, (2020), (pp. 31-45).
Priya Kapoor, "Community radio for creating communication channels: Theoretical Musings Emanating from Himalayan Rural Locales," in V. Pavarala and K. K. Malik (Eds.), "Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves," London: Routledge. UNESCO Chair in Community Media Publication, (2020), (19 pages).
Gerald Sussman, “Labor in the Age of Digital (Re)Production,” in Randy Nichols and Gabriela Martinez, eds. The Political Economy of Media Industries in a Changing Global Climate: Profit, Power, and Paucity. Routledge (2019), pp. 205-225.
Gerald Sussman, “RussiaGate: The Construction of Enemy,” in Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner Mirrlees, eds., Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change. Rowman & Littlefield. (2018), pp.
Gerald Sussman, “The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War,” in Savaş Çoban, ed., Media and Ideology, Brill Pub. (2018), pp. 198-222.
Robert Asaadi, Television interview. “Scope with Waqar Rizvi” Indus News (English language broadcaster in Pakistan) (July 16, 2021).
Robert Asaadi, Podcast interview. “Postrevolutionary Iran,” Dispatch 7 Podcast (May 18, 2021).
Robert Asaadi, “Book Talk on Postrevolutionary Iran: The Leader, the People, and the Three Powers,” Middle East Studies Center Lecture Series, Portland State University, Portland, OR (June 3, 2021).
Robert Asaadi, “Persian Gulf Security Issues” WorldOregon, Great Decisions 2021 Lecture Series, Portland, OR (February 26, 2021).
Evguenia Davidova, “Nationalism and Public Health: A Comparison between the Bulgarian and Serbian Nursing Policies in the Interwar Period,” Democritos University of Thrace, Komotini (December 2020).
Evguenia Davidova, “Healing the National Body: The Case of the Bulgarian Nursing (1900-1939)” at Democritos University of Thrace, Komotini (November 2019).
Evguenia Davidova, “Merchants’ Strategies for Business Expansion: Perspectives from the 19th-Century Central Balkans.” at Institute for Mediterranean Studies - Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (IMS-FORTH) Rethymno (November 2019).
Evguenia Davidova, “From Empire to Nation-States: 19th-century Balkan Commerce and Generational Networks” at Panteion University, Athens (November 2019).
Safia Farole, Podcast interview, "Politics in South Africa", Dispatch 7 Podcast, (2021).
Priya Kapoor, Podcast interview, "Murder of Musicians in South Asia," Dispatch 7 Podcast, (2020).
Priya Kapoor, "Great Decisions: India and Pakistan", Public Talk Series Sponsored by World Oregon and Department of International and Global Studies at Portland State University, (February 28, 2020).
Priya Kapoor, "Human Resilience in Mobility: Politics of the Image and the Global South," Portland Art Museum Series in Dialogue: Artist as Citizen, in Conjunction with Special Exhibition Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, (May 13, 2018).
Pronoy Rai, “Suturing Sugar Agro-Capitalism: Labor Intermediaries and Seasonal Labor Migration in Rural Western India”. Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation, and Change Webinar. University of Leeds. Leeds, UK. (February 17, 2021).
Pronoy Rai, "Seasonal Masculinities: Labor Migration, Masculinities, and Gender Relations in Rural Western India," Noted Scholar Lecture Series, The University of British Columbia Social Justice Institute, Vancouver, B.C., (February 26, 2020).
Pronoy Rai, Panel Discussion on Gender, Sexuality, and Politics, Fifth Annual Reunion and Roundtables of Ohio University's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, (October 11, 2019).
Shawn Smallman, "Fear, Fiction and Fact: COVID-19’s Origins & Spread," WorldOregon (April 21, 2020).
Robert Asaadi, Futures Collaboratory, 2020-2021 Fellow, Portland State University.
Evguenia Davidova, Visiting Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, $5,225 (2021).
Evguenia Davidova, Research Stipend Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, $3,500 (2019).
Evguenia Davidova, H-21 Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Research Grant, American Association for the History of Nursing, $3,000 (2019).
Evguenia Davidova, RE-LINK Advanced Academia Fellowship, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Swiss State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation, $6,270 (2019).
Safia Farole, American Political Science Association Summer Centennial Center Research Grant Miller Fund, Summer 2021.
Safia Farole, American Association of University Women’s American Fellowship, 2021-2022.
Safia Farole, Portland State University President’s Diversity Fellowship, 2020-2021.
Priya Kapoor, Faculty Enhancement Grant, Portland State University, 2019.
Priya Kapoor, Portland State University: Vision 2025 grant, 2019.
Priya Kapoor, Faculty Fellow, National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government with 27 Transnational and Korean Scholars of South Asia, 1 Project Leader, 13 HK Research Professors, at The India Institute of Study, Hangkuk University, Seoul, S. Korea. February 2018.
Pronoy Rai, American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship (Alternate), 2021-22.
Pronoy Rai, PSU Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Metropolitan Engaged Research Initiative Grant, Principal Investigator, $40,000, 2021-22.
Leopoldo Rodriguez, PSU Office of Academic Affairs ReImagine PSU Grant for project "Modeling Interdisciplinary Futures: Developing a collaborative,
interdisciplinary, and efficient model for thematic degrees", $22,800, Summer 2021.
Shawn Smallman, 2021 Taiwan Fellowship.
Shawn Smallman, Faculty Enhancement Grant, Portland State University, 2020.
Gerald Sussman, Faculty Enhancement Grant, Portland State University, 2020.
Robert Asaadi, College of Urban and Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award for Department of International & Global Studies, Portland State University, 2019-2020 academic year.
Robert Asaadi, College of Urban and Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award for Department of Political Science, Portland State University, 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 academic years.
Robert Asaadi, Best Faculty Paper Award, International Studies Association (ISA)-West, 2019.
Pronoy Rai, College of Urban and Public Affairs Craig Wollner Junior Faculty Award, Portland State University, 2021.
Pronoy Rai, American Association of Geographers Emerging Scholar Award, 2020.
Pronoy Rai, American Association of Geographers J. Warren Nystrom Award, 2019.
Shawn Smallman, College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) Researcher of the Year, Portland State University, 2019.