FACULTY
Felipe Filomeno | Brigid Starkey
Tania Lizarazo| Trang X. Ta
STAFF
ADVISORY BOARD
Felipe Filomeno (Political Science) | Brigid Starkey (Political Science) | Tania Lizarazo (Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) | Omar Ka (Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication) | Brian Van Wyck (History) | Jayshree Jani (Social Work) | Kyung-Eun (Kay) Yoon (Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication)
Felipe Filomeno, Ph.D., Director
Dr. Felipe A. Filomeno is a higher education leader experienced in academic affairs, global education, campus-community engagement, deliberative dialogues, and research capacity development. He is a professor of political science and global studies at UMBC. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. His research investigates human development in the context of Latin America and the Latin American diaspora in the United States. He is the author of Christian Cosmopolitanism: Faith Communities Talk Immigration (Temple University Press, 2024), Theories of Local Immigration Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Contact Dr. Filomeno for questions about the Global Studies Program, his courses, and research mentorship opportunities in immigration, Latin American, and Latino studies. You can find him in FAB551. (Contact)
Brigid Starkey, Ph.D.
Brigid Starkey, Ph.D.Dr. Starkey is a Teaching Professor of Political Science at UMBC. She teaches in the areas of foreign policy, international negotiation, the Middle East, and teaching and learning strategies in the college classroom.
She has published articles in such journals as Simulation and Gaming, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and International Studies Notes. Dr. Starkey is the co-author with Mark Boyer and Jonathan Wilkenfeld of International Negotiation in a Complex World (5th Edition, 2022).
GLBL majors interested in research on international negotiation dynamics, patterns of protracted conflict situations, and American foreign policy processes should reach out to Dr. Starkey directly. Dr. Starkey is in PUP 320. (Contact)
Tania Lizarazo, Ph.D.
Tania Lizarazo, Ph.D.Dr. Lizarazo received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultures, with emphases in Feminist Theory & Research and Studies in Performance & Practice from the University of California, Davis in 2015. Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms and memory studies.
Her recent digital storytelling projects are a collaboration with the Gender Committee of a farmers’ organization from the Colombian Pacific and a collaboration with members of farm working communities in California’s Central Valley. She is also the author of the book Post-Conflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Choco Colombia by the University of Illinois Press.
GLBL majors interested in research may contact her for projects on transnational social movements, Latin American feminisms, and engaged and collaborative research methods such as ethnography, digital storytelling and digital humanities. (Contact)
Trang X. Ta, Ph.D.
Trang X. Ta is a cultural and medical anthropologist with mentoring, research, and teaching interests in health and hygiene regimes; healing philosophies; cultural politics of food and nutrition; culinary medicine; ageing and the elderly; death and dying; science and technology studies; waste and discard studies; moral economies; state ideologies and governance technologies; theories of labour, and institutional life. She has lived, studied, and worked across the Asia-Pacific region and looks forward to working with students doing research in this broad geographic area along the aforementioned interdisciplinary topics. (Contact)
Grace Castle, M.A.
Grace joined the Global Studies program staff in the Autumn of 2017 as full-time Academic Advisor and currently serves as Program Coordinator. She formerly worked as an International Academic Advisor at Laureate International Education, Inc. Prior to that, Grace worked for several years supporting American students as they studied abroad in England, where she was completing postgraduate work. She holds a B.A. in Classical Language and Civilizations from Loyola University Maryland and an M.A. in Greek and Roman Archaeology from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Grace has a passion for international educational experience and is devoted to supporting students in achieving their academic goals. Her office is in FAB 550. (Contact)