Profiles in "Political Economy" Expertise Area

  • Calhoun’s research addresses large-scale social transformations & their impact on politics & social organization. A current focus is on changing patterns of Eurasian integration & implications for the modern world-system.
  • Matthew Smoldt is a doctoral candidate specializing in the study of immigration and immigration policy.
  • Adam studies the policy processes associated with public infrastructure investment, particularly the relationship between the design of the institutions responsible for water infrastructure and system sustainability.
  • Associate Professor Thunderbird & President, International Public Management Network. Dr. Ear’s expertise is on Cambodia, aid, Global China, & disease politics. Teaches global affairs, International Organizations, & Asia.
  • Dr. MK Dorsey is Director & Chair of ASU’s Walton Sustainability Solutions Service (WS3), an interdisciplinary team of experts creating & implementing lucrative, innovative solutions for planetary sustainability challenges.
  • Meyerrose's research focuses on international organizations, democratic institutions, and democratic backsliding.
  • Welch specializes in qualitative methods, political economy, global social change, social theory, Indigenous studies, world-systems analysis, rural sociology, class inequality, racism, culture, time.
  • Angela Barnes Rodriguez is the Assistant Director for the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and a PhD Candidate in Philosophy. Her research is on technology addiction, the ethics of intervention, and responsibility taking.
  • Asher holds an MPP from ASU in 2018, they are an economist with the State of Arizona. They have over a decade of experience in the government, nonprofit, and higher education fields in multiple roles.