Faculty Advisory Committee

The Faculty Advisory Committee, ICGC’s governing committee, is composed of the ICGC Leadership Team and seven ICGC affiliated faculty members. This committee assists with strategic decision making for the program, votes on the addition of new faculty to the Center’s graduate school roster, reviews grant proposals, and provides key advice to the Leadership Team.

2022-23 Committee Members

Name Department Research Interests
Ragui Assaad Public Affairs labor markets, urban poverty, informal economy, Egypt
Laura Bell (Staff)
Karen Brown (Chair) Development Studies and Social Change feminist international relations, gender and politics, international human rights, international research ethics
Ana Paula Ferreira Spanish & Portuguese Studies women writers and empire, 'race', colonialism, and the post-colonial
Guillermo Gorrin Castellano (Student Representative ) Human Rights
Julie Grossman Horticulture Science Organic Agriculture, Soil Nutrient Cycling, Legume Cover Crops, Rhizobia Ecology, Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Rachmi Diyah Larasati Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Post Colonial Feminist Studies, Performance & Indegeneity and the Neoliberal Project, Aesthetics and law
Frances Vavrus Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development comparative education, anthropology of development, Tanzania