Faculty Affiliates

​​Steven Beschloss is an award-winning writer, editor, journalist, filmmaker and content strategist. He is a Professor of Practice with a joint appointment from the College of Global Futures, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass…



Anand Gopal, who received his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, currently works at ASU as an Assistant Research Professor who studies democracy and inequality. His research surrounds the history of democratic experiments and he is affiliated with ASU's Center for the Study of Religion…



Tracy Perkins is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in social inequality, social movements, and the environment. Her 2022 book, Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism (University of California Press), examines the political evolution…



Indulata Prasad is an assistant professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation. Her research and scholarship include South Asia, Social Movements, Dalit Studies, Oral History, Social Mapping, Gender, Caste, and Land Rights. In her current project, she uses social…



Daniel Schugurensky is a Professor at Arizona State University, with a joint appointment in the School of Social Transformation and the School of Public Affairs. He is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Social and Cultural Pedagogy and the Director of the Participatory Governance Initiative.…



Michael Selmi joined the faculty as a Foundation Professor of Law in 2020. He was previously the Samuel Tyler Research Professor at George Washington University Law School where he taught for more than twenty years, and has also taught at The University of North Carolina, Boston University and…



Doug is Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director of China Initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Doug has spent his career researching, writing, teaching and advising companies about two topics: organizational development, where he has focused on…



Jennifer Carlson (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Guns in Society at Arizona State University. Her work examines the politics of guns in American life. She is the author of …