RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Citizenship, Community, Collective behavior and social movements, Comparative and historical sociology, Culture, Eastern Europe, Gender, Globalization and transnationalism, Language, Migration, Peace, war and social conflict, Political sociology, Research methods, Violence, and Theory
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Mississippi
European Studies [Syllabus], undergraduate seminar, spring 2017, spring 2018
Global Studies [Syllabus], undergraduate seminar, spring 2019, spring 2020 (transitioned to online/remote), spring 2021 (remote), spring 2022
Introduction to International Studies [Syllabus], undergraduate seminar, fall 2017, fall 2018, fall 2019
Introductory Sociology [Syllabus], undergraduate course, fall 2016, spring 2017, fall 2017, spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2021 (online), summer 2022 (online)
Research Methods [Syllabus], undergraduate seminar, fall 2016, fall 2017, fall 2018, fall 2019, spring 2020 (transitioned to online/remote), fall 2020 (remote), fall 2021
Senior/Honors Thesis Seminar, fall 2021-spring 2022
Sociology of Citizenship [Syllabus], graduate seminar, spring 2022
University of Notre Dame
Global Sociology of Discontent [Syllabus], senior seminars, 2012, 2013, received an Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
St. Mary’s College
Introduction to Social Problems, 2011
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
French and Spanish languages and cultures courses, 2001-2007
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
RESEARCH SUPERVISING
University of Mississippi
MA thesis chair (completed theses), Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fowzia Binte Faruque, “Structural Violence and its Effect on Women’s Empowerment in the Case of Bangladesh Garment Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” 2023
Christopher Gage, “Masculinity and Cohesion in Miniature Wargaming,” 2021
Senior/honors thesis mentor/primary advisor (completed theses), Croft Institute for International Studies
Alexandria M. Cervetti, “#BalanceTonPorc: How Do French Twitter Users Interpret Their Version of the #MeToo Movement?” 2023
Jacqueline Cronen, “The Evolution and Effect of Electoral Gender Quota Laws and Gender-Focused Laws in Argentina,” 2023
Sarah Kathryn Harris, “Body Image Perceptions Reflected in Social Media: A Guatemalan Instagram Study,” 2022
Keegan Lyle, “The Sustainability Rhetoric among the Spanish Fashion Companies Involved in the Rana Plaza Collapse of 2013,” 2022
Amy Rhodes, “Why No Rallying Force? Factors of Rassemblement National Underperformance in 2021 French Regional Elections,” 2022
Eli Landes, “Bretonnitude & Welshness: A Case Study on Identity and Language in Brittany and Wales,” 2021
McClellan Davis, “Differences in Talk about Violence and Terrorism: A Case Study of the Basque Country and Northern Ireland,” 2020
Mollie Bradford, “Generational Expressions of Basque Nationalism,” 2019
Nicholas Senften, “‘¡El Nuevo Chile Papi!’: An Examination of the Influence of Public Opinion on the Development of Chilean Immigration Policies,” 2018
Alyssa Smith, “Femininity in Media Portrayals of Chinese Female Soldiers,” 2018, won the East Asian thesis prize
Savannah Coleman, “(N)Ostalgic Consumption and the Former German Democratic Republic,” 2017, runner-up for the European thesis prize
Senior/honors thesis reader (completed theses), Croft Institute for International Studies
Dayton Ashby, “The Traditional Right in Contemporary France: A Strategic Failure in a Party System in Flux,” 2022
Nicholas Bovenzi, “The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe,” 2022
Clementina Ferraro, “China: Maintaining Authoritarian Government in the Face of Globalization and Marketization,” 2022
Gillian Littleton, “Russia’s Agenda For Ukraine: An Examination of Putin’s Media Propaganda Narratives,” 2022
Reed Peets, “Cultural Memory Conflicted in Post-Conflict Peru: Constructing Heroes and Villains in La casa rosada and La hora final,” 2022
Canaan Vaughan, “Social media agenda setting of Environmental Policy Issues in Switzerland,” 2022
David McDonald, “Popular Protests and Democratization in Post-Soviet Countries: An Analysis of Why Some Democracy Movements Failed and Others Succeeded,” 2021
Susanna Cassisa, “Gay Identity in the GDR: The Homosexuelle Interessengemeinschaft Berlin between Self-Expression and State Control,” 2021, won the European thesis prize
Rachel Ducker, “Crisis and Catalonia: An Analysis on the Impact of Crisis on the Public Opinion of the Secessionist Movement in Catalonia,” 2021
Olivia Myers, “A Historical and Contextual Analysis of Soviet and Russian ‘Active Measures’: How Russian Political Warfare Efforts in Foreign Presidential Elections Have Transformed in the Information Age,” 2021, runner-up for the European thesis prize
Eleanor Schmid, “From Ideological Resource to Financial Asset: The Evolving Relationship between Youth and the State in Putin’s Russia,” 2021
Alena Vu, “Understanding German-Turkish Identity in the Context of Deutschrap,” 2021
Allie Kate Williams, “The Politics of International Investment Law in Latin America,” 2021
Cynthia Bauer, “Commodity Fetishism and Performative Identity,” 2019
Molly McEwan, “Public School Funding and Income Inequality in Chile,” 2019
Kara Chobot, “The Barriers They Face: The Legal, Social, and Economic Obstacles Immigrants Encounter as They Attempt to Gain Acceptance in French Society,” 2017
Steven Wild, “Refugees Welcome? Discursive Analysis of German Willkommenskultur in Crisis,” 2017, won the European thesis prize
Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES)
Trained and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research assistants for a project on Chilean radical activism, 2014-2016
University of Notre Dame
Trained and supervised undergraduate research assistants in two large data collection projects: Transnational Social Movement Organizations, State Repression in the Americas, 2008-2011
Ana Velitchkova 