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Department of International Relations

The International Relations Department educates students to be informed citizens and thoughtful leaders for a changing global society.

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International Relations in the news

The Melt I.C.E. sign depicts allies in 2017 who stood against the actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Exploring U.S sanctuary policy through new database

Mount Holyoke College researchers have developed a new open-access, interactive database and story map of U.S. immigration sanctuary policies that were passed between 2001 and 2014.

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View of Seattle skyline

Race and social justice initiatives in Seattle

Seattle is marking the one-year anniversary of its Race and Social Justice Initiative ordinance. Mount Holyoke Associate Professor Serin D. Houston writes that other cities can learn from the ordinance in an article for The Conversation.

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Student Naomy Poot Ibarra in Washington, D.C. during the Weissman Center for Leadership’s annual “Careers in D.C.” trip.

Mount Holyoke student honored as a Latina Future History Maker

Mount Holyoke student Naomy Poot Ibarra is working to center their family’s Indigenous Maya heritage.

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International Relations faculty and staff

Department head(s)

Sohail Hashmi

Sohail Hashmi

  • Professor of International Relations on the Alumnae Foundation and Professor of Politics
  • Chair of International Relations

Department and affiliated faculty

Sarah Adelman, Professor of Economics

Sarah Adelman

  • Professor of Economics
  • Dean of Studies
Amanda Awadey - a black woman wearing yellow and smiling - on the Mount Holyoke campus in 2023

Amanda Awadey

  • Assistant Professor of Economics
Catherine Corson

Catherine Corson

  • Miller Worley Professor of Environmental Studies
Dinko Hanaan Dinko, on the Mount Holyoke College campus in 2023

Dinko Hanaan Dinko

  • Assistant Professor of Geography
Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor of History, Chair of History, and Nexus Track Chair for Museums, Archives, and Public History

Desmond Fitz-Gibbon

  • Associate Professor of History
  • Chair of History
  • Nexus Track Chair for Museums, Archives, and Public History
Serin Houston, assistant professor of geography and international relations, will be speaking in Seattle on January 5 at the Beacon Library. 

Serin D. Houston

  • Associate Professor of Geography and International Relations
Kavita Khory

Kavita Khory

  • Ruth Lawson Professor of Politics
  • Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives
Jeremy King

Jeremy King

  • Professor of History
  • on leave spring 2025
Katherine Schmeiser Lande

Katherine Schmeiser Lande

  • Professor of Economics
  • Chair of Economics
Abhilash Medhi

Abhilash Medhi

  • Assistant Professor of History
Christopher Mitchell, Faculty

Christopher Mitchell

  • Associate Professor of International Relations and Politics
Andrew Reiter

Andrew G. Reiter

  • Professor of Politics and International Relations
Nieves Romero-Díaz

Nieves Romero-Díaz

  • Professor of Spanish on the Alumnae Foundation
  • On leave spring 2025

Staff

Linda Chesky Fernandes

Linda Chesky Fernandes

  • Academic Department Coordinator

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Department of International Relations

The International Relations Department educates students to be informed citizens and thoughtful leaders for a changing global society.

  • 413-538-2381
  • 109 Skinner Hall
Linda Chesky Fernandes

Linda Chesky Fernandes

  • Academic Department Coordinator
  • 413-538-2381
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