-Professor Chris Rumford
Professor in Political Sociology and Global Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
Co-Director, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Professor Chris Rumford arrived at Royal Holloway on 1 September 2003 following a period as Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University, and Visiting Fellow, City University, London. Chris has held a variety of positions including Senior Researcher at the Economic Development Foundation in Istanbul (IKV), and British Studies Consultant at the British Council.
Selected Publications:
Rumford, C. (2008) Cosmopolitan Spaces: Globalization, Europe, Theory (Routledge)
Rumford, C. (2005) Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (Routledge), [with Gerard Delanty].
Rumford, C. (ed.) (2009) Sage Handbook of European Studies (Sage)
-Professor Sandra Halperin
Professor of International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
Co-Director, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Professor Sandra Halperin earned postgraduate degrees in Political Science (M.A., PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles, where her major field of study was International Relations, with minors in Comparative Politics and Middle East History.
She taught courses in International Relations theory and in Middle East politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh before moving, in 1998, to the University of Sussex. Prof. Halperin joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway in August 2006.
Selected Publications:
Halperin, S. (forthcoming 2010) Global Development: a ‘Horizontal Perspective’. London: Routledge.
Halperin, S. (2009) ‘Power to the People: nationally-embedded development and mass armies in the making of democracy’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37:3 (May), 605-630.
Halperin, S. (2004) War and Social Change in Modern Europe: the great transformation revisited (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), 536pp. Chinese translation forthcoming 2009.
