Political Science
Amentahru Wahlrab, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department: Political Science
Building: CAS Office 124A
Email: awahlrab@uttyler.edu
Phone: 903.566.7371
Degrees
- Ph.D. International Studies, University of Denver—Joseph Korbel School of International Studies, Denver, CO, 2010.
- M.S. Political Science, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 2001
- B.A. Politics, with minor in Geology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 1997.
Biography
I am an Associate Professor and the Graduate Advisor for Political Science. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses on the politics of Africa, theories of nonviolence, international political economy, and international politics. I also teach undergraduate courses in the politics of Latin America, global studies and globalization, international terrorism, global populisms, and American politics.
My research in the field of global studies intersects with populisms, ideologies,
extremisms, nonviolence, and globalization. I am currently building a laboratory
with students to use quantitative and qualitative methods to study populisms, ideologies,
and extremisms (PIE lab).
Some of my publications include:
Books
What is Global Studies? Theory and Practice, (with Manfred B. Steger). London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
Edited Books
U.S. Approaches to the Arab Uprisings: International Relations and Democracy Promotion (with Michael J. McNeal). London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018.
Journal Articles
“Welcome Dayton: Glocalization, The Global Mobility of People, and Ethically Engaged Activist Citizens” (with Tom Wahlrab) Globalizations (Published online 2/17/2022).
“Introduction to the Special Issue on Exploring Global Populisms,” (with Amy Skonieczny) Populism 2.2 (2019).
“Imagining Global Nonviolence,” Perspectives on Global Development & Technology 16.1-3 (2017).
Book Chapters
“Global Studies,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
“The Global Imaginary of Political Islam” (with Rebecca A. Otis) in Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order, Edited by Ino Rossi (New York: Springer, 2020).
“Imagining Global Nonviolent Consciousness,” in Revisiting the Global Imaginary: Theories, ideologies, subjectivities: Essays in honour of Manfred Steger, Edited by Chris Hudson and Erin Wilson (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
“The Need to Disrupt Social Control,” (with Sarah M. Sass and Robert Sterken) in Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy, Edited by Nancy Lind and Cara Raab-Hemp (Bingley, UK: Emerald Press, 2019).
"Introduction: Contesting the Dominant Narratives of the Arab Spring," (with Michael J. McNeal) in U.S. Approaches to the Arab Uprisings: International Relations and Democracy Promotion, ed. Amentahru Wahlrab and Michael J. McNeal (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018).
“Making Revolutionaries Out Of ‘Safe Citizens’: Sovereignty, Political Violence, And the Arab Uprisings,” in U.S. Approaches to the Arab Uprisings: International Relations and Democracy Promotion, ed. Amentahru Wahlrab and Michael J. McNeal (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018).
“Fostering Global Security,” in Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Edwin Daniel Jacob. New York: Palgrave, 2017.
“Somalia’s Terrorist Shabaab: The Global Political Economy of Impoverishment and Disempowerment,” in Issues in African Political Economies. Edited by Jamaine Abidogun and Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2017.