Faculty examine a range of contemporary global issues including migration and mobility (Ossman, Ryer, Sutherland, Schwenkel, Ness, McMullin, Fay); national and ethnic identity (Moses, McMullin, Kronenfeld, Harvey, Sutherland, Ossman, Ryer); law (Sutherland) and higher education (Moses); socialist-capitalist transformations (Ryer, Schwenkel); global economic development and sociocultural change (Patterson, Ryer, Fay, Schwenkel, Gailey, Moses, Ossman); cities and cityscapes (Ashmore, Ossman, Ryer, Schwenkel).