Global Perspectives

Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department English and Modern Languages, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). During her appointment as the CLAS Faculty Fellow, she worked on faculty development initiatives, faculty and staff handbooks, student petitions, and international student advising. During her term as the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS) Faculty Fellow, she conducted research on accessibility, inclusive pedagogy, and open educational resources.

Awards

Spencer Award for excellence in public and academic community service (2025)
Diversity and Inclusion Award (2024)
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award (2019)
Faculty Excellence Award for career-long achievements in teaching and scholarship (2018)
Pearson Faculty Award for teaching excellence (2012)
University Scholar (2012)
CLAS Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3050

English and Modern Languages

Phone Number

217-206-8334

Publications

Books

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)

"Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, edited by Arnab Dutta Roy, Paul Ugor, and Simone Maria Puleo, University of Nebraska Press, 2026.
"Coming of Age in and between Fragments: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's Palimpsest Documents from a Korean Adoption." The Post Bildungsroman: Coming of Age at the Margins, edited by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Bloomsbury, 2025.
"Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
"Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's In Real Life." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
"Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha's Almost American Girl." Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023. Comics Studies Society Article Prize Shortlist
"(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero." Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize
"Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design." A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
"History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior." Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022.
"Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature." Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad's Munnu A Boy from Kashmir." Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
"Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup's Vietnamese Memories." Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
"Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints." Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.

ldong4@uis.edu

Teaching

Asian American literature and culture, children's and young adult literature, comics, graphic medicine, women writers, world literature

Professor

Brandon Derman

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Area of Expertise

Government Legislation/Politics

Human Rights

Inequality

International Affairs/U.S. Foreign Policy

Brandon Barclay Derman is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, in the School of Integrated Science, Sustainability and Public Health, part of the College of Health, Science and Technology at the University of �山�� Springfield. Dr. Derman received his Ph.D. in Geography (with additional specialization in Sociolegal Studies) from the University of Washington. Professor Derman specializes in environmental politics, law, policy and justice, with an emphasis on climate change. His research interests include climate justice, energy transitions, political and policy-making alliances, and environmental alienation. Dr. Derman's 2020 book is Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and Politics of Connection (Palgrave Macmillan). His work has also appeared in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Political Geography, the South African Journal of Human Rights, the OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series, Climate Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and in edited volumes on climate justice and global health governance.

Office Location

PAC 323

School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health

Phone Number

217-206-8581

Publications

Books

Derman, B. Climate Justice: Five Angles on the Crisis and the Movement. Palgrave Macmillan. (2024)

Derman, B. Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection. Palgrave Macmillan. (2020)

Journal Articles

Derman, B. â¿¿Polyvocal Articulations of Climate Justice and the Commonality of Loss.â¿¿ Political Geography 99 (2022): 102765

Derman, B. â¿¿Revisiting Limits to Legal Mobilization for Global Climate Justice: Power, Complexity, and the Legibility of Responsibility.â¿¿ OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series 9, no. 3 (2019): 333-360.

Derman, B. â¿¿Climate Governance, Justice and Transnational Civil Society.â¿¿ Climate Policy 14, no. 1 (2014): 23-41.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice During COP17.â¿¿ South African Journal on Human Rights 29, no. 1 (2013): 170-179.

Herbert, S., B. Derman, and T. Grobelski. â¿¿The Regulation of Environmental Space.â¿¿ Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9 (2013): 227-248.

Albrecht, J., B. Derman, and L. Ramasubramanian. â¿¿Geo-ontology Tools: The Missing Link.â¿¿ Transactions in GIS 12, no. 4 (2008): 409â¿¿424.

Camay, S., L. Ramasubramanian, B. Derman, E. Bohn, J. Albrecht, W. Milczarski, M. Boile, and S. Theofanis. â¿¿Ferry Parking and Landside Access Study: Implementing Public Outreach and Impact Assessment.â¿¿ Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2077, no. 1 (2008): 39â¿¿45.

Book Chapters and Sections

Derman, B. â¿¿Legal Geographies.â¿¿ In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, Elsevier, 2019.

Derman, B. â¿¿â¿¿Climate Change is �山�� Usâ¿¿: Fence-line Communities, the NAACP, and the grounding of climate justice.â¿¿ In Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice, edited by Jafrey, T., Routledge, 2018.

Derman, B. â¿¿Participation of Corporations in International Organizations.â¿¿ In Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Lee, K. and B. Hawkins, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice during COP17.â¿¿ In Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty and Justice, edited by Dugard, J., A. St. Clair, and S. Gloppen, Johannesburg: Juta, 2013.

bderm2@uis.edu

Involvement

Environmental Justice Task Force, Springfield Faith Coalition for the Common Good

Teaching

ENS 332/IGS 331: Cultural Geography; ENS 419: Environmental Law; ENS 463: Our Changing Climate; ENS 476: Environmental Ethics; ENS 483: National Environmental Policy Act; ENS 552: Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities; ENS 581 Environmental Policy and Analysis; ENS 587: Natural Resources Policy and Administration; Urban GIS (University of Washington); Coastal GIS (University of Washington)

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

Environmental and natural resource politics and policy

Social movements

Political ecology

Law, rights, and the environment

Kristi Barnwell

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Area of Expertise

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academyâ¿¦Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visionsâ¿¦." --bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Dr. Kristi N. Barnwell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in History in 2011. She has published works on the creation of the United Arab Emirates, British imperialism and American-Jordanian relations.

Undergraduate courses taught:

HIS 161: Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Falls, on ground)
HIS/WGS 211: Women and Gender in the Middle East (Springs, on ground)
HIS 373: ECCE Reading Arab Pasts (online and on ground)
HIS 375: ECCE Conflict in the Middle East (online and on ground)
HIS 475: ECCE Imperialism and Nationalism (online and on ground)
HIS 470: Research in the Arab Gulf

Graduate seminars:

HIS 501: Graduate History Colloquium (Fall, on ground)
HIS 504: American Material Life (Spring 2024, on ground)
HIS 510s: Theories of British Imperialism (2011), Modern Middle East Culture and Society (2016), Race and Slavery in the Middle East (2021)

Awards:

Pearson Faculty Award for excellence in teaching (2022)
CLAS Award for excellence in teaching (2021)
CLAS Award for excellence in service (2017)

Publications (selected):

The Formation of the UAE: State Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East (forthcoming, Spring 2024) from I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic
"Centering Students in Peer-led Discussion Boards," Issues in Middle East Studies, May 2022, pp. 23-24.
"Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics," Arab Studies Journal (2016).
"'Caught Between His Friends and His Enemies': The Evolution of American-Jordanian Collaboration in the 1960s," Diplomacy & Statecraft (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3070

History

Phone Number

217-206-7420

Publications

Modern Middle East, United Arab Emirates, British Imperialism, US-Jordanian Relations

kbarn2@uis.edu

Involvement

UPI 4100/UIS United Faculty President and Grievance Officer

Campus Senator, CLASS Representative

Member, CLASS Curriculum Committee

Chair, University Requirements Committee

Faculty Advisor, Political Understanding and Activism Club

Teaching

Middle East History, History methods, Material Culture, Global Studies, Women and Gender Studies

Professor

Area of Specialization

Middle East politics, culture, and history