Amentahru Wahlrab

Professor and Graduate Advisor

Phone: 903.566.7371
Email: awahlrab@uttyler.edu
Building:   CAS Office 124A
Department: Political Science

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

Publications   Curriculum Vitae

I am a 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).
I am also the Book Review Editor for the journal Populism and Co-editor of the book series Global Populisms.

Links to some of my publications are listed below:

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

• “White Supremacy and the January 6 Insurrection: Mass Opinion and the Mainstreaming of “Great Replacement” Theory,” (with Anthony DiMaggio and Holona LeAnne Ochs) Populism, 7.1 (2024).
• “Welcome Dayton: Glocalization, The Global Mobility of People, and Ethically Engaged Activist Citizens” (with Tom Wahlrab) Globalizations 21.2 (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 Clyde Barrow (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (Northampton & Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024): https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375918.ch25
• “Globalization,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni (eds.) (Northampton & Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023): https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803921235.00059.
• “The Pertinence of Transdisciplinarity for Global Studies: The case of globalization,” in Roderick J. Lawrence (ed), Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives, (Northampton & Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023): https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207835.00013
• “Social Contract Theory,” in Nathanaël Wallenhorst and Christoph Wulf (Eds.) The Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future (Cham: Springer Nature, 2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_197. 
• “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.
• “Speaking Truth to Power: Hip-Hop and the African Awakening” in Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati.  Edited by Msia Kibona Clark and Mickie Mwanzia Koster.  New York: Lexington Press, 2014.
• “Nonviolence and Globalization,” in The SAGE Handbook of Globalization.  Edited by Manfred B. Steger, Paul Battersby, and Joseph Siracusa. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications USA, 2014.