Visiting Scholars 2003-2004

Through the generous support of benefactors, visiting scholars from all over the world are invited to the Yale Center for International and Area Studies to conduct research, teach courses, and interact with students, staff and faculty. YCIAS, in conjunction with its various Councils, Departments, and Programs, is proud to host the following visiting scholars during the 2004-05 academic year:


Arun Agrawal
Visiting Fellow, YCIAS
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada
Research interest: Globalization and Self-Determination project


Payam Akhavan
Visiting Fellow, Genocide Studies Program
Senior Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY
Research interest: Prevention and punishment of genocide


Michael Allen
Visiting Associate Professor, International Affairs Council and the Department of History
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching: ”Science, Technology, and the Transformation of Europe in the American Century”


Eva O. Arceo-Gómez 
Fox International Fellow
Centre of Economic Studies, El Colegio de México
Research interest: Education and income distribution in Mexico


Isabel Avella Alaminos
Fox International Fellow
Centre of Historical Studies, El Colegio de México and 
Professor, Department of History, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research interest: Mexico’s Foreign Trade (1920-1950)


Kahar Barat
Lector, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Middle East Studies Council
Teaching: Modern Turkish 


Julian D. Blake
Fox International Fellow
Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research interest: The 2000 American presidential elections and the 2002 United States security strategy


Yan Bo
Fox International Fellow
Department of International Politics, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
Research interest: The United States and the Kyoto Protocol 


Denis Chaibi
European Union Fellow, Council on European Studies
Deputy Head of European Union Delegation, Nicosia, Cyprus
Research interest: The influence of the legislative power on the executive power in the conduct of foreign policy: comparison between the United States and the European Union


Amy Chazkel
Postdoctoral Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (January 2004)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CUNY/Queens College
Research interest: The impact of urban slavery on the social, cultural, and legal dimensions of city life in Brazil from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century 


Richard Davis
Visiting Fellow, South Asia Studies Council
Associate Professor, Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College
Research interest: South Asian religious history 


Ronald Daniels
Coca Cola World Fund Faculty Fellow, Law School and YCIAS
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada
Teaching: ”Law, Institutions, and Development”


Faisal Devji
Singh Lecturer and Department of History
Head of Graduate Studies, Institute for Ismaili Studies, United Kingdom
Teaching: ”Negotiating the Political in Modern Hinduism”


Kana Dower
Lecturer, African Studies Council and Department of Anthropology (spring 2003)
Teaching: ”Cultural Education in Africa”


Donald Easum
Visiting Fellow, International Affairs Council
Former US Ambassador to Nigeria and Upper Volta
Yale- Stimson Seminar “Challenges in International Relations: Policy and Practice”


Rola El-Husseini
Post Doctoral Associate/Lecturer, Middle East Studies Council, Department of Sociology
Teaching: Minorities and Conflict in the MENA Region


Bahodirjan Ergashev
SMBC Global Foundation Visiting Fellow, Central Asia Initiative
Teacher of International Relations, Dept. of Political Science, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Research interest: Developing undergraduate courses on security issues and strategic studies


Elyssa Faisson
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, East Asian Studies Council, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma
Teaching: Seminar on Japanese history
Research interest: Women and labor issues in modern Japan


Yun Fan
Coca-Cola World Fund Faculty Fellow, Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy and Department of Sociology (fall 2003)
Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Teaching: ”Civil Society and Political Transition: East Asian Experiences” 


Sofia Frech
Post-Graduate Fellow, Latin American and Iberian Studies Council
Director of Political Planning of the National Action Party (PAN) Parliamentary Group, 
Federal Congress of Mexico, Mexico
Research interest: Mexican politics and identifying strategies for sustaining democratic change


Gerald Friesen
Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor, Canadian Studies Committee
Professor, Department of History, University of Manitoba (fall 2003)
Teaching: ”Communication and Canadian History” and “History of the Canadian West” 


Alton Frye
Visiting Fellow, International Affairs Council
Council on Foreign Relations, Presidential Senior Fellow, and Co-director, Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy
Yale- Stimson Seminar “Challenges in International Relations: Policy and Practice”


Malik Ghachem
Postdoctoral Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center on Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (fall 2003)
Teaching Fellow, Historical Study Core Curriculum, Harvard University
Research interest: The old regime and the Haitian revolution: colonial variations on a metropolitan theme


Stuart Gottlieb
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Speechwriter/Advisor, U. S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Teaching: ”Current Issues in American Foreign Policy” and “International Relations Theory” 


Scott Guggenheim
Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Studies Council
Principal Social Scientist, East Asia Social Development and Environment Division, World Bank, Indonesia
Research interest: Theories of development and the realities of poverty in Southeast Asia and Latin America


Mary Hahn
Lecturer, International Affairs Council
Yale Law School, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Robert M. Cover/Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights
Teaching: International Human Rights


Charles Hill
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Teaching: ”International Ideas and Institutions” 


Nicola Jentzsch
Fox International Fellow
John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Research interest: Economics of financial privacy: regulation and economic effects of credit bureaus in the United States and Germany


Brian Kagoro
Post-Graduate Fellow, African Studies Council
Coordinator, Crisis in Zimbawe Coalition, Zimbabwe
Research interest: National constitutional process in Zimbabwe from1997 to 2002 and the link between human rights, participation and development


Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood
Lecturer, European Studies Council and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor, Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures, SUNY
Teaching: The Modern Cinema of Poland


Christina Katsougiannopoulou-Ewald
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, European Studies Council, Hellenic Studies Program, and Department of Anthropology (fall 2003)
Teaching: ”Mother, Daughter, Empress, Nun: Women’s Lives in the Eastern Mediterranean”


Kosuke Kawamura
Fox International Fellow
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Civil war and the commitment problem 


Elena Kiseleva
Fox International Fellow
Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: Economic consequences of mortality changes


Gennady Korzhov
Visiting Fellow, Junior Faculty Development Program, European Studies Council
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Law, Donetsk Institute, Ukraine
Research interest: Sociology courses development 


Susie Jie Young Kim
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, East Asian Studies Council and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
Teaching: Seminar on Korean literature
Research interest: Comparative study of East Asian students studying abroad 


Driss Maghraoui
Rice Family Foundation Visiting Faculty Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor, Middle East Studies Council and Department of History
Assistant Professor, Al-Akhawayn University, Morocco
Teaching: ”North Africa, Islam, and the Colonial Experience” and “Identity and Memory in North Africa: the Moroccan and Algerian Case” 


Scott Martin
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science (fall 2003)
Teaching: ”Labor Politics in a Globalized World” 


Norbert Mao
Post-Graduate Fellow, African Studies Council
Member of Parliament, Gulu Municipality, Uganda
Research interest: Human rights and democracy in Uganda and their interaction with the formal political system


Christian McMillan
Lecturer, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration/International Affairs Council
Teaching: ”The Culture and Politics of American Indian Law”


Petr Moltchanov
Fox International Fellow
School of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: Development of the corporate governance system 


Guilliermo Mondino
Lecturer, YCIAS and Department of Economics (spring 2004)
IERAL & MacroVision Consulting S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Teaching: Intermediate course in macroeconomics


Mahmood Monshipouri
Visiting Fellow, Middle East Studies Council
Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
Research interest: Globalization and the Middle East


Octovianus Mote
Visiting Fellow, Genocide Studies Program
Research interest: Human rights in Indonesia


Alexander Naoumov
Fox International Fellow
Department of History, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: The Crisis of the Versailles System of International Relations 


Slobodan Novak
Senior Lector, European Studies Council and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Teaching: Course(s) on Serbian-Croatian language and culture


Jacob Olupona
Visiting Fellow, African Studies Council
Professor of Religion and Director, African American and African Studies, University of California at Davis
Research interest: African immigrant religious communities in America


Troy Paddock
Visiting Fellow, Council on European Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Research interest: German cultural and intellectual history in the imperial and Weimar periods 


Gerald Postiglione
Visiting Fellow, Council on East Asian Studies
Director, Wah Ching Centre of Research and Education in China, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research interest: Results of the policy that sends Tibetan students to secondary schools across China


Raphaël Pouyé
Fox International Fellow
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
Research interest: State building and the invention of nationhood in Kosovo and East Timor during the years of resistance (mid-1970s to 2002)


Vyjayanthi Rao
Postdoctoral Associate, Research Director, Cities and Globalization Center
Research interest: Contributing to program development of the Cities and Globalization Center


Steven Remy
Visiting Assistant Professor, International Affairs Council and Department of History (fall 2003)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CUNY/Brooklyn College
Teaching: ”Diplomacy, Power, and Culture: The Cold War as International History”


Lars Rensmann
Research Affiliate, European Studies Council
Assistant Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Free University
Research interest: The theoretical conceptualization and political construction of competing post-national citizenship models and the fall and rise of national identity narratives in Europe


David Richardson
Postdoctoral Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center on Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (spring 2004)
Professor of Economic History, Department of History, University of Hull, Great Britain
Research interest: Overseas trade and the development of the North Atlantic economy 1650-1860


Joaquim Romero Magalhaes
Visiting Professor, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Department of History (fall 2003)
Professor, Department of History, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Teaching: ”The Literature and History of the Portuguese Discovery” and “The Iberian Empire in the Age of European Expansion” 


Shamit Saggar
Post-Graduate Fellow, European Studies Council
Senior Policy Advisor, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and Reader in Politics, University of London, UK
Research interest: Social capital and ethnic pluralism


Ibrahim Saifbr Lecturer, Middle East Studies Council and Department of Economics
Researcher, Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, Jordan
Teaching: Economics of the Middle East


Jonathan Schell
Coca World Fund Faculty Fellow, Law School and YCIAS (fall 2003)
Teaching: ”The Nuclear Dilemma from Hiroshima to Baghdad: In Law, in Policy, in Thought”


Charles Schmitz
Visiting Fellow, International Affairs Council
Chairman, Global Business Access, Ltd., Maryland
Yale- Stimson Seminar “Challenges in International Relations: Policy and Practice”


Andrew Scott
Fox International Fellow
Historical Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research interest: The role of the Anglo-American relationship in the Cold War in the context of the East-West Détente and the arms control initiatives


Gaddis Smith
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of History
Professor Emeritus, Yale University
Teaching: ”The Intellectual Roots of American Foreign Policy: From the Beginning to the Present” 


James Sutterlin
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Teaching: ”The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security”


Anand Swamy
Visiting Associate Professor/Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies and Department of Economics (spring 2004)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College
Teaching: ”Colonialism and Underdevelopment in South Asia”


Michael Teitelbaum
Lecturer, International Affairs Council, Department of History, and Department of Sociology
Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Teaching: ”20th Century Demography” 


James Tweedie
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Film Studies Program
Postdoctoral Associate, YCIAS/Crossing Borders
Teaching: ”New Chinese Cinemas” 


Chinwe Uwande
Post – Graduate Fellow, African Studies Council
Principal Legal Officer, Federal Ministry of Justice, Nigeria
Research interest: Transitional justice, truth commissions and human rights in Africa


Fereydun Vahman
Visiting Fellow, Middle East Studies
Professor Emeritus, Iranian Studies, University of Copenhagen
Research interest: Ghani Documents project


Akira Watanabe
Fox International Fellow
Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Democratization in Mexico and local politics in Yucatan


James Wilson
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, East Asian Studies Council (spring 2004)
Department of Music, Columbia University
Teaching: Seminar on musics of East Asia


Shudi Zhu
Fox International Fellow
Fudan Law School, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
Research interest: American administrative law under the WTO framework 


Shaohua Xu
Visiting Professor, East Asian Studies Council
Professor of History and Archaeology, Deputy Director, Historical Geography Institute, Wuhan University, PR China
Research interest: The culture and ideology of the regional state of Chu during the Zhu Dynasty