Visiting Scholars 2006-2007

Through the generous support of benefactors, visiting scholars from all over the world are invited to The MacMillan Center to conduct research, teach courses, and interact with students, staff and faculty.

 

Gerald Baier 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Canadian Studies Committee; Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Teaching: Comparative Federalism and Canadian Government and Politics

Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professors

Shaul Mishal (fall 2006) 
Visiting Professor, Council on Middle East Studies; Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Teaching: Palestinian Politics since 1948 and Contemporary Middle East Politics

Isam Khafaji (spring 2007)
Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies; Department of Economics
Director, Mashreq Institute for International Relations and Social Research, Iraq, and Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington, DC
Teaching: Political Economy of Conflict Zones: Social Stratification, Greed and Corruption and Political Economy of the Middle East

European Union Fellow

Francesco Meggiolaro
Visiting Fellow, European Union Studies Program; European Studies Council
Member of Commission staff, European Commission, DG TRADE, Services and investments
Teaching: European Union: Contemporary Challenges
Research Interest: EC competition law, trade policy, e-commerce, gas and electricity liberalization

Korean Foundation Visiting Professors

Marcus Noland (spring 2007)
East Asia Senior Research Fellow in Korean Studies, Council on East Asian Studies; Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Teaching: The Economics of East Asia;The Economics of The Korean Peninsula

Youngsook Pak(January-December 2007)
Visiting Professor, Council on East Asian Studies;Department of History of Art
Senior Lecturer, Korean Art History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Teaching:Introduction to Korean Art; Art and Religion in Korea

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professors

Mine Eder
Visiting Professor, Council on Middle East Studies; Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi University, Turkey 
Teaching: Contemporary Political Economy of Turkey and the Middle East; Rethinking International Relations Theory through the Middle East

Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies

Robert Brubaker
Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council; Department of Religious Studies;Department of Anthropology
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University
Teaching: Intro to Early South Asia; South Asia and the Wider World from Prehistory to 1600; Empire in Early South Asia;Historical Patterns and Material Consequences

Leitner Visiting Professor in International Political Economy

Mariano Tommasi (spring 2007)
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy; Department of Economics; Department of Political Science
Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina; Director, Center of Studies for Institutional Development (CEDI), Fundación Gobierno y Sociedad, Argentina
Teaching: Political Economy of Latin America


Visiting Professors

E. Annamalai
South Asian Studies Council; Department of Linguistics; Department of Anthropology
Director Emeritus, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India
Teaching: Introductory Tamil; Intermediate Tamil; Advanced Tamil; Structure of Tamil and Language, Politics and Society: Colonial India

Nicoli Nattrass (spring 2007) 
Visiting Professor, Council on African Studies; Department of Economics 
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Director, Centre for Social Science Research; Head, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching: The Political Economy of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

Jeremy Seekings(spring 2007) 
Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council; Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Director, Social Surveys Unit, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching: Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries


Visiting Associate Professor

Elizabeth Kassab
Council on Middle East Studies; Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Balamand, Lebanon
Teaching: Modern Arab Thought; Comparative Postcolonial Philosophies of Culture; Introduction to Modern Arab Thought: The Arab Renaissance 1798-1939; Gender Issues in the Modern Middle East


Distinguished Fellows

Charles Hill
Lecturer, International Affairs Council; International Security Studies; Department of Political Science
Teaching: International Ideas and Institutions: Foundations

Charles Perrow
Lecturer, International Affairs Council; Koerner Center for Emeriti Faculty Lecturer; Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology
Teaching: Confronting Catastrophe

Gaddis Smith
Lecturer in History and International Affairs, International Affairs Council; Department of History; Larned Professor Emeritus in History
Teaching: The Oceans, Security, and Globalization in History


Lecturers

Jasmina Besirevic-Regan (fall 2006)
Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of Sociology
Teaching: Genocide and Ethnic Conflict

Molly Beutz (fall 2006)
International Affairs Council
Allard K. Lowenstein / Robert M. Cover Fellow in International Human Rights, Schell Center for International Human Rights
Teaching: International Human Rights

Pia Rebello Britto(spring 2007)
International Affairs Council
Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Teaching:  Shifting the Development Policy Paradigm

David Ekbladh(spring 2007)
Olin Post Doctoral Fellow, International Security Studies and Lecturer
International Affairs Council
Teaching:Development as History: From Colonialism to Modernization to Globalization

Dimitris Kastritsis 
Hellenic Studies Program, Council on European Studies; Department of History
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Teaching:Modern Greek; The Ottoman Empire; History of Modern Greece; Travelers in Greece, Southeastern Europe and the Middle East

Allison Kingsley
International Affairs Council; Department of Political Science 
Teaching:The Political Economy of Foreign Investment

Michele Ruta (spring 2007)
International Affairs Council 
Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Teaching: The Economics and Politics of the World Trading System


Kwok’s Foundation Visiting Fellows

Zhengzhen Du (September 2006-January 2007)
Council on East Asian Studies
Postdoctoral Associate, Zhejiang University, China
Research interest: Chinese history, Shanxi historical archive preservation

Xiqi Lu (September 2006-February 2007)
Senior Fellow, Council on East Asian Studies
Professor, History, Wuhan University, China
Research interest: Yangzi-Pearl River Delta systems and the historical geography of China


Visiting Fellows

Kristen Valentine Cadieux
Program in Agrarian Studies
Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Research interest: Exurban nature and neo-agrarianism

Ryo Kambayashi 
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Research interest: Labor economics and related legal and historic frameworks for human capital

Mahmoud Monshipouri
Council on Middle East Studies
Professor, Department of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
Research interest: Globalization in the Middle East

Motoo Noguchi
Genocide Studies Program
Professor (Senior Prosecutor), UNAFEI; Tokyo Senior Attorney, International Legal Affairs Division, International Legal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo
Research interest: Cambodian history, society and international criminal tribunals 

Beltrán Roca Martinez (fall 2006)
Program in Agrarian Studies
Anthropology, University of Seville
Research interest: NGOs for Development in Andalucia Spain

Philip Yampolsky 
Council on Southeast Asia Studies
Program Officer in Arts and Culture, Ford Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Research interest: Social, political, and artistic character of entertainment media in late-colonial Indonesia


East Asian Studies Fellows

Binghua Wang(fall 2006)
Council on East Asian Studies
Research Fellow, Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Xinjiang, China
Research interest: Cultural interaction between East and West along the Silk Road and the archeology of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Hui Zhang
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture; Deputy Secretary-General, CCLA, Peking University, China
Research interest: Comparative literature, Zhu Zhiqing and the rewriting of Chinese literary criticism


Genocide Studies Fellow

Adam Jones
Post Doctoral Associate, Lecturer in International Affairs and Political Science
Research interest: Comparative genocide
Teaching: Genocide: An Interdisciplinary Perspective


Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows

Severine Autesserre
Post  Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Political Science, New York University
Research interest:  Post-War settlement in the Eastern D.R. Congo

Roman David
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong,
Research interest: Social effects of lustration programs


Fox International Fellows

Colin Almeleh
Social Science, The University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Research interest: Dynamics of HIV-serostatus disclosure in South African

Kanakaraj Arangasamy
Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Research interest: Internet law

Vladimir Bartenev
History, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Research interest: ‘Libyan Problem ’ in the 1980’s

Didier Chaudet 
Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Research interest: US policy toward Central Asia

Diego Dewar
International Relations, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Research interest: Peace building Commission in El Salvador and Haiti

Hoi Yee Fu  
Social and International Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Indigenous environmental management and the interethnic relationship of Fulani pastoralists and Nupe Agriculturalist in central Nigeria

Burak Gurel
Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research interest:  Land occupation and peasant resistance in Turkey in the 1960’s and 1970’s

Katrin Jordan 
Economics, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Research interest: Renewable energy and international competitiveness

Tally Kritzman 
Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Research interest:Immigration law

Pingyang Lui 
Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research interest: Small-scale forestry in Southern China and sustainable development

Celine Marange
Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Research interest:  Vietnam and the Soviet Union

Brendan Maughan-Brown
Economics and Social Science Research, The University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Research interest: HIV and AIDS-Related Stigma in the Western Cape

Seiko Mimaki
Area Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research interest:  US-Japan Diplomatic Relations during the two World Wars

Megha Mukin 
International Studies, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, United Kingdom 
Research interest: Free trade and NAFTA

Frank Neher
Economics, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Research interest: The Economic theory of Symbolic Values

Rafi Nets 
Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Research interest:Israeli collective memory and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (1948-2004)

José Ordonez
Economics, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Research interest:Growth and convergence among Mexican states

Jenna Phillips 
History, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, United Kingdom 
Research interest:  US Policy and the limiting process in Korea

Guolin Shen
Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research interest:Political images of China on Capitol Hill (1990-2005)

Nirmalya Syam
International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Research interest: International financial regulation and global administrative law

Vera Vasilyeva  
Economics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Research interest: Economic growth in Russia and Eastern Europe


PostDoctoral Associates

Eric Allina-Pisano (September 2006)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, Colgate University
Research interest:Colonial exploitation in Mozambique from the Scramble to World War II

Jinhee Choi 
Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies andLecturer, Film Studies
Film Studies, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching: East Asian Cinema and Transnational Tropes

Nicole Cohen 
Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies andLecturer, Department of History
History, Columbia University
Teaching: Japan and Korea: A Transnational History

Paul Finkelman (October 2006)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law
Research interest: Slavery and the US Constitution

Gareth Fisher 
Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies andLecturer, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology, University of Virginia
Teaching: Religion and Globalization in East Asia

Zareena Grewal
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Anthropology and History, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Research interest: Trans-nationalism and Islam in the US
Teaching: Islam in the American Imagination

Christophe Robert
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Southeast Asia Studies and Department of Anthropology 
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Teaching: Political Violence and Human Rights and Vietnam: War, Memory, Forgetting

Alexandra Vazquez
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Theater Studies and Department of American Studies
Performance Studies, New York University
Teaching: Latina/o Theater and Performance

Amy Young
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Anthropology
Research interest: Social movements and women’s rights in Morocco and the larger Middle East
Teaching: Men, Women, and Family in the Muslim Middle East;Topics in Modern Middle East Studies


PostDoctoral Fellows

Oanh Duong
Council on Southeast Asian Studies
Dean, International Studies; Lecturer in Curriculum Design,  Methodology, Cross-Cultural Studies, and Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages, Hue University, Vietnam
Research interest: Vietnamese learner autonomy and the application of  American models.

Ellen Eslinger (January 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor, History, De Paul University
Research interest: Free Black society in the rural South 

Paul Gardullo(September  2006)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
American Studies, George Washington University
Research interest:Conceptions of slavery within Marxist theories among the Black intelligentsia of the 1930s

Liza Grandia
Program in Agrarian Studies
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: “Primitive Accumulation and New Frontiers of Enclosure” (Guatemala and Belize)

Richard Kernaghan
Program in Agrarian Studies
Anthropology, Columbia University
Research interest:  Law and Peru’s Shining Path

Benjamin Lawrance (April - June 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Davis
Research interest:Bondage, peonage, and brokerage of West African children

Susan O’Donovan (fall 2006)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Associate Professor, History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Research interest:Slaves and the politics of disunion

Erika Olbricht
Program in Agrarian Studies
English, Pepperdine University
Research interest: Agrarian Theology and the circulation of tithes in sixteenth-century England

Edward Rugemer (April 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College
Research interest:US and Britain’s abolition of slavery

Mariza de Carvalho Soares (March 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, Universidade Federal Fluminense- Brazil
Research interest:African slavery, colonial Brazil and the Catholic Colonial Church

Finn Stepputat
Program in Agrarian Studies
Danish Institute of International Studies
Research interest: Sovereignty, conflict, and mobility in Guatemala

John Varty
Program in Agrarian Studies
History, McGill University
Research interest: Agrarian change, science, territoriality, and modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Great Britain, United States, and Canada)

Michael Zeuske (May 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor, History, University of Cologne, Germany
Research interest: American and trans Atlantic links of the Cuban slave (1490-1973)


Post Graduate Associate

Valeria Brusco
Program on Democracy
Assistant Professor, Political Theory, University of Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Research interest:Democratic institutions


Post Graduate Fellow

Peter Almond (October 2006)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Independent Film Producer, Associated with Beacon Pictures
Research interest: Frederick Douglass and Emancipation in the Civil War


Research Affiliates

Fiona Creed
European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
University College Cork, Ireland
Research interest: EU foreign policy coordination at the UN

Maria Georgopoulou
Hellenic Studies Program, European Studies Council
Director, Gennadius Library, Greece
Research interest: Venetian, Byzantine and Mediterranean art of the Middle Ages

Arang Keshavarzian
Council on Middle East Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Connecticut College
Research interest: Iranian politics

Agustin Lao-Montes
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research interest: Afro-Latino politics

Qiang Ning
Council on East Asian Studies
Chu-Niblack Chair of Asian Art (Associate Professor) and Curator of Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection, Connecticut College
Research interest: Art and archaeology of the Silk Road; East Asian Buddhist art and Dunhuang Studies

Sarah Ohly
Council on European Studies, European Union Studies Program
Research interest: Status of Turks in the Netherlands

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

Paulo Pereira (spring 2007)
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Associate Professor, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, Technical University of Lisbon
Research interest: Reciprocity, trust and good governance

Kazuaki Shimotomai
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Rearch Fellow: Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, Tokyo, Japan
Research interest:Leadership and political party reform