Visiting Scholars 2007-2008

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.

Canadian Bicentennial Fellow

John Varty
Lecturer, Canadian Studies Committee and Department of History
History, McGill University, Canada
Research interest: Agrarian change, science, territoriality, and modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 
Teaching: Technoscience and the Modern Atlantic World;Historical Commodity Flows and the Modern Atlantic World

Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professor

Shaul Mishal (fall 2007) 
Visiting Professor, Council on Middle East Studies; Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Teaching: Contemporary Middle East Politics, Palestinian Politics since 1948

European Union Fellow

Mary McCarthy
Visiting Fellow, European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
Member of Commission Staff, European Commission, DG TRADE, Services and investments
Research interest: Convergence in the EU economies of Eastern Europe and prospects for membership in the euro area.
Teaching: The European Union’s Contemporary Challenges

Korean Foundation Visiting Professor

Youngsook Pak
Visiting Professor, Council on East Asian Studies;Department of History of Art
Emerita Reader, Korean Art History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Teaching: Art and Society in Confucian Choson, 1392-1910; Art in Koryo Period 918-1392; Korea and her Neighbors; Image and Text

Leitner Visiting Professor in International Affairs

Norman Schofield (spring 2008)
International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
William Taussig Professor of Political Economy and Director, Center in Political Economy, Washington University 
Teaching: Senior seminar on comparative political economy

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor

Daphna Canetti-Nisim
Visiting Assistant Professor, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, University of Haifa, Israel
Teaching: Israeli Politics; Intergroup Relations and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies

Shonaleeka Kaul
Lecturer, Department of History, Miranda House, University College for Women, Delhi University, India
Teaching: History of Early South Asia; The City in Early India


Visiting Professors

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

Farhad Khosrokhavar (spring 2008)
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Sociology
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Cadis, France
Teaching: Transnational Jihadism: its ideology, its cultural features and its new tendencies; Islamic Terrorism: The West versus Muslim Societies

Hamadi Redissi (spring 2008)
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Law and Political Science, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Teaching: Islamic Tradition Revisited


Visiting Associate Professor

Fumiko Takeda (fall 2007)
Council on East Asian Studies and Department of Economics
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Teaching: Economic Development of Japan


Visiting Assistant Professor

Alexandra Guisinger
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy and Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Teaching: Politics of International Trade


Koerner Fellows
Yale Professors Emeriti teaching for the MacMillan Center 

David Apter (spring 2008)
Henry Koerner Lecturer in African Studies
Council on African Studies
Teaching: Africa and the Disciplines

John Middleton (spring 2008)
Henry Koerner Lecturer in African Studies
Council on African Studies
Teaching: African Society

Gustav Ranis
Henry Koerner Lecturer in Economics and International Studies 
International Affairs Council and Department of Economics
Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics
Teaching: The Evolution of Development Objectives: Theory and Policy

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
Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of Sociology
Dean, Trumbull College
Teaching: Genocide and Ethnic Conflict

Pia Rebello Britto (spring 2008)
International Affairs Council
Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Teaching: Shifting the Development Policy Paradigm

Ashish Chadha
South Asian Studies Council, Department of Film Studies and Department of Anthropology
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University 
Teaching: Understanding Bollywood; Anthropology of Contemporary South Asia: Critical and Visual Perspectives

Sibel Erol (fall 2007)
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Senior Lecturer, Turkish, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU              
Teaching: Love in Turkish Literature

Allison Kingsley (fall 2007)
International Affairs Council; Department of Political Science 
Teaching: International Political Economy

Gilles Tarabout (fall 2007) 
South Asian Studies Council, Department of Anthropology and Department of Religious Studies
Scientific Director, Ethnology and Social Anthropology, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Teaching:  Religion, belief and practice in modern India


Lector

Katherine Good
South Asian Studies Council  
Cornell University
Teaching: Elementary Hindi; Intermediate Hindi


Visiting Fellows

Marco Gianotti (spring 2008)
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Research interests: Pop Art, contemporary painting, and the social, political, and cultural settings in which artists work

Junko Kato
Professor, Graduate School of Law and Political Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Leadership and political party reform in Japan

Takuji Okamoto (September - February)
Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Science and nationalism in modern Japan, education of Japanese scientists and diplomats involved in science education

Koichi Takeda (fall 2007)
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Research interests:  Microeconomic analysis of the Japanese financial system since the 1990’s


Latin American Studies Fellow

Ricardo Peñaranda (Sept-Oct 2007)
Postdoctoral Associate, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Associate Professor, Institute for Political Studies and International Relations
National University of Colombia, Colombia
Research interest: The political economy of violence in Colombia in historic perspective


PostDoctoral Associates

Aglaia De Angeli
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
Faculty of Geography, History, History of Art, Tourisme, Lyon Lumière University 2, France
Teaching: Republican China: An Overview of a Transition Period (1912-1949)

Georgios Antoniou
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Program, European Studies Council and Department of History
Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Italy
Research interest: Memory and historiography of the Greek Civil War
Teaching: Themes in Modern Greek History; Memory and Conflict

Peter Benson
Program in Agrarian Studies
Anthropology, Harvard University
Research interest:  Racialized constitution of citizenship and moral status among tobacco farmers and farm workers in North Carolina

Lindsay Benstead
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Department of Political Science
Political Science and Gerald. R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Research Interest: Legislative politics and democratic transition in Morocco and Algeria   
Teaching: Topics in Modern Middle East Studies

Betsy Herbin
Program in Agrarian Studies
History, Columbia University
Research interest: The New Deal and the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union; agricultural reform through World War II

Denise Khor
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of Film Studies
Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Research Interest: Asian American history, race and the early cinema.
Teaching: Race, Cinema, and the Migrant City

Charles Kim
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
Department of History, Columbia University
Teaching: Across Empires and Borders:  A Cultural History of Modern Korea and Japan

Stuart Kirsch
Program in Agrarian Studies 
Anthropology, University of Michigan
Research interest: Ok Tedi mining disaster and politics of ecology in New Guinea

Matthew Kocher
Post  Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence
Professor, International Studies, CIDE, Mexico
Research interest: Human ecology and civil war
Teaching: Politics: Nationalism & Ethnicity

Kevin Malseed
Program in Agrarian Studies
Human rights activist, Director,  Karen Human Rights Group 
Research interest: Human rights in Burma

Jimmy McWilliams
Program in Agrarian Studies 
History, Texas State University/San Marcos
Research interest: “The Bug Wars: America’s Futile Quest to Conquer the Insect Empire”

Elaine Pena
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of Religious Studies
Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Research Interest: Devotional practices, coded politics, and political economy of shrines erected in honor of la Virgen de Guadalupe and all female pilgrimages in central Mexico
Teaching: Diasporic Religion/Devotion in Performance

Nathalie Peutz
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, Princeton University 
Research Interest: Identity, heritage and environmental issues in Yemen and Africa
Teaching: Heritage, History, and Memory in the Middle East

Sarah Snyder
Pierre Keller Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, International Affairs Council
History, Georgetown University
Research Interest: The Helsinki Process and the end of the Cold War
Teaching: Transatlantic Relations Since World War II

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: Music and Performance from the Hispanophone Caribbean


Postdoctoral Fellows

Viorel Achim  (November 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Senior Researcher, “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Romania
Research interest: The Abolition of Slavery in the US and in the Romanian principality

Jeaninne DeLombard (January 2008)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Associate Professor, American Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto
Research interest: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain

Bernard K. Freamon (Fall 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
Research interest: Islamic Law and Abolition in East Africa and Arabia

Beatriz Mamigonian (April 2008)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Research interest: The Impact of the Prohibition of the African Slave Trade to the Legitimacy of Brazilian Slavery in the 19th Century”

Diane Mutti Burke (March 2008)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri­ Kansas City
Research interest: Small Slaveholding in Antebellum Missouri

Seth Edward Rockman (October 2007)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
Research interest: Plantation Goods and the National Economy of Slavery

John Wood Sweet (Spring 2008)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research interest: Venture Smith


Post Graduate Associates

Fabiana Machado
Program on Democracy
Political Science, University of Rochester
Research interest: Relationship between democracy and inequality

Jose Ledesma
Program on Order, Conflict and Violence
European University Institute 
Research interest: Violence and the Spanish Civil War

Marcelo Nazareno
Program on Democracy
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Humanity College, National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Research interest: Leftist governments and income inequality in Latin America


Post Graduate Fellow

Edward Ball (February 2008)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Author, Slaves in the Family (National Book Award Winner for Non-fiction, 1998) and Instructor, Yale College Seminars, Fall 2007
Research interest:  The Memory of Slavery in the South


Visiting Fellow

Lyndall Ryan (fall 2007)
Genocide Studies Program
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
Research interest: Aborigines of Tasmania


Iran Colloquium Fellow

Daryoush Ashouri (fall 2007)
Iran Colloquium Fellow
Council on Middle East Studies
Research interest: Cultural modernity in Iran, modern Persian language and literature, and  public intellectuals and debates concerning Westernism and nativism in Iran


Research Affiliates

Jonathan Amith
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Research Affiliate, Smithsonian Institution, Director, Indigenous Languages Project; Mexico-North Research Network
Research interest: Nahuatl language 

Daniela Berti
South Asian Studies Council
Research Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 
Research interest: Cultural entrenchment of Hindutva and the ethnography of the District Court in India

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

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

Miquel Pelliver-Gallardo (spring 2008)
Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economic Policy, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Research interest: Political economy of the Middle East

Kazuaki Shimotomai
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Research interest: Leadership and political party reform

Eva Wegner (spring 2008)
Council on Middle East Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow, Middle East and Africa Research Unit, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany 
Research interest: Alliances between Islamists, other oppositional parties and regimes

Bradley Woodworth
European Studies Council
Lecturer in History and Coordinator of Global Studies, University of New Haven 
Research interest: Baltic studies

Haiyan Xue
Council on East Asian Studies
School of Literature, Ocean University of China, China
Research interest: Chinese Literature; Women Writers in the Late Qing Dynasty Before the May 4th Movement

Koji Yamamoto (spring 2008)
Research Associate, Political Science, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Research interest: Voting behavior and political elites in Japan


Fox International Fellows

Jesus Arellano-Gonzalez
Economics, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Research interest: Agricultural economy of Mexico

Kaori Baba
Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest:  Social security system reforms in Mexico

Florent Bonaventure
History, Sciences Po, France
Research interest: Clarence Darrow

Elena Bulatova
Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: Stabilization fund of Russia

Claire Charters
Law, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
Research interest: International law of indigenous people’s rights

Hao Chu
History, Fudan University, China
Research interest: U.S. foreign trade policy (1953-1968)

Michael Eastman
Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Research interest: South African law; traditional African healers and health care in the 21st century

Ori Goldberg
History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research interest: Discourse, Interpretation and Culture in Iranian Neo-Shiism

Avinash Godbole
East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research interest: Environmental degradation and migration in China

Yuki Hashimoto
Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Research interest: Less-skilled foreign workers and local labor markets

Fazil Jamal
International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research interest: International trade in oil and natural gas

Fatih Kiraz
Finance, Bogazici University, Turkey
Research interest: Finance and CHAOS theory

Yong Liang
Law, Fudan University, China
Research interest: Labor law and overseas investment by Chinese investors

Theresa Reinold
Political Science, Free University, Germany
Research interest: Norms and international relations

Heinrich Johannes Thimm
Political Science, Free University, Germany
Research interest: America and international treaties

Marcela Isabel Vazquez
Politics and Public Administration, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Research interest: Mexican public administration