Visiting Scholars Academic Year 2008-2009

Canadian Bicentennial Fellow

Nomi Lazar
Lecturer and Fellow in Canadian Studies, also Department of Political Science 
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago 
Teaching: Limiting Rights; Multiculturalism:Theory and Practice

John Varty 
Lecturer and Fellow in Canadian and International Studies, International Affairs Council, Canandian 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

Leslye Obiora (spring 2009)
Visiting Professor, Council on African Studies, and Law School
Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
Teaching: Funding, Civil Society, and Democratization

Christer Thörnqvist
Visiting Associate Professor, International Affairs Council, European Studies Council and Department of Political Science
Associate Professor, Docent, Work Science, Göteborg University, Sweden
Teaching: Welfare States and Labor Markets; Globalization, Multinational Companies, and Human Resources

European Union Fellow

Marco Fantini
Visiting Fellow and Lecturer, 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

Leitner Visiting Professor in International Affairs

John Dunn (fall 2008)
Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Fellow, King’s College, University of Cambridge
Teaching: Taking Unreason’s Measure: Facing the Global Challenge of Politics

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor

Abebe Zegeye 
Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council and Department of Sociology
Primedia Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa
Teaching: Youth and Social Change in South Africa; Genocide Studies: The African Experience

Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies

David Mellins
Visiting Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies Council, Department of Linguistics and Department of Comparative Literature
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies/Department of Asian Studies, Seton Hall University
Teaching: Elementary Sanskrit; Intermediate Sanskrit; Classical Indian Drama and Dramaturgy

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; Advanced Tamil; Literatures of South Indian Languages

Jolyon Howorth
Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom
Teaching: The Foundations and Evolution of the International System; International Ideas & Institutions: Contemporary Challenges

Rex Sean O’Fahey
Council on African Studies and Department of History
Professor of History, University of Bergen, Norway
Teaching: History of Sudan and neo-Sufism and its links to North Africa

Visiting Associate Professor

Charu Gupta
South Asian Studies Council and Department of History
Post-Doctoral Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and Reader in History, College at University of Delhi, India
Teaching: Religion, Gender and Caste In India; Women in Modern India

Council on Middle East Studies, Health and Conflict Focus, Visiting Professors

Marwan Khawaja
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Sociology
Professor, Population Health, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Director, Center for Research on Population and Health, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Teaching: Health, Conflict, and Society in the Arab World

Tarik Ramahi
Council on Middle East Studies
Professor of Medicine, Al-Quds University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem
Teaching: Health in Conflict: The Case of the Palestinian Population

Koerner Fellows
Yale Professors Emeriti teaching for the MacMillan Center 

John Middleton (spring 2009)
Henry Koerner Lecturer in African Studies
Council on African Studies and Deparment of Anthropology
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

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Scholars

Kornel Chang
Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Assistant Professor, History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Research Interest: Asian Americans, and Asian immigrants, in the 19th and 20th-century Pacific Northwest and Canada

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: Asian American Film and Video

Pierre Keller Post-Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations

Alison Holmes
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, International Affairs Council
Associate Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Speechwriter, U.S. State Department, London Embassy
Research Interest: Role of American ambassadors in UK/US relationship 
Teaching: Thatcher/Reagan to Bush/Blair: 25 Years of a Transatlantic Affair

Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows

Luis de la Calle Robles
Post Graduate Associate
Political Science, European University Institute
Research Interest: Political violence and sub-state nationalism

Jesse Driscoll
Post Graduate Associate
Political Science, Stanford University 
Research Interest: Militia politics and the post-Soviet peace

Yuhki Tajima
Post Doctoral Associate
Political Science, Harvard University
Research Interest: Intra-state conflict in democratizing states

Post-Doctoral Fellow in British Studies

Richard Huzzey
Post Doctoral Associate, Program in British Studies 
History, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Research Interest: Agency, anti-slavery, parliament and the era of Reform in the UK

Council on East Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates

Elif Akcetin
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
History, University of Washington
Teaching: History and Memory in East Asia

Ellie Choi
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University
Teaching: The Role of “Tradition” and History Writing in Modern Korea

Georgios Klonos
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of Religious Studies
Religious Studies, Stanford University  
Teaching: Sacred Space in Japanese Religions

Huiwen Helen Zhang
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of Comparative Literature
Friedrich Alexander Universitat, Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Teaching: Nietzsche’s Superman & Taoist Philosophy

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Middle East Studies Post Doctoral Associate

Basak Kus
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: The state, neoliberal reforms and the informal economy in Turkey
Teaching: Topics in Modern Middle East Studies

Post Doctoral Associate in North African Studies

Nadia Marzouki
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Council on African Studies and Department of Political Science
Political Science and Center for International Studies and Research, Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Sciences Po, France
Research Interest: Political Islam in Mauritania and Morocco
Teaching: Political Islam in North Africa

Program on Democracy Post Doctoral Associates

Holger Lutz Kern
Government Department, Cornell University
Research Interest: Political economy and political representation

Mariela Szwarcberg
Post Doctoral Associate, Program on Democracy
Political Science, University of Chicago
Research Interest: Political machines, clientelism, and social networks in Latin America

Post Doctoral Associate in South Asian Studies

Shreeyash Palshikar
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council and Department of Political Science
Research Associate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Teaching: Political Violence in Modern South Asia ; Elections and State Formation in India

Program in Agrarian Studies Fellows

Kathy J. Cooke
Visiting Fellow
Professor, History, Quinnipiac University
Research Interest: “Purity” as a cultural icon in late 19th and early 20th century America

Karen Hébert 
Post Doctoral Fellow
Anthropology, University of Michigan
Research Interest: Salmon industry in Alaska

Keely Maxwell
Post Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College
Research Interest: Machu Picchu

Alessandro Monsutti
Post Doctoral Fellow
Social Anthropology, Graduate Institute of International and Development, Geneva
Research Interest: Migration and reconstruction in rural Afghanistan

Laura Sayre
Post Doctoral Fellow
Lead writer/Editor, Rodale Institute in Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Research Interest: Organic farming

Nandini Sundar
Post Doctoral Fellow
Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Research Interest: Tribal areas of central India, Chhattisgarh

East Asian Studies Visiting Fellow

Xiaoli Xu
Post Doctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies
Professor, Department of History, University of Lanzhou and Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwest University for Nationalities 
Research Interest: Women and Buddhism in Dunhuang from the 4th to the 14th century

Gilder Lehrman Center Fellows

Robert Bonner (September 2008)
Post Doctoral Fellow
External Fellow, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Research Interest: Southern Confederates on the global stage

Garnette Cadogan (November 2008)
Post Graduate Fellow
Research Interest: Jamaican popular music and slave narratives

Ana Mae Duane (October 2008)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, English, University of Connecticut
Research Interest: The New York African Free School, colonization, and citizenship

Sindani Kiangu (fall 2008)
Postdoctoral Associate
Associate Professor of African History, University of Kinshasa, Congo, Democratic Republic of
Research Interest: Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition in Eastern Africa

Natasha Lightfoot (May 2009)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor , History, Columbia University
Research Interest: Emancipation and its aftermath in Antigua, 1831-1858

Mary Clay Oshatz (February – May 2009)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, History, Florida State University 
Research Interest: Antebellum slavery debates and the development of protestant liberalism

Stacey Robertson (January 2009)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Chair, History Department, Bradley University
Research Interest: Women, the church, and abolition in the United States

Joshua Rothman (March 2009)
Post Doctoral Fellow
Associate Professor, History, University of Alabama
Research Interest: Slavery and speculation in Jacksonian America

Women Living Religion Fellows

Andrea Blanche (spring 2009)
Women Living Religion Fellow, Post Doctoral Associate, Women, Religion and Globalization
President, Center for Religious Tolerance
Research Interest: Religion and tolerance

Neloufer de Mel (spring 2009)
Women Living Religion Fellow, Post Doctoral Associate, Women, Religion and Globalization
Director of Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Noura Saleh Alturki
Women Living Religion Fellow, Women, Religion and Globalization
Senior Researcher on Women’s Issues, Sayyedah Khadijah Bint Khuwailid Businesswomen Center, Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Saudi Arabia
Research Interest: Religious women and development initiatives

Senior Lecturer

Giles Tarabout (fall 2008) 
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: Popular Religion in India; graduate seminar in religious studies

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Lecturers

Pia Rebello Britto (spring 2009)
International Affairs Council
Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Teaching: Shifting the Development Policy Paradigm

Elizabeth Brundige
International Affairs Council 
Robert M. Cover-Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights Law, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School 
Teaching: International Human Rights

Alison Kingsley (fall 2008) 
International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Teaching: Political Economy of Foreign Investment; International Political Economy

Visiting Fellows

Sabaté Flocel (October-November 2008)
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Professor, University of Lleida, Spain
Research Interest: Medieval history

Christophe Germann (spring 2009)
Genocide Studies Program
Attorney, Germann Avocats, Geneva
Research interest: Cultural genocide in international law

Rukshana Siddiqui
South Asian Studies Council
Professor, Department of International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Research Interest: South Asian Independent Movement

Fulbright Visiting Fellows

Tong De Zhi
School of Government, Peking University, Beijing, China
Research Interest: Structure of American democracy

Katerina Kralova
Fulbright Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Studies Program
Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute of Area Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic
Research Interest: US-Greek-German relations after World War II

Dinu Luca (January – August 2009)
Fulbright Visiting Fellow, Council on East Asian Studies
Lecturer, Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, School of Foreign Languages, Bucharest University
Research Interest: Early Chinese Literary Thought

Postdoctoral Associates

Ngeta Kabiri
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on African Studies 
Faculty Fellow, Colby College
Research Interest: African environmental and political issues and conservation policies

Konstantina Maragkou
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Program and Department of History 
A.G. Leventis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Teaching: History of European Integration; Occupied Europe during World War II

Research Affiliates

Jonathan Amith
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
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

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

Lidia Santos
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Adjunct Professor, Brazilian and Latin American Literature, The Graduate Center / The City University of New York.
Research Interest: Brazilian and Latin American Literature

Honor Sachs
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Research Interest: Race and slavery in the early national United States

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

Post Graduate Fellows

Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer
Global Justice Program
Political Studies, EHESS, Paris, France, and Philosophy, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Research interest: Ethics of armed humanitarian intervention

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Lu Zhu 
Global Justice Program
School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Fox International Fellows

Taylan Acar
Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Turkey
Research Interest: Turkish public health sector

Will Archer
Environmental Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Research Interest: Private sector biodiversity conservation

Aron Buzogany
Political Science, Free University, Germany
Research Interest: External influences, policy-making and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe

Elisa Capdevila
History, Sciences Po, France
Research Interest: American Artists in Paris after World War II until the Late 1960s

Francisco Raul Cornejo de Souza
Sociology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research Interest: Cultural modernity and its political foundations in Brazil and the US

Shai Dothan (spring 2009)
Law, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research Interest: Tactics of national and international courts

Daniela Gabbay
Law, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research Interest: Dispute system design

Thomas Hayes
International Studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
Research Interest: The United States and international rivalries, 1898-1920

Jiyong Jin
International Affairs, Fudan University, China
Research Interest: Global governance of public health security

Suzan Kalayci
History, Bogazici University, Turkey
Research Interest: Turkish diaspora intellectuals in transnational history during and after WWII

Joe Thomas Karackattu
International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research Interest: Economic interdependence and vulnerability in China-Taiwan economic relations (1987-2008)

Ruth Kelly
Law, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
Research Interest: Human rights protection and capacity building provisions in European Union and United States preferential trade agreements

Elena Kiryanova
History, Moscow State University, Russia 
Research Interest: Dictatorship in contemporary historical cebates

Irem Kok
Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Turkey
Research Interest: Institutional dynamics and ecological distribution conflicts

Lizbeth Leyva Marin
Economics, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Research Interest: Economic competition between Mexico, China and the United States

Jose Moreno Chavez
History, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Research Interest: Catholic devotion and culture in Mexico City, 1880-1925

Laurissa Muhlich
Business and Economics, Free University, Germany
Research Interest: Regional monetary integration and small capital markets

Maria Sukhanova
Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia
Research Interest: Process of state decision-making

Seiki Tanaka
International Relations, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Economic sanctions

Ashutosh Tripathi
Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research Interest: Agricultural producer prices and agricultural commodities in India

Jason Varuhas
Law, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
Research Interest: Human rights breaches and tort law

International Alliance of Research Universities Visiting Professor with MacMillan Center Appointments

Makoto Abe
Professor, Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Marketing and customer relationship management

Hara Takahashi
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: History of religious studies in Japan

Hidemi Takahashi (April – September 2009)
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Transmission and reception of classical Greek sciences in Syriac and Arabic