Visiting Scholars Academic Year 2009-2010

Academic Year 2009-2010

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. The Center, in conjunction with its various Councils, Departments, and Programs, is proud to host the following visiting scholars for 2009-2010:

Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professors

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Marcus Melo (fall 2009)
Visiting Professor, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Department of Political Science
Professor, Political Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Teaching: Political Economy of Latin America
limongi Fernando Limongi
Visiting Professor, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Department of Political Science
Professor Titular, Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Teaching: The Politics of Institutional Choice; Presidentialism and the Comparative Study of Legislatures    

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Nicoli Nattrass
Visiting Professor in Ethics, Politics and Economics and International Affairs Council
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 Africa; Science and Society
Canadian Bicentennial Fellow

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Christian Leuprecht
Canadian Studies Committee and Department of Political Science 
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada
Teaching: Environmental Security, Demographic Change, and Nonconventional Threats; Conflict and Governance in Diverse Societies
European Union Fellow

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Wolfgang Plasa 
Visiting Fellow and Lecturer, European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
Counsellor, Directorate-General for External Relations , European Commission
Research interest: Trade and labor standards
Teaching: Contemporary Challenges to the EU

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Scholars
seekings Jeremy Seekings
Visiting Professor in Ethics, Politics and Economics and Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council
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: Race and Class in Comparative Perspective; Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries
 

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David Siroky
Lecturer, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Political Science, Duke University
Teaching: International Dimensions of Internal Conflicts; Conflict and Cooperation in Postcommunist Europe

Singh Visiting Fellow in South Asian Studies
 

Vani Kulkarni
Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council and Department of Sociology
Teaching: Health and Inequality in India; Public Health in India

Visiting Professors in Middle East Studies

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Mine Eder
Visiting Professor, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Political Science
Professor, Political Science, Bogazici University, Turkey
Teaching: Contemporary Political Economy of Turkey and the Middle

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Lilia Labidi
Visiting Professor, Council on Middle East Studies 
Professor, Anthropology and Psychology, University of Tunis, Tunisia 
Teaching: Women in the Arab World; Health Psychology and Psychoanalysis in the Arab World and Africa
Visiting Professors
 

Adam Kuper 
Visiting Emeritus Professor, Council on African Studies and Department of Anthropology
Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, Brunel University, UK 
Teaching: South Africa: An Ethnographic Perspective

Koerner Fellow

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

Senior Lecturers
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Osmund Bopearachchi 
South Asian Studies Council, Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Religious Studies
Director of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research, (C.N.R.S), Paris, France.
Teaching: Buddhism and Hinduism in Gandhara; Religious History of Central Asia and Northwest India from Darius I to Sharpur I; Buddhism and Trade in Sri Lanka; Recent Archaeological Discoveries and the Religions of Afghanistan and Bactria

 

Andrea Bubula (spring 2010)
International Affairs Council
Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University
Teaching: International Economics

Lecturers
img Pia Rebello Britto (spring 2010)
International Affairs Council
Associate Research Scientist, Child Study Center
Teaching: Shifting the Development Policy Paradigm
 

Mokhtar Ghambou (fall) 
Council on Middle East Studies, North African Studies Initiative
Teaching: Postcolonialism in Africa and the Middle East; Poetics and Politics of Exile; Orientalism

 

Priya Kanungo (spring 2010)
South Asian Studies Council and the Department of Music
Senior Editor, The Financial Express, India
Teaching: Indian Music Theory and Practice

 

Hope Metcalf (spring 2010)
International Affairs Council
Project Director, National Litigation Project of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic; Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Teaching: International Human Rights

George Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Scholars
 

Kyle Bagwell (fall 2009)
Senior Research Scholar
Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Research interest: Economics, politics and law of international trade agreements

 

Mostafa Beshkar
Post Doctoral Associate
Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics, Purdue University
Research interest: Dispute settlement mechanisms and international trade agreements

 

Nuno Limão
Senior Research Scholar
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Research interest: Economics, politics and law of international trade agreements

 

Arnd Plagge
Post Doctoral Associate
Political Science, University of Rochester
Research interest: Mass mobilization for war and impact on income and wealth taxation ; Role of social preferences on economic policies

Transitions to Modernity Fellow
 

Rita Hermon-Belot (fall 2009)
Lecturer, European Studies Council, Department of History
Associated Teacher, EHESS, Paris, France
Teaching: Religious Liberty in American and French Experience

British Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow
 

Richard Huzzey
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, European Studies Council and Department of History
History, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Research interest: Agency, anti-slavery, parliament and the era of Reform in the UK
Teaching: Political Representation in Britain, 1640-1948

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Scholars
 

Kornel Chang 
Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Assistant Professor, History, Rutgers University
Research interest: Asian Americans, and Asian immigrants, in the 19th and 20th-century Pacific Northwest and Canada
Teaching: Race and Racism in the Americas

 

Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Assistant Professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Research interest: Zapotec transnational migrations, conflict and belonging

 

Rani Neutill
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Lecturer, Harvard University 
Research interest: Literature of the South Asian disapora

 

Raymond Orr
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Department of American Studies
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: Intra-tribal conflicts, relations between federal and state governments and native identity formation

South Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
 

Marina Martin
South Asian Studies Council and Department of History
Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science
Teaching: India and Globalization; Indian Merchants in History

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Alessandro Monsutti
South Asian Studies Council and Department of Anthropology
Senior Lecturer, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Research interest: State, society and local politics in rural Afghanistan
Teaching: State and Society in Afghanistan; Global Afghans

 

Shreeyash Palshikar
South Asian Studies Council and Department of Political Science
Research Associate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Teaching: Violence in Modern South Asia ; Democracy in Modern India

 

Tariq Thachil
South Asian Studies Council and Department of Political Science
Political Science, Cornell University
Teaching: Development in South Asia; Social Movements in India

Global Health Initiative Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
 

Teresa Janevic
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer 
Research interest: Health disparities in Eastern Europe

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Aunchalee Palmquist
Post Doctoral Fellow, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH 
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research interest: Migration and health disparities
Pierre Keller Post-Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations

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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: British-American Relations after the Cold War
Council on East Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
  Heekyoung Cho
Council on East Asian Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Department of Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Research interest: Modern Korean literature and culture
Teaching: Translation and Modern Literature in East Asia 

 

  Justin Jesty
Council on East Asian Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Research interest: Postwar Japan
Teaching: Documentary, History and Social Movements in Postwar Japan 
 
  Toby Lincoln
Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Research interest: Modern Chinese history
Teaching: Urbanization in China 1850-2010 
 
Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows
 

Gabriela Guerrero-Serdán
Post Graduate Associate
University of London, Department of Economics
Research interest: Impact of Iraqi conflict on children of Iraq

 

Yvan Guichaoua
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research Officer, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, University of Oxford, UK
Research interest: Transnational nonstate armed groups in the Sahara

 

Christopher Haid
Post Graduate Associate
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Research interest: Causes and consequences of electoral violence

 

Paul Staniland
Post Graduate Associate
Department of Political Science, MIT
Research interest: Cohesion and fragmentation in insurgent and paramilitary groups

Program on Democracy Post Doctoral Associates
 

Marcelo Leiras (fall 2009)
Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
Research interest: Federalism, inter-governmental coordination
and policy making

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Cesar Zucco (spring 2010)
Visiting Professor, Rio de Janeiro Graduate Research Institute, Brazil 
Research interest: Political effects and dynamics of cash transfer programs
Middle East Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
  Nadia Marzouki
Council on Middle East 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: Regime Change and Continuity; Political Islam 
 

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Noah Salomon
Council on Middle East Studies
History of Religions Program, School of Divinity, University of Chicago
Research interest: Debate and contestation between Sufis, Salafis and Islamists in Sudan
Teaching: Topics in Modern Middle East Studies
Global Justice Scholars
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Sachin Chaturvedi
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Global Justice Program and International Affairs Council
Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), India
Research interest: International collaboration and innovation and intellectual property rights in health and agriculture
Teaching: Trade, Innovation, and Agriculture Technology in South Asia

  David Alvarez Garcia
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Global Justice Program 
Research interest: Global health and pharmaceutical incentives
Teaching: Theories of Global Justice
 

Gorik Ooms
Research Affiliate Global Justice Program and Lecturer in Public Health and International Affairs 
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Research interest: Global health and institutional mechanisms for shared responsibility

Gilder Lehrman Center Fellows
 

Richard Bell (February 2010)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
Research interest: Abolition and slave suicide

 

Kimberly Brown (May 2010)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University
Research interest: Slavery’s resonance in the contemporary

 

Mariana Candido (January – April 2010)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
Research interest: Benguela and South Atlantic Slavery, 1700-1850

 

Emma Christopher (April 2010)
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia
Research interest: Mesurado Beach and African slavery

 

Jim Downs (November 2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College
Research interest: Asiatic cholera in America

 

Michael Fitzgerald (January 2010)
Professor, Department of History, St. Olaf College
Research interest: Emancipation and economic development in Alabama Reconstruction

 

Matthew Hopper (September-December 2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
Research interest: Globalization and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire

 

Brooke Newman (September 2009)
Academic Coordinator and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Aberdeen
Research interest: Metropolitan culture and slaveholding in the British Caribbean, 1861-1763

 

Yael Sternhell (October 2009)
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research interest: The Civil War in the South

Visiting Fellows
alonso Angela Alonso
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Professor, Sociology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research interest: Abolition and parliamentary positions and negotiations in Brazil
 

Bernt Hagtvet (fall 2009)
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
Research interest: Eichmann trial

 

Leora Kahn
Genocide Studies Program
President, The Blue Card and Founder, Proof: Media for Social Justice
Research interest: Cambodian and Guatemalan genocide rescues cases

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Leonid Litra (fall 2009)
Carnegie Visiting Fellow
European Studies Council
Program Manager, Information and Documentation Center on NATO, Moldova
Research interest: Multi party political systems and Moldova
Poeuv Socheata Poeuv
Genocide Studies Program
Founder/Executive Director, Khmer Legacies
Research interest: Cambodian genocide
 

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

Research Affiliate
 

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

Post Graduate Fellows
 

Marie Murcia
Center for the Teaching of French, PIER, European Studies Council
Toulouse II University (Mirail), France

 

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

Fox International Fellows
Gleb Biserov
Governance, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: Technological innovations and public-private
Thomas Cavanna
History, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France
Research interest: United States Foreign Policy towards India and Pakistan in the 1970s
Kavitha Chalakkal
International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research interest: International Legal Framework for Conservation of Wild Animals
Oxana Gulempinchenko (fall 2009)
History, Moscow State University, Russia
Research interest: Health care reform and the Clinton Administration (1993-2000)
Rupert Guest (fall 2009)
International Relations, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK 
Research interest: Impact of capabilities on the definition of the American interest from the Monroe Doctrine to the present
Hiroko Ide
Law/Politics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Effect of deliberation on participation in the US and Japan
Michiko Ishisone
International Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Research interest: Political Economy of copper in Zambia
  Maral Jefroudi (spring 2010)
Modern Turkish History , Bogazici University, Turkey 
Research interest: Iranian Revolution
Admark Moyo
Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Research interest: Child participation and parental responsibilities in custody decision-making under African customary law
Gabriela Moraes
Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Research interest: Deforestation in the Amazon Forest and the Role of the International Community
Aifheli Tshivhase
Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Research interest: Military courts in a democratic South Africa
Thomas Tunstall Allcock
History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
Research interest: Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Mann, and the Alliance for Progress
Henriette Rytz
Political Science, Free University, Germany
Research interest: Ethnic interest group influence on US foreign policy
Christoph Trebesch
Economics, Free University, Germany
Research interest: Resolution of debt crises
Fei Xu
Law, Fudan University, China
Research interest: Copyright protection in cyberspace
Hui Zhuang
History, Fudan University, China
Research interest: Protestant philanthropy in Shanghai (1901-1951)
International Alliance of Research Universities Visiting Professors
 

Nobuhiro Hiwatari
Professor, Political Science, The University of Tokyo
Research interest: Domestic foundations of international political economic relations of the Asian Pacific and US foreign policy influence

 

Naoto Nakajima
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Research interest: Town developments and civic associations in New Haven and East Coast

 

Shoichi Ota
Research Associate, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Research interest: American effects on Japanese urban space in the modern era

 

Yasunari Takada
Professor, Transcultural Studies, The University of Tokyo
Research interest: Comparative modernity and Japan, Europe and America