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Visiting Scholars Academic Year 2004-2005

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.

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Distinguished Fellowships

Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor

Max Cameron (Fall 2005) 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Canadian Studies Committee and Department of Political Science
Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Teaching: Negotiating NAFTA

Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professors

Loch Johnson (Fall 2005) 
Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council and Department of History
Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs & Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia
Teaching: Intelligence and National Security

European Union Fellow

Peter Oliver 
Visiting Fellow, European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
Legal Advisor, European Commission
Teaching: European Union: Contemporary Challenges
Research Interest: EU Constitutional System, Human Rights, Economic Freedoms and Anti-Trust

Korean Foundation Visiting Professors

Kyung Moon Hwang
Visiting Associate Professor, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Southern California
Teaching: Introduction to Korean History; Koreann History and Culture; and Seminar in Korean History

Jaymin Lee (Fall 2005) 
Visiting Professor, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of Economics
Professor, Chair, Department of Economics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Teaching: Korean Economic Development

Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies and History

Jean-Frédéric Schaub (Fall 2005) 
Visiting Professor, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Department of History
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials, Paris, France
Teaching: Iberian Empires; and Barbarism and Civility in Early Modern Western Europe

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professors

Nicoli Nattrass (Spring 2006) 
Visiting Professor, Council on African Studies and Department of Economics
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching: The Political Economy of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 

Jeremy Seekings (Spring 2006) 
Visiting Professor, International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching: Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries

Rustgi Family Fund Visiting Professor

Srirupa Roy
Visiting Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies Council and Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachuetts at Amherst
Teaching: Religion and Politics in South Asia

Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies

Veronique Benei 
Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council and Department of Anthropology
Senior Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Teaching: Gender, Politics, and Nationalism in South Asia (Fall 2005)

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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: Intorductory Tamil; Intermediate Tamil; Advanced Tamil; Structure of Tamil and Language, Politics, and Society: Colonial India

Gretta Saab
Fulbright Fellow
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Economics
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Balamand, Lebanon
Teaching: Economics of the Middle East

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Visiting Assistant Professors

Areeg Ibrahim (Spring 2006)
Fulbright Fellow
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Teaching: Arabic Language and Culture

Andrew Preston 
Olin Post Doctoral Fellow, International Security Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor, International Affairs Council
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria, Canada
Teaching: American Experience in Vietnam and Themes and History of American Foreign Policy

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Senior Research Scholars

Ulrich Schreiterer 
The MacMillan Center and Department of Sociology
Research Interest: International education
Teaching: Fabrication and Uses of Knowledge

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Distinguished Fellows

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

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

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Lecturers

Molly Beutz (Spring 2006)
International Affairs Council and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Allard K. Lowenstein / Robert M. Cover Fellow in International Human Rights
Teaching: International Human Rights

Kimberly Kagan
International Affairs Council, Directed Studies, Department of History
Teaching: Empire in International Relations, and An American Empire?

Mazyar Lotfalian 
Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Anthropology
Teaching: Islam and Meditation; and Islam, Science and Society 

Jonathan Schell (Spring 2006)
International Affairs Council and Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics
Teaching: Moral, Political, and Strategic Dilemmas of the Nuclear 

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea 
International Affairs Council
Teaching: The Legacy of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity in the Americas; and Citzenship and the Military in Latin America 

Peter Westwick 
Olin Post Doctoral Fellow, International Security Studies and Lecturer, International Affairs Council
Visiting Researcher, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara
Teaching: The Nuclear and Space Age and Science, Arms, and the State 

Douglas Woodwell 
International Affairs Council and Department of Political Science
Teaching: Designing International Research; Terrorism: Past, Present, Future; Nationalism and International Relations; and Comparative Foreign Policy

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Lectors

Theresa Nnodum
Council on African Studies
Teaching: Igbo

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Visiting Fellows

Stefania Barca
Program in Agrarian Studies
Economic and Social History of the Modern Age, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy
Research Interest: Environmental costs of Italian economic growth 1958-2000

Christopher Duncan (Fall)
Program in Agrarian Studies
Recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant
Research Interest: Social and environmental implications of natural resource management in Vietnam and Indonesia

Harold Forsythe
Program in Agrarian Studies
Golieb Fellow, New York University Law School
Research Interest: Freedpeople‚s politics and the tobacco-growing region of rural Virginia known as Southside

José Reginaldo Santos Gonçalves (Spring 2006)
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research Interest: Comparative analysis of national identities in Brazil and Portugal

Ming-chorng Hwang (Fall 2005) 
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Interest: Bronzes in Eurasian Steppe arts, new archaeological findings from Baode County, Shanxi Province, China and Western Scholarly Resources Related to the Bronze Culture in Northern China 

Pamela McElwee (Fall)
Program in Agrarian Studies
Recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant
Research Interest: Social and environmental implications of natural resource management in Vietnam and Indonesia

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

Fernando Martinho (Fall 2005) 
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Professor, Department of Romance Literatures, Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
Research Interest: Influence of American Poetry on Portuguese Post-Pessoan Poetry 

Seungsook Moon
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Vassar College
Research Interest: Gender, class and the civic selfhood in South Korea

Ashraf Rushdy
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Chair and Professor, African American Studies Program, Wesleyan University
Research Interest: New Global Discourse of Apology and Slavery

Martha Sandweiss 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Professor, American Studies and History, Amherst College
Research Interest: Clarence King and Ada Copeland 

Philippa Watson 
European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
Professor, Competition Law, Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom and Private Legal Practice in Public Law and EC Law
Research Interest: Government Purchasing in EC and US Law, Social and Employment law and Anti Trust 

East Asian Studies Fellow

Liu Zeyun (Spring 2006)
Council on East Asian Studies
Lecturer, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Research Interest: Trends in Chinese Education and Poverty and Wealth in Contemporary China

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Post Doctoral Associates

Eric Allina-Pisano (May 2006) 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, Colgate University
Teaching: African Confrontationswith Colonial Exploitation in Mozambique from the Scramble to World War II

Robert F. Castro 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Fullerton
Research Interest: Law, Racial Paradigms, and Federal Emanicipation of Indian-Mestizo Captives During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1870) 

Rebecca de Schweinitz (October 2005)
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Department of History, University of Virginia
Research Interest: Childhood and American Slavery

Saroja Dorairajoo 
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Southeast Asia Studies and Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Sociology, National University of Signapore
Research Interest: Contemporary Interethnic Relations, Sociology, and Politics of Gender in Southeast Asia
Teaching: Gender in Southeast Asia 

Mark Elliott (Fall 2005) 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, Wagner College
Research Interest: Albion Tourgée

Roquinaldo Ferreira (Spring 2006) 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Research Interest: Consequences of the End of the Slave Trade on Angola

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

Christopher Gerteis (March 2006) 
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies and Department of History
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
Research Interest: Gender and Sexuality in Japan 

Patrick Rael
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Associate Professor, History, Bowdoin College
Research Interest: John Brown Russworm 

Farzin Vahdat 
Post Docotral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Sociology
Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard University
Teaching: Sociology of Islam and Theorizing Islam
Research Interest: Modernity and Islamic Debates in Iran and the Larger Middle East

Amy Young 
Post Docotral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Anthropology
Department of Anthroplogy, Harvard University
Research Interest: Social Movements and Women’s Rights in Morocco and the Larger Middle East

Yifan Zhang 
Council on East Asian Studies and International Affairs Council
Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Research Interest: Economic Growth in East Asia

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Marco Armiero
Program in Agrarian Studies
Modern History and Environmental History, Institute for the Study of Mediterranean Societies National Council for Scientific Research, Italy
Research Interest: Ilians in the Frontier (United States, 19th and 20th Centuries)

Tiyani Benhazin
Research Interest: Refugee law, Canadian-European Immigration and Human Rights

Elizabeth Dunn (Spring)
Program in Agrarian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Interest: Food safety, the modern state, and the geography of standards

Piper Gaubatz
Program in Agrarian Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Research Interest: Political ecology, and Chinese frontier city 1572-1911

Holly High
Program in Agrarian Studies
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Research Interest: Agrarian Myth and myths of sate in Laos

Jayeeta Sharma
Program in Agrarian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interest: Empire, science, and the Assam Garden

Radhika Singha
Program in Agrarian Studies
Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research Interest: Population movement and the legal construction of spatial orders in colonial India, 1870-1925

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Research Affiliates

Jonathan Amith 
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Research Interest: Nahuatl

Fabiola Bazo Cameron 
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Senior Business Officer, Innovation Unit, Western Economic Diversification-British Columbia, Canada
Research Interest: Elections in Peru

Catherine Benoit 
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Connnecticut College
Research Interest: Creole Identities 

Lisa Cardyn
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Research Interest: Reconstruction-era sexual violence in the slave South

Catherine Clinton 
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Research Interest: Mary Todd Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth

Fiona Creed
European Union Studies Program, European Studies Council
Lecturer, European Politics, University College Cork, Ireland
Research Interest: EU Foreign Policy Coordination at the UN

Anna Mae Duane 
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, English, University of Connecticut
Research Interest: Childhood and Race in Colonial and Antebellum America 

Carol Faulkner 
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor, History, SUNY, College at Geneseo
Research Interest: Biography of Lucretia Mott

TJ Hinrichs 
Council on East Asian Studies
Assitant Professor, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
Research Interest: Medical Transformation of Governance, Southern Customs, and Healing Practices in Song China (960-1279 C.E.) 

Norihiro Kasuga
Council on East Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
Research Interest: The Role of the Postal Saving System in Japan and its Economic Impact Since the End of the 19th Century

Karen Lapid (Spring 2005)
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Research Fellow, Columbia Law School
Research Interest: Developing countries and participation in international institutions

Mary Ann Mahony
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University
Research Interest: Society, politics and history in Bahia’s Cacao area, 1850-1937

Mary Ann Matthews 
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Research Interest: Connections Between Irish Immigrants and African Americans 

Octavianus Mote
Genocide Studies Program
Research Interest: Human Rights in Papua, Indonesia, 1963 and Beyond

Joseph Opala
The Gilder LehrmanCenter for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Research Interest: Bunce Island, Slave Castle on the Rice Coast 

Cynthia Pope 
Latin American Fellow, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Connecticut State University
Research Interest: Gender, Nationalism, and Security in Cuba 

David Roman (Spring 2005)
Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence
Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Interest: Social effects of lustration programs

Michele Ruta (Summer 2005) 
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Jean Monet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Research Interest: National Governments, Monetary Policy, Currency Unions and the Effects of Political (Dis)integration on Long Run Growth

Virginia Santos-Rivero
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College
Research Interest: Juan Ramon Jiménez and the post-civil war diaspora of Spanish intellectuals in Latin America

Mohsen Sazegara
Council on Middle East Studies
Visiting Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Research Interest: Iranian reform

Takashi Shimizu 
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Associate Professor, Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Effect of Legal Sanctions on Firm Behavior in Japan and the US 

Suzette Spencer 
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Assistant Professor,English and African American Studies, University of Connecticut
Research Interest: African Diaspora Maroon Politics 

Benno Torgler 
The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Research Fellow, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland
Research Interest: International Comparisons and Inter-Temporal Aspects of Tax Morale and Tax Compliance 

Galina Zukova 
European Studies Council
Lecturer for the Center for European and Transition Studies, and European Studies Master Program, Univeristy of Latvia, Latvia
Research Interest: Transatlantic Trade and the New Enlarged Europe

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Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows

Daniel Branch 
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Modern History, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Research Interest: The Mau Mau Insurgency and the Political Economy of Central Kenya (1963-1978) 

Steffen Prauser 
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Research Interest: Armed Resistance in Western Europe

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Genocide Studies Fellow

Adam Jones 
Associate Research Scholar, Lecturer in International Affairs and Political Science
Research Interest: Comparative Genocide

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Fox International Fellows

Iván Cajeme Villarreal Camero 
Economics, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Research Interest: Demographic Transition and Economic Growth in Mexico

José Antonio Hernández Company 
International Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Research Interest: Interplay Relations and Elecotral Reform in Mexico (1995-2003) 

Ekaterina Domnina 
Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Research Interest: Early Modern International Relations

Andrew Farmer
History, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Research Interest: Texas Democrats and the 1968 Elections 

Yuichiro Hirano
Advanced Social and International Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Politics and Forest Management in China 

Kalyan Kumar
Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Research Interest: Urban Landscape of Jamshedpur (1907-1970)

Tina Kuriakose 
International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Research Interest: International Policy Response and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge 

Haruka Matsuda 
Contemporary East Asian History, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest: Relations Among U.S., South Korea, and South Vietnam in the 1950’s

Eamonn McGrattan 
History, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Research Interest: Kissinger and the Battle for European Identity

Justine Röhmel (Spring 2006) 
Political Economics, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Research Interest: Measuring Efficiency in Health Care

Guoyou Song 
International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interest: Trade and Security in US China Strategy (1979-2003)

Sachka Stefanova-Behlert (Fall 2005) 
Political Science and Law, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Research Interest: Globalization and State-Centered Implementations and Protection of Human Rights 

Ulrich Volz 
Economics, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Research Interest: Monetary and Financial Cooperation in East Asia 

Sebastian Walsh 
International Relations, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Research Interest: The rise of Islamist politics in North Africa

Alexander Yalov 
Economics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Research Interest: Company Valuation Methods and Emerging Markets 

Iglika Yakova 
Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Research Interest: Corporatism, Enlargement Effects and the Agricultural Sector in the Czech Republic 

Yu Ye 
Law, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interest: Liberalization of Energy Services Trade Under GATT

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Other Appointments Supported by The MacMillan Center

Kahar Barat 
Lector, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Middle East Studies Council
Teaching: Elementary Modern Turkish; Orkhon Turkic and Intermediate Turkish

Slobodan Novak
Senior Lector, Slavic Languages and Literatures and European Studies Council
Teaching: Elementary and Intermediate Serbo Croatian; and Serbo Croatian Literature

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