Visiting Scholars Academic Year 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