Visiting Scholars Academic Year 2008-2009

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 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 http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/currenta.php www.kulturhermeneutik.uni-erlangen.de/stipendiaten/helen_zhang_de.php

	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 http://gtarabout.free.fr

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 http://www.jbjv.com
	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