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:
Distinguished Fellowships | Visiting Professors | Koerner Fellow | Senior Lecturers | Lecturers | Georg Walter Leitner Program Visiting Fellows | Transitions to Modernity Fellow | British Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow | Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Scholars | South Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers | Global Health Initiative Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers | Pierre Keller Post-Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations | Council on East Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers | Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows | Program on Democracy Post Doctoral Associates | Middle East Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers | Global Justice Scholars | Gilder Lehrman Center Fellows | Visiting Fellows | Research Affiliate | Post Graduate Fellows | Fox International Fellows | International Alliance of Research Universities Visiting Professor with MacMillan Center Appointments | Archive
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Rice Family Foundation Visiting Scholars |
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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 |
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 |
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| Singh Visiting Fellow in South Asian Studies |
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| Vani Kulkarni Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council and Department of Sociology Teaching: Health and Inequality in India; Public Health in India |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Visiting Professors |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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Andrea Bubula (spring 2010) International Affairs Council Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University Teaching: International Economics |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| George Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Scholars |
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| Kyle Bagwell (fall 2009) Senior Research Scholar Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University Research interest: Economics, politics and law of international trade agreements |
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| Mostafa Beshkar Post Doctoral Associate Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics, Purdue University Research interest: Dispute settlement mechanisms and international trade agreements |
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| Nuno Limão Senior Research Scholar Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland Research interest: Economics, politics and law of international trade agreements |
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| 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 |
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| Transitions to Modernity Fellow |
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| 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 |
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| British Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow |
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| 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 |
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| Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Scholars |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| South Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Tariq Thachil South Asian Studies Council and Department of Political Science Political Science, Cornell University Teaching: Development in South Asia; Social Movements in India |
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| Global Health Initiative Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers |
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| Teresa Janevic Consulting Senior Epidemiologist, Via Research 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellows |
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| Gabriela Guerrero-Serdán Post Graduate Associate University of London, Department of Economics Research interest: Impact of Iraqi conflict on children of Iraq |
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| 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 |
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| Christopher Haid Post Graduate Associate Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Research interest: Causes and consequences of electoral violence |
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| Paul Staniland Post Graduate Associate Department of Political Science, MIT Research interest: Cohesion and fragmentation in insurgent and paramilitary groups |
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| Program on Democracy Post Doctoral Associates |
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| 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 |
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| Middle East Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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David Alvarez Garcia Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Global Justice Program Research interest: Global health and pharmaceutical incentives Teaching: Theories of Global Justice |
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| 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 |
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| Gilder Lehrman Center Fellows |
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| Richard Bell (February 2010) Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland Research interest: Abolition and slave suicide |
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| Kimberly Brown (May 2010) Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University Research interest: Slavery's resonance in the contemporary |
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| Mariana Candido (January – April 2010) Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University Research interest: Benguela and South Atlantic Slavery, 1700-1850 |
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| Emma Christopher (April 2010) ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia Research interest: Mesurado Beach and African slavery |
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| Jim Downs (November 2009) Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College Research interest: Asiatic cholera in America |
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| Michael Fitzgerald (January 2010) Professor, Department of History, St. Olaf College Research interest: Emancipation and economic development in Alabama Reconstruction |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Yael Sternhell (October 2009) Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel Research interest: The Civil War in the South |
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| 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 |
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| Bernt Hagtvet (fall 2009) Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway Research interest: Eichmann trial |
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| 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 |
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| Socheata Poeuv Genocide Studies Program Founder/Executive Director, Khmer Legacies Research interest: Cambodian genocide |
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| Rukshana Siddiqui South Asian Studies Council Professor, Department of International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan Research interest: South Asian Independent Movement |
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| Bradley Woodworth European Studies Council Lecturer in History and Coordinator of Global Studies, University of New Haven Research interest: Baltic studies |
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| Post Graduate Fellows |
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| Marie Murcia Center for the Teaching of French, PIER, European Studies Council Toulouse II University (Mirail), France |
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| Lu Zhu Global Justice Program School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China |
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| Fox International Fellows |
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| Gleb Biserov Governance, Moscow State University, Russia Research interest: Technological innovations and public-private |
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| 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 |
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| Kavitha Chalakkal International Legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Research interest: International Legal Framework for Conservation of Wild Animals |
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| Oxana Gulempinchenko (fall 2009) History, Moscow State University, Russia Research interest: Health care reform and the Clinton Administration (1993-2000) |
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| 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 |
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| Hiroko Ide Law/Politics, The University of Tokyo, Japan Research interest: Effect of deliberation on participation in the US and Japan |
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| Michiko Ishisone International Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan Research interest: Political Economy of copper in Zambia |
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| Maral Jefroudi (spring 2010) Modern Turkish History , Bogazici University, Turkey Research interest: Iranian Revolution |
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| Admark Moyo Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa Research interest: Child participation and parental responsibilities in custody decision-making under African customary law |
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| Gabriela Moraes Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil Research interest: Deforestation in the Amazon Forest and the Role of the International Community |
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| Aifheli Tshivhase Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa Research interest: Military courts in a democratic South Africa |
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| Thomas Tunstall Allcock History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK Research interest: Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Mann, and the Alliance for Progress |
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| Henriette Rytz Political Science, Free University, Germany Research interest: Ethnic interest group influence on US foreign policy |
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| Pablo Sandoval (spring 2010) History, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico Research interest: Politics and culture in the school teachers union of Peru (1972-1992) |
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| Christoph Trebesch Economics, Free University, Germany Research interest: Resolution of debt crises |
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| Fei Xu Law, Fudan University, China Research interest: Copyright protection in cyberspace |
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| Hui Zhuang History, Fudan University, China Research interest: Protestant philanthropy in Shanghai (1901-1951) |
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| International Alliance of Research Universities Visiting Professors |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Shoichi Ota Research Associate, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo Research interest: American effects on Japanese urban space in the modern era |
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| Yasunari Takada Professor, Transcultural Studies, The University of Tokyo Research interest: Comparative modernity and Japan, Europe and America |
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| Archive |
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