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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

 

Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professors
  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
  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    

 

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 Fellowup
  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 Fellowup
  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 Scholarsup
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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
Singh Visiting Fellow in South Asian Studiesup
  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 up
eder 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
Visiting Professorsup
  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 Fellowup
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 Lecturersup
  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
Lecturersup
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 Scholarsup
  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 Fellowup
  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 up
  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 up
  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 Lecturersup
  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
  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 Lecturersup
  Teresa Janevic
Consulting Senior Epidemiologist, Via Research
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research interest: Health disparities in Eastern Europe
  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 Relationsup

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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 Lecturersup
  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 Fellowsup
  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 Associatesup
  Marcelo Leiras (fall 2009)
Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
Research interest: Federalism, inter-governmental coordination
and policy making
  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 Lecturersup
  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
  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 Scholarsup
  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 Fellowsup
  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 Fellowsup
  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
  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
  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 Affiliateup
  Bradley Woodworth
European Studies Council
Lecturer in History and Coordinator of Global Studies, University of New Haven
Research interest: Baltic studies
Post Graduate Fellowsup
  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 Fellowsup
  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
  Pablo Sandoval (spring 2010)
History, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Research interest: Politics and culture in the school teachers union of Peru (1972-1992)
  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 Professorsup
  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
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