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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 2012-2013:

MacMillan Center | African Studies | Council on East Asian Studies | Council on European Studies | Concil on Latin American and Iberian Studies | Council on Middle East Studies | Council on South Asian Studies | Jackson Institute for Global Affairs | Global Health Initiative | Canadian Studies Committee | Leitner Program | Program on Democracy | Center for the Study of Representative Insitutions | Program on Global Justice | Program on Order, Conflict, Violence | Fox International Fellowships | Gilder Lehrman Center | International Alliance of Research Universities | Archive

 

MacMillan Center Visiting Professors, Visiting Fellows

 

Sharif Elmusa
Coca-Cola World Fund Faculty Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor of Middle East Studies and Political Science
Associate Professor, Political Science, American University in Cairo

Research Interests: Global Environmental Politics; Resources Conflict and Hydro-politics in the Middle East; International Development/ Sustainable Development; The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Teaching: Environmental Security and Resources Conflict: Climate Change, Oil, and Water (Fall 2012); Palestine: A Novel Approach (Spring 2013)
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  Ashok Acharya
Henry Hart Rice Foundation Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor (Global Justice, South Asia Studies, Political Science and Philosophy)
Associate Professor, University of Delhi

Research Interests: global health, international affairs

Teaching: Diversity and Struggles for Equality in South Asia (Fall 2012); Global Justice in the Developing World (Spring 2013)
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  Karolyn Smardz Frost
Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Fellow and Lecturer (Canadian Studies Committee and Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition)
Senior Research Fellow, Harriet Tubman Institute at York University, Ontario

Research Interest: Recovering the stories of African Americans who sought freedom in Canada before the Civil War

Teaching:  The Underground Railroad in African Canadian History (Fall 2012)
   
MacMillan Center Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturerup

 

 

Paul Lagunes
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Political Science
Research Interest: Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Latin American Politics; Public Administration; Latino Politics; and Urban Politics

Teaching:  Good Governance and Corruption in Latin America (Spring 2013)
   
Council on African Studies Lecturerup
  Elizabeth Carlson
Lecturer in African Studies and Political Sciences

Teaching: Introduction to African Politics, and Development & Democracy in Africa (Fall 2012);Comparative Corruption, Development & Democracy in Africa (Spring 2013)
   
Council on African Studies Visiting Graduate Studentsup
  Benson Olugbu, Visiting Assistant in Research


David Irungu, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Swahili)
   
Council on East Asian Studies Visiting Professors, Visiting Fellowsup
  Mariko Sakai
Visiting Fellow

Research Interest: Media Theory, Media Literacy, Journalism Studies
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  Jeremy Wallace
Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Global Affairs and Political Science

Research Interest: Student advising in fields related to his interest and active participation in the academic and social communities of the MacMillan Center.

Teaching: Global Affairs Senior Capstone Project (Fall 2012), Politics of China (Spring 2013)
   
Council on East Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturersup
  Martin Bale
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer  in East Asian Studies and Anthropology 

Research Interests: Archaeology of Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula, and Western Japan from 3500 BC-AD 400; Prehistoric Social Organization, Archaeological Theory.

Teaching: Approaches to Korean Archaeology (Fall 2012)
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  Kwangmin Kim
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer in East Asian Studies and History

Research Interest: Early Modern Chinese History (the Ming-Qing Period); the Transformation of the Chinese Borderlands and the East Asian World Order from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century; the Role of Colonialism and Transnational Trade in East Asia
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  Akira Shimizu
Post Doctoral Associate, Lecturer in East Asian Studies and History

Research Interests: Japanese History; East Asian History; World History; Comparative Social and
Cultural History

Teaching: The Variety of Food Histories in East Asia (Spring 2013)
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  Naoki Yamamoto
Post Doctoral Associate, Lecturer in East Asian Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: Film, Literature, and the Visual Culture of Japan; World Cinema; Media Theory; Avant-garde Art Movements; Gender and Postcolonial Studies: Cultural Exchanges between the West and the Non-West

Teaching: Tracking Contemporary Asian Cinema (Spring 2012)
   
Council on East Asian Studies Post Graduate Fellowsup
  Hiroko Ichikawa
Post Graduate Fellow, Political Science

Research Interest: Expanding your understanding of US cultural diplomacy in Asia since the late 1980’s
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  Nobutaka Otobe
Postgraduate Fellow, Political Science

Research Interests: political theory, international relations
   
Council on European Studies Visiting Fellowsup
  Ewoud Sakkers
EU Visiting Fellow

Research Interest: Antitrust policy
   
Council on European Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturersup
  Nicholas Wilson
British Studies Post Doctoral Associate, Lecturer in European Studies and History

Research Interest: The rise of state, society, and economy as autonomous spheres of meaning for colonial administrators

Teaching: Comparative and Historical Methods (Spring 2012)
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  Eirini Karamouzi
Lecturer in Hellenic Studies and History

Research Interest:
International history

Teaching: Greece in the 20th Century; History of European Integration (Fall 2012); A History of the Balkans since 1939: Anglo-American Relations 1939-1989 (Spring 2013); two other courses to be determined
   
Council on European Studies Post Graduate Fellowup
  Sophie Depelley
Post Graduate Fellow, European Studies
Center for the Teaching of French
   
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Visiting Fellows
  Ana Gallego Cuiñas
Visiting Fellow (Fall 2012)

Research Interest: Contemporary literary and cultural relations between Latin America and Spain
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  Luis Eduardo Zavala De Alba
Visiting Fellow (Fall 2012)

Research Interest: Human rights, Human rights policy
   
Council on Middle East Studies Visiting Graduate Students
  Yasemin Kesen, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Turkish)
   
Council on South Asian Studies Visiting Professors and Fellowsup
  Jennifer Bussell
Visiting Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies and Political Science

Research Interest: Foundations of democratic politics in economically developing states

Teaching: Political Economy of Natural Disasters (Fall 2012) 
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  Rasika Khanna
Visiting Fellow

Research Interest: Indian dance and related cultural endeavors
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  Shailaja Paik
Malathy Singh Visiting Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies and History

Research Interest: Modern South Asia; Dalit Studies; Women, Gender and Feminism; Social and Political movements

Teaching: Modern Indian History (Fall 2012), India on Film (Spring 2013)
   
Council on South Asian Studies Research Scholarsup
  Christophe Jaffrelot
Research Scholar in South Asian Studies and Political Science

Research Interest: Hindu nationalism, caste politics and identity issues in Pakistan

Teaching: Indian Democracy in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2013)
   
Council on South Asian Studies Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturersup
  Dipti Khera
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer in South Asian Studies

Teaching: Cross-Cultural Encounters in South Asian Art and History (Fall 2012); Place, Landscape, and Travel in South Asian Art (Spring 2013)
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  Sadia Saeed
Post Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in South Asian Studies and Sociology

Research Interest: Intersections among nationalism, politics, law and religion in Pakistan

Teaching: Political Sociology (AY 2012-13); Law in Muslim Societies (Spring 2013)
   
Council on South Asian Studies Visiting Graduate Studentup
  Charu Agarwal, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Hindi)
   
Council on Southeast Asia Studies Visiting Graduate Studentsup
  Mitchitake Aso, Visiting Assistant in Research


Nailil Yusak, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Indonesian)
   
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Visiting Professorsup
  Raymond Guitereas
Visiting Assistant Professor, Global Affairs
University of Maryland, Department of Economics

Teaching: Global Affairs Senior Capstone Project (Fall 2012), Project Evaluation Tentative title (Spring 2013)
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  Murray Leibbrandt (Fall term)
Visiting Professor, Global Affairs and Economics
University of Cape Town, Department of Economics

Teaching: Measuring Well-Being (Fall 2012)
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  Nicoli Nattrass (Fall term)
Visiting Professor,   Global Affairs and Economics Professor, School of Economics and Director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Research Interests: AIDS policy in South Africa; AIDS stigma; the social and economic factors driving HIV infection; global health citizenship

Teaching: Gateway to Global Affairs: HIV/AIDS policy in southern Africa module (Fall 2012)  
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior Fellowsup
David Brooks
Columnist for the New York Times, political and cultural commentator

Teaching: Graduate International Relations Seminar (Title to be determined) and Studies in Grand Strategy (Spring 2013)
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Domingo Cavallo
Chairman and CEO of DFC Associates; Honorary President of Fundación Mediterranea; former Minister of Economy of Argentina

Teaching: The International Dimension of Financial Crises (Fall 2012)
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Ryan Crocker
US Ambassador (retired) to Afghanistan, Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University

Teaching: Gateway to Global Affairs: Afghanistan Module (Fall 2012)
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Alexander Evans
Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress, and Counselor in the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Teaching: Counter Terrorism Policy and Practice; Diplomacy: the US and Rising Powers (Fall 2012)
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Thomas Graham
Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc.; Former Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Russia, National Security Council

Teaching: Global Affairs Senior Capstone Project on Cybersecurity (Fall 2012)
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Lamb Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb
Colonel Commandant of the Special Air Service; Former Commander of the Field Army; former Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force-Iraq  

Teaching: Gateway to Global Affairs: Middle East and Central Asia Module (Fall 2012)
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Malvesti Michele Malvesti
Vice President in the Intelligence, Security, and Reconnaissance Group at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC); Senior Fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point

Teaching: National Security Decision-Making (Spring 2013)
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Mario Mancuso
National Security and Foreign Affairs Expert, Corporate Partner and Chair of the International Trade and Investment practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute

Teaching: Global Affairs Capstone Seminar: Financing Terrorism (Fall 2012)
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General (ret.) Stanley McChrystal
Former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander of United States Forces Afghanistan

Research Interests: Leadership

Teaching: Gateway to Global Affairs: Leadership Module (Fall 2012), Leadership (Spring 2013)
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Rakesh Mohan
Former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Research Interests: economic reforms and liberalization; industrial economics; urban economics; infrastructure studies; economic regulation; monetary policy

Teaching: India: Economic Performance and Challenges and Evolution of Central Banking (Fall 2012)
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Stephen Roach
Non-Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia

Research Interests: globalization; the emergence of China; productivity and the macro paybacks of information technology

Teaching: The Next China, and Debates in Macroeconomics (Fall 2012), Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan and Washington and Wall Street: Markets, Policy, and Politics (Spring 2013)
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Emma Sky
An international activist with experience working on refugee issues, international governance, justice and security, and former Political Advisor to General Odierno, the US General commanding all US forces in Iraq

Teaching: The New Iraq (Fall 2012) 
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James Wolfensohn
Former President of World Bank (1995-2005) and special envoy for Gaza disengagement for the Quartet on the Middle East

Teaching: Gateway to Global Affairs: Poverty and Development Module (Fall 2012)
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  Colonel Timothy McAteer
Army Senior Service Fellow
   
Canadian Studies Committee Visiting Fellowup
  Dean Irvine (Fall 2012)
Visiting Fellow in Canadian Studies and English

Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canadian literatures, modernism, leftism, cultural materialism, textual criticism, editing and editorial theory.
   
Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturersup
  Edwin Camp
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Political Science

Research Interest: Comparative and international political economy

Teaching: Seminar in Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Spring 2012)
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  Juan Rebolledo
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Political Science

Research Interest: Comparative and international political economy

Teaching: Issues in Developing Democracies (Fall 2012)
   
Program on Democracy Visiting Graduate Studentsup
  Luca Bernardi, Visiting Assistant in Research
   
Program on Democracy and the Initiative on Representative Instutitions Postdoctoral Associates and Lecturers
  Gwyneth McClendon
Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Political Science

Research Interest: Motivations of elected representatives in new democracies

Teaching: Democracy and the Psychology of Inequality (Fall 2012)
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  Rachel Reidl
Post Doctoral Associate

Research Interest: Religion and Politics in Africa
   
Program on Global Justice Visiting Fellowsup
  Richard Adams
Research Interest: Military Ethics
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  Hahn Henning
Research Interest: Political Cosmopolitanism
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  Xuemei Liu
Research Interest: Distributive Justice and Political Consensus in China
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  Xiu Zhang
Research Interest: Justice and Ethics
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Program on Global Justice Visiting Graduate Studentsup
  Robert Lepenies, Visiting Assistant in Research, Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Fellow


Dario Pasquini, Visiting Assistant in Research


Tom Andreassen, Visiting Assistant in Research


Uchenna Nwachuku, Visiting Assistant in Research
Program on Order, Conflict and Violence up
  Luca Falciola
Post Doctoral Fellow

Research Interest: Violence and far left groups in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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  Javier Osorio
Postgraduate Associate

Research Interest: Drug violence in Mexico
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  Henning Tamm
Postgraduate Associate

Research Interests: Intersection of comparative politics and International Relations, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa
   
Fox International Fellows in residence at The MacMillan Center

For the full list of Fox Fellows to Yale and from Yale to Partner Institutions, please go to www.yale.edu/macmillan/fif/fellows.html

viegas Otavio Viegas
MA, International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Project Title: Brazilian Foreign Policy during the Lula Years (2003-2010): An Analysis of Economics and Security
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skorokhodova Olga Skorokhodova
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Moscow State University, Russia

Project Title: Oil as a Factor in World Politics (1970s-1980s)
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mischenko Yana Mishchenko
Ph.D. Candidate, Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Russia

Project Title: Energy Ties among East Asian Countries and Japan's Energy policy in East Asia
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vela Mary Vela
Graduating Senior, Public Administration, El Colegio de México, Mexico

Project Title: The Faces of Urban Poverty: Street Children, Drug Wars and Drug Trading
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  Gabriel Morales Sod
Graduating Senior, International Relations, El Colegio de México, Mexico

Project Title: Mexico's Fight against Drugs: An Unavoidable War?
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Poama Andrei Poama
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France

Project Title: The Power to Remit: Elements of a Theory of Criminal Justice
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ademmer Esther Ademmer
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Freie University, Germany

Project Title: Europeanizing Russia's Near Abroad: How EU Rules Travel under Conditions of Multiple Interdependence
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hechinger Anna Hechinger
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Freie University, Germany

Project Title: Explaining Variation in the Politicization of European Economic and Monetary Union
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pietrese Duncan Pieterse
PhD Candidate, Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Project Title: Youth and Violence
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swayamprakash Ramya Swayamprakash
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Project Title: Controlling Flows and Trumping the Hilsa: Rivers, Engineers and Fishing Communities in South India
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shetty Shweta Shetty
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Project Title: Bondage and Beyond: A Community in Transition in Western India
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  Xu Chen
Ph.D. Candidate, Law, Fudan University, China

Project Title: International Criminal Cooperation on Anti-Terrorism
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kumikura Jun Kumakura
Ph.D. Candidate, Law, University of Tokyo, Japan

Project Title: Importing Totalitarianism: the Impact of Soviet Political Culture and Institutions on China and Japan
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kelly Alice Kelly
Ph.D. Candidate, English, Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University, England

Project Title: Grief at a Distance: Representations of Death and Memorialization in First World War Writing by Women, 1914-39
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  Jamie Miller
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University, England

Project Title: South Africa in the Cold War, 1974-80
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canokan Orcun Can Okan
M.A., History, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Project Title: 'A Generation in the Middle': Ex-Ottoman Arab Leaders in Syria and Iraq in the Interwar Period
   
Gilder Lehrman Center Visiting Professorup
  Jessica Pliley
Visiting Assistant Professor in History; Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow
Assistant Professor, Texas State University- San Marcos

Research Interest: Enforcement of the Anti-White Slavery Traffic Act by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the first half of the 20th century

Teaching: White Slavery to Sex Trafficking (Fall 2012)
   
Gilder Lehrman Center Research Scholarup
  Richard Rabinowitz
Associate Research Scholar

Research Interest: Explore and describe the evolution and significance of efforts to represent African American history in American Public spaces.
   
Gilder Lehrman Center Visiting Fellowsup
  Alice Bellagamba
Associate Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca (tenured)

Research Interest: Slavery and Its Aftermath along the River Gambia
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  Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Professor Emeritus, Université Paris-Diderot

Research Interest: Slavery in African societies before, during, and after the transatlantic slave trade. 
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  Claude d’Estree
Director, Human Trafficking Clinic, University of Denver (JD)

Research Interest: Methodologies for Understanding Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
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  Max Grivno
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi

Research Interest: From Bondage to Freedom, Slavery in Mississippi, 1690-1865
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  Dale Tomich
Professor, SUNY-Binghamton

Research Interest: Slavery in African societies before, during, and after the transatlantic slave trade.
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  Wendy Warren
Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Research Interest: New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century North America
International Alliance of Research Universities Visiting Professors – University of Tokyoup
  Takeshi Fukaya
Visiting Fellow
Researcher, Graduate School for Law and Politics University of Tokyo

Research Interest: Regulatory Reforms and their consequences on Advanced Economies; the Japanese Regulatory System from a Comparative Perspective
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  Tadamasa Kimura
Visiting Fellow
Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo

Research Interest: The Transformation of Attitudes, Norms, and Behaviors with Computer-mediated Communication among Youth in Japan and in the United States
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  Jun Suzuki
Visiting Fellow
Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Tokyo

Research Interest: The Introduction of New Technologies in Japan and the Changes in Industry, Organizations and Society caused by them; the Position and Role of Engineers and Government in Disaster Relief after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923
   
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