MEMORANDUM

 

TO:              Woodrow Wilson Center Scholars, Staff, and Interns

 

FROM:         Kim Conner

 

DATE:          September 23, 2010

 

SUBJECT:   Fall Scholar Introductions

 

        All Fellows, Public Policy Scholars, Kennan Fulbright and Research Scholars, East European Studies Scholars, and Program Scholars who are at the Center for at least three months give five-minute presentations of their projects to Wilson Center scholars, staff, and interns soon after their arrival at the Center. We will meet in the 5th floor conference room, except for one date: Friday, September 24 when we will meet in the 6^th floor auditorium. Each session will run from 2-3 p.m., except for one date: Tuesday, September 28 from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Each session will include a question and answer period following the presentations. (Please note: Due to varying arrival dates and schedules it is not always possible to group scholars according to topic or program.)

 

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

 

LAWRENCEALTMAN, Medical Writer and ‘The Doctor's World’ Columnist, the New York Times. “Reporting on the Health of Presidents and other Political Leaders” (Fellow)

 

JASON BROWNLEE, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. “Sentry State: The Policing of Egypt (1977-2009)” (Fellow)

 

HENRY FARRELL, Associate Professor of Political Science, The George Washington University. “Governance of the Information Age” (Fellow)

 

DAVID FREUND, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park. “The Myth of the Free Market: Policy, Growth, and Inequality in Modern America” (Fellow)

 

BOB KAISER, Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent, The Washington Post. Book project topic: the inner workings of the modern Congress. (Public Policy Scholar)

 

Chair: KENT HUGHES, Director, Program on American and the Global Economy

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

 

UCHE IGWE, Civil Society Liaison Officer, Nigerian Extrative Industries Transparency Initiative. “Strengthening Governance in Africa’s Natural Resources: The Role of China.”  (Africa Program Policy Scholar)

 

JOSEPH INIKORI, Professor of History, University of Rochester. “Transatlantic Slaving and Socioeconomic Development in the Atlantic World: Western Africa, 1450-1900” (Fellow)

 

LORI LEONARD, Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. “Experiments in Development: The Social Life of Policy after a 'Model' Pipeline Project in Chad” (Fellow)

 

MARGARET WAMUYU MUTHEE, Programmes Manager, University of Nairobi Center for Human Rights and Peace, Kenya. “Addressing the Crisis of Youth in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges.”  (Africa Program Policy Scholar)

 

ELAVIE NDURA-OUEDRAOGO, Associate Professor of Education, George Mason University. “Transforming Education: A Conceptual Framework for Peace Building in Burundi and the African Great Lakes Region” (Fellow)

 

Chair: STEVE McDONALD, Director, Africa Program

 

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (now in the 6^th floor auditorium)

 

DON DOYLE  McCausland Professor of History; Director, ARENA, Association for

Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas, University of South Carolina.

“America’s International Civil War.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

ROGER HARDY, former Middle East and Islamic Affairs Analyst, BBC World Service. “The War of Ideas: The Obama Administration and Muslim Hearts and Minds.”

(Public Policy Scholar)

 

MELVYN LEFFLER Edward Stettinius Professor of American History, University of     Virginia. “George W. Bush and American Foreign Policy.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

AHMED MANSOUR, President, The International Quranic Center. “Rules Of Engagement in the ‘War of Ideas’ Against Muslim Extremists” (Fellow)

 

 

JOSEPH SASSOON,Senior Associate Member, St Antony’s College, Oxford. “The Ba`th Party: A Study in Tyranny.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

Chair: HALEH ESFANDIARI, Director, Middle East Program

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 (special time 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.)

 

BORIS LANIN, Principal Research Professor of Philology, Academy of Education of Russia, Moscow, Russia. “Transforming Educational Policy in a Transformational Society” (Fellow)

 

OXANA LEKARENKO, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History and International Relations, Tomsk State University, Russia. “American Policy towards the Common Market in 1958-1963.” (Fulbright Kennan Institute Research Scholar)

 

OLEKSANDR MEREZHKO, Head, International Law, University of Economics and Law, Kyiv, Ukraine. “Sociology of International Law.”  (Fulbright Kennan Institute Research Scholar)

 

REGINE SPECTOR, Visiting Researcher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  “Protecting Property:  The Politics of Bazaars in Central Asia.”  (Kennan Institute Title VIII Research Scholar)

 

MELISSA STOCKDALE, Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma. “‘A Hard Country to Love’: Patriotism and National Identity in Russia’s Great War, 1914-1918” (Fellow)

 

Chair: BLAIR RUBLE, Director, Kennan Institute

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

 

KUNIKO ASHIZAWA,Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations; Field Chair for International Relations Field, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom. “Japan’s Approach to Building Peace in Afghanistan and Beyond: A Comparative Perspective.” (Japan Scholar)

 

ANNE HSIU-An HSIAO, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. “China’s Approach toward the South China Sea Dispute: Trends and Implications.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

GILBERT ROZMAN, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. “The Sino-Russian National Identity Challenge to the World Order” (Fellow)

 

AJAY SHANKAR, Retired Senior Official, Indian Administrative Service, India. “India’s Low Carbon Growth Challenge.” (Asia Program Indian FICCI Scholar)

 

HUMA YUSUF, Features Editor and Staff Writer, Dawn Newspaper, Pakistan. “The Fourth Estate in Flux: Media, Politics, and Public Policy in Pakistan.” (Pakistan Scholar)

 

Chair: ROBERT HATHAWAY, Director, Asia Program

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

 

GREGG BRAZINSKY, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University. “The Eagle Against the Dragon: Sino-American Competition in the Third World during the Cold War” (Fellow)

 

MARIOS-PANAGIOTIS EFTHYMIOPOULOS, Director General of the Think Tank Strategy International (SI), Greece. “NATO’s South-East Future: NATO’s Renewed Strategic Concept in an Attempt for a Robust and Practical Application in Southeastern Europe.” (Southeast Europe Policy Scholar)

 

IOANA MACREA-TOMA, Research Associate, Pasts, Inc, Central European University. “The Intricacies of the Cultural Cold War: Radio Free Europe from Above and Below.” (Romanian Scholar)

 

LIVIU TIRAU, Senior Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University. “Geopolitics Game: Romania between the U.S. and the USSR: 1965-1989.” (Romanian Scholar)

 

Chair: MIRCEA MUNTEANU, Project Associate, Cold War International History Project and the History and Public Policy Program

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

 

GRETCHEN HELMKE, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester. “Institutions on the Edge: Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America” (Fellow)

 

DONALD HOROWITZ, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University. “Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies” (Fellow)

 

LUIS MAIRA, Ambassador of Chile to Argentina; Former Ambassador of Chile to Mexico. “A Latin American Vision of the United States:  The Political System and Foreign Policy During the Reagan Administration.”  (Public Policy Scholar)

 

RACHID OULD BOUSSIAFA, Journalist. “Reality of Algerians Living in the U.S. and their Role in Rapprochement with the Muslim World.” (Visiting Arab Journalist)

 

RACHEL SWARNS, Washington Correspondent, New York Times. Book project topic: First Lady Michelle Obama’s slave roots and white ancestry. (Public Policy Scholar)

 

Chair: CYNTHIA ARNSON, Director, Latin American Program

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

 

REBECCA CHAMBERLAIN-CREANGA, Independent Scholar.  “Manufacturing Separatism: Transnational Economy, Identity, and State Formation on a Post-Soviet Frozen War Front.” (Kennan Institute Title VIII Research Scholar)

 

OLENA HALETA, Associate Professor and Director, Literary Theory and Comparative Studies, Ivan Franko L’viv University, L’viv, Ukraine. “Anthologies as a Mechanism of Cultural Memory in Ukrainian Literature.” (Fulbright Kennan Institute Research Scholar)

 

LIUDMILA PRAVIKOVA,Professor, Interpreters’ Department, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, Pyatigorsk, Russia. “Language Identity Change in the North Caucasus after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.” (Fulbright Kennan Institute Research Scholar)

 

NATALIA SHAGAYDA,Scientist, Institute of Agrarian Problems, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow, Russia. “Developing a State Policy on Agricultural Land.”  (Fulbright Kennan Institute Research Scholar)

 

ZAMIRA SYDYKOVA, former Kyrgyz Ambassador, “The Color Revolutions in the Post-Soviet Realm: Causes and Consequences.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

Chair: WILLIAM POMERANZ, Deputy Director, Kennan Institute

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

 

SUSAN CARRUTHERS, Professor of History, Rutgers University. “The Good Occupation: Military Government in the American Imagination” (Fellow)

 

DAVID GREENBERG, Associate Professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University. “The Story of Spin: Presidential Persuasion from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush” (Fellow)

 

TOBIAS HAGMANN,Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland. “State Failure and Formation in the Somali Territories of the Horn of Africa after 1991.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

MARJORIE SPRUILL, Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina.

“Women's Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics” (Fellow)

 

GAVIN WRIGHT, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics, Stanford University. “The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South” (Fellow)

 

Chair: SONYA MICHEL, Director, United States Studies Program

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

 

FRÉDÉRIC BOZO, Professor, Department of European Studies, the Sorbonne, University of Paris III. “France, the U.S., and the 2002-2003 IraqiCrisis.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

MATT FUSSA, Managing Attorney, Global Government Solutions Group, Cisco System, Inc. “Cybersecurity.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

JUERGEN MARTSCHUKAT, Professor, Department of History, University of Erfurt, Germany.  “Fathers, Families, and Governmentality: A History of the United States from the Revolution to the Present.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

DONALD PECK, Deputy Managing Editor, the Atlantic. “The Recession’s Long Shadow: Preparing for the Long Tail of the Great Recession and a New Era in American Life.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

RONALD STEEL, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California, “Culture as Destiny: The Hidden Roots of American Foreign Policy” (Fellow)

 

Chair: LUCY JILKA, Director, Scholar Administration Office

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

 

PATRICIO ABINALES, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. “The Politics of Compromise: U.S. Economic and Military Assistance in the Southern Philippines” (Fellow)

 

MARTIN DIMITROV, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College. “Accountable Authoritarianism: The Foundations of Regime Resilience in China” (Fellow)

 

DIRK MOSES, Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Sydney, Australia; Professor of Global and Colonial History, European University Institute (as of January 2011). “The Diplomacy of Genocide: Political Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention.” (Australian Scholar)

 

MARVIN OTT,Professor of National Security Policy, National War College;

Faculty Fellow, Institute for National and Strategic Studies, National Defense University.

Book project topic: Malaysian foreign and security policy. (Public Policy Scholar)

 

Chair: STAPLETON ROY, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

 

FRANCOIS FORET, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, France; Director of Political Research at the Institute of European Studies, ULB. “Religion and Politics in the U.S. and the EU: Similarities, Differences, and Exchanges.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

NOELA INVERNIZZI, Adjunct Professor, Education Sector, Federal University of Parana, Brazil. “Nanotechnology Implications for Labor: A Study Based on Commercialized Products” (Fellow)

 

BRIAN NEWBERRY, Colonel, United States Air Force. “A General Staff Revisited?  The Imperative for Joint Strategy Reform.” (Air Force National Defense Fellow)

 

KIHL JAE RYOO, Professor, University of North Korean Studies, South Korea. “International Relations and Political Change in North Korea in the Cold War Era.” (Public Policy Scholar)

 

CHARLES SABATOS, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. “Contexts of Conflict: Ottoman Imagery in East European Literary and Cultural History.” (East European Studies Research Scholar)

 

Chair: DAVID REJESKI, Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program