Wilson Center Fellows 2010-11: press release

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Release No. 23-10

June 3, 2010

The Woodrow WilsonCenter Announces 2010 – 2011 Fellowship Class

WASHINGTON—Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, announced the members of the 2010-2011 fellowship class. The 24 fellows, most of whom will arrive September 2010 to spend an academic year in residence at the Center, include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Egypt, Ireland, Nigeria, the Philippines, Russia, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.

"We are looking forward to having this prominent group in residence this fall at the Wilson Center," said Hamilton. "These men and women are distinguished in their fields of expertise and will enhance the intellectual discourse at the Center and the public policy community in Washington."

The 2010-2011 fellows are listed below along with the projects they will pursue while in residence at the Wilson Center.            

Patricio Abinales, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. “The Politics of Compromise: U.S. Economic and Military Assistance in the Southern Philippines”

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

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”

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

Susan Carruthers, Professor of History, Rutgers University. “The Good Occupation: Military Government in the American Imagination”

Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College. “Accountable Authoritarianism: The Foundations of Regime Resilience in China”

Henry Farrell, Associate Professor of Political Science, The George Washington University. “Governance of the Information Age”

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”

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”

Gretchen Helmke, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester. “Institutions on the Edge: Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America”

Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University. “Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies”

Joseph Inikori, Professor of History, University of Rochester. “Transatlantic Slaving and Socioeconomic Development in the Atlantic World: Western Africa, 1450-1900”

Noela Invernizzi, Adjunct Professor, Education Sector, Federal University of Parana, Brazil. “Nanotechnology Implications for Labor: A Study Based on Commercialized Products”

Boris Lanin, Principal Research Professor of Philology, Academy of Education of Russia, Moscow, Russia. “Transforming Educational Policy in a Transformational Society”

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” 

Ahmed Mansour, President, The International Quranic Center. “Rules Of Engagement in the ‘War of Ideas’ Against Muslim Extremists”

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”

Matthew Nelson, Lecturer, Department of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom. “Religious Education and the Politics of Pluralism in Pakistan”

Bruce Parrott, Professor and Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. “Russia and Eurasia in a New Geopolitical Era”

Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. “The Sino-Russian National Identity Challenge to the World Order”

Marjorie Spruill, Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina. “Women's Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics”

Ronald Steel, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California. “Culture as Destiny: The Hidden Roots of American Foreign Policy”

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”

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”

Media with questions should contact Sharon McCarter at (202) 691-4016 or by e-mail to sharon.mccarter@wilsoncenter.org.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the national, living memorial honoring President Woodrow Wilson. In providing an essential link between the worlds of ideas and public policy, the Center addresses current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world. The Center promotes policy-relevant research and dialogue to increase understanding and enhance the capabilities and knowledge of leaders, citizens, and institutions worldwide. Created by an Act of Congress in 1968, the Center is a nonpartisan institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., and supported by both public and private funds.

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