Past Participants
alphabetically, by last name (Biographies are current as of the date of the speakers’ sessions)
Prof. Mustafa Aksakal ('06-'07 participant)
Mustafa Aksakal is an Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth University. Dr. Aksakal specializes in the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle Eastern and World history. His area of specialization is the Ottoman Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era and events contemporaries referred to as the Eastern Question. He is currently writing a book on the Ottoman decision to enter the First World War in 1914.
Mustafa Aksakal is an Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth University. Dr. Aksakal specializes in the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle Eastern and World history. His area of specialization is the Ottoman Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era and events contemporaries referred to as the Eastern Question. He is currently writing a book on the Ottoman decision to enter the First World War in 1914.
Prof. Dr. Jens Alber ('05-'06 participant)
Jens Alber is Director of the Research Unit on Inequality and Social Integration at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He is also a Professor of Sociology at the Free University Berlin. He studied sociology, political science, and psychology at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of Mannheim. Prior to coming to Berlin, he was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Konstanz. His research encompasses comparative work on social policy in Europe and the United States, welfare state reform, health care and retirement policy, and the impact of eastward expansion on the EU.
Jens Alber is Director of the Research Unit on Inequality and Social Integration at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He is also a Professor of Sociology at the Free University Berlin. He studied sociology, political science, and psychology at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of Mannheim. Prior to coming to Berlin, he was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Konstanz. His research encompasses comparative work on social policy in Europe and the United States, welfare state reform, health care and retirement policy, and the impact of eastward expansion on the EU.
Dr. Harro Albrecht ('06-'07 participant)
Harro Albrecht is a 2006-2007 Nieman Fellow in Global Health Reporting at Harvard University, with funding provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a medical writer/editor at Die Zeit covering topics that range from national and international health policy to molecular biology, genetics, immunology, the theory of evolution, scientific policy and new treatment options within medicine. Before becoming a journalist, he studied medicine and worked for two years as a doctor in a gastroenterological clinic. Starting in May 2007, he will spend four months in Uganda.
Harro Albrecht is a 2006-2007 Nieman Fellow in Global Health Reporting at Harvard University, with funding provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a medical writer/editor at Die Zeit covering topics that range from national and international health policy to molecular biology, genetics, immunology, the theory of evolution, scientific policy and new treatment options within medicine. Before becoming a journalist, he studied medicine and worked for two years as a doctor in a gastroenterological clinic. Starting in May 2007, he will spend four months in Uganda.
Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster ('06-'07 participant)
Aylwin-Foster was Deputy Commander of the Office of Security Transition for Training and Organizing Iraq's armed forces. He served with U.S. forces in Iraq from December 2003 to November 2004. After serving in Iraq, he took up the post of Deputy Commander of the Eufor, the European peacekeeping force in Bosnia. The essay, 'Changing the Army for Counter Insurgency Operations' appeared in the December 2005 issue [pdf] of the U.S. Army's magazine Military Review. There has been much debate over his critique of the operations in Iraq. Aylwin-Foster is now teaching at the Defense College in the UK, and continues to write.
Aylwin-Foster was Deputy Commander of the Office of Security Transition for Training and Organizing Iraq's armed forces. He served with U.S. forces in Iraq from December 2003 to November 2004. After serving in Iraq, he took up the post of Deputy Commander of the Eufor, the European peacekeeping force in Bosnia. The essay, 'Changing the Army for Counter Insurgency Operations' appeared in the December 2005 issue [pdf] of the U.S. Army's magazine Military Review. There has been much debate over his critique of the operations in Iraq. Aylwin-Foster is now teaching at the Defense College in the UK, and continues to write.
Prof. Margaret Lavinia Anderson ('06-'07 participant)
Margaret Lavinia Anderson is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. Until recently she worked on electoral politics and political culture in Germany and in comparative European perspective; democracy and parliaments; the intersection of religion and politics; and religion and society--especially Catholicism in the 19th century. She is now at the beginning stages of a project on Germany and the Ottoman Empire from the time of the massacres of the Armenians in the mid-1890s until ca. 1932. She has published Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany (2000); Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspeiler Bismarcks (1988); and Windthorst: A Political Biography (1981).
Margaret Lavinia Anderson is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. Until recently she worked on electoral politics and political culture in Germany and in comparative European perspective; democracy and parliaments; the intersection of religion and politics; and religion and society--especially Catholicism in the 19th century. She is now at the beginning stages of a project on Germany and the Ottoman Empire from the time of the massacres of the Armenians in the mid-1890s until ca. 1932. She has published Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany (2000); Windthorst: Zentrumspolitiker und Gegenspeiler Bismarcks (1988); and Windthorst: A Political Biography (1981).
Anne Applebaum ('06-'07 participant)
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. She is the author of several books including, Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-Fiction, as well as Britain's Duff-Cooper Prize. Her writing has appeared in various news publications including: Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Evening Standard, The Economist, Slate Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, the Boston Globe, The Independent, The Guardian, Commentaire, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Newsweek, the New Criterion, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, The National Review, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, among others.
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. She is the author of several books including, Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-Fiction, as well as Britain's Duff-Cooper Prize. Her writing has appeared in various news publications including: Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Evening Standard, The Economist, Slate Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, the Boston Globe, The Independent, The Guardian, Commentaire, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Newsweek, the New Criterion, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, The National Review, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, among others.
Prof. Elazar Barkan ('05-'06 participant)
Professor of History and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles, and Director, International History Initiative - The Historical Commissions Project, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York. He has been a Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University during 2005-2006. Prof. Barkan specializes in modern European intellectual and cultural history, cultural property, imperialism, colonialism and post colonialism, history of anthropology, race and racism, and primitivism and modernism. He co-edited a volume for the Getty Research Institute: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (2001), with Ronald Bush. He is also the author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, Retreat of Scientific Racism (1992) and the co-editor, with Marie-Denise Shelton of Borders, Exiles, and Diaspora (1997), and with Ronald Bush, Prehistories of the Future: Primitivism, Modernism and Politics (1995). His current research is on "Liberty and the Challenges of Global Morality, "focusing on the evolving new-world system as it confronts the morals of the global with the local. He examines the ways in which enlightenment principles of individual human rights come into collision with traditions and group rights. A related issue is that of the "victimization as an identity" and the use of relative victimization as a form of political power. In this context he examines the evolving competition between Palestinians and Israelis for the moral high ground as a form of national identity.
Professor of History and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles, and Director, International History Initiative - The Historical Commissions Project, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York. He has been a Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University during 2005-2006. Prof. Barkan specializes in modern European intellectual and cultural history, cultural property, imperialism, colonialism and post colonialism, history of anthropology, race and racism, and primitivism and modernism. He co-edited a volume for the Getty Research Institute: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (2001), with Ronald Bush. He is also the author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, Retreat of Scientific Racism (1992) and the co-editor, with Marie-Denise Shelton of Borders, Exiles, and Diaspora (1997), and with Ronald Bush, Prehistories of the Future: Primitivism, Modernism and Politics (1995). His current research is on "Liberty and the Challenges of Global Morality, "focusing on the evolving new-world system as it confronts the morals of the global with the local. He examines the ways in which enlightenment principles of individual human rights come into collision with traditions and group rights. A related issue is that of the "victimization as an identity" and the use of relative victimization as a form of political power. In this context he examines the evolving competition between Palestinians and Israelis for the moral high ground as a form of national identity.
Prof. Gary Bass ('05-'06 participant)
Prof. Gary Bass is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Princeton University. His research interests include international security, ethics in international relations, American foreign policy, war crimes tribunals, and human rights. He is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, as well as articles and book chapters on international justice. He is completing a book manuscript on the politics of humanitarian intervention and the origins of the modern human rights movement. He has won the Stanley Kelley teaching prize in the Politics Department at Princeton University, and has held fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Krupp Foundation, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard. Before coming to Princeton, he was a reporter for The Economist. He has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and other publications. Bass received his BA and his PhD from Harvard University.
Prof. Gary Bass is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Princeton University. His research interests include international security, ethics in international relations, American foreign policy, war crimes tribunals, and human rights. He is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals, as well as articles and book chapters on international justice. He is completing a book manuscript on the politics of humanitarian intervention and the origins of the modern human rights movement. He has won the Stanley Kelley teaching prize in the Politics Department at Princeton University, and has held fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Krupp Foundation, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard. Before coming to Princeton, he was a reporter for The Economist. He has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and other publications. Bass received his BA and his PhD from Harvard University.
Dr. Antonio Bassanetti ('06-'07 participant)
Antonio Bassanetti is an economist at the Bank of Italy. His main areas of research include productivity issues concerning the largest euro area countries, the housing market and its relationship with consumptions, and the development of instruments for con-junctural (short term) economic analysis.
Antonio Bassanetti is an economist at the Bank of Italy. His main areas of research include productivity issues concerning the largest euro area countries, the housing market and its relationship with consumptions, and the development of instruments for con-junctural (short term) economic analysis.
Thorsten Benner ('05-'06 participant)
Co-founder and Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He currently directs a two-year research project on “Learning to Build Peace: UN Peace Operations and Organizational Learning” for which he has conducted fieldwork in Liberia and East Timor. His projects also include “The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance” in which GPPi cooperates with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the UN system including “The US and the EU at the UN: Making the Most of the Ban Years” (with Edward C. Luck).
Co-founder and Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin. He currently directs a two-year research project on “Learning to Build Peace: UN Peace Operations and Organizational Learning” for which he has conducted fieldwork in Liberia and East Timor. His projects also include “The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance” in which GPPi cooperates with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the UN system including “The US and the EU at the UN: Making the Most of the Ban Years” (with Edward C. Luck).
Jens Bisky ('06-'07 participant)
Jens Bisky is the Editor of the Feuilleton section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is also the author of Geboren am 13. August: Der Sozialismus und ich (2004). Other works include: Die deutsche Frage - Warum die Einheit unser Land gefährdet; and Poesie der Baukunst - Architekturästhetik von Winckelmann bis Boisseree.
Jens Bisky is the Editor of the Feuilleton section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is also the author of Geboren am 13. August: Der Sozialismus und ich (2004). Other works include: Die deutsche Frage - Warum die Einheit unser Land gefährdet; and Poesie der Baukunst - Architekturästhetik von Winckelmann bis Boisseree.
Prof. David Blackbourn ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. David Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and became Director of the Harvard Center for European Studies in January 2007. He teaches courses on modern German and European history and is the author of Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980); The Peculiarities of German History (with G. Eley, 1984); Populists and Patricians (1987); The German Bourgeoisie (co-edited with R. Evans, 1991); Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1994); The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918 (1997); and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006)
Prof. David Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard and became Director of the Harvard Center for European Studies in January 2007. He teaches courses on modern German and European history and is the author of Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980); The Peculiarities of German History (with G. Eley, 1984); Populists and Patricians (1987); The German Bourgeoisie (co-edited with R. Evans, 1991); Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1994); The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918 (1997); and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (2006)
Prof. Erik Bleich ('06-'07 participant)
Erik Bleich is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. His current research focuses on state responses to racial, ethnic, and religious violence. In recently published and forthcoming work, he has examined topics such as British, German and French state policies toward racist violence, the construction and politicization of German's hate crime statistics, European Union policies against racism, and the commonalities among British, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish responses to the rising associations between violence and Islam. His book Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2003), uses theories of policymaking to examine the development of race policies on either side of the English Channel.
Erik Bleich is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. His current research focuses on state responses to racial, ethnic, and religious violence. In recently published and forthcoming work, he has examined topics such as British, German and French state policies toward racist violence, the construction and politicization of German's hate crime statistics, European Union policies against racism, and the commonalities among British, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish responses to the rising associations between violence and Islam. His book Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2003), uses theories of policymaking to examine the development of race policies on either side of the English Channel.
Ellen Buchman ('06-'07 participant)
Ellen Buchman is Field Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. She has worked for 17 years with a number of national and state-based organizations to develop effective grassroots outreach and education campaigns. As the national field director for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse coalition of national civil rights, human rights and social justice organizations, Ellen is responsible for constructing and managing multi-sectored coalition efforts at the state and regional levels.
Ellen Buchman is Field Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. She has worked for 17 years with a number of national and state-based organizations to develop effective grassroots outreach and education campaigns. As the national field director for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse coalition of national civil rights, human rights and social justice organizations, Ellen is responsible for constructing and managing multi-sectored coalition efforts at the state and regional levels.
Dr. Andreas Busch ('06-'07 participant)
Andreas Busch is a Reader in Comparative European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Hertford College at the University of Oxford. His areas of research include comparative public policy, political economy, German and British government, and certain aspects of modern political theory. Prof. Busch has numerous edited volumes and articles in journals, and four books: Neokonservative Wirtschaftspolitik in Grossbritannien. Vorgeschichte, Problemdiagnose, Ziele und Ergebnisse des 'Thatcherismus' (1989); Preisstabilitaetspolitik. Politik und Inflationsraten im internationalen Vergleich (1995); Staat und Globalisierung. Das Politikfeld Bankenregulierung im internationalen Vergleich (2003); Banking Regulation and Globalization, in preparation 2006.
Andreas Busch is a Reader in Comparative European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Hertford College at the University of Oxford. His areas of research include comparative public policy, political economy, German and British government, and certain aspects of modern political theory. Prof. Busch has numerous edited volumes and articles in journals, and four books: Neokonservative Wirtschaftspolitik in Grossbritannien. Vorgeschichte, Problemdiagnose, Ziele und Ergebnisse des 'Thatcherismus' (1989); Preisstabilitaetspolitik. Politik und Inflationsraten im internationalen Vergleich (1995); Staat und Globalisierung. Das Politikfeld Bankenregulierung im internationalen Vergleich (2003); Banking Regulation and Globalization, in preparation 2006.
Martine Cohen ('05-'06 participant)
Martine Cohen is a Sociologist, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL, CNRS-EPHE) and author of Associations laïques et confessionnelles: identités et valeurs, Sectes et democratie, and Les Transformations de l'autorité religieuse (2004).
Martine Cohen is a Sociologist, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL, CNRS-EPHE) and author of Associations laïques et confessionnelles: identités et valeurs, Sectes et democratie, and Les Transformations de l'autorité religieuse (2004).
Belinda Cooper ('05-'06 and '06-'07 participant)
Belinda Cooper is an adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she co-founded the Program on Citizenship and Security. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and has taught human rights, international law, transitional justice and gender and law at Humboldt University in Berlin, the New School, Seton Hall Law School and Ohio Northern University Law School. She has edited a volume on the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and the current international criminal tribunals entitled War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg. Cooper lived in Berlin, Germany from 1987-1994 and returned in 2002 as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She has taken part in human rights fact-finding missions and has coauthored reports on domestic violence in Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Tanzania. Cooper has written for a wide variety of publications in German and English, including The New York Times, Newsweek, World Policy Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also a translator of German scholarly books and articles, including most recently a textbook on international criminal law, and has worked as a translator on the case of Turkish-German Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Belinda Cooper is an adjunct professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she co-founded the Program on Citizenship and Security. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and has taught human rights, international law, transitional justice and gender and law at Humboldt University in Berlin, the New School, Seton Hall Law School and Ohio Northern University Law School. She has edited a volume on the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and the current international criminal tribunals entitled War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg. Cooper lived in Berlin, Germany from 1987-1994 and returned in 2002 as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She has taken part in human rights fact-finding missions and has coauthored reports on domestic violence in Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Tanzania. Cooper has written for a wide variety of publications in German and English, including The New York Times, Newsweek, World Policy Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also a translator of German scholarly books and articles, including most recently a textbook on international criminal law, and has worked as a translator on the case of Turkish-German Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Prof. Harvey G. Cox, Jr. ('05-'06 participant)
Prof. Harvey Cox holds the Hollis Professorship in Divinity at Harvard University. An American Baptist minister, he was an ecumenical fraternal worker in Berlin with the Gossner Mission and Evangelical Academy before joining the Harvard faculty in 1965. His research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of religion, culture and politics. He works on urbanization, theological developments in world Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, and current spiritual movements in a global setting, especially the global growth of Pentecostalism. His book, The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective (1965) was an international best seller and was named by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the 20th century. Among his other publications are The Seduction of the Spirit (1985); Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and The Reshaping of Religion in the 21st Century (2001), and When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today (2004).
Prof. Harvey Cox holds the Hollis Professorship in Divinity at Harvard University. An American Baptist minister, he was an ecumenical fraternal worker in Berlin with the Gossner Mission and Evangelical Academy before joining the Harvard faculty in 1965. His research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of religion, culture and politics. He works on urbanization, theological developments in world Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, and current spiritual movements in a global setting, especially the global growth of Pentecostalism. His book, The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective (1965) was an international best seller and was named by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the 20th century. Among his other publications are The Seduction of the Spirit (1985); Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and The Reshaping of Religion in the 21st Century (2001), and When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today (2004).
Prof. Dr. Christiane Eisenberg ('05-'06 participant)
Professor Eisenberg studied history and sociology at the University of Bielefeld and completed her Habilitation in 1996 in Modern History at the University of Hamburg. Since fall 1998, she has been Professor of British History at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University. Among her many publications are English Sports und deutsche Bürger : Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte 1800-1939 (1999), and FIFA 1904-2004 (with P. Lanfranchi, T. Mason & A. Wahl) (2004), which was published in German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.
Professor Eisenberg studied history and sociology at the University of Bielefeld and completed her Habilitation in 1996 in Modern History at the University of Hamburg. Since fall 1998, she has been Professor of British History at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University. Among her many publications are English Sports und deutsche Bürger : Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte 1800-1939 (1999), and FIFA 1904-2004 (with P. Lanfranchi, T. Mason & A. Wahl) (2004), which was published in German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.
Prof. Grzegorz Ekiert ('05-'06 participant)
Grzegorz Ekiert is Professor of Government and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of "The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe" (Princeton University Press 1996), "Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland" with Jan Kubik (Michigan University Press 1999) and "Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule,"co-edited with Stephen Hanson (Cambridge University Press 2003). His papers have appeared in many journals and edited volumes. Mr Ekiert was the coordinator of the group on "Strengthening of political and social pluralism and political parties" at the Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation in 2001 (Club of Madrid). Ekiert is senior faculty associate at the Center for European Studies where he chairs the Workshop on East European Politics and is the editor of CES Working Paper Series on Central and Eastern Europe. He studied at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where he received the MA, Summa Cum Laude, in 1980, and received his ph.d. in the Department of Sociology from Harvard University in 1991.
Grzegorz Ekiert is Professor of Government and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of "The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe" (Princeton University Press 1996), "Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland" with Jan Kubik (Michigan University Press 1999) and "Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule,"co-edited with Stephen Hanson (Cambridge University Press 2003). His papers have appeared in many journals and edited volumes. Mr Ekiert was the coordinator of the group on "Strengthening of political and social pluralism and political parties" at the Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation in 2001 (Club of Madrid). Ekiert is senior faculty associate at the Center for European Studies where he chairs the Workshop on East European Politics and is the editor of CES Working Paper Series on Central and Eastern Europe. He studied at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where he received the MA, Summa Cum Laude, in 1980, and received his ph.d. in the Department of Sociology from Harvard University in 1991.
Prof. David Fidler ('06-'07 participant)
David Fidler is a Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at Indiana Law School. He is one of the world's leading experts on international law and public health, especially with regard to infectious diseases. Professor Fidler is also an internationally recognized expert on the regulation of foreign investment, biological weapons and bioterrorism, the international legal implications of 'non-lethal' weapons, and the globalization of baseball. In addition to his teaching and scholarly activities, Professor Fidler has served as an international legal consultant to the World Bank Group (on foreign investment in Palestine), the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (on global public health issues), U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Science Board (on bioterrorism), the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological Weapons, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Working Group, the Public Health Law Programme at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, and HIV/AIDS support groups in Japan.
David Fidler is a Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at Indiana Law School. He is one of the world's leading experts on international law and public health, especially with regard to infectious diseases. Professor Fidler is also an internationally recognized expert on the regulation of foreign investment, biological weapons and bioterrorism, the international legal implications of 'non-lethal' weapons, and the globalization of baseball. In addition to his teaching and scholarly activities, Professor Fidler has served as an international legal consultant to the World Bank Group (on foreign investment in Palestine), the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (on global public health issues), U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Science Board (on bioterrorism), the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological Weapons, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Working Group, the Public Health Law Programme at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, and HIV/AIDS support groups in Japan.
Prof. Claude Fischler ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. Claude Fischler is the Director of Research, Sociology, at CNRS; co-director of the Center for the Study of Transdisciplinary Sociology, Anthropology, and History, and member of a research team at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Since the late seventies, Fischler has been working on food habits and preferences, eating patterns, body image and health (a synthesis of his work is presented in his book L’Homnivore, 1990, 1993, 2001). His current work focuses on perception of food borne risk, "scares" and crises (BSE, GMOs); attitudes toward food and health across cultures; the role of sociocultural and environmental factors in obesity.
Prof. Claude Fischler is the Director of Research, Sociology, at CNRS; co-director of the Center for the Study of Transdisciplinary Sociology, Anthropology, and History, and member of a research team at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Since the late seventies, Fischler has been working on food habits and preferences, eating patterns, body image and health (a synthesis of his work is presented in his book L’Homnivore, 1990, 1993, 2001). His current work focuses on perception of food borne risk, "scares" and crises (BSE, GMOs); attitudes toward food and health across cultures; the role of sociocultural and environmental factors in obesity.
Prof. Murray Forman ('06-'07 participant)
Murray Forman is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston and a frequent media correspondent on hip-hop and society. He is the author of The Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-hop (2002) and co-editor of That's the Joint!: The Hip-hop Studies Reader (2004) as well as author of numerous articles on youth, race, popular music, television, and film. Dr. Forman's main research interests are in the social uses of popular music and the critical analysis of media industries, cultural production, and communication.
Murray Forman is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston and a frequent media correspondent on hip-hop and society. He is the author of The Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-hop (2002) and co-editor of That's the Joint!: The Hip-hop Studies Reader (2004) as well as author of numerous articles on youth, race, popular music, television, and film. Dr. Forman's main research interests are in the social uses of popular music and the critical analysis of media industries, cultural production, and communication.
Prof. Richard Freeman ('06-'07 participant)
Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with D. Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy.
Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with D. Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy.
Prof. Dr. Hajo Funke ('06-'07 participant)
Hajo Funke is Professor for Politics and Culture at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University Berlin. His research interests include the political culture in modern Germany; National Socialism and post-Holocaust history; nationalism; anti-Semitism and German and Austrian rightwing extremism; as well as conflict studies. His publications include Politik und Paranoia: Rechtsextremismus in der Berliner Republik (Berlin, 2002.); and Der amerikanische Weg. Hegemonialer Nationalismus in der US-Administration (Berlin, 2002).
Hajo Funke is Professor for Politics and Culture at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University Berlin. His research interests include the political culture in modern Germany; National Socialism and post-Holocaust history; nationalism; anti-Semitism and German and Austrian rightwing extremism; as well as conflict studies. His publications include Politik und Paranoia: Rechtsextremismus in der Berliner Republik (Berlin, 2002.); and Der amerikanische Weg. Hegemonialer Nationalismus in der US-Administration (Berlin, 2002).
Florian Gallenberger ('06-'07 participant)
Florian Gallenberger is a writer and director of Schatten der Zeit, Honolulu, Quiero Ser, Der Grosse Lacher, Hure, Tango Berlin, Mysterium einer Notdurftanstalt. He is filming his latest movie in China. He won an Oscar™ for his film Quiero Ser at the 27th annual Student Academy Awards for Best Student Short Film and in 2001 at the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short. He has also appeared in various roles in feature films, TV productions and theatre plays from the age of five.
Florian Gallenberger is a writer and director of Schatten der Zeit, Honolulu, Quiero Ser, Der Grosse Lacher, Hure, Tango Berlin, Mysterium einer Notdurftanstalt. He is filming his latest movie in China. He won an Oscar™ for his film Quiero Ser at the 27th annual Student Academy Awards for Best Student Short Film and in 2001 at the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short. He has also appeared in various roles in feature films, TV productions and theatre plays from the age of five.
Prof. Deniz Göktürk ('06-'07 participant)
Deniz Göktürk was born in Istanbul, studied in Konstanz/Germany, Norwich/UK, and Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She joined the German Department at Berkeley in fall 2001, after having taught at the University of Southampton/UK for six years. She is now Professor of German and Film Studies at Berkeley. Her publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture: Kuenstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920 (1998) as well as numerous articles on migration, culture, and cinema. She is co-editor of The German Cinema Book (published by the British Film Institute in 2002). She is one of the co-founders of TRANSIT, the first electronic journal in German studies, launched by the Berkeley German Department in September 2005. Göktürk is currently working on a book tentatively titled Disguise in Diaspora: Transnational Aspects of Comedy and Community.
Deniz Göktürk was born in Istanbul, studied in Konstanz/Germany, Norwich/UK, and Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She joined the German Department at Berkeley in fall 2001, after having taught at the University of Southampton/UK for six years. She is now Professor of German and Film Studies at Berkeley. Her publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture: Kuenstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920 (1998) as well as numerous articles on migration, culture, and cinema. She is co-editor of The German Cinema Book (published by the British Film Institute in 2002). She is one of the co-founders of TRANSIT, the first electronic journal in German studies, launched by the Berkeley German Department in September 2005. Göktürk is currently working on a book tentatively titled Disguise in Diaspora: Transnational Aspects of Comedy and Community.
Dr. Guido Goldman ('06-'07 participant)
Guido Goldman is director of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe at CES and a member of the Kuratorium of the Hertie-School of Governance in Berlin. He served as the founding director of CES for twenty-five years (1979–1994). He is also chairman of the First Spring Corporation in New York, co-chairman of the board of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, chairman and president of the American Foundation for Textile Art, Inc., vice-chairman of the board of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and a board member of the American Council on Germany.
Guido Goldman is director of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe at CES and a member of the Kuratorium of the Hertie-School of Governance in Berlin. He served as the founding director of CES for twenty-five years (1979–1994). He is also chairman of the First Spring Corporation in New York, co-chairman of the board of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, chairman and president of the American Foundation for Textile Art, Inc., vice-chairman of the board of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and a board member of the American Council on Germany.
Dr. Constantin Goschler ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. Constantin Goschler teaches on the chair of modern history at Ruhr University Bochum during the summer semester 2006. He also taught at the universities of Prague, Jena, and Humboldt. His main fields of interest are transitional justice in the 20th century, history of science and the history of political ideas in the 19th century. He published several articles and books on restitution and indemnification for Nazi victims. Since 2004, he has been a senior researcher on the project "The Practice of Wiedergutmachung: Nazi Victims and Indemnification in Germany and Israel, 1952-2002," based in Bochum and Tel Aviv. His publications include Schuld und Schulden. Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 (2005); with Martin Dean and Philipp Ther: Robbery and Restitution. The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (2005); Rudolf Virchow. Mediziner, Anthropologe, Politiker (2002); and editor with Jürgen Lillteicher, 'Arisierung' und Restitution. Die Rückerstattung jüdischen Eigentums in Deutschland und Österreich nach 1945 und 1989 (2002).
Dr. Constantin Goschler teaches on the chair of modern history at Ruhr University Bochum during the summer semester 2006. He also taught at the universities of Prague, Jena, and Humboldt. His main fields of interest are transitional justice in the 20th century, history of science and the history of political ideas in the 19th century. He published several articles and books on restitution and indemnification for Nazi victims. Since 2004, he has been a senior researcher on the project "The Practice of Wiedergutmachung: Nazi Victims and Indemnification in Germany and Israel, 1952-2002," based in Bochum and Tel Aviv. His publications include Schuld und Schulden. Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung für NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 (2005); with Martin Dean and Philipp Ther: Robbery and Restitution. The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (2005); Rudolf Virchow. Mediziner, Anthropologe, Politiker (2002); and editor with Jürgen Lillteicher, 'Arisierung' und Restitution. Die Rückerstattung jüdischen Eigentums in Deutschland und Österreich nach 1945 und 1989 (2002).
Dr. Ulrike Guérot ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. Ulrike Guérot is Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin office. She currently works on U.S. and European roles in international institutions and the development of a constitutional Europe. Before coming to GMF, Dr. Guérot headed the European Union Unit at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. In this post, she conducted extensive research on the EU and contributed to strategic planning of the Council's EU policy. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor of European Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University; a senior research fellow at the Paris-based think tank Groupement d'Etudes et de Recherches 'Notre Europe'; and a staff member of the German Bundestag's Commission on External Affairs. Dr. Guérot is widely published on European affairs and is a frequent commentator for the BBC, CNN, and several German television stations. She studied history, political science and economics in Cologne, Bonn, Münster and Paris.
Dr. Ulrike Guérot is Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin office. She currently works on U.S. and European roles in international institutions and the development of a constitutional Europe. Before coming to GMF, Dr. Guérot headed the European Union Unit at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. In this post, she conducted extensive research on the EU and contributed to strategic planning of the Council's EU policy. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor of European Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University; a senior research fellow at the Paris-based think tank Groupement d'Etudes et de Recherches 'Notre Europe'; and a staff member of the German Bundestag's Commission on External Affairs. Dr. Guérot is widely published on European affairs and is a frequent commentator for the BBC, CNN, and several German television stations. She studied history, political science and economics in Cologne, Bonn, Münster and Paris.
Dr. Patrick Guerriero ('05-'06 participant)
Patrick Guerriero is the son of Italian and Albanian immigrants. He graduated Summa cum laude from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in 1990. In 1993, at the age of 25, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and was elected Mayor of the City of Melrose, a suburb of Boston, in 1998. The city gained national attention for its "civility initiative," which encouraged residents to show each other respect and courtesy. In May 2001, Patrick Guerriero became Deputy Chief of Staff to the first female Governor of the State of Massachusetts. In January 2002, Guerriero received national attention when he was invited to run for Lt. Governor, the first time in American history that an incumbent governor selected an openly gay politician as a running mate. In 2003, he became President of the Log Cabin Republicans, representing gay and lesbian civil rights within the Republican Party, speaking out for diversity, tolerance, and the need for inclusion in the Republican Party. The Log Cabin Republicans support civil marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
Patrick Guerriero is the son of Italian and Albanian immigrants. He graduated Summa cum laude from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in 1990. In 1993, at the age of 25, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and was elected Mayor of the City of Melrose, a suburb of Boston, in 1998. The city gained national attention for its "civility initiative," which encouraged residents to show each other respect and courtesy. In May 2001, Patrick Guerriero became Deputy Chief of Staff to the first female Governor of the State of Massachusetts. In January 2002, Guerriero received national attention when he was invited to run for Lt. Governor, the first time in American history that an incumbent governor selected an openly gay politician as a running mate. In 2003, he became President of the Log Cabin Republicans, representing gay and lesbian civil rights within the Republican Party, speaking out for diversity, tolerance, and the need for inclusion in the Republican Party. The Log Cabin Republicans support civil marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
Hubertus Heil ('05-'06 participant)
Hubertus Heil is the recently elected (November 2005) Secretary General of the SPD. From 1994-1998, he was on the staff of the Potsdam Landtag from Brandenburg. Since 1998, Heil has been a Member of Parliament (MdB) from Brandenburg.
Hubertus Heil is the recently elected (November 2005) Secretary General of the SPD. From 1994-1998, he was on the staff of the Potsdam Landtag from Brandenburg. Since 1998, Heil has been a Member of Parliament (MdB) from Brandenburg.
Prof. Ronald Herring ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. Ronald Herring teaches political economy and political ecology at Cornell University. His earliest academic interests were with land relations; Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia (Yale University Press/Oxford University Press) won the Edgar Graham Prize (London 1986). Current work includes state property in nature, politics of genetically engineered organisms, and connections between economic development and ethnicity -- Carrots, Sticks and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance (University of Michigan Press, edited with Milton Esman). His political writings have appeared in Frontline, Times of India, Financial Express and other publications. Herring has been consultant to the US State Department, World Bank, UNDP, and other international organizations. He is currently Director/Convener of the Program on Nature and Development at Cornell University.
Prof. Ronald Herring teaches political economy and political ecology at Cornell University. His earliest academic interests were with land relations; Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia (Yale University Press/Oxford University Press) won the Edgar Graham Prize (London 1986). Current work includes state property in nature, politics of genetically engineered organisms, and connections between economic development and ethnicity -- Carrots, Sticks and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance (University of Michigan Press, edited with Milton Esman). His political writings have appeared in Frontline, Times of India, Financial Express and other publications. Herring has been consultant to the US State Department, World Bank, UNDP, and other international organizations. He is currently Director/Convener of the Program on Nature and Development at Cornell University.
Dagmar Herzog ('05-'06 participant)
Dagmar Herzog is Professor of Modern European History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specializes in courses on modern Europe, Germany and the Holocaust. She has published four books: Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton University Press 1996), Sexuality and German Fascism (Berghahn Press 2004), Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth Century Germany (Princeton University Press 2005), and an edited collection, Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Northwestern University Press 2006). She has two books in progress, “Sex before the Revolution: Sexual Morality, Christianity and the State in Transnational Perspective,” and “The Trouble with God: Secularization in the Twentieth Century”. Dagmar Herzog received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Brown University, and taught at Michigan State University before joining the faculty at CUNY.
Dagmar Herzog is Professor of Modern European History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she specializes in courses on modern Europe, Germany and the Holocaust. She has published four books: Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton University Press 1996), Sexuality and German Fascism (Berghahn Press 2004), Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth Century Germany (Princeton University Press 2005), and an edited collection, Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Northwestern University Press 2006). She has two books in progress, “Sex before the Revolution: Sexual Morality, Christianity and the State in Transnational Perspective,” and “The Trouble with God: Secularization in the Twentieth Century”. Dagmar Herzog received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Brown University, and taught at Michigan State University before joining the faculty at CUNY.
Prof. D. Sunshine Hillygus ('05-'06 participant)
Professor Hillygus joined the Harvard Department of Government in Fall 2003 after completing her Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University the previous June. At Harvard, she teaches courses on Campaigns and Elections, American Politics, Political Persuasion, as well as Survey Research Methods. She has published a number of articles and has a book forthcoming in 2006: The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization. In 2005, with T. Shields, she published "Moral Issues and Voter Decision Making in the 2004 Presidential Election," published in PS: Political Science and Politics (2005) and reprinted in Quantitative Methods in Practice (2006). The topic of her Ph.D. was "Understanding Receptivity to Political Campaigns: Three Essays on Voter Decision Making in Election 2000."
Professor Hillygus joined the Harvard Department of Government in Fall 2003 after completing her Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University the previous June. At Harvard, she teaches courses on Campaigns and Elections, American Politics, Political Persuasion, as well as Survey Research Methods. She has published a number of articles and has a book forthcoming in 2006: The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization. In 2005, with T. Shields, she published "Moral Issues and Voter Decision Making in the 2004 Presidential Election," published in PS: Political Science and Politics (2005) and reprinted in Quantitative Methods in Practice (2006). The topic of her Ph.D. was "Understanding Receptivity to Political Campaigns: Three Essays on Voter Decision Making in Election 2000."
Prof. Jacques Hymans ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. Jacques Hymans is Assistant Professor in the Smith College Department of Government. He is also an affiliate of the Center for European Studies and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both of Harvard University. Hymans' research focuses on international relations and foreign policy, with an emphasis on the growth and impact of collective identities. His first book was published in 2006, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy.
Prof. Jacques Hymans is Assistant Professor in the Smith College Department of Government. He is also an affiliate of the Center for European Studies and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both of Harvard University. Hymans' research focuses on international relations and foreign policy, with an emphasis on the growth and impact of collective identities. His first book was published in 2006, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy.
J. Mark Iwry ('05-'06 participant)
J. Mark Iwry, Senior Adviser to The Retirement Security Project, is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department (1995-2001), serving as the principal official responsible for tax policy and regulation relating to the nation's tax-qualified pension plans and other employee benefits. He also practices law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, specializing in pensions, compensation and benefits, is a Research Professor in Public Policy at Georgetown University, and serves as outside counsel to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on pensions. In addition, Iwry served on the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform, and serves on panels of experts advising the General Accounting Office, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and other public- and private-sector organizations on pensions and retirement savings. Iwry regularly advises Members of Congress, and his views are frequently reported in the major media and trade press. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
J. Mark Iwry, Senior Adviser to The Retirement Security Project, is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department (1995-2001), serving as the principal official responsible for tax policy and regulation relating to the nation's tax-qualified pension plans and other employee benefits. He also practices law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, specializing in pensions, compensation and benefits, is a Research Professor in Public Policy at Georgetown University, and serves as outside counsel to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) on pensions. In addition, Iwry served on the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform, and serves on panels of experts advising the General Accounting Office, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and other public- and private-sector organizations on pensions and retirement savings. Iwry regularly advises Members of Congress, and his views are frequently reported in the major media and trade press. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Prof. Peter Jelavich ('05-'06 participant)
Peter Jelavich Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), and Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006). He currently is writing a book on censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.
Peter Jelavich Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), and Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006). He currently is writing a book on censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.
Prof. Jennifer Jenkins ('06-'07 participant)
Jennifer Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siécle Hamburg (Cornell UP, 2003) and numerous articles. Her current projects focus on architecture, archaeology and public culture in twentieth-century Germany. An Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Berlin for 2007, she is working on a book exploring the cultural and political relationships between Germany and Iran from 1906 to 1979.
Jennifer Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siécle Hamburg (Cornell UP, 2003) and numerous articles. Her current projects focus on architecture, archaeology and public culture in twentieth-century Germany. An Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Berlin for 2007, she is working on a book exploring the cultural and political relationships between Germany and Iran from 1906 to 1979.
Ian Johnson ('05-'06 participant)
Ian Johnson is the bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Berlin, on leave in 2006-2007 as a Nieman Fellow, Harvard University. Johnson received a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement in China and has extensively covered immigration issues, Islam and the reaction to September 11 in Germany. Johnson is the author of Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (2004). His areas of specialization are Islam and migration. He has produced coverage of Mohammed Atta, the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell, the planning of the September 11 attacks, as well as the subsequent crackdown and tensions between American and German investigators. He is the author of A Mosque for the Taking (forthcoming) which describes the history of the Islamic Center of Munich and the Muslim Brotherhood's arrival in Europe.
Ian Johnson is the bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Berlin, on leave in 2006-2007 as a Nieman Fellow, Harvard University. Johnson received a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement in China and has extensively covered immigration issues, Islam and the reaction to September 11 in Germany. Johnson is the author of Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (2004). His areas of specialization are Islam and migration. He has produced coverage of Mohammed Atta, the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell, the planning of the September 11 attacks, as well as the subsequent crackdown and tensions between American and German investigators. He is the author of A Mosque for the Taking (forthcoming) which describes the history of the Islamic Center of Munich and the Muslim Brotherhood's arrival in Europe.
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff ('06-'07 participant)
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is the Washington Bureau Chief for the German newsweekly, Die Zeit. Recently he has published in the Washington Post and his work can be found on international blogs. He co-authored the book, Das System Leuna Wie Politiker gekauft werden. Warum die Justiz wegschaut (1992). He has also worked with the US Congress and written extensively on international politics, freedom of speech, and contemporary German politics.
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is the Washington Bureau Chief for the German newsweekly, Die Zeit. Recently he has published in the Washington Post and his work can be found on international blogs. He co-authored the book, Das System Leuna Wie Politiker gekauft werden. Warum die Justiz wegschaut (1992). He has also worked with the US Congress and written extensively on international politics, freedom of speech, and contemporary German politics.
Gerd Könen ('05-'06 participant)
Gerd Könen studied history and politics at the Universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt. In the 1960s, he was a member of SDS (German Socialist Student Union) and joined Maoist circles in the 1970s. He has worked as an editor, journalist, freelance writer, and academic assistant. Among his books are Die großen Gesänge—Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tsetung: Führerkulte und Kulturrevolution (1991); Utopie der Säuberung—was war der Kommunismus (1998); Das rote Jahrzehnt: Unsere kleine deutsche Kulturrevolution 1967–1977 (2001); and Vepser-Ennslin-Baader: Urszenen des deutschen Terrorismus (2003).
Gerd Könen studied history and politics at the Universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt. In the 1960s, he was a member of SDS (German Socialist Student Union) and joined Maoist circles in the 1970s. He has worked as an editor, journalist, freelance writer, and academic assistant. Among his books are Die großen Gesänge—Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tsetung: Führerkulte und Kulturrevolution (1991); Utopie der Säuberung—was war der Kommunismus (1998); Das rote Jahrzehnt: Unsere kleine deutsche Kulturrevolution 1967–1977 (2001); and Vepser-Ennslin-Baader: Urszenen des deutschen Terrorismus (2003).
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. Ruud Koopmans became director of the Research Unit on "Migration, Integration, and Transationalization," at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin in April 2007. He has been a senior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) at the Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau in Rijswijk and at the WZB. From 2003-2007, he was Professor of Sociology and Chair in Social Conflict and Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on immigration and integration politics and right-wing radicalism.
Prof. Ruud Koopmans became director of the Research Unit on "Migration, Integration, and Transationalization," at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin in April 2007. He has been a senior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) at the Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau in Rijswijk and at the WZB. From 2003-2007, he was Professor of Sociology and Chair in Social Conflict and Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on immigration and integration politics and right-wing radicalism.
John Kornblum ('06-'07 participant)
John Kornblum, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001, is Chairman of Lazard Freres in Germany and an AICGS Board Member. Kornblum was appointed Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian affairs in June 1994 and Assistant Secretary in 1996. During his service at the European Bureau he was one of the architects of the Dayton Peace Agreement and played a key role in developing the Administration's strategy for a new security structure in Europe. He is the author of The German Element, as well as of President Reagan’s 1986 speech in Berlin, 'Tear Down this Wall'. He also has published numerous articles in newspapers and journals.
John Kornblum, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001, is Chairman of Lazard Freres in Germany and an AICGS Board Member. Kornblum was appointed Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian affairs in June 1994 and Assistant Secretary in 1996. During his service at the European Bureau he was one of the architects of the Dayton Peace Agreement and played a key role in developing the Administration's strategy for a new security structure in Europe. He is the author of The German Element, as well as of President Reagan’s 1986 speech in Berlin, 'Tear Down this Wall'. He also has published numerous articles in newspapers and journals.
Prof. Stein Kuhnle ('06-'07 participant)
Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Welfare State Reform at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. He is also an honorary Adjunct Professor at the Center for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, since December 2005. He is the author and/or editor of 15 books. He has published on Scandinavian political development; history of statistics; Norwegian political science, but mostly on comparative welfare state development in Scandinavia, Europe and East-Southeast Asia.
Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Welfare State Reform at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. He is also an honorary Adjunct Professor at the Center for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, since December 2005. He is the author and/or editor of 15 books. He has published on Scandinavian political development; history of statistics; Norwegian political science, but mostly on comparative welfare state development in Scandinavia, Europe and East-Southeast Asia.
Sergey Lagodinsky ('05-'06 participant)
Sergey Lagodinsky is a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, as well as a PhD fellow in international law at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, global security, and international law. Lagodinsky holds a law degree from the University of Göttingen and a Masters degree in Public Administration (MPA) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His PhD research deals with issues of human rights, antidiscrimination, and security, focusing on the human rights and the global security implications of anti-Semitism.
Sergey Lagodinsky is a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, as well as a PhD fellow in international law at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, global security, and international law. Lagodinsky holds a law degree from the University of Göttingen and a Masters degree in Public Administration (MPA) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His PhD research deals with issues of human rights, antidiscrimination, and security, focusing on the human rights and the global security implications of anti-Semitism.
Enrique Sanches Lansch ('06-'07 participant)
Enrique Sanchez Lansch was born and raised in Gijon (Northern Spain) and Cologne. He had an extensive academic and artistic education in theater and music (including a career as an opera singer as well as a master's degree in Romance Philology, writing his master's thesis on film adaptation of literature). In the mid-90s he decided to focus exclusively on film. His work has taken him to Germany, Italy, France and Greece writing and directing films mostly on music, opera or ballet subjects. Since 2002 he has been Berlin-based working as a director and writer of feature films, both documentary and fiction. A selection of his films includes: Spanish Dances (1993), Winterreise (1994), Viol (1995), Piano en Double (2003), Rhythm is it! (2004), Nourouz (2004), Sing um dein Leben! (2005), Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee (2006). The theatrical documentary Rhythm is it! was awarded with the German Critics Award, the Bavarian Film Award and twice with the German Film Award.
Enrique Sanchez Lansch was born and raised in Gijon (Northern Spain) and Cologne. He had an extensive academic and artistic education in theater and music (including a career as an opera singer as well as a master's degree in Romance Philology, writing his master's thesis on film adaptation of literature). In the mid-90s he decided to focus exclusively on film. His work has taken him to Germany, Italy, France and Greece writing and directing films mostly on music, opera or ballet subjects. Since 2002 he has been Berlin-based working as a director and writer of feature films, both documentary and fiction. A selection of his films includes: Spanish Dances (1993), Winterreise (1994), Viol (1995), Piano en Double (2003), Rhythm is it! (2004), Nourouz (2004), Sing um dein Leben! (2005), Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee (2006). The theatrical documentary Rhythm is it! was awarded with the German Critics Award, the Bavarian Film Award and twice with the German Film Award.
Prof. Jonathan Laurence ('05-'06 participant)
Prof. Jonathan Laurence is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College. His principal areas of teaching and research are Comparative Politics, European Politics, and the integration of Muslims into European politics and society. His most recent publications include: Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (2006), co-authored with Justin Vaïsse; (editor and contributor) The French Council on the Muslim Religion, a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society (Spring 2005); "Managing Transnational Islam: Muslims and the State in Western Europe," in Parsons and Smeeding, eds., Immigration and The Transformation Of Europe (2006). Prof. Laurence is an Affiliated Scholar with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where he has also been a Visiting Fellow.
Prof. Jonathan Laurence is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College. His principal areas of teaching and research are Comparative Politics, European Politics, and the integration of Muslims into European politics and society. His most recent publications include: Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (2006), co-authored with Justin Vaïsse; (editor and contributor) The French Council on the Muslim Religion, a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society (Spring 2005); "Managing Transnational Islam: Muslims and the State in Western Europe," in Parsons and Smeeding, eds., Immigration and The Transformation Of Europe (2006). Prof. Laurence is an Affiliated Scholar with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where he has also been a Visiting Fellow.
Dr. Eloi Laurent ('06-'07 participant)
Eloi Laurent is an Economist and Research Fellow at the Observatoire Français des Conjunctures Economiques (OFCE) and Lecturer at the Institute for Political Studies, Paris. He is the co-author of Integrity and Efficiency in the EU: The Case Against the European Economic Constitution.
Eloi Laurent is an Economist and Research Fellow at the Observatoire Français des Conjunctures Economiques (OFCE) and Lecturer at the Institute for Political Studies, Paris. He is the co-author of Integrity and Efficiency in the EU: The Case Against the European Economic Constitution.
Jonathan Lehrich ('05-'06 participant)
Jonathan Lehrich is a radio announcer and producer for WHRB-FM and the Associate Director of the MIT Leadership Center. A graduate of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Chicago, he has produced several extended radio documentaries on historical themes. Recent productions have included "America and the Great Depression, 1929-1939," "The War Years: America 1939-1945" and "The Boom Years: America 1945-1963." Mr. Lehrich has taught at both the University of Chicago and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is currently responsible for both the day-to-day operations management of the MIT Leadership Center and its education and product development initiatives.
Jonathan Lehrich is a radio announcer and producer for WHRB-FM and the Associate Director of the MIT Leadership Center. A graduate of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Chicago, he has produced several extended radio documentaries on historical themes. Recent productions have included "America and the Great Depression, 1929-1939," "The War Years: America 1939-1945" and "The Boom Years: America 1945-1963." Mr. Lehrich has taught at both the University of Chicago and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is currently responsible for both the day-to-day operations management of the MIT Leadership Center and its education and product development initiatives.
Prof. Marco Leonardi ('06-'07 participant)
Marco Leonardi is Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Labor at the University of Milan. His research interests are in labor economics with particular reference to wage inequality and earnings mobility. He joined the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) as a Research Associate in September 2002 and became a Research Fellow in January 2004. In 2002, he was awarded the Young Economist Prize by the European Economic Association
Marco Leonardi is Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Labor at the University of Milan. His research interests are in labor economics with particular reference to wage inequality and earnings mobility. He joined the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) as a Research Associate in September 2002 and became a Research Fellow in January 2004. In 2002, he was awarded the Young Economist Prize by the European Economic Association
Prof. Johan Levy ('06-'07 participant)
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Levy's current research examines the relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe. He teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, West European politics, and social policy. His publications include: Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France; and "Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe," Politics and Society.
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Levy's current research examines the relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe. He teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, West European politics, and social policy. His publications include: Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France; and "Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe," Politics and Society.
Prof. David Little ('06-'07 participant)
David Little is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, as well as a Faculty Associate, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Little has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School since 1999. Before that he was senior scholar in religion, ethics and human rights at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996-1998 Little was on the State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. His work in recent years has taken him, as adviser and researcher, to areas of the world such as Sudan, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel in which religion and ethnicity play a central role in social conflict. He has written about nationalism, ethnicity, human rights, religious liberty, and religion and American foreign policy. His recent books include Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity, and Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy (coauthored).
David Little is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School, as well as a Faculty Associate, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Little has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School since 1999. Before that he was senior scholar in religion, ethics and human rights at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996-1998 Little was on the State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. His work in recent years has taken him, as adviser and researcher, to areas of the world such as Sudan, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel in which religion and ethnicity play a central role in social conflict. He has written about nationalism, ethnicity, human rights, religious liberty, and religion and American foreign policy. His recent books include Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity, and Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy (coauthored).
Prof. Charles S. Maier ('05-'06 participant)
Charles S Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies from 1994 to 2001. At Harvard, he teaches courses on World War I, global history since 1800, and approaches to international history. Maier is the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997); The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988); In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (1987); and Recasting Bourgeois Europe (1975, 1988). He has also edited several collaborative volumes on the politics of inflation, the Marshall Plan, and other themes. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors was published in April 2006. With Professors William Kirby and Sugata Bose, Maier is collaborating on a global history of the twentieth century and he continues research and writing on the history of territoriality. Maier did his B.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard.
Charles S Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies from 1994 to 2001. At Harvard, he teaches courses on World War I, global history since 1800, and approaches to international history. Maier is the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997); The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988); In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (1987); and Recasting Bourgeois Europe (1975, 1988). He has also edited several collaborative volumes on the politics of inflation, the Marshall Plan, and other themes. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors was published in April 2006. With Professors William Kirby and Sugata Bose, Maier is collaborating on a global history of the twentieth century and he continues research and writing on the history of territoriality. Maier did his B.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard.
Maleiha Malik ('06-'07 participant)
Maleiha Malik is a lecturer in law at King's College London. She is the author of Feminism and Muslim Women (Cambridge University Press, 2007. Before joining King's College as a Lecturer, she practiced as a barrister and she is a member of Gray's Inn. Maleiha Malik's research is concerned with anti-discrimination law and cultural pluralism issues, and she has written and contributed to many articles, chapters and essays on the legal and policy issues in this area.
Maleiha Malik is a lecturer in law at King's College London. She is the author of Feminism and Muslim Women (Cambridge University Press, 2007. Before joining King's College as a Lecturer, she practiced as a barrister and she is a member of Gray's Inn. Maleiha Malik's research is concerned with anti-discrimination law and cultural pluralism issues, and she has written and contributed to many articles, chapters and essays on the legal and policy issues in this area.
Seamus Malin ('05-'06 participant)
Seamus Malin's soccer broadcasting career began in 1957 as a contributor to Sport Magazine, a weekly radio program in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Harvard College, where he was the leading scorer and an All-Ivy League selection in 1960. He coached the Harvard collegiate team for fifteen years and then became a network TV broadcaster in the 1970s. In 1978, he called games for the New York Cosmos, until the team folded in 1985. Since then, he has covered the FIFA World Cups and Olympic Soccer Tournaments for ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS; Malin still calls major European matches for ESPN International. In fall 2005, Malin was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. At the same time, he received the Colin Jose Media Award, given to honor members of the media whose sports coverage is considered to be of exceptional and sustained quality. In addition to his sports career, Malin was for many years a high-level administrator and dean for Harvard University, and currently consults on college admissions.
Seamus Malin's soccer broadcasting career began in 1957 as a contributor to Sport Magazine, a weekly radio program in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Harvard College, where he was the leading scorer and an All-Ivy League selection in 1960. He coached the Harvard collegiate team for fifteen years and then became a network TV broadcaster in the 1970s. In 1978, he called games for the New York Cosmos, until the team folded in 1985. Since then, he has covered the FIFA World Cups and Olympic Soccer Tournaments for ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS; Malin still calls major European matches for ESPN International. In fall 2005, Malin was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. At the same time, he received the Colin Jose Media Award, given to honor members of the media whose sports coverage is considered to be of exceptional and sustained quality. In addition to his sports career, Malin was for many years a high-level administrator and dean for Harvard University, and currently consults on college admissions.
DJ Marius No. 1 ('06-'07 participant)
DJ Marius No. 1 became the DJ of Hamburg's first Hip-hop club, the Defcon 5 in 1988. He has also mixed and hosted the Norddeutscher Rundfunk's only Hip-hop show on the air for 16 years. His work as a DJ and producer of Cora E soon made him known in Germany. Gigs on uncounted numbers of jams followed during which Marius No.1 always used 2 turntables at a time when many DJs still scratched to Dats or CDs. It was also his steady contact to the scene that led to various remixes for bands such as Tobi+Bo (Fünf Sterne Deluxe), FAB (Immo und Ferris MC), Main Concept, and Too Strong.
DJ Marius No. 1 became the DJ of Hamburg's first Hip-hop club, the Defcon 5 in 1988. He has also mixed and hosted the Norddeutscher Rundfunk's only Hip-hop show on the air for 16 years. His work as a DJ and producer of Cora E soon made him known in Germany. Gigs on uncounted numbers of jams followed during which Marius No.1 always used 2 turntables at a time when many DJs still scratched to Dats or CDs. It was also his steady contact to the scene that led to various remixes for bands such as Tobi+Bo (Fünf Sterne Deluxe), FAB (Immo und Ferris MC), Main Concept, and Too Strong.
Prof. Andrei Markovits ('05-'06 participant)
Professor Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He received his BA and ph.d. from Columbia University in political science. In addition, he also studied economics, history, sociology, and business administration at Columbia receiving three Masters degrees from that university. Markovits has published 14 books and edited volumes, over 100 scholarly articles; and more than 50 review essays. His research and publications have focused on German and European labor, German and European social democracy and social movements, German-Jewish relations, Germany's role in the new Europe; anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Europe; and the comparative sociology of modern sports cultures. Among his publications is Offside : Soccer and American Exceptionalism (2001)/Im Abseits : Fussball in der amerikanischen Sporttkultur (2002). His publications have appeared in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Chinese, Farsi and Hebrew. Andrei Markovits will be the Gambrinus Visiting Professor for Sport and Soccer Studies at the University of Dortmund during the World Cup Tournament in June 2006.
Professor Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He received his BA and ph.d. from Columbia University in political science. In addition, he also studied economics, history, sociology, and business administration at Columbia receiving three Masters degrees from that university. Markovits has published 14 books and edited volumes, over 100 scholarly articles; and more than 50 review essays. His research and publications have focused on German and European labor, German and European social democracy and social movements, German-Jewish relations, Germany's role in the new Europe; anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Europe; and the comparative sociology of modern sports cultures. Among his publications is Offside : Soccer and American Exceptionalism (2001)/Im Abseits : Fussball in der amerikanischen Sporttkultur (2002). His publications have appeared in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Chinese, Farsi and Hebrew. Andrei Markovits will be the Gambrinus Visiting Professor for Sport and Soccer Studies at the University of Dortmund during the World Cup Tournament in June 2006.
Prof. Catherine Maternowska ('06-'07 participant)
Catherine Maternowska is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences, and of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, at the University of California San Francisco. She conducts original ethnographic research examining family planning and reproductive rights. Her research includes an examination of the impact of sexually transmitted infections, poor pre-natal care, and an absence of good obstetric services on the health of women living in poverty in urban California, Mexico, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania, where she currently resides. She is in Dar-es-Salaam working with the Muhimbili College of Health Sciences to build a collaboration on the reproductive heath of adolescents and HIV/AIDS. Her most recent publication is Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti (2006).
Catherine Maternowska is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences, and of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, at the University of California San Francisco. She conducts original ethnographic research examining family planning and reproductive rights. Her research includes an examination of the impact of sexually transmitted infections, poor pre-natal care, and an absence of good obstetric services on the health of women living in poverty in urban California, Mexico, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania, where she currently resides. She is in Dar-es-Salaam working with the Muhimbili College of Health Sciences to build a collaboration on the reproductive heath of adolescents and HIV/AIDS. Her most recent publication is Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti (2006).
Detlev Mehlis ('05-'06 participant)
Detlev Mehlis is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes. He has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. Most notably, he investigated the bombing on the discotheque La Belle in then West-Berlin in 1986, and uncovered the involvement of the Libyan intelligence service. He also proved the involvement of the terrorist Carlos in the attack on the French culture center, Maison de France, also in West-Berlin, in 1983. Since 1998, Mehlis has been the Chief of the Contact Office of the European Judiciary Network and Coordinator for the fight against organized crime in the State of Berlin. In 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Mehlis as the Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Mehlis report was presented to the Secretary General on October 20, 2005. It implicated Lebanese and Syrian Military Intelligence in the assassination, and it accused Syrian officials of misleading the investigation. A second report, submitted on December 10, 2005, upholds the conclusions from the first report.
Detlev Mehlis is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes. He has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. Most notably, he investigated the bombing on the discotheque La Belle in then West-Berlin in 1986, and uncovered the involvement of the Libyan intelligence service. He also proved the involvement of the terrorist Carlos in the attack on the French culture center, Maison de France, also in West-Berlin, in 1983. Since 1998, Mehlis has been the Chief of the Contact Office of the European Judiciary Network and Coordinator for the fight against organized crime in the State of Berlin. In 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Mehlis as the Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Mehlis report was presented to the Secretary General on October 20, 2005. It implicated Lebanese and Syrian Military Intelligence in the assassination, and it accused Syrian officials of misleading the investigation. A second report, submitted on December 10, 2005, upholds the conclusions from the first report.
Prof. Wolfgang Merkel ('05-'06 participant)
Wolfgang Merkel became the Director of the Research Unit, "Democracy, Structures, Performance, Challenges" at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung in 2004. He studied political science and international relations in Heidelberg and Bologna, and taught at the Universities of Bielefeld, Mainz and Heidelberg. He is now Professor of Political Science at Humboldt University. From 1989-1990, he was a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Harvard Center for European Studies, and served for eight years on the Kennedy Fellow screening committee, under the auspices of the DAAD. Since 2004, he has been the Deputy Chairman of the Review Board for the Social Sciences of the DFG; a member for the Basic Values Commission of the SPD; and a member of the Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. His research interests include political regimes, democracy and transformation; parties and party systems; comparative public policy, social justice, and the reform of the welfare state. Wolfgang Merkel has published ten books in the past eight years, on transformation and democracy in Italy, Spain, Germany and Asia.
Wolfgang Merkel became the Director of the Research Unit, "Democracy, Structures, Performance, Challenges" at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung in 2004. He studied political science and international relations in Heidelberg and Bologna, and taught at the Universities of Bielefeld, Mainz and Heidelberg. He is now Professor of Political Science at Humboldt University. From 1989-1990, he was a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Harvard Center for European Studies, and served for eight years on the Kennedy Fellow screening committee, under the auspices of the DAAD. Since 2004, he has been the Deputy Chairman of the Review Board for the Social Sciences of the DFG; a member for the Basic Values Commission of the SPD; and a member of the Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. His research interests include political regimes, democracy and transformation; parties and party systems; comparative public policy, social justice, and the reform of the welfare state. Wolfgang Merkel has published ten books in the past eight years, on transformation and democracy in Italy, Spain, Germany and Asia.
Prof. Glyn Morgan ('06-'07 participant)
Glyn Morgan is Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard. He is the author of The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration (2005) and Missionary Liberalism: Interventions towards Progress (forthcoming). Morgan's interests include contemporary political philosophy, modern social theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, theories of international relations, nationalism, federalism, and European integration. He is currently writing a book on "Just and Unjust Forms of Political Violence" and co-directing (with Margarita Estevez-Abe) a research project on Social Justice and the Varieties of Capitalism.
Glyn Morgan is Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard. He is the author of The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration (2005) and Missionary Liberalism: Interventions towards Progress (forthcoming). Morgan's interests include contemporary political philosophy, modern social theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, theories of international relations, nationalism, federalism, and European integration. He is currently writing a book on "Just and Unjust Forms of Political Violence" and co-directing (with Margarita Estevez-Abe) a research project on Social Justice and the Varieties of Capitalism.
Lt. Col. Suzanne C. Nielsen ('06-'07 participant)
Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne C. Nielsen is an Academy Professor and the Director of the International Relations and National Security Studies Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. She is responsible for all aspects of the international relations program and chairs the Academy's Scholarship Committee. Her dissertation, Preparing for War: the Dynamics of Peacetime Military Reform, is about the process of organizational change and particularly focuses on the transformation of the US army during the 1970's. Lt. Col. Nielsen is a military intelligence officer who has served in units in the Republic of Korea, Germany, and the United States. While commanding an intelligence company, she deployed her unit twice to Europe to support peace enforcement operations in Bosnia. A distinguished graduate from the United States Military Academy, she also holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne C. Nielsen is an Academy Professor and the Director of the International Relations and National Security Studies Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. She is responsible for all aspects of the international relations program and chairs the Academy's Scholarship Committee. Her dissertation, Preparing for War: the Dynamics of Peacetime Military Reform, is about the process of organizational change and particularly focuses on the transformation of the US army during the 1970's. Lt. Col. Nielsen is a military intelligence officer who has served in units in the Republic of Korea, Germany, and the United States. While commanding an intelligence company, she deployed her unit twice to Europe to support peace enforcement operations in Bosnia. A distinguished graduate from the United States Military Academy, she also holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte ('05-'06 participant)
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte is Chair for German and Comparative Public Law, Department of Public International Law and European Law, at the Institute for International Law of the University of Munich. Before coming to Munich, he was Professor and Dean for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Göttingen. Prof. Nolte has been a substitute member for Germany on the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) since 2000. Prof. Nolte is a Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Peace Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His publications include United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), edited with Michael Byers. Nolte did his first degree in law at the Free University Berlin, and his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg.
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte is Chair for German and Comparative Public Law, Department of Public International Law and European Law, at the Institute for International Law of the University of Munich. Before coming to Munich, he was Professor and Dean for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Göttingen. Prof. Nolte has been a substitute member for Germany on the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) since 2000. Prof. Nolte is a Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Peace Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His publications include United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), edited with Michael Byers. Nolte did his first degree in law at the Free University Berlin, and his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg.
Prof. Claus Offe ('06-'07 participant)
Claus Offe is Professor of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. He currently teaches "Theories of the State" in a joint professorship. He has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He has worked as researcher and visiting professor at (among others) the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York.
Claus Offe is Professor of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. He currently teaches "Theories of the State" in a joint professorship. He has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He has worked as researcher and visiting professor at (among others) the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York.
Prof. Daniel Philpot ('06-'07 participant)
Daniel Philpott is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In 2001, he published his first book, Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations. He is also the editor of the forthcoming book The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice. He currently studies the role of religion in global politics, particularly its effects on democratization, transitional justice, and peace settlements.
Daniel Philpott is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In 2001, he published his first book, Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations. He is also the editor of the forthcoming book The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice. He currently studies the role of religion in global politics, particularly its effects on democratization, transitional justice, and peace settlements.
Diana Pinto ('05-'06 participant)
Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris. A Senior Fellow of the London based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, she is now working on a project on "Jewish voices for the European res publica". The author of Entre deux mondes she has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent's pluralist challenges.
Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris. A Senior Fellow of the London based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, she is now working on a project on "Jewish voices for the European res publica". The author of Entre deux mondes she has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent's pluralist challenges.
Prof. Alexander Rehding ('06-'07 participant)
Alexander Rehding was born in Hamburg and received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1999. He is Professor of Music Theory at Harvard University and Graduate Advisor in Theory. His research is located at the intersection between history and theory, concentrating on German music and music theory between the 18th and 21st centuries. Rehding spent 2005-2006 as a Humboldt Foundation Scholar in Berlin, completing a study of monumentality in nineteenth-century German music. He is also co-editing an anthology entitled Riemann Perspectives: Historical and Theoretical Studies jointly with Edward Gollin for Oxford University Press.
Alexander Rehding was born in Hamburg and received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1999. He is Professor of Music Theory at Harvard University and Graduate Advisor in Theory. His research is located at the intersection between history and theory, concentrating on German music and music theory between the 18th and 21st centuries. Rehding spent 2005-2006 as a Humboldt Foundation Scholar in Berlin, completing a study of monumentality in nineteenth-century German music. He is also co-editing an anthology entitled Riemann Perspectives: Historical and Theoretical Studies jointly with Edward Gollin for Oxford University Press.
Prof. Louise Richardson ('06-'07 participant)
Louise Richardson is the Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; and Senior Lecturer in Government, and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. From 1989 to 2001, she was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Government at Harvard, specializing in international security. Richardson's academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements. In addition to her most recent books publication, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006); Richardson has published a number of journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on the subject of terrorism. She is also the editor of The Roots of Terrorism (2006) and a coeditor of Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (2006). Richardson's current research projects involve a study of patterns of terrorist violence and a study on counterterrorism lessons to be derived from earlier experiences with terrorism.
Louise Richardson is the Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; and Senior Lecturer in Government, and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. From 1989 to 2001, she was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Government at Harvard, specializing in international security. Richardson's academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist movements. In addition to her most recent books publication, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006); Richardson has published a number of journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on the subject of terrorism. She is also the editor of The Roots of Terrorism (2006) and a coeditor of Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (2006). Richardson's current research projects involve a study of patterns of terrorist violence and a study on counterterrorism lessons to be derived from earlier experiences with terrorism.
Dr. Jeffrey Richter ('05-'06 participant)
From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Jeffrey Richter led the Washington, D.C., chapter of Immigration Equality, which provides services on immigration matters of concern to gays and lesbians, including assistance to refugees seeking asylum as members of persecuted social groups. Recently successful asylum applicants included gay refugees from Iran and from parts of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Richter is also an Adjunct Instructor of History and Sociology at George Mason University and the author of a dissertation on postwar police reform and the regulation of public order and morality in postwar Germany. He is currently a historian with the United States Department of Justice. His office investigates allegations of participation in Holocaust crimes or other human rights violations committed under color of foreign law by individuals who later immigrated to the United States. Recently, his work has led to the denaturalization of former camp guards trained at the SS facility in Trawniki. Since the expansion of the Office of Special Investigations' jurisdiction in 2004, Dr. Richter has specialized in African cases, including the investigation of Rwandan genocidaires.
From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Jeffrey Richter led the Washington, D.C., chapter of Immigration Equality, which provides services on immigration matters of concern to gays and lesbians, including assistance to refugees seeking asylum as members of persecuted social groups. Recently successful asylum applicants included gay refugees from Iran and from parts of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Richter is also an Adjunct Instructor of History and Sociology at George Mason University and the author of a dissertation on postwar police reform and the regulation of public order and morality in postwar Germany. He is currently a historian with the United States Department of Justice. His office investigates allegations of participation in Holocaust crimes or other human rights violations committed under color of foreign law by individuals who later immigrated to the United States. Recently, his work has led to the denaturalization of former camp guards trained at the SS facility in Trawniki. Since the expansion of the Office of Special Investigations' jurisdiction in 2004, Dr. Richter has specialized in African cases, including the investigation of Rwandan genocidaires.
Dr. Olivier Roy ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. Olivier Roy is Research Director in the Humanities and Social Science section of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and has been a consultant to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1984. Dr. Roy is a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes sn Sciences Sociales and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He was Special Representative of the OSCE in Tajikistan, 1993-1994, and headed the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan in 1994. He is the author of many books and articles including Les illusions du 11 septembre (2002); Islamist Networks: The Pakistan-Afghan Connection (with M. A. Zahab) (2003); The Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (2004); and La Laïcité face à l'Islam (2005). Dr. Roy completed the Aggregation in 1972; the MA in Persian Language and Civilization from the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales (1972); and the ph.d. in Political Science at Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1996).
Dr. Olivier Roy is Research Director in the Humanities and Social Science section of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and has been a consultant to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1984. Dr. Roy is a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes sn Sciences Sociales and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He was Special Representative of the OSCE in Tajikistan, 1993-1994, and headed the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan in 1994. He is the author of many books and articles including Les illusions du 11 septembre (2002); Islamist Networks: The Pakistan-Afghan Connection (with M. A. Zahab) (2003); The Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (2004); and La Laïcité face à l'Islam (2005). Dr. Roy completed the Aggregation in 1972; the MA in Persian Language and Civilization from the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales (1972); and the ph.d. in Political Science at Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1996).
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider ('05-'06 participant)
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider is Otto-Wolff-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin. He concurrently holds the chair for Chinese Politics and International Relations at the Free University Berlin, where he also directs the Center for Chinese and East Asian Politics. Prof. Sandschneider's research focuses on Chinese politics, transition processes and international relations in the Asia Pacific. He has written and edited numerous books and has contributed many articles pertaining to Chinese or East Asian politics, international relations in the Asia Pacific, system transformations, and democratization as well as the influence of international politics on domestic political development. His latest publications include The Study of Modern China, Hurst, 1999, and Chinese Cyberspaces. Technological Changes and Political Effects, Routledge 2003. Prof. Sandschneider studied at the Saar University in Saarbrücken.
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider is Otto-Wolff-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin. He concurrently holds the chair for Chinese Politics and International Relations at the Free University Berlin, where he also directs the Center for Chinese and East Asian Politics. Prof. Sandschneider's research focuses on Chinese politics, transition processes and international relations in the Asia Pacific. He has written and edited numerous books and has contributed many articles pertaining to Chinese or East Asian politics, international relations in the Asia Pacific, system transformations, and democratization as well as the influence of international politics on domestic political development. His latest publications include The Study of Modern China, Hurst, 1999, and Chinese Cyberspaces. Technological Changes and Political Effects, Routledge 2003. Prof. Sandschneider studied at the Saar University in Saarbrücken.
Sophia Schlette ('06-'07 participant)
Sophia Schlette has been the Project Director for the Bertelsmann Stiftung for the planning and coordination of the International Network Health Policy & Reform since February 2002. She also serves as a coordinator of the Foundation's health policy cluster, combining activities within the Health Program and across the foundation. She continues short-term consultancies in Austria, Armenia, China, and Colombia on behalf of GTZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation), WHO, ILO and the European Commission, planning or evaluating projects on a wide range of issues (health sector reform, health & human resources, social health insurance, organizational development, applied epidemiology and management, AIDS prevention).
Sophia Schlette has been the Project Director for the Bertelsmann Stiftung for the planning and coordination of the International Network Health Policy & Reform since February 2002. She also serves as a coordinator of the Foundation's health policy cluster, combining activities within the Health Program and across the foundation. She continues short-term consultancies in Austria, Armenia, China, and Colombia on behalf of GTZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation), WHO, ILO and the European Commission, planning or evaluating projects on a wide range of issues (health sector reform, health & human resources, social health insurance, organizational development, applied epidemiology and management, AIDS prevention).
Prof. Ronnie Schoeb ('06-'07 participant)
Ronnie Schoeb is a Professor of Economics at Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg. Professor Schoeb specializes in optimal taxation and tax reform analysis, taxation and labor markets, reform of the welfare state, environmental and resource economics, public economics and microeconomics in general.
Ronnie Schoeb is a Professor of Economics at Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg. Professor Schoeb specializes in optimal taxation and tax reform analysis, taxation and labor markets, reform of the welfare state, environmental and resource economics, public economics and microeconomics in general.
Prof. Tony Smith ('05-'06 and '06-'07 participant)
Prof. Tony Smith is Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science, Tufts University. His published works include A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise (2007); The French Stake in Algeria (1978); The Pattern of Imperialism (1987); and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy (2000). His work has been published in many professional journals.
Prof. Tony Smith is Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science, Tufts University. His published works include A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise (2007); The French Stake in Algeria (1978); The Pattern of Imperialism (1987); and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy (2000). His work has been published in many professional journals.
Prof. Levent Soysal ('06-'07 participant)
Levent Soysal completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Before joining the Department of Communication at Kadir Has University, where he was the founding Chair of the Department, he held positions in Berlin and New York. Soysal's topics of research and teaching include the City; Globalization and the Metropolis; Transnationalism, Youth, and Migration; Spectacle and Performance; and Theories of Culture, Representation, and Media. His current research, entitled 'WorldCity Berlin and the Spectacles of Identity: Public Events, Immigrants, and the Politics of Performance,' concerns the changing meaning and constitution of public events and the performance of identity. Soysal has published articles in New German Critique, Cultural Dynamics, and The South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as in edited volumes. His recent publications include: "Rap, Hip-hop, Kreuzberg: Scripts of/for Migrant Youth Culture in the WorldCity Berlin," forthcoming in New German Critique.
Levent Soysal completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Before joining the Department of Communication at Kadir Has University, where he was the founding Chair of the Department, he held positions in Berlin and New York. Soysal's topics of research and teaching include the City; Globalization and the Metropolis; Transnationalism, Youth, and Migration; Spectacle and Performance; and Theories of Culture, Representation, and Media. His current research, entitled 'WorldCity Berlin and the Spectacles of Identity: Public Events, Immigrants, and the Politics of Performance,' concerns the changing meaning and constitution of public events and the performance of identity. Soysal has published articles in New German Critique, Cultural Dynamics, and The South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as in edited volumes. His recent publications include: "Rap, Hip-hop, Kreuzberg: Scripts of/for Migrant Youth Culture in the WorldCity Berlin," forthcoming in New German Critique.
Riem Spielhaus ('06-'07 participant)
Riem Spielhaus Riem Spielhaus was a founding member of the Muslim Academy in Berlin. She is completing her doctorate in Islamic Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Research at Humboldt University. Her publications focus on the religious and cultural identity of Muslims in Germany, as well as issues of integration, women's rights and inter-cultural discourse.
Riem Spielhaus Riem Spielhaus was a founding member of the Muslim Academy in Berlin. She is completing her doctorate in Islamic Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Research at Humboldt University. Her publications focus on the religious and cultural identity of Muslims in Germany, as well as issues of integration, women's rights and inter-cultural discourse.
Toralf Staud ('05-'06 and '06-'07 participant)
Toralf Staud worked on the information paper of Neues Forum in 1989/1990, and was one of the founders of the newspaper Altmark Zeitung in 1991. From 1991-1998, he studied in Leipzig and Edinburgh, and then became a freelancer for AP, MDR, Sächsische Zeitung, Neues Deutschland, die tageszeitung, and Die Zeit. From 1998-2005, he was Political Editor of Die Zeit, first in Hamburg, and then in Berlin. For two years, he wrote for Greenpeace-Magazin. Staud has published three books: Auf dem Moped in die Freiheit - Wendegeschichten aus der Altmark (2000), Moderne Nazis. Die neuen Rechten und der Aufstieg der NPD (2005), and Wir Klimaretter - so ist die Wende noch zu schaffen (2007).
Toralf Staud worked on the information paper of Neues Forum in 1989/1990, and was one of the founders of the newspaper Altmark Zeitung in 1991. From 1991-1998, he studied in Leipzig and Edinburgh, and then became a freelancer for AP, MDR, Sächsische Zeitung, Neues Deutschland, die tageszeitung, and Die Zeit. From 1998-2005, he was Political Editor of Die Zeit, first in Hamburg, and then in Berlin. For two years, he wrote for Greenpeace-Magazin. Staud has published three books: Auf dem Moped in die Freiheit - Wendegeschichten aus der Altmark (2000), Moderne Nazis. Die neuen Rechten und der Aufstieg der NPD (2005), and Wir Klimaretter - so ist die Wende noch zu schaffen (2007).
Sybille Steinbacher ('05-'06 participant)
Since 2005, Sybille Steinbacher has been Assistant Professor of Modern History at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. She studied Modern History at the University of Munich and at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 1999-2002, she was a researcher for the Independent Historical Commission investigating the history of the Bertelsmann firm during the Third Reich. In 2004-2005, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies. Dr. Steinbacher has published articles and books on the social life and history of the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz: Geschichte und Nachgeschichte in 2004; in 2005, it was translated and published into English, Dutch, and Italian. Her current research is on the social history of West Germany’s Post-War “Sexual Revolution.”.
Since 2005, Sybille Steinbacher has been Assistant Professor of Modern History at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. She studied Modern History at the University of Munich and at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 1999-2002, she was a researcher for the Independent Historical Commission investigating the history of the Bertelsmann firm during the Third Reich. In 2004-2005, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for European Studies. Dr. Steinbacher has published articles and books on the social life and history of the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz: Geschichte und Nachgeschichte in 2004; in 2005, it was translated and published into English, Dutch, and Italian. Her current research is on the social history of West Germany’s Post-War “Sexual Revolution.”.
Dr. Guido Steinberg ('05-'06 and '06-'07 participant)
Guido Steinberg is a research associate specializing in Middle East and Gulf Affairs at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin and a lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Free University. An Islamist and Middle East Historian by training, he has worked as a research coordinator at the Free University Berlin (2001) and as an advisor on international terrorism in the German Federal Chancellery (2002-2005). His current focus is on insurgency and state-building in Iraq, development of al-Qaeda after 2001, and the Zarqawi network. He is a frequent expert witness in German terrorism trials and has published widely on the Middle East, Saudi Arabian and Iraqi History and Politics, the Wahhabiya, and Islamism and Terrorism, including most recently: The Near and the Far Enemy: Islamist Terrorist Networks (2005); The Iraqi Insurgency: Actors, Strategies, and Structures (2006).
Guido Steinberg is a research associate specializing in Middle East and Gulf Affairs at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin and a lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Free University. An Islamist and Middle East Historian by training, he has worked as a research coordinator at the Free University Berlin (2001) and as an advisor on international terrorism in the German Federal Chancellery (2002-2005). His current focus is on insurgency and state-building in Iraq, development of al-Qaeda after 2001, and the Zarqawi network. He is a frequent expert witness in German terrorism trials and has published widely on the Middle East, Saudi Arabian and Iraqi History and Politics, the Wahhabiya, and Islamism and Terrorism, including most recently: The Near and the Far Enemy: Islamist Terrorist Networks (2005); The Iraqi Insurgency: Actors, Strategies, and Structures (2006).
Dr. Paul Stoop ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. Stoop is Head of the Information and Communications Department of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. From 1990-1999, Paul Stoop was a Member of the editorial board of the Berlin Tagesspiegel, and a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University from1994-1995. Prior to joining the WZB in fall 2005, Dr. Stoop was Program Manager and Deputy Director of the American Academy in Berlin. He studied political science and history at the University of Bonn and Vrije University Amsterdam.
Dr. Stoop is Head of the Information and Communications Department of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. From 1990-1999, Paul Stoop was a Member of the editorial board of the Berlin Tagesspiegel, and a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University from1994-1995. Prior to joining the WZB in fall 2005, Dr. Stoop was Program Manager and Deputy Director of the American Academy in Berlin. He studied political science and history at the University of Bonn and Vrije University Amsterdam.
Prof. Annette Toeller ('06-'07 participant)
Annette Toeller is a political scientist and Assistant Professor at the Helmut-Schmidt-University of The Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches courses on public administration, German and comparative politics, environmental policy and European integration.
Annette Toeller is a political scientist and Assistant Professor at the Helmut-Schmidt-University of The Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches courses on public administration, German and comparative politics, environmental policy and European integration.
Prof. Dr. John Torpey ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. John Torpey is the author or editor of six books: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (University of Minnesota Press, 1995); The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2000; translated into Portuguese with a Japanese translation in process); Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (edited with Jane Caplan; Princeton University Press, 2001); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (editor; Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (Verso, 2005), and Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2005). His work has appeared in Theory and Society, Sociological Theory, Journal of Modern History, Genèses: Sciences sociales et histoir, Journal of Human Rights, Telos, and New German Critique, among others. He has also published articles and book reviews in Dissent, Contexts, OpenDemocracy, Frankfurter Rundschau, The Nation, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has held fellowships with the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, the German Marshall Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the European University Institute (Florence), and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the editor of the series "Politics, History, and Social Change," published by Temple University Press. Before coming to CUNY, he taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. John Torpey is the author or editor of six books: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (University of Minnesota Press, 1995); The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2000; translated into Portuguese with a Japanese translation in process); Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (edited with Jane Caplan; Princeton University Press, 2001); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (editor; Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (Verso, 2005), and Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2005). His work has appeared in Theory and Society, Sociological Theory, Journal of Modern History, Genèses: Sciences sociales et histoir, Journal of Human Rights, Telos, and New German Critique, among others. He has also published articles and book reviews in Dissent, Contexts, OpenDemocracy, Frankfurter Rundschau, The Nation, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has held fellowships with the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, the German Marshall Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the European University Institute (Florence), and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the editor of the series "Politics, History, and Social Change," published by Temple University Press. Before coming to CUNY, he taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Irvine.
Prof. Frank Trentmann ('06-'07 participant)
Prof. Frank Trentmann is the program director of the Cultures of Consumption research program at the University of London. He is a professor in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He has also taught at Princeton University and Bielefeld University. Frank Trentmann's work has focused on citizenship and consumption, civil society, and political culture. Recent publications include Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 (2007); Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars (2006); Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (2006).
Prof. Frank Trentmann is the program director of the Cultures of Consumption research program at the University of London. He is a professor in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He has also taught at Princeton University and Bielefeld University. Frank Trentmann's work has focused on citizenship and consumption, civil society, and political culture. Recent publications include Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1860-1950 (2007); Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars (2006); Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (2006).
Dr. Judith Eisenberg Vichniac ('05-'06 participant)
Dr. Judith Eisenberg Vichniac is a Political Scientist. Vichniac is Director of the Radcliffe Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. She has taught courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century social theory, the political development of Western Europe, political sociology, and history and memory. Her published works include The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Industries, 1860-1918 (1990) and "Religious Toleration and Jewish Emancipation in France and Germany," in Democracy, Revolution and History (T. Skocpol et al., eds., 1998), a Festschrift in honor of Barrington Moore, Jr.
Dr. Judith Eisenberg Vichniac is a Political Scientist. Vichniac is Director of the Radcliffe Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. She has taught courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century social theory, the political development of Western Europe, political sociology, and history and memory. Her published works include The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Industries, 1860-1918 (1990) and "Religious Toleration and Jewish Emancipation in France and Germany," in Democracy, Revolution and History (T. Skocpol et al., eds., 1998), a Festschrift in honor of Barrington Moore, Jr.
Evan Wolfson ('05-'06 participant)
Evan Wolfson is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Wolfson graduated from Yale College in 1978, served in the Peace Corps in Togo. West Africa, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983, and taught political philosophy at Harvard. He was Associate Counsel to Lawrence Walsh in the Iran/Contra investigation. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Wolfson served as marriage project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, and was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case, Baehr v. Milke, which launched the current nationwide debate. He also contributed legal support to Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court ruling that led to the creation of civil unions, a new legal marital status for same-sex couples, and to the legal team in Goodridge v. Department of Health, which led to marriage equality in Massachusetts. In 2000, he was the first Lambda attorney to argue before the United States Supreme Court, challenging discrimination by the Boy Scouts of America. In 2000, the National Law Journal honored Evan Wolfson's civil rights leadership by naming him one of "the 100 most influential attorneys in America." In 2004, Wolfson was named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of "the 100 most influential people in the world." His first book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Rights to Marry, was published in 2004.
Evan Wolfson is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Wolfson graduated from Yale College in 1978, served in the Peace Corps in Togo. West Africa, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983, and taught political philosophy at Harvard. He was Associate Counsel to Lawrence Walsh in the Iran/Contra investigation. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Wolfson served as marriage project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, and was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case, Baehr v. Milke, which launched the current nationwide debate. He also contributed legal support to Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court ruling that led to the creation of civil unions, a new legal marital status for same-sex couples, and to the legal team in Goodridge v. Department of Health, which led to marriage equality in Massachusetts. In 2000, he was the first Lambda attorney to argue before the United States Supreme Court, challenging discrimination by the Boy Scouts of America. In 2000, the National Law Journal honored Evan Wolfson's civil rights leadership by naming him one of "the 100 most influential attorneys in America." In 2004, Wolfson was named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of "the 100 most influential people in the world." His first book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Rights to Marry, was published in 2004.
Klaus Zimmerman ('05-'06 participant)
Klaus Zimmermann is President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. In addition, he is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn as well as Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University Berlin He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He also serves as an advisor to the President of the EU Commission and is a member of the working group on World Bank Labor Market Strategy. Zimmermann studied economics and statistics at the University of Mannheim, where he also received his doctoral degree and habilitation. Previously, he was a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Munich, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics. While in Munich, he was also Director of the SELAPO Center for Human Resources. Zimmermann has published extensively on the subject of labor economics, population economics, migration, and industrial organization.
Klaus Zimmermann is President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. In addition, he is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn as well as Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University Berlin He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He also serves as an advisor to the President of the EU Commission and is a member of the working group on World Bank Labor Market Strategy. Zimmermann studied economics and statistics at the University of Mannheim, where he also received his doctoral degree and habilitation. Previously, he was a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Munich, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics. While in Munich, he was also Director of the SELAPO Center for Human Resources. Zimmermann has published extensively on the subject of labor economics, population economics, migration, and industrial organization.
Prof. Michael Zürn ('06-'07 participant)
Michael Zürn is Dean of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin as well as the Director of the Research Unit "International Institutions and Conflicts" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). In 1994, he was appointed the Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen. Until 2004, Zürn was Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent major publications include: "Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation State", European Journal of International Relations (2000), "European Law and International Regimes: The Features of Law Beyond the Nation," State European Law Journal (1999), and Governing beyond the Nation State (1998).
Michael Zürn is Dean of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin as well as the Director of the Research Unit "International Institutions and Conflicts" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). In 1994, he was appointed the Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen. Until 2004, Zürn was Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent major publications include: "Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation State", European Journal of International Relations (2000), "European Law and International Regimes: The Features of Law Beyond the Nation," State European Law Journal (1999), and Governing beyond the Nation State (1998).