Faculty FellowsSearchable listSamuel Amago (PhD, University of Virginia, 2003) Geographic focus: Spain Thematic interests: Peninsular Spanish cultural studies; contemporary Spanish fiction and cinema; Immigration, transnationalism and globalization in contemporary European cinemas. Selected publications: True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006). “Why Spaniards Make a Good Bad Guys: Sergi López and the Persistence of the Black Legend in Contemporary European Cinema.” Film Criticism 30.1 (2005): 41-63. “Horror and Ambivalence in Tesis: Alejandro Amenábar’s Reflections on the Postmodern Condition.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38 (2004): 143-58.
Thomas Anderson (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998) Geographic focus: Latin America (Caribbean) Thematic interests: Hispanic Caribbean literature; postrevolutionary Cuban fiction. Selected publications: Articles on Gabriel García Márquez, Virgilio Piñera, and Reinaldo Arenas. Forthcoming: The Damned Circumstance of Being Human: Anguished Minds, Bodies, and Souls in the Works of Virgilio Piñera.
R. Scott Appleby (PhD, University of Chicago, 1985) Geographic focus: United States and comparative (Middle East, South Asia) Thematic interests: Comparative religion and politics; roots of religious violence; role of religion in peacebuilding; Roman Catholicism in international affairs. Current research: American Catholic history and world fundamentalism. Selected publications: Author, "Church and Age Unite!" The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism (Notre Dame, 1992); coauthor, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (Beacon Press, 1992); coeditor, The Fundamentalism Project (University of Chicago Press, 1992–95, five volumes).
Rev. Ernest Bartell, csc - Emeritus (PhD, Princeton University, 1966) Geographic focus: Latin America Thematic interests: Economic development; Catholic social teaching; economics of education. Current research: Economic development, particularly in Latin America, and the economics of education; the private sector and democracy in Chile and Brazil. Selected publications: Co-editor, The Child in Latin America, (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000); Co-editor, Business and Democracy in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994); “John Paul II and International Development,” in O. Williams and J. Houck, eds., The Making of an Economic Vision (1991); “Private Goods, Public Goods and the Common Good: Another Look at Economics and Ethics in Catholic Social Teaching,” in J. Houck and O. Williams, eds., The Challenge of the Common Good to U.S. Capitalism (University Press of America, 1986); “The United States and Third World Poor in the International Economy: Some Economic and Ethical Issues,” in J. Houck and O. Williams, eds., Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy (1982); and Catholic Higher Education: Trends in Enrollment and Finance (1982).
Viva Bartkus (DPhil, University of Oxford, 1993) Geographic focus: International, including countries facing secessionist conflicts Thematic interests: Business, science and government policy in the context of international relations. Selected publications: Dynamic of Secession (Cambridge University Press).
Edward Beatty (PhD, Stanford University, 1996) Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico) Thematic interests: Mexican economy; political basis of industrialization in Mexico; comparative socioeconomic development. Selected publications: Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911 (Stanford University Press, 2001); "The Impact of Foreign Trade on the Mexican Economy: Terms of Trade and the Rise of Industry 1880-1923," Journal of Latin American Studies 32 (2).
Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1981) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: International trade flows; free trade agreements; exchange rates and international finance; open-economy macroeconomics. Selected publications: "Trade Costs and Intra-Industry Trade," Review of World Economics (2005); "Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements," Journal of International Economics (2004); "Government Expenditure and Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates," Journal of International Money and Finance (2002); "The Growth of World Trade: Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity," Journal of International Economics (February 2001); "International Trade in Services, Regional Free Trade Agreements and the WTO," in Services in the International Economy (University of Michigan Press, 2001). Working Papers: #290 (January 2002) On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements, with Scott L. Baier.
Susan D. Blum (PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994) Geographic focus: Asia (China) Thematic interests: Linguistic anthropology, multilingualism, deception and truth, ethnicity and nationalism, cultural anthropology, food and culture, and social theory. Selected publications: Deception and Truth: Reflections of an American Anthropologist in China (forthcoming); China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002); Portraits of "Primitives:" Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001).
Patricio Boyer (PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University) Geographic Focus: Spain, the Americas Thematic interests: Literature of the Americas; Colonial Latin American Chronicles; Postcolonial Literature. Selected Publications: Empire and American Visions of the Humane: The Pursuit of the Ethical in Anglo-American and Latin American Literature (Yale, 2006)
Allert Brown-Gort (MA, University of Texas at Austin, 1998) Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Southern Cone) Thematic interests: Role of culture in shaping values and political systems; civil service reform; political views of Mexican nationals in the United States. Current research: A national qualitative study of the opinions of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American communities on immigration issues, including the creation of a new guest-worker program, the possibility for amnesty for undocumented workers, and possible political consequences; an Inter-American project on civil service reform.
Jorge A. Bustamante (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1975) Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico) Thematic interests: International migration; border settlements; Mexico-US migration. Current research: President and founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Notre, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues. Selected publications: Numerous studies on the sociology of the border region between the United States and Mexico and on Mexican-origin residents of the United States.
Gilberto Cárdenas (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1977) Geographic focus: US-Mexico border Thematic interests: International migration; border studies; links between Latino communities in the United States and countries of origin. Selected publications: Loz Mojados: The Wetback Story (with Julian Samora and Jorge Bustamante), an oft-cited and seminal text in Latino scholarship. More than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and as chapters in books.
Paolo G. Carozza (JD, Harvard Law School, 1989) Geographic focus: International; Latin America; Europe Thematic interests: International law, comparative legal cultures, jurisprudence Current research: Human rights and the constitutionalization of Europe; intellectual history of human rights in Latin America; universality and pluralism in international human rights law; uses of foreign and comparative law in human rights adjudication. Recent publications: "The Charter and the Member States," in The European Charter of Fundamental Rights: Context and Possibilities (Steven Peers & Angela Ward eds., Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2003); "Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law," 97 American Journal of International Law 38 (2003); "'My Friend is a Stranger': The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights," 81 Texas Law Review 1031 (2003); "From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights" 25 Human Rights Quarterly 281 (2003); Co-author of Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell (2nd Edition)(West Publishing, 1999).
Douglass Cassel (JD Harvard University) Geographic Focus: Latin America (El Salvador) Thematic interests: international human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law. Research Interest: Strengthen the Inter-American system for protection of human rights; ensuring respect for human rights in counterterrorism programs. Recent publications: “Equal Labor Rights for Undocumented Migrant Workers,” in Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers: Essays in Honor of Joan Fitzpatrick And Arthur Helton, Anne Bayefsky ed. (Martinus Nijhoff forthcoming 2005); “The Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” in Reparations for Gross Violations of HumanRights, S. Vandegiste and Stephan Parmentier eds. (Intersentia forthcoming 2005); and “NATO In Kosovo: A Reply to Jurgen Habermas,” in Debating Kosovo: Contending Perspectives on the Left, Danny Postel, ed. (Cybereditions forthcoming 2005).
Michael Coppedge (PhD, Yale University, 1988) Geographic focus: Latin America (Venezuela, Andean countries); cross-regional Thematic interests: Democratization, quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics. Current research: The conditions that promote stable democracy, especially in Latin America, and the factors that have shaped party systems in eleven Latin American countries, employing both case studies and large-N quantitative analysis. Selected publications: Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partriarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (Stanford University Press, 1994), "Popular Sovereignty versus Liberal Democracy in Venezuela," in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), "Latin American Parties: Political Darwinism in the Lost Decade," in Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther, eds., Political Parties and Democracy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001), pp. 173-205, "Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories: Combining Large N and Small in Comparative Politics," Comparative Politics 31:4 (July 1999): 465-76, "The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems," Party Politics 4:4 (October 1998): 547-68. Numerous articles on comparative and Latin American politics in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Democracy, Party Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, among others. Working Papers: #268 (June 1999) Conservative Representation Without Conservative Parties; #244 (November 1997) Classification of Latin American Political Parties; #294 (April 2002) Venezuela: Popular Sovereignty versus Liberal Democracy.
Roberto A. DaMatta - Emeritus (PhD, Harvard University, 1971) Geographic focus : Latin America (Brazil) Thematic interests : Social and cultural anthropology; national rituals, ceremonies, and myths; tribal political structures, myths, and ritual symbolism. Selected Publications: Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma (Notre Dame Press); A Divided World: Apinayé Social Structure (Harvard University Press); The Brazilian Puzzle (with David Hess, Columbia University Press); Aguias, Burros e Borboletas: Um Estudo Antropologico do Jogo do Bicho (Eagles, Donkeys and Butterflies) (with Elena Soarez, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rocco, 1999); "Estado e Sociedade e a Casa e a Rua" (State and Society and the House and Street), in Revisão do Paraíso: Os Brasileiros e o Estado em 500 anos de História, ed. Mary Del Priori (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Campus, 2000); "Back to Tristes Tropiques: Notes on Levi-Strauss and Brazil," in Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture (Dartmouth, 2001).
Kirk Doran (PhD, Princeton University) Geographic focus: International, Mexico Thematic interests: Labor economics, development economics, applied microeconomics. Current research: Applied microeconomics with a focus on labor markets, developing economies, and behavioral labor supply. How substitution of adult labor for child labor in rural Mexico can mitigate welfare losses from a ban on child labor.
Rev. Robert Dowd, csc (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003) Geographic focus: Africa Thematic interests: African politics; religion and politics; ethnic conflict and peace building; political parties and party systems; comparative democratization. Selected publication: "Muslim Women, Political Discourse and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa," Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).
Amitava Krishna Dutt (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983) Geographic focus: Asia and developing countries Thematic interests: Growth and income distribution; development; trade; political economy; post-Keynesian macroeconomics. Current research: Uneven development and North-South trade; post-Keynesian models of growth and income distribution; macroeconomics of development; microbehavior, social interaction, and macro outcomes. Selected publications: Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in Honor of Lance Taylor (coeditor, Edward Elgar, 2003); Technology transfers, convergence and uneven development, Decision, 27(1), January-June, 2000, 59-86; Consumption, Happiness and Religion in A. K. Dutt and K. Jameson, eds., Crossing the Mainstream: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Economics, (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001); Globalization and its social discontents: The case of India (with J. Mohan Rao), in Lance Taylor, ed., The Social Effects of Globalization, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); Demand and Wage Goods Constraints in Agriculture-Industry Interaction in Less Developed Economies, in Amitava Bose, Debraj Ray and Abhirup Sarkar, eds., Contemporary Macroeconomics, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, 93-127); The Political Economy of Development: An Introduction, in A. K. Dutt, ed., The Politicial Economy of Development, 3 volumes, (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2002).
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo (PhD, Institut Catholique de Paris, 1978) Geographic focus: US-Mexican border region, Latin America Thematic interests: Mestizo Christianity; mestizaje theology; liberation theology; evangelization; faith and spirituality; culture and public ritual. Selected publications: The Way of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in the Americas (editor, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); San Fernando Cathedral: Soul of the City (authored with Tim Matovina, 1998); Galilean Journey: The Mexican American Promise (in its eighth edition, Orbis Press, 2000); The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet (sixth edition, Colorado Press, 2000); Guadalupe: Mother of the New Creation (ORBIS), Beyond Borders: The Writings of Virgilio Elizondo and Friends by Tim Matovina, (ORBIS), Abre tu Biblia (MACC, San Antonio) a 26-part video series introduction to the spirituality of the Bible (in Spanish).
Georges Enderle (Dr. rer. pol., University of Fribourg, 1982; Dr. habil., University of St. Gallen, 1986) Geographic focus: Continental Europe; China and Pacific Rim Thematic interests: Business ethics; comparative studies of economic ethics; ethics in international relations. Selected publications: Coeditor and author of numerous volumes, including Improving Globalization (coeditor, Editora FGV, 2004); Business Students Focus on Ethics (Transaction Publishers, 2000); A Comparison of Environmental Regulations in China and the European Union (Jiaotong University Press, Bilingual edition in English and Chinese, 1999); International Business Ethics: Challenges and Approaches (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999). Articles include "Business Ethics", Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, 2002; "Whose Ethos for Public Goods in a Global Economy? An Exploration in International Business Ethics," Business Ethics Quarterly (January 2000); "Integrating the Ethical Dimension into the Analytical Framework for the Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China's Socialist Market Economy. A Proposal," Journal of Business Ethics (April 2001); and the forthcoming "What Perspectives for Developing Business Ethics in China?" in Business Ethics in China: Recent Developments & New Perspectives (Hong Kong).
Isabel Ferreira Gould (PhD, Brown University, 2003) Geographic focus: Brazil and Portugal, Lusophone Africa Thematic interests: 20th-century Brazilian immigrant literature; 19th- and 20th-century autobiographical literature from Brazil and Portugal; 20th-century women's literature from Brazil; war literature from post-revolutionary Portugal; post-colonial literature from Lusophone Africa; comparative literature; Portuguese language. Current research: Family, memory and empire in the postrevolutionary Portuguese novel; non-European immigrants in contemporary Brazilian literature. Selected publications: "Maria Isabel Barreno's O Senhor das Ilhas: Memory and Writing at the Threshold," Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 8 (2002).
Robert Fishman (PhD, Yale University, 1985) Geographic focus: Europe (especially Spain and Portugal). Thematic interests: Democratization and the quality of democracy; Current research: Writing a comparative book on democratic practice in Portugal and Spain emphasizing the enduring legacies of those countries’ near polar opposite paths to democracy in the 1970s, and a collaborative cross-national project on social and political determinants of the evolution in priestly vocations. Selected publications: Coeditor, The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of Europe’s Common Currency (2006); Democracy’s Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain (2004); Working Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain (1990, recently translated into Spanish); “Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe’s Transition to Democracy,” World Politics (April 1990), reprinted in Geoffrey Pridham, ed., Transitions to Democracy (1995). Working Papers: #317: On the Continuing Relevance of the Weberian Methodological Perspective (with Applications to the Spanish Case of Elections in the Aftermath of Terrorism).
Rev. Patrick D. Gaffney, csc (PhD, University of Chicago, 1982) Geographic focus: Middle East and Eastern Africa Thematic interests: Religion and politics; social violence and peacemaking; human rights and humanitarian intervention; Islamic society and popular movements. Current research: Religion, violence, and reconciliation in the context of strained ethnic relations and the breakdown of political and economic order in central Africa. Selected publications: The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, (University of California Press, 1994); coauthor, Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Interstate Crises (Kumarian 1999). Numerous articles dealing with Islamic resurgence, ethnic conflict, and interreligious relations in the Middle East and central Africa.
Andrew Gould (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992) Geographic focus: Europe; cross-regional Thematic interests: Comparative politics; research methods in comparative politics; political development; political economy. Current research: How political institutions influence decision making; politics of fiscal policy. Selected publications: "Democracy and Taxation" (co-authored with Peter J. Baker), Annual Review of Political Science 5 (2002); "Party Size and Policy Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of Taxation in Democracies," Studies in Comparative International Development 36(2) (summer 2001); "German Politics and Political Development," in J. Kopstein and M. Lichbach, eds., Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Origins of Liberal Dominance: State, Church & Party in Nineteenth Century Europe (University of Michigan Press, 1999); "Conflicting Imperatives and Concept Formation," Review of Politics (Summer 1999).
Karen P. Graubart (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000) Geographic focus: Latin America Thematic interests: Colonial Latin American history, gender and race in Latin America, the history of the Andean region, perspectives on the “other” from Iberia to the New World. Current research: The historical sources for Iberians’ understanding of “Indians” in the New World by comparing the treatment of Muslim, Jewish and Sub-Saharan Africans under Christian rule in 15th century Seville, Spain with the establishment of colonial rule of indigenous peoples and Africans in 16th century Lima, Peru. Understanding the similarities and differences will provide new background for the formation of theories of racial and cultural difference, which became central to the construction of societies in Latin America. Selected publications: With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2007); “De qadis y caciques,” Bulletin del Institut Français d’Etudes Andines, forthcoming; “Catalina de Agüero: una vida mediadora,” in Testamentos de indios del norte del Perú, ed. Luis Valle Alvarez. (Peru, forthcoming); “La moda colonial: aproximaciones a la etnicidad en dos ciudades peruanas coloniales,” in Tejiendo Sueños en el Cono Sur, ed. Victória Solanilla (Barcelona, Grup d’Estudis Precolombins, 2005): 295-302; “Hybrid Thinking: Bringing Postcolonial Theory to Latin American Economic History,” in Postcolonial Thought and Economics, ed. S. Charusheela and Eiman Zein-Elabdin. Routledge, 2003.
Thomas Gresik (PhD, Northwestern University, 1987) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: Multinationals and tax competition; regulatory design; applied game theory; microeconomic theory. Current research: Financing of foreign direct investment; delegation and bargaining. Selected publications: "Rationing Rules and European Central Bank Auctions," Journal of International Money and Finance (November 2001);“The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals,” Journal of Economic Literature (September 2001); "The Strategic Effects of Batch Processing," International Economic Review (with Edward C. Mansley, August 2001); "Arm's-length Transfer Pricing and National Welfare," in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol. 8, (Michael R. Baye, ed., 1999); "Competition Between Asymmetrically Informed Principals," Economic Theory (with Eric W. Bond, September 1997); numerous articles in publications such as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of International Economics. Working papers: #284 (June 2001) The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals.
Daniel G. Groody, csc (PhD, Theological Union, 2000) Geographic focus: Latin America, particularly Mexico Thematic interests: Migration and the U.S.- Mexican Border Selected publications: Coeditor, A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007); Globalization, Spirituality and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace (Orbis Books, 2007); Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2002) Selected Films: Strangers No Longer, Executive Producer and Project Director (Groody River Films, 2006); Dying to Live: A Migrant’s Journey, Executive Producer and Project Director (Groody River Films, 2005)
Alexandra Guisinger (PhD, Yale University, exp. 2004) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: International relations; crisis diplomacy; international political economy; globalization. Selected publication: "Honest Threats: The Interaction of Reputation and Political Institutions in International Crises," Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(2).
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP (PhD, Université Catholique de Lyon, 1985) Geographic focus: Latin America Thematic interests: Human dignity and life; oppression in Latin America and the Third World. Current research: The historical background and continuing theological relevance of the preferential option for the poor. Selected publications: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation; We Drink From Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of A People; On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent; The Truth Shall Make You Free; The God of Life; and Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ. His essays have appeared in Theological Studies, La Revista Latinoamericana de Teología, and Páginas. He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium.
Frances Hagopian (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone) Thematic interests: Democratization; political economy; comparative politics and political development. Current research: Economic liberalization and political representation in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Selected publications: The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (coeditor, Cambridge University Press, 2005); Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge, 1996), which was named a Choice outstanding book in Comparative Politics; numerous articles on democratization in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals and books, including "Political Development, Revisited," Comparative Political Studies 33(6-7), part of a special double issue, Comparative Politics in the Year 2000. Working Papers: "Negotiating Economic Transitions in Liberalizing Polities: Political Representation and Economic Reform in Latin America," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Working Paper No. 98-5, May 1998.
Ben Heller (PhD, Washington University, St. Louis) Geographic focus: Latin America; Caribbean Thematic interests: 19th- and 20th-century Spanish American and Caribbean literatures; literary theory and translation Current research: Modern Spanish American and Caribbean literatures. Selected publications: "Multiculturalism, Caribbean Space, and Identity at the Margins: Two Cases." Research in African Literatures 28.4 (Winter 1997): 71-84; "Paternal Anxiety, Sexuality, and the Archive of Latin American Narrative--or, Up River with Tiresias." The Journal of Narrative Technique27.1 (1997): 4-24; "Suturando espacios: comunidad, sexualidad y pedagogía en José Martí." La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, special issue, "El Modernismo," 1.1-2 (1996): 33-54; "Landscape, Femininity, and Caribbean Discourse." MLN 111 (Hispanic Issue, 1996): 392-418.
Tin-bor Victoria Hui (PhD, Columbia University, 2000) Geographic focus: Asia and Europe Thematic interests: Comparative history of Asia and Europe, transformation of world politics, the emerging world order in the post-Cold War era, international security, state formation and state-society relations, contentious politics and resistance movements, political culture, Asian and Confucian values, Chinese politics. Selected publications: War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe with Cambridge University Press (2005), “Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics” in International Organization, “The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights” in The Journal of Political Philosophy, and “Problematizing Sovereignty” in an edited volume International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World.
Kristine Ibsen (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991) Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico) Thematic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical narrative; women in colonial Spanish America; feminist studies. Current research: Cultural representations of the Mexican Second Empire. Selected publications: Articles on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Julio Cortázar, and Pablo Neruda, among others. Books include Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes (1993); The Other Mirror (1997), about contemporary Mexican women writers; Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America (1999); and Memoria y deseo: Carlos Fuentes y el pacto de la lectura (2003).
Debra Javeline (PhD, Harvard University, 1997) Geographic focus: Russia; Eastern Europe Thematic interests: Comparative politics; mass political behavior; survey research; and the politics of post-Soviet and other post-communist regimes.
Lionel M. Jensen (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992) Geographic focus: China Thematic interests: Chinese religion and thought; folklore; early Sino-western contact; Chinese nationalism. Current research: Examination of the figurative and usable properties of "antiquity" as found in certain ancient and medieval texts; exploration of the ecumenical convergence of natural science, native religious traditions, and nationalism in the work of the political reformer, Tan Sitong (1866–1898). Selected publications: Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (1997), recognized in 1998 as the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion. Editor, China beyond the Headlines (2000).
Richard A. Jensen (PhD, Northwestern University, 1980) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: International trade; industrial organization; microeconomic theory; environmental economics. Current research: Innovative pioneering and innovation diffusion; the trade-off between basic and applied research; the Bayh-Dole Act and behavior of university technology transfer officers; trade, deforestation, and debt-for-nature swaps; and transboundary pollution. Selected publications: Numerous articles in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Ecological Economics, Review of Economic Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Economic Review, Management Science, and Journal of Economic History, among others.
Robert C. Johansen (PhD, Columbia University, 1968) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: Ethics and international relations; United Nations peacekeeping; peace and world order studies; multilateral efforts to increase compliance with international laws prohibiting genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Selected publications: The National Interest and the Human Interest: An Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton); Toward an Alternative Security System (World Policy Institute); coeditor, The Constitutional Foundations of World Peace (SUNY). Articles have appeared in World Policy Journal, World Politics, the Journal of Peace Research, Global Governance, Third World Quarterly, and Mershon International Studies Review. More popular articles on public policy have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Times, Christian Century, and other periodicals. He is the founding editor-in-chief of World Policy Journal.
Kwan S. Kim (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1967) Geographic focus: Asia (Japan, South Korea, Thailand); Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America (Mexico) Thematic interests: Development economics; international trade and finance; econometrics. Current research: South Korea's Financial Crisis, Restructuring, and Governance; Globalization, Income distribution, and poverty; Japan's Economic Relations with Latin America. Selected publications: The Political Economy of Income Inequality (coeditor, Toyo Keizai Shinbunsa, 2000); Economic Cooperation and Integration: East Asian Experience (coeditor, Notre Dame, 1997); Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience (coeditor, Macmillan & St. Martin's, 1995); The State, Markets and Development (coeditor: Edward Elgar, 1994). Working Papers: #291 (January 2002) Fujimor's Financiers: How Japan Became the Largest Aid Donor in Latin America and its Implications for Future Economic Development, with Michael G. Donovan; #272 (March 2000) The 1997 Financial Crisis and Governance: The Case of South Korea; # 270 (September 1999) At the Crossroads in the Age of Globalization.
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, csc (PhD, The Divinity School, University of Chicago, 2001) Geographic focus: Africa Thematic interests: The Catholic Church in Africa; history of missions; missiology. Selected Publications: Forthcoming book: Evangelizing Slaves: Making Catholics and Creating the Church in 19th-Century East Africa; forthcoming article: “Suema, Fact or Fiction? Reexamining an Icon in African Historiography”; reviews and articles in Journal of Religion and African Christian Studies.
Daniel H. Lende (Ph.D., Emory University) Geographic focus:Colombia Thematic interests: Medical and biocultural anthropology with a focus on behavioral health problems, particularly substance use and abuse. Selected publications: “Evoluzione, uso di sostanze e dipendenza” in Medicina Darwiniana (Apeiron, 2004); and “El viaje de un muchacho—caso particular” in Adolescencia y Toxicomania: Hacia un Proceso de Reinserción (El Greco Impresores, 1996). Numerous articles, including: “Wanting and Drug Use: A Biocultural Analysis of Addiction” in Ethos 33, 1 (2005); “Biocultural Dialogues: Biology and Culture in Psychological Anthropology,” with Daniel Hruschka and Carol Worthman, also in Ethos 33, 1 (2005); and “Evolution Meets Biopsychosociality: An Analysis of Addictive Behavior,” with Euclid O. Smith in Addiction 97, 4 (2002).
Rev. William M. Lies, csc (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2003) Geographic focus: Latin America Thematic interests: Religion and politics; Pentecostal growth and religious freedom; democratic stability; human rights and justice. Current research: Latin America’s widening religious freedom; Pentecostal growth and its impact on the Catholic Church’s relationship to the state.
George A. Lopez (PhD, Syracuse University, 1975) Geographic focus: Latin America; Iraq Thematic interests: Economic sanctions; human rights; conflict resolution. Current research: Gross violations of human rights and other forms of state violence, especially economic sanctions; peace research and peace studies Selected publications: Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action (coauthor, Lynne Reinier, 2002); articles in Chitty's Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, International Studies Quarterly, The International Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of International Affairs, The Annals, Peace & Change, and The Journal of Peace Research. Recent articles, coauthored with David Cortright, appear in The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Rienner, 2000) and Lopez and Cortright, eds., Smart Sanctions: Toward Effective and Humane Sanctions Reform (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Semion Lyandres (PhD, Stanford University, 1992) Geographic focus: Russia; Eastern Europe Thematic interests: Modern Russian history; politics and intellectual origins of modern revolutions; dynamics of post-communist societies; the relation of democratization in post-Soviet Russia to modern political constitutions and market-based economics. Current research: The problem of legitimacy in late Imperial and early revolutionary Russia, especially as it relates to the origins and politics of the Provisional (revolutionary) Government. Selected publications: The Bolshevik's German Gold Revisited: An inquirs into the 1917 Accusations (The Carl Beck Series in Russia and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh,1995); co-Author, A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925 (Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, CA, 2002), in 2 volumes., compiled, edited and introduced in collaboration with Dietmar Wulff.
Sabine G. MacCormack (DPhil, Oxford University, 1974) Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe Thematic interests: Andean region in the 16th and 17th centuries; impact of European culture on Andean society and religion; classics of late antiquity. She is a Fellow in the Medieval Academy of America and the American Philosophical Society. Current research: She has received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s new Distinguished Achievements Award for scholars in the humanities. She has promoted opportunities for Peruvian scholars to study in the US as well as fostered the study of Andean languages. Her current research emphasizes the transmission of Roman and Spanish institutions and ideas to early colonial Peru. Selected publications: Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (Princeton University Press, 1991); Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1981); The Shadow of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine (Berkeley, 1998). Numerous articles and book chapters, including "The Fall of the Incas: A Historiographical Dilemma" in History of European Ideas; "How the Past is Remembered: From Antiquity to Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Beyond" in The Past and Future of Medieval Studies (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
Scott P. Mainwaring (PhD, Stanford University, 1983) Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone, Andean region) Thematic interests: Democratic institutions and democratization; Selected publications: Books include The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (coeditor, Cambridge University Press, 2005); Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Conflict and Regime Change (coeditor, Stanford University Press, 2003); Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil (Stanford University Press, 1999); Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, co-edited, 1997); Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 1995, co-edited); and The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 (Stanford, 1986). Articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, and many other journals. Working Papers: #267 (May 1999) Survivability in Latin America;#271 (November 1999) Federalism, Constraints on the central Government, and Economic Reform in Democratic Brazil, with David Samuels; #278 (September 2000) The Political Recrafting of Social Bases of Party Competition: Chile in the 1990s, with Mariano Torcal; #280 (September 2000) Classifying Political Regimes in Latin America, 1945-1999, with Daniel Brinks and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán; #301 (December 2002) Level of Development and Democracy: Latin American Exceptionalism, 1945-1996, with Aníbal Liñán Pérez; #304 (February 2003) The Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems: An Empirical Measure and an Application to the Americas, with Mark Jones.
Nelson Mark (PhD, University of Chicago, 1983) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: International finance and open economy macroeconomics; aggregate asset pricing; macroeconomics. Selected publications: Author, International Macroeconomics and Finance: Theory and Empirical Methods (Blackwell Publishers, 2001); co-author, The Relative Importance of Political and Economic Variables in Creditworthiness Ratings, with N. Haque and D. Mathieson; co-author, Ratings of Sovereign Creditworthiness: An Econometric Analysis, with N. Haque, D. Mathieson, and S. Sharma; co-author, Cointegration Vector Estimation by Panel Dynamic OLS and Long-Run Money Demand, with D. Sul; co-author, Dynamically Seemingly Unrelated Cointegrating Regression, with M. Ogaki and D. Sul; co-author, Continuous-Time Market Dynamics, ARCH Effects, and the Forward Premium Anomaly, with Y.K. Moh; book reviewer, The Economics of the Dollar Cycle (MIT Press, 1990) and On Exchange Rates (MIT Press, 1993); contributor, Fundamentals of the Real Dollar-Pound Rate 1871-1994 in Ronald MacDonald and Jerome Stein, eds., Equilibrium Exchange Rates (Kluwer Press, 1999); book review editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (1991-94); has served as referee for over 20 publications.
A. James McAdams (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1983) Geographic focus: Germany, Great Britain; Eastern Europe Thematic interests: Democratization; transitional justice; technology; comparative foreign policy. Current research: The politics of the Internet. Selected publications: Germany Divided: From the Wall to Unification (Princeton, 1993 and 1994); East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall (Cambridge, 1985); Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge, 2001); co-author of Rebirth: A History of Europe (1992); editor of Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies (Notre Dame, 1997). Articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Comparative Politics, and other journals.
Anthony M. Messina (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984) Geographic focus: Western Europe Thematic interests: Political economy of advanced industrial societies; the European Union; the politics of ethnicity and race in Western Europe; British politics; political parties in comparative perspective. Current research: The logics and politics of post-World War II migration to Western Europe. Selected publications: Race and Party Competition in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1989); coeditor, Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood, 1992); and editor of the forthcoming volume West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century: A Continuing Quandary for States and Societies (Greenwood). Articles have appeared in Parliamentary Affairs, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journal, The Review of Politics, West European Politics, World Politics, and other scholarly journals and anthologies.
Carolyn R. Nordstrom (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1986) Geographic focus: Africa Thematic interests: Social and cultural anthropology; anthropology of war and peace; women and war; justice and human rights. Current research: Gender, children, and transnational criminal systems in war and peace. Selected publications: Improving Globalization (coeditor, Editora FGV, 2004); Shadows of War: Violence, Power and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2004); A Different Kind of War Story (University of Pennsylvania Press,1997, 2000);"Shadows and Sovereigns," Theory, Culture and Society 17(4) (2000);"Toward a (Gendered) Theory of War," in Conflict Studies from a Gender Perspective, ed. Inger Skjelsbaek (Oslo, Norway: NUPI/PRIO, Aug. 2000); "Visible Wars and Invisible Girls: Shadow Industries and the Politics of Not-Knowing," International Feminist Journal of Politics1(1) (1999); "Girls in War Zones," in Engendering Forced Migration (Berghahn Books, 1999).
Mary Ellen O'Connell (JD, Columbia University of Pennsylvania, 1985) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: International law; international dispute resolution. Selected publications: Enforcing International Law (Forthcoming). International Dispute Resolution, Cases and Materials (Carolina, forthcoming in 2006). International Law and the Use of Force, Cases and Materials - Documentary Supplement and Teacher’s Manual (Foundation, 2005). Redefining Sovereignty, The Use of Force After the Cold War (with M. Bothe and N. Ronzitti, eds., Transnational, 2005). International Dispute Settlement, Library of Essays in International Law (Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2003).
Guillermo O'Donnell (LLB, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1957; PhD, Yale Geographic focus: Latin America; cross-regional Thematic interests: Democratic theory and new democracies; rule of law; comparative politics; authoritarianism and democratization. Current research: New democratic theory and new democracies Selected publications: The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications (coeditor, Notre Dame Press, 2004); Desarrollo Humano y Ciudadanía: Reflexiones sobre la Calidad de la Democracia en América Latina (coeditor, Homo Sapiens, 2003); Counterpoints, Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Notre Dame, 1999); The (Un)Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America (coedited, Notre Dame, 1999); Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism (California, 1986); A Democracia no Brasil (Vertice, 1988); Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (coedited, 1986, 4 volumes), Development and the Art of Tresspassing (coedited, Notre Dame, 1986); Issues in Democratic Consolidation (coedited, Notre Dame, 1982); and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (coedited, Notre Dame, 1988). Articles include "Democracies in Contemporary Latin America," Journal of Latin American Studies, and "Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics," in a special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development (eds. D. Collier and G. Munck) (summer 2001). Working Papers: #274 (April 2000) Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics; #253 (April 1998) Horizontal Accountability and New Polyarchies; #254 (May 1998) "Polyarchies and the (Un)Rule of Law in Latin America"; #222 (March 1996) Another Institutionalization: Latin America and Elsewhere.
María Rosa Olivera-Williams (PhD, Ohio State University, 1983) Geographic focus: Latin America (Southern Cone) Thematic interests: Spanish American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; women's writings; feminist studies. Selected publications: "La imaginación salvaje: Entrevista a Marosa Di Giorgio." Hispanic Poetry Review 3.2 (2001): 82-105; "La poética de Chesed: Juan Gelman," in La página. Juan Gelman: Poesía y Coreje; La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernandez (1986); numerous studies of other Spanish American authors, including Cristina Peri-Rossi, Juan Carlos Onetti, José Emilio Pacheco, and Armonía Somers.
Rev. Robert Pelton, csc - Emeritus (STD, St. Thomas University, Rome, 1952) Geographic focus: Latin America Thematic interests: The Catholic Church; ecclesial base communities; liberation theology; the Cuban Church. Selected publications: Monsignor Romero: A Bishop of the Third Millennium (editor, Notre Dame Press, 2004); The Archbishop Romero Booklet (ed.), From Power to Communion (Notre Dame Press, 1994), Small Christian Communities: Imagining Future Church (ed.) (Notre Dame Press, 1997), The Future of our Past, (co-author), (Diamond Communications, South Bend). Jaime Pensado (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Geographic focus: Mexico Thematic interests: Contemporary Mexican History. Current research: Political and cultural history of Mexico from the 1940s to the present, with particular interests in student movements, youth culture, and Cold War politics.
Dianne M. Pinderhughes (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Geographic focus: Americas Thematic interests: Issues of inequality with a focus on racial and ethnic political participation, and she brings a comparative perspective to the development of race and civil society in the Americas. Selected publications: Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory (University of Illinois Press, 1987); and The Evolution of Civil Rights Organizations in the Twentieth Century: African American Politics and Voting Rights (forthcoming).
Karen Richman (PhD, University of Virgina, 1992) Geographic focus: Mexico, the Caribbean (Haiti), and the United States. Thematic interests: Religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption.
Juan M. Rivera (PhD, University of Illinois, 1975) Geographic focus: Latin America and Mexico Thematic interests: International accounting; foreign exchange transactions; foreign reporting and disclosures; agribusiness and development; NAFTA Current research: "The Impact of Foreign Exchange on Earnings Forecasts of U.S. Multinational Corporations," 2002; "The Implication of International Stock-Cross Listing on the Domestic Equity Markets. The Case of Latin America," 2002; "Accounting Disclosures and the Value of the Firm. Evidence from Latin American ADRs," with Paquita Davis-Friday; "Agricultural Development Projects in the Mexican Countryside." Selected publications: "Inflation Accounting and 20-F Reports. The Case of Mexico," Development Studies in International Accounting. Americas and the Far East, with P.Y. Davis-Friday, Gary K. Meek, Editor , 2002; "International Business Budgeting: Being Global Requires Rigor," Management Accounting Quarterly (in print), with Ken Milani, Fall, 2002; "Inflation Accounting and 20-F Disclosures. Evidence from Mexico ," Accounting Horizons, with Paquita Friday, June, 2000; "Contabilidad Gubernamental en los Estados Unido ," Interamerican Bulletin - Inter-American Accounting, Vol. II, No. 5, May - June , 1999; "El Enfoque Global en la Formacion del Contador Publico y el Administrador en los Estados Unidos," InterAmerica: Journal of the Inter-American Accounting Association, Vol. II, No. 6, July - September, pp. 26-32, 1999; "Mexico Under NAFTA: Accounting Information in a Changing Economy," Revista Forum Empresarial - University of Puerto Rico, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 2-16 , 1998.
Jaime Ros (Diploma in Economics, University of Cambridge, 1978) Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico) Thematic interests: Development economics; trade and macroeconomic policies and problems in developing countries. Selected publications: Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in Honor of Lance Taylor (coeditor, Edward Elgar, 2003); Development Theory and the Economics of Growth (University of Michigan Press, 2000); coeditor and coauthor, Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere: Issues and Prospects for Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994); “Foreign exchange and fiscal constraints on growth: a reconsideration of structuralist and macroeconomic approaches,” in A. Dutt, ed., New Directions in Analytical Political Economy (Edward Elgar, 1994); "Mexico: Trade and Financial Liberalization with Volatile Capital Inflows. Macroeconomic Consequences and Social Impacts During the 1990s," in External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Social Policy (OUP, 2001); "Growth, Distribution and Inequality Traps: Old and New Themes," in Crossing the Mainstream (Notre Dame, 2001).
Rev. Timothy Scully, csc (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989) Geographic focus: Latin America (Chile) Thematic interests: Comparative parties and party systems; democratization; aggregate data analysis. Selected publications: Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Conflict and Regime Change (coeditor, Stanford University Press, 2003); Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile (Stanford, 1992); coauthor, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford, 1995). Stephen E. Silliman Geographic focus: Western Africa (Benin) and the United States Thematic interests: Groundwater (flow and chemical quality); water resources in developing countries; international collaboration on water resource characterization and protection Current interests: Management of salt-water intrusion in coastal regions of Benin; management of groundwater quality in rural regions of Benin; groundwater hydraulics in the vadose zone Selected publications: “International Collaborations and Incorporating the Social Sciences in Research in Hydrology and Hydrologic Engineering,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13, 1 (coauthored, 2008); “Observations on Element Concentrations of Groundwater in Central Benin,” Journal of Hydrology 335, 3-4 (coauthored, 2007); “Observations from a Project to Encourage Multiple-year, International Collaboration on Research for Undergraduates,” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual ASEE Conference, Paper AC 2007-257 (2007).
Naunihal Singh (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2005) Geographic focus: Africa Thematic interest: Conflict; Civil-Military Relations; Democratization Selected publication: monograph, Civil Military Relations in Ghana (The Center for Democracy and Development - Ghana)
Vania Smith-Oka (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago) Geographic focus: Mexico Thematic interests: Ethnographic and ethnobotanical research in the village of Amatlán in Veracruz, Mexico. Current research: How marginal peoples around the world respond to the impact that globalization has on their health needs and local knowledge by looking at how the least powerful members of a community, i.e. women, are responding to this globalization. Selected publications: The History of the Incas, editor (University of Texas Press, 2007); “The Disease Factor: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the People of Tsavo” in Ecology, Economy, and Culture: Human Interactions in the Tsavo Region, Kenya, coauthor (Africa World Press, forthcoming).
Lynette Spillman (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991) Geographic focus: Australia, United States, settler nations Thematic interests: Cultural sociology; comparative historical sociology; political sociology; nationalism and national identity; collective memory. Current research: Cultural dimensions of economic behavior Selected publications: Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1997); editor, Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002); "Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation." In Jeff Alexander, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams, eds. Self, Structure, and Social Beliefs: Explorations in the Sociological Thought of Neil J. Smelser (University of California Press, forthcoming); "Nations" (with Russell Faeges) In Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff, eds, The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology (Duke University Press, forthcoming); numerous articles on cultural theory and on national identity, including "Australian Nationalism," in the Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Vol. 2 (Academic Press, 2001).
Rev. Tom Streit, CSC (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1994)
Lawrence E. Sullivan (PhD, University of Chicago, 1981) Geographic focus: South America Thematic interests: Native religions, ritual in post-colonial settings, religious beliefs and practices centered on health and healing, and arts and performances associated with ritual. Selected publications: The Religious Tradition of Judaism (Chelsea House Publishers, 2002); The Theses of Protestantism (Chelsea House Publishers, 2002); The Religious Spirit of the Navajo (Chelsea House Publishers, 2002).
Lee A. Tavis (DBA, Indiana University, 1969) Geographic focus: Latin America; Africa; Asia Thematic interests: Business planning models; potential contribution of multinationals to development. Current research: Asian and Latin American Apparel Production; The Interaction Between US Agribusiness and Mexican Ejidos in the Mexican Countryside. Selected publications: Review of Ethics in Finance, by John R. Boatright, in Business Ethics Quarterly (October 2001); "Economic Advantage and Moral Issues in Corporate Governance," in Die Zukunft des Wissens: XVIII, Deutscher Kongress fur Philosophie (Verlag, 2000); coauthor, "A Balanced Concept of the Firm and the Measurement of Its Long-term Planning and Performance," Journal of Business Ethics (August 1998); "Actualizing the Developmental Response of Multinational Corporations: The Case of Agribusiness in the Mexican Countryside," University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (1997).
J. Samuel Valenzuela (PhD, Columbia University, 1979) Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe Thematic interests: Comparative labor movements; historical and political sociology; democratization. Selected publications: Coauthor or coeditor of numerous publications, including Democratización vía reforma: El desarrollo de las prácticas e instituciones electorales en el Siglo XIX chileno (Instituto Barros Arana, forthcoming) [Democratization through Reform: The Development of Electoral Practices and Institutions in XIXth Century Chile]; Chile: A Country Study (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1994); Issues in Democratic Consolidation (Notre Dame University Press, 1992); Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986). Author of numerous articles in collected works and journals, including "Class Relations and Democratization: A Reassessment of Barrington Moore’s Model," in Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves, eds., The Other Mirror: Comparative History and Latin America (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). Working Papers: #265 (March 1999) Relations and Democratization: A Reassessment of Barrington Moore's Model; #242 (September 1997) Constitución, de 1980 y el Inicio de la Redemocratización en Chile; #247 (January 1998) Ley Electoral de 1890 y la Democratización del Régimen Político Chileno; #239 (April 1997) Macro Comparisons without the Pitfalls: A Protocol for Comparative Research. Juan Vitulli Geographic focus: Spain, Peru, Mexico (16th and 17th centuries) Thematic interests: Baroque culture; literatures and ideologies; transatlantic studies; national identities; canon formation; the notion of “Criollo” as a floating signifier in Latin America Current Interests: Baroque culture in the Hispanic world (Spain and Latin America) and its social/political/ideological implications Selected publications: Poéticas de lo criollo: inestabilidad semántica y heterogeneidad identitaria. La transformación del concepto “criollo” en las letras hispanoamericanas (siglos XVI al XIX) (coedited with David Solodkow, forthcoming); “Polifemo reformado: imitación, comentario y diferencia en la poética de Góngora.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 41, 1 (2007); “Amar su propia muerte: el drama de la representación criolla” Bulletin of the Comediantes 58, 1 (2006); “Máquina de penitencia: Don Quijote y la imitación en Sierra Morena” Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 2 (2005).
Christopher J. Waller (PhD, Washington State University, 1985) Geographic focus: International Thematic interests: Monetary theory, dollarization and the political economy of central banking. Selected publications: Articles appeared in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review and many other journals.
Vineeta Yadav (PhD, Yale University, 2007) Geographic focus: India, China, International Thematic interests: Comparative politics, international economics, and the political economy of economic development. Current research: Comparative and International Political Economy, Interest Group Behaviour, Comparative Business-Government Relations, Indian and Chinese Politics Selected publication: "Business Lobbies and Policymaking in Developing Countries Today: From Clientalism To . . .? A Study of India and China" in a special issue of the Journal Of Public Affairs focusing on Interest Groups, Lobbying And Lobbyists In Developing Democracies (forthcoming). |
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