Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellows - Fall 2005

Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens

Fitzpatrick Behrens, assistant professor of history at California State University, Northridge, will be a visiting fellow at Kellogg throughout the 2005–06 academic year. During that time, she will work on a project entitled “Transforming Mission: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries, Indigenous Catechists and Liberation Theology in Peru & Guatemala, 1943–2000.” Her research will address issues in the sociology of religion and culture by juxtaposing the Maryknollers’ accounts of what they were doing and the indigenous peoples’ accounts of their interactions with the Maryknollers.

In addition to organized civil society and religion in the Americas, Fitzpatrick Behrens is interested in gender and sexuality in the Americas, militarism in Latin America, Latin America/US relations, contemporary Latin American history and 19th- and 20th-century Central America and Peru. She taught at University of California, San Diego, and was a post-doctoral Rockefeller fellow at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She earned a PhD in history and an MA in contemporary Latin American history at the University of California, San Diego. Fitzpatrick Behrens will teach history courses while at Notre Dame.

Jan Hoffman French

In the fall of 2005, French will contribute to three of Kellogg’s five research themes: democratization and the quality of democracy; social movements and organized civil society; and religion and society. French will examine the “Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants of Indians & Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil.” She will also begin research on a historical and ethnographic project about the Brazilian ministério público federal (federal attorney general’s office), to introduce this method of government legal practice and advocacy to a North American audience and to consider its role in shaping and institutionalizing historical memory.

French recently won a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at Northwestern University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. A former practicing attorney, French received The Connecticut Law Tribune Prize for Outstanding Written Work. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Duke University and a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Kenneth Greene

Greene’s specific empirical interest lies with Mexico and better understanding the dramatic process of transition from single party dominance to multiparty competition. As a Kellogg visiting fellow in the fall of 2005, Greene will work on a project entitled “Defeating Dominance: Opposition Party Building and Democratization in Mexico.” He is currently an assistant professor in the department of government at the University of Texas, Austin.

Greene has been a visiting faculty fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting scholar at UC, San Diego. In 2003–04, his research was supported by a Mellon research grant awarded through UT’s Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. Greene holds a PhD and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied comparative politics, Latin America and methodology.

Axel Hadenius

Hadenius won Kellogg’s Hewlett Visiting Fellowship for the fall of 2005. While at Kellogg, Hadenius plans to study preconditions of democracy and to examine democratic attitudes, political participation and popular organization in Russia. To that end, he will rethink the measurement of democratization, reappraising leading explanations and examining the advancement/decline in democratic quality. Hadenius has published several books and numerous articles focusing on democratization, a topic that he approaches from a global perspective.

Since 1991, Hadenius has taught political science in the department of government at Uppsala University, Sweden. He was visiting a research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Berkeley; Michigan State University; and University of Melbourne. He holds a DPhil in politics from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Timothy Power

One of the most distinguished of his generation of Brazilianists, Power will be a visiting fellow at Kellogg in the fall of 2005. By examining “Twenty Years of Brazilian Democracy,” Power plans to complete the first book-length, fully comprehensive, narrative and thematically integrated study of Brazilian democracy available in English. Among other things, the study will examine macroeconomic management and state reform, institution building and governability, and increasing pluralization of politics. It will combine the rigor expected from a political scientist with the best scholarship from cognate fields, such as history, sociology, anthropology and economics.

Power currently serves as associate professor of political science at Florida International University. Prior to FIU, Power taught at Louisiana State University. He has won several prestigious grants and published numerous journal articles and book chapters. He was a visiting research associate at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University and a visiting Fulbright professor at the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Power received a PhD in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of Florida. He is president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).

Donna Lee Van Cott

In much of her scholarly work, Van Cott has explored why political elites in Latin America acceded to indigenous movements’ demands for constitutional recognition and why these movements chose to enter the formal political arena through their own political parties. As a visiting fellow in the fall of 2005, she plans to assess the results of these processes and to test the claims of these movements that their new rights would improve the quality of democracy in their countries.

Van Cott, assistant professor of political science and Latin American studies at Tulane University, is the author of The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin American and the forthcoming From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics. She earned her PhD from Georgetown University.

Lucan Alan Way

Way, assistant professor of political science at Temple University, plans to complete work on two book projects that explore the source of regime trajectories in the 1990s. Pluralism by Default in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine provides an in-depth structured comparison of this region of the former Soviet Union. His second project, Competitive Authoritarianism After the Cold War explores the trajectories of hybrid democratic-authoritarian regimes after the cold war.

During the 2004–05 academic year, Way was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Way will teach political science courses while at Notre Dame.

In the fall of 2005, Kellogg will also host a visiting fellow as part of a three-year Fulbright Educational Partnerships project. This partnership facilitates collaborative research on civic, administrative and economic reforms in the Andean region:

Miriam Kornblith

Kornblith’s study of the contemporary Venezuelan political system spans constitutional reform, political institutions and electoral processes. From 1998 to 1999, Kornblith was vice president and member of the board of directors of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela. While at CNE, she helped oversee five elections, including the one that elected President Hugo Chávez. She has since returned to the CNE as a stand-in associate.

Kornblith is a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) as well as professor in sociology and researcher at the Institute of Political Studies at the Central University of Venezuela. Among other publications, Kornblith authored Venezuela en Los Noventa: Las Crisis de la Democracia [Venezuela in the ‘90s: The Crises of Democracy]. She is a PhD candidate in political science at the Central University of Venezuela.

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