Fellows Research Spotlight: Meet Kellogg Visiting Fellows (Session II)

Please join the Kellogg Institute in our annual tradition – this year in a new format! – that introduces research of our new Visiting Fellows in an informative and inviting atmosphere. Learn firsthand why Kellogg has invested in the work of these fellows from brief research overview presentations then delve deeper during a Q&A session, moderated by Kellogg Director Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. A light lunch will be available in this second session of a two-part series.
Session 2
Nermin Allam, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark
Nusrat Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College
Kelly McMann, Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University
Sr. Damien Marie Savino, Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist and Dean of Science and Sustainability at Aquinas College

Nermin Allam
Nermin Allam is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research focuses on gender politics and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2018)...
Nusrat Chowdhury
Political anthropologist Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury is associate professor of anthropology at Amherst College. Her research and writing focus on the affective and aesthetic dimensions of postcolonial democracies, especially in the context of popular sovereignty and political communication. Her first book, Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh (2019), is an ethnography of the crowd...
Kelly McMann
Kelly M. McMann is the Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor and a Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project Manager for Subnational Government. Her research focuses on democracy, democratization, local politics, corruption, economic reform, and postcommunist politics. At the Kellogg Institute, McMann will work on her project "Democracy's Advantages...