FACULTY COMMITTEE AND TEACHING STAFF, 2008-09
Kiku Adatto is a Scholar in Residence at the Harvard Humanities Center and a Lecturer on Social Studies. Her most recent book Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op ((Princeton University Press. 2008)examinesthe use and abuse of images in politics, the media, and everyday life. Ranging from family photos to Facebook, political campaigns to popular movies, photo ops to Photoshop, the book reveals how the line between the person and the pose, the real and the fake, news and entertainment is increasingly blurred. Adatto’s past writings on the media helped spark a national debate on presidential campaign coverage. She has also written on the changing culture of childhood, the role of the hero in American movies, the representation of women in literature and popular culture, and art, cultural agency, and politics. Her writings have appeared in scholarly publications, as well as The New York Times, the New Republic, Forbes Media Critic, Commonweal, and the photography journal, See. Adatto has addressed gatherings of scholars, Congressional leaders, network executives, and journalists and has lectured on changing trends in American culture at a range of public and university forums in the United States and abroad. She received her B.A. in Literature and Theater Arts from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. in Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been an Assistant Professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology (where she also served as Head Tutor), a faculty member and Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and has served as the Director of Children’s Studies at Harvard. Currently she is working on a new book on America’s visual culture and also a project on the changing meaning of soul in American culture and civic life. This year she will be teaching the junior tutorial “Culture and Society” in the fall.
Melanie Adrian is a Lecturer on Social Studies. She received her B.A. from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in Religious Studies with an option in Peace and Conflict Studies. She was awarded an M.A. by Essex University (UK) in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion in 2007. Her intellectual efforts have focused on the question of rights of minorities in religiously, ethnically, and culturally diverse societies. She is interested in examining how states integrate or accommodate culturally distinct peoples while maintaining a healthy balance between international and national rights and respect for national values. She has most recently examined these questions in light of the debate around religious symbols in public schools in France. She will be teaching in Social Studies 10 this year.
Terry Aladjem is an Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and a Lecturer on Social Studies. He received his B.A. from Antioch College and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in political theory. His research interests include: American popular culture, memory and identity, liberalism, law and society, feminist theory and critical theory. He was Liberal Arts Fellow of Law and Political Philosophy at the Harvard Law School before joining Social Studies where he investigated problems of legal punishment and the death penalty. He has just published a book: The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2008) that blends cultural analysis, philosophy and law to examine the punitive turn in American justice. His article, “The Philosopher’s Prism: Foucault, Feminism and Critique” appeared in Political Theory (May, 1991) and in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault (Penn State Press, 1996) and another, “Of Truth and Disagreement: Habermas, Foucault and Democratic Discourse,” in History of European Ideas (vol. 20, 1995). He will teach a junior tutorial, “Law and American Society,” in the spring, and serves on the Board of Advisors for Social Studies.
David Armitage is Professor of History. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1986 and his Ph.D., also from Cambridge, in 1992. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he taught for eleven years at Columbia University where, for his last two years, he was Chair of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia's core-course in social and political thought. His main interests are in the history of political thought, the history of the British Empire, the history of international law, and the history of international relations theory. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000) and Greater Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004), and the editor or co-editor of five other books. He is currently completing “The Declaration of Independence: A Global History” for Harvard University Press and is editing John Locke's colonial writings for Oxford University Press. In 2003, he delivered the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Boston University on the subject of "The Foundations of Modern International Thought": a revised version of the lectures will be published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Armitage is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.
Paulo Barrozo is a Lecturer on Social Studies and an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. His research interests focus on legal, social, and political theory and on criminal, international, comparative, and constitutional law. Having published on the idea of equality and on cruel punishment, in 2006 he completed his PhD in Political Science. In the recent past he has taught at the Law School and Social Studies, including sophomore and junior tutorials.
Eric Beerbohm is Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies. He received his B.A. from Stanford University, B.Phil. from Oxford, and Ph.D. from Princeton in 2006. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of social justice, political ethics, and the morality of public policy. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Democratic Virtues, which considers the moral division of labor between citizens and lawmakers. His ongoing research includes the methodology of egalitarian theories, political decision-making under moral uncertainty, and individual responsibility for political injustice. Prof. Beerbohm will be teaching the junior tutorials “Global Justice” in the fall and “Ethics and Public Policy” in the spring.
Anya Bernstein is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies. She received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1990 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1997. In 1997-98, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University. She studies children, families, and young adults in American society and politics. She is particularly interested in work-family policies and the relationship between social class and life outcomes. She is also interested in the social and emotional development of college students. She is the author of The Moderation Dilemma: Legislative Coalitions and the Politics of Family and Medical Leave (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), and two articles. She is currently studying how elite colleges and universities can best support low-income students. In 2000, she received a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching, in 2005, she was nominated for the Levinson Teaching Prize, and in 2008, she was nominated for the John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling. She will be teaching a junior tutorial, “Children, Families, and the State,” in the fall and leading the junior thesis workshops.
Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law, an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America, and many articles, including “Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights” and “The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child.” She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, adoption, and citizenship. She will be teaching the junior tutorial “International Human Rights” in the fall.
Stefan Bird-Pollan received his BA from UC San Diego in intellectual history and went on to write a D. Phil. at Oxford in German Literature. He has just completed a dissertation in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His current work centers on problems of normativity and political authority. He is particularly interested in ways of bridging the supposed gap between moral theories relating to individuals and political theories about society. Currently, he is working on two papers, the first concerns Korsgaard’s response to Bernard Williams’ and G. W. F. Hegel’s critiques of Kant, the second is about Hegel’s moral psychology as it is developed in the master-slave dialectic. Before joining the Committee on Social Studies, he taught political philosophy and ethics at Vanderbilt and the University of New Hampshire. He will be teaching in Social Studies 10 this year.
Deborah Boucoyannis is a Lecturer in Social Studies. Her field is comparative politics, with an interest in international relations and the history of political thought. Her dissertation takes a historical approach to a contemporary question: how do liberal regimes emerge, and what are the preconditions of state building? She focuses on the constitutive role of courts and systems of law, as opposed to geopolitical or economic explanations. It has received the APSA Ernst Haas Best Dissertation Award in European Politics, and the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Dissertation Award in Comparative Research. In international relations, she has worked on ethnic conflict and the interaction between regime type and causes of war, and on international relations theory. Her paper on liberalism and the balance of power received the Divisional nomination for the Franklin L. Burdette Award by APSA and was published in Perspectives on Politics in 2007. She has received Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and the Barrington Moore Prize for Excellence in Advising in 2008. Her PhD is from the University of Chicago. She will be teaching in Social Studies 10.
Bo-Mi Choi is a Lecturer in Social Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Modern European Intellectual History from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the melancholy cosmopolitanism of Theodor W. Adorno and Thomas Mann. Her research interests include continental philosophy (German idealism and French post-structuralism); psychoanalytic thought; the critical theories of Karl Marx, Jürgen Habermas, and the Frankfurt School; and more recently, intellectual migrations from Germany to the East and vice versa. Bo-Mi will be teaching this year in Social Studies 10, a junior tutorial on Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Frankfurt School titled "Critics of Enlightenment, as well as a freshman seminar on Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and its historical context of exile.
Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. From 1963-1976 he taught at Yale University. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Global Development Network, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Aspen Strategy Group, and the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. He has served on several occasions for the US Government, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97), chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-92), and Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81). He studied at the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His most recent books include Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment, et al (World Bank, 1994) and Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy (Brookings, 1994). Professor Cooper has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee for twenty-six years.
Kimberly McClain DaCosta is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard University. Professor DaCosta is interested in the intersection of cultural ideas about race and the family. Her book, Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford 2007) explores cultural and social underpinnings of movement to create multiracial collective identity in the US. Professor DaCosta received her doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Yale, is a recipient of a fellowship from the Advertiser’s Educational Foundation, and was a 2004-2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is currently studying the advertising industry and how it targets African American consumers. The project centers on the process through which these firms create commercial representations of black people: how they conduct market research on African Americans, how they determine and attempt to shape the “needs” of black consumers, how they conceptualize the cultural differences that warrant the creation of advertising by and for African Americans, and how they distill those concepts of difference into advertisements. It also analyzes the relations between minority firms, “general market” (i.e., white consumer driven) firms and corporate clients in order to understand the set of interests that shape image production.
Noah Dauber studies the history of European political thought. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard. His dissertation is a study of the emergence of a science of politics in the era of the scientific revolution. He spent the spring of 2002 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of European Law in Frankfurt. In 2003-04, he was a fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions. Besides the history of political science, his research interests focus on ideas of community and political organization in medieval and early modern Europe. He will be teaching in Social Studies 10 this year.
Nara Dillon is a Lecturer in East Asian Studies and Social Studies. She received her B.A. in history from Williams College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2003 to 2007 she taught Chinese politics and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor at Bard College. Her interests include the politics of welfare, charity, and health care in China and the rest of the developing world. Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai (Stanford, 2008) and articles on gender, private charity, and welfare reform. She is currently researching the development of the Maoist welfare state from the 1940s to the 1960s, focusing on programs for workers and unemployed urbanites. She will be teaching “Health and Welfare in Developing Countries” in the spring.
Grzegorz Ekiert is a professor of government and senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area 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 (1996), Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland (with J. Kubik, 1999), and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (co-edited with S. Hanson, 2003). His papers have appeared in numerous social science journals and edited volumes. His current projects explore patterns of civil-society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia, the state of democracy in the post-communist world, and the impact of EU membership on post-communist democracies. Professor Ekiert is the editor of the CES Working Papers Series on Central and Eastern Europe. He served as Chair from 2001-2006 and is currently a member of the Standing Committee.
Lucas Fain earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Skidmore College and an A.M. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. From 2003-2005, he was an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He will receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the fall of 2008 from the University Professors Program at Boston University. His academic work is principally in the history of philosophy, with interest in the problem of modernity, including the difference between ancient and modern conceptions of reason, the tension between ancient doctrines of happiness and modern doctrines of freedom, the relation between philosophy and politics, and questions concerning the nature of philosophical eros and the possibility of philosophy. His current focus is on the relation between happiness and philosophy in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This is the first part of a larger project aimed at giving a psychoanalytic account of the history of philosophy.
Robert Fannion is a Lecturer in Social Studies. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Berkeley in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2006. His research focuses on how economic institutions develop and how firms respond to technological change. In addition to his dissertation project on the American political economy, Robert has also studied the Social Partnership system in Austria and worked as a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung in Berlin, examining the coordination of wage bargaining across the European Union. He has been honored seven times with Harvard’s Derek Bok award for excellence in teaching and has served as a lecturer on teaching in a seminar setting. He will be teaching the junior tutorial “Markets” in the fall and “Constructing the American Economy” in the spring.
Michael Frazer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. His research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Dr. Frazer’s current book project, “The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought,” defends a psychologically holistic approach to political reflection through an examination of such authors as David Hume, Adam Smith and J. G. Herder. He has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche and Leo Strauss in such journals as “Political Theory” and “The Review of Politics.” After receiving his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Dr. Frazer spent the 2006-7 academic year as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. This year he will be teaching in Social Studies 10.
Marshall Ganz grew up in Bakersfield, California, where his father was a Rabbi and his mother, a teacher. He entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960, but left before graduating to volunteer in the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. He became a SNCC field secretary, discovered a vocation for organizing and, in the fall of 1965, joined Cesar Chavez to help organize the United Farm Workers Union. During his 16 years there he learned union, community, issue and political organizing, became Organizing Director, and served as a national officer for 8 years. After leaving the UFW in 1981, he focused on declines in electoral participation, devising new techniques for "grassroots" organizing in mayoral, Congressional, Senate and Presidential campaigns. Convinced techniques alone could not bring people back into the electoral process and to deepen his intellectual understanding of this challenge, in 1991 he returned to Harvard College after a 28 year leave of absence, completed undergraduate work in history and government, graduating magna cum laude in June 1992. He continued his studies at the Kennedy School, where he was awarded an MPA in June 1993. Since 1994 he has taught organizing at the Kennedy School and in the Sociology Department where he earned his Ph.D. in 2000. He has received teaching awards and published articles in the American Prospect, American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review and elsewhere. He researches leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements and civic associations and their role in American public life. He is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School and will teach a junior tutorial entitled “Practicing Democracy” in the fall.
Healan Gaston is a Lecturer in Social Studies. She received her B.A. In Religious Studies from Brown University and her Ph.D. in United States History from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held a fellowship at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion. Her work traces the rise and fall of the "Judeo-Christian" constructions of American religious identity that dominated American public discourse from the late 1930s through the early 1970s. It touches upon a range of questions including the nature and extent of America's religious pluralism, the meaning of secularism and secularization, and the relationship between religion and politics. She will be teaching a junior tutorial on "Religion and Politics in Modern America" in the spring.
Peter Eli Gordon is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor in the Social Sciences, and holds a joint position in the Department of History and Social Studies at Harvard. He received his Ph.D. in European Intellectual History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. He was then a postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University for the academic years 1998-2000. General areas of interest include topics in phenomenology, (especially Heidegger and also Husserl and Levinas), modern philosophy of religion, medieval and modern Jewish thought, German Idealism (especially metaphysics and epistemology in Kant and Hegel), as well as certain topics in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Along with several articles, he has recently published a book entitled, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (University of California Press, 2003), which was awarded the Salo W. Baron Prize for the Best First Book in Jewish History (2004), the Goldstein-Goren Award for the Best Book in Jewish Thought over the last three years (2001-04), the Morris Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for the Best Work of Intellectual History (2003), and the Koret Foundation publication prize. It was reviewed in December, 2002 in The New York Review of Books. He is currently writing a study of the Davos encounter between Cassirer and Heidegger. He regularly teaches courses in European intellectual history, and seminars on Heidegger and the Frankfurt School. He is also a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee. Professor Gordon will be on leave for the fall term of the 2008-09 academic year.
Alex Gourevitch is a Teaching Assistant in Social Studies 10. He is finishing a Ph.D. at Columbia University in political theory. His areas of focus are American political thought, history of political thought, republicanism, democratic and critical theory, and theories of international law, sovereignty and human rights. His dissertation critiques the contemporary revival of republican thought for having overlooked the question of dependent labor, and it does so through a comparison of current republican ideas on liberty, virtue and constitutionalism with the political theory of the nineteenth century American 'labor republicans.' He has also published a co-edited volume with Philip Cunliffe and Christopher Bickerton called Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (Routledge, 2007). The essays in the book critique what is seen as the 'unholy alliance' against sovereignty in contemporary international relations theory and practice. Alex received his B.A. at Harvard in Social Studies, studied political theory at Oxford for a year, and worked as a political journalist for a year, before going to Columbia.
Peter A. Hall is the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard College Professor, and Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. In 2004-2005, he will be teaching a core course, Historical Studies, “The Political Development of Western Europe” that interests many concentrators in Social Studies. Among his publications are Governing the Economy (1986), The Political Power of Economic Ideas (1989), Developments in French Politics I and II (1990, 1992, 2001) and Varieties of Capitalism (2001) as well as over fifty articles appearing in edited volumes and journals. He is president of the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association and on the advisory boards for the European Studies Institute in Birmingham, and the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Hall’s current research focuses on how the developed democracies respond to economic openness and global competition. Hall has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee for seventeen years.
Jonathan Hansen (Ph.D. 1997, Boston University). Lecturer on Social Studies, tutor in Social Studies 10. An intellectual historian by training, he is the author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920 (Chicago, 2003), along with other articles, book reviews, and editorials on such subjects as US imperialism, nationalism, patriotism, and race and ethnicity. He is currently at work on two projects: one, a history of twentieth-century American expatriates, tentatively entitled, “Apostates'
Return,” the other, “Guantanamo Bay and the Making of Modern America,” a history of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (to be published by Random House). He lives in Belmont, MA with his wife, Anne, a physician at Boston Children's Hospital, and their three children: Oliver, Julian, and Nathalie (ages 12, 9, and 6).
Michael Herzfeld is a Professor of Anthropology (and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum) at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. A specialist in the ethnography of southern Europe (he has done extensive fieldwork in both Greece and Italy), he has also recently turned to research in Southeast Asia (specifically in Thailand). He co-chairs the Greek Study Group in the Center for European Studies. A past president of both the Modern Greek Studies Association and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, he was editor of American Ethnologist during 1994-1998. He is the author of Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece (1982); The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village (1985); Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (1987); A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town (1991); The Social Production of Indifference (1992); Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (1997); Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (1997); Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society (2001); The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (2003). His major research interests are currently in social experience and local political action in areas affected by nationalistic and other programs of historic conservation, and he is currently working on the results of recent fieldwork on this topic in both Rome and Bangkok. He has written extensively on anthropological and semiotic theory, narrative, metaphor and symbolism, ethnographic analysis and interpretation, local politics, and nationalism. He has served on the Social Studies Standing Committee since 1995.
Michael J. Hiscox is a Professor of Government and a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He received his B. Econ. (Hon.) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D from Harvard in 1997. The focus of his research is political economy and international trade. His book, International Trade and Political Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2002) received the William H. Riker Best Book Award awarded by the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association. He is currently completing a new book entitled High Stakes: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Sanctions. He has published a number of articles in leading scholarly journals including The American Political Science Review, International Organization, Economics and Politics, and The Journal of Economic History. His most recent papers have addressed questions concerning factor mobility and structural adjustment within economies, trade adjustment assistance policies, the measurement of barriers to trade, determinants of foreign investment flows, the size of nations, and attitudes towards international trade and immigration. This year Professor Hiscox will be teaching the junior tutorial “The Politics of International Trade” in the spring.
Daniel J. Hopkins is a Lecturer on Social Studies and also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University's Center for the Study of American Politics. He received his A.B. from Harvard University in Social Studies in 2000, and his Ph.D. from Harvard's Government Department in 2007. He has also worked for the City of New York and in local politics there. He has taught seminars at Harvard and Yale, and he has won teaching awards from
Harvard's Bok Center. His dissertation, entitled "When Differences Divide," argues that local ethnic divisions in the U.S. become politicized by national political rhetoric. His research interests include urban politics, political behavior, and research methods. In the fall of 2008, he will be teaching a junior tutorial entitled "The Contemporary American City.”
Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1955, and the former Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France. He was the Chairman of the Center for European Studies at Harvard from its creation in 1969 until 1995. Professor Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1928. He lived and studied in France from 1929 to 1955; he has taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, from which he graduated, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, the development of the modern state, and the history of Europe since 1945. His books include Contemporary Theory in International Relations (1960), The State of War (1965), Gulliver’s Troubles (1968), Decline or Renewal: France Since the 30s (1974), Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War (1978), Duties Beyond Borders (1981), Dead Ends (1983), Janus and Minerva (1986), Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 15 (1994), The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994 (1995), The Ethics and Problems of Humanitarian Intervention (1997), and World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era (1998). He is co-author of The Fifth Republic at Twenty (1981), Living with Nuclear Weapons (1983), The Mitterrand Experiment (1987), After the Cold War (1993), L’Amérique Vraiment Impériale? (with Frédéric Bozo, Ed. Audibert), an updated and expanded English version of which appeared in December 2004 under the title Gulliver Unbound from Rowman and Littlefield, and Chaos and Violence (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book on the history of French political thought from the Ancien Régime to the present. He will be teaching the thematic course “Modern War: The War in Iraq” in the spring. Professor Hoffman will be on leave for the fall term of the 2008-09 academic year.
Andrew Jewett is Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2002, he has also taught at Yale, Vanderbilt, and NYU, and held postdoctoral fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and Cornell's Society for the Humanities. An intellectual historian by training, his research interests center on the interplay of the natural and social sciences with American political culture. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, entitled To Make America Scientific: Science, Democracy, and the University Before the Cold War and Against the Technostructure: Critics of Scientism Since the New Deal.
James T. Kloppenberg is Harvard College Professor, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, and chair of the graduate program in the History of American Civilization. He was educated at Dartmouth College (A.B., 1973) and Stanford University (M.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1980). He has taught at Brandeis University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has held fellowships from the Guggenhem Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include Uncertain Victory: Social Democray and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986); The Virtues of Liberalism (1998); and, with Richard Wightman Fox, A Companion to American Thought (1995). His current research concerns the history of democracy in America and Europe, the relation between history and critical theory, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He has been a member of the Standing Committee in Social Studies since 1999. Professor Kloppenberg will be on leave for the 2008-09 academic year.
Michael Kremer is currently a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, he received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1985, and his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1992. He is a 1997 recipient of a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, and in 1996 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Kremer’s research spans a wide range of topics, including the economics of developing countries; incentives for research and development on malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and other diseases affecting developing countries; the epidemiology of the AIDS epidemic; the economics of elephant poaching; payroll taxation and youth unemployment; economic sanctions and international relations; and income distribution dynamics. He will be teaching economics “Research in Economic Development” along with two graduate courses. He has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee for six years.
Patti Tamara Lenard is the Assistant Director of Studies for Freshman and Sophomores. Her primary areas of concentration are political philosophy and social theory. She is interested in a range of issues including: democratic theory, social justice and egalitarianism, multiculturalism, nationalism and moral partiality, and the history of political thought (especially with respect to the emergence of democratic and egalitarian principles). Patti received her doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford University, for research that focused on the importance of trust relations in democracies and the impact of ethno-cultural diversity on these trust relations. She is presently working on the legitimacy of national partiality, the negative impacts of material inequality, as well as on developing a set of philosophical principles that can serve to underpin trust-building mechanisms in ethnically-divided societies. This year, Dr. Lenard will be teaching in Social Studies 10.
Steven Levitsky is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He specializes in comparative and Latin American politics. His primary areas of research include political parties, the causes and consequences of institutional weakness, informal institutions, and political regimes and regime change. He is author of Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (2003), and co-editor of Argentine Politics: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2005) and Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (2006). He is currently engaged in research on the emergence and trajectories of competitive authoritarian regimes in Africa, Central Europe, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union during the post-Cold War era. Professor Levitsky will teach the junior tutorial “Authoritarianism and Democracy in Latin America” in the spring.
Theodore Macdonald is a Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and a Lecturer in Anthropology and Social Studies at Harvard University. He was Associate Director of the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs until 2005 and is now a Weatherhead Center Associate. His research and teaching focus on human rights, ethnicity and conflict, Latin American indigenous peoples and the State, common property, and individual/collective property and citizenship rights. His book, Ethnicity and Culture amidst New "Neighbors": The Runa of Ecuador's Amazon Region, reviews the conjunction of many of these issues. He recently undertook the ethnographic research and subsequently served as witness for the plaintiff in the precedent-setting 2001 indigenous land and natural resource rights case, Awas Tingni vs. Nicaragua, heard, and determined in favor of the community, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He will be teaching a junior tutorial in the fall.
Charles Maier is the Saltonstall Professor of History and is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee. From l993 to l997, he served as Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. He has also served as Acting Chair during the spring of 2002 and the 2007-08 academic year. His main interests are recent European and international history.
Reidar Kiljan Maliks is a Lecturer on Social Studies. In 2008 he received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where he also taught in the Core Curriculum. He is a participant in the network on Freedom and the Construction of Europe at Cambridge University/European University Institute. His scholarly interests include conflicts of state sovereignty and individual rights, especially in the history of German political thought. In that regard, he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Making the Center Hold: Kant on Sovereignty and Resistance. He is also interested in why people choose to benefit others, even at a personal cost, a question he approaches through an investigation of the concept of solidarity. This year, he will be teaching in Social Studies 10, as well as a junior tutorial on "Theories of Social Cohesion and Solidarity."
Stephen A. Marglin holds the Walter S Barker Chair in the Department of Economics. Over a career that now spans more than four decades, he has contributed to various aspects of economic theory, including benefit-cost analysis, economic development, the organization of work, and the relationship between growth and distribution. His current research focuses on the foundational assumptions of economics: to what extent are these assumptions a reflection of the culture and history of the Modern West rather than a set of facts about a universal human nature, and what difference does it make. He will be teaching a junior tutorial, “Development and Modernization: a Critical Perspective” in the fall semester.
Aaron Mauck is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He received his B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College in 1999 and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. His dissertation examines the history of type 2 diabetes care in the United States in the twentieth century. Other research interests include medical sociology, medical anthropology, social theory, the sociology of professions, and the sociology of knowledge. He will be teaching in Social Studies 10 this year.
Jens Meierhenrich is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University, where he is also a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He recently served as the Carlo Schmid Fellow in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and has previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Meierhenrich is the author of a genocide trilogy, comprising The Rationality of Genocide (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming); The Structure of Genocide (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming); and The Culture of Genocide (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming). He is currently revising his book on the function of legal norms and institutions in the transition to and from apartheid, entitled The Legacies of Law. Work in progress includes a book on judicial responses to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, entitled The Invention of Law; a comparative analysis of international courts and tribunals, entitled The Responsibility of Individuals for International Crimes; and The Supply and Demand of States, a long-term project on state formation and state collapse. Professor Meierhenrich’s publications also include a series of articles on comparative and international law and politics, most recently, “A Question of Guilt,” Ratio Juris, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2006); “Analogies at War,” Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2006); “The Ethics of Lustration,” Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2006); and “The Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Rwanda, August-October 2003” Electoral Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 2006). His research has been supported by, among others, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Bar Foundation. Prof. Meierhenrich will be teaching the junior tutorial “Crimes Against Humanity” in the spring.
Nicole Newendorp is a Lecturer on Social Studies and the Assistant Director of Studies for Juniors and Seniors. She received a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 1991, an M.A. from Harvard University’s Regional Studies-East Asia Department in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in June 2004. She is the author of Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post 1997 Hong Kong (Stanford University Press, 2008). Her research interests include the social effects of state (re)unification; space and social change; the ethnography of urban areas; and immigration in Hong Kong, China, and the United States. This year she will be teaching the Senior Thesis Writer’s Tutorial as well as a junior tutorial “Modernity and Social Change in East Asia” in the spring.
Thomas Ponniah has a PhD in International Development and Geography from Clark University and he holds a Masters in Social Science in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham in England. His research is focused on alternative forms of globalization. His research interests include social theory, theories of self-knowledge, globalization, global justice, international development, social movements, cultural studies and Latin America. He is the co-editor of the book “Another World is Possible: popular alternatives to globalization at the World Social Forum” as well as of the forthcoming volume “The Revolution in Venezuela: a critical assessment of the Chavez years.” He is the winner of the 2006-7 Barrington Moore Award for Excellence in Advising. In 2007-8 he was nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award and the John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling.
Nicolas Prevelakis is the Assistant Course Head for Social Studies 10. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1976, and moved to Paris in 1985. He studied philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) where he completed a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy in 2001, on the notion of the self in Eastern Christianity (Orthodoxy). He then came to the United States and got a second Ph.D. in Political Sociology from Boston University, while, at the same time, serving as associate director of Boston University’s Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences. His areas of interest include theories of nationalism, sociology of religion, and ancient Greek philosophy. This year he will be teaching in Social Studies 10 as well as the junior tutorial “Nationalism and Religion” in the fall.
Nancy Rosenblum is Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government. Her field of research is political theory, both the historical and contemporary political thought. She is the author most recently of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. Her recent edited works include Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair with Martha Minow (2002); Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (2000); and Civil Society and Government, co-edited with Robert Post. Professor Rosenblum is working on two long-term projects: Primus Inter Pares, a study of the political theory of political parties, and The Quality of Life, a study of Henry David Thoreau. She is the chair of the Department of Government. In 2008-09, she will teach a graduate course in political concepts and an undergraduate course, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy.” Professor Rosenblum is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.
Michael Sandel Harvard College Professor and Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a member of the Standing Committee on Social Studies.
Kyoko Sato is a Lecturer in Social Studies and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, M.A. in Journalism from New York University, and B.A. in English from the University of Tokyo. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University for the academic year 2007-08. Her research focuses on the ways in which culture and politics intersect and mutually constitute in different national contexts. Her dissertation explored how the meanings of genetically modified food developed and shaped politics and policy developments in Japan, France and the United States. Sato teaches Social Studies 10 this academic year.
Matthias Schündeln is Assistant Professor of Economics and of Social Studies. His teaching and research focus on development economics.
Tommie Shelby is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences. Before coming to Harvard, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University (1998-2000). He received his B.A. from Florida A & M University in 1990 and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998. His research and teaching interests include political philosophy, social theory, and African American philosophy. His articles have appeared in Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Forum, Political Theory, Fordham Law Review, and Social Theory and Practice. He is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Harvard, 2005) and co-editor of Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Open Court, 2005).
Verity Smith is a political theorist, with additional research and teaching interests in law and society, gender studies, comparative politics, and culture studies (particularly literary theory and film theory). Her current research addresses conceptual paradoxes in debates around constitutionalism, democratic legitimacy, sovereignty, and identity, with particular attention to the redeployment and revision of 18th century categories and debates by 20th century continental thinkers (including especially Schmitt, Arendt, Habermas, and Derrida). Other projects in the works include an essay on Carl Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory; and two essays on Harold Laski’s pluralist socialism (one of which puts him in dialogue with Schmitt, and the other with Habermas and Rawls). She is also working on a coauthored book manuscript on Nietzsche, genealogy, and gender (with Tracy Strong). Smith did her graduate work in the Department of Political Science, University of California , San Diego (Ph.D. 2008). She received her M.A. from UCSD (Political Science) and her B.A. from Whitman College (Politics and Philosophy). This year, she will run a senior thesis writing workshop, in addition to advising theses, and teaching in Social Studies 10.
Scott Staring is a Teaching Assistant for Social Studies 10. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from McMaster University, an M.A. in Communications from McGill University and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. He is currently completing a PhD dissertation at the University of Toronto that examines the dynamics of Anglo-American foreign policy in the 20th century. He has taught and lectured in the fields of political theory, foreign policy and Canadian politics. His interests include ancient and early-modern political thought, and modern political economy with a particular focus on theories of empire.
Mary Steedly is a Professor of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1989. In 2003-04 she was co-chair of a seminar series on media and politics in South and Southeast Asia (sponsored by the Asia Center). She has conducted field work in Indonesia since 1983; from this came her first book, Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland, which received the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing in 1994. She is currently completing a second book based on research in Indonesia, “Rifle Reports: Gender, Revolution and Peasant Nationalism in the Karo Area, 1945-50.” More recently she has also conducted fieldwork at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina, for a book on U.S. military culture. Her teaching and research interests include colonialism and postcoloniality; nationalism; history, narrative and memory; culture theory; gender and feminist theory; militarism and military culture; politics and new media; Southeast Asia; contemporary U.S. society. She has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee for eight years.
Ajantha Subramanian is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies. She researches and teaches in the areas of postcolonial and political theory, political ecology, state formation, citizenship, social movements, migration, and minority rights. She is currently completing a manuscript on the cultural history of a south Indian Catholic fishing population that has negotiated various forms of indirect rule over the course of the 20th century. In it, she looks at how state and community imaginaries and practices Intersect and become mutually constitutive, and how new understandings of space, sovereignty, and rights emerge in the process. Alongside this book, she has begun work on a second research project on the U.S.-based graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology. This second project continues an exploration of state-community dynamics, the making of political subjects, and minority cultural politics but with a new focus on how these processes are elaborated in diaspora. Professor Subramanian will be on leave for the 2008-09 academic year.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti is a PhD candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France, and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. She received a DEA in Political Philosophy from EHESS - Paris, and a second DEA in Public Law from Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France. She holds a BA in Law from Athens Law School, Greece. Her intellectual interests include political and moral philosophy, philosophy of law and human rights issues. The subject of her dissertation is “Freedom of speech and protection of privacy and human dignity in France and the U.S.A., a study on two different constitutional precomprehensions”. It attempts to identify which particular elements define the different “precomprehensions” of the interpreters of law in the two different legal orders, so that they come out differently on the same factual patterns which they are called to resolve. She has published articles on issues of freedom of expression, self-disposition and protection of human dignity, as well as on issues of discrimination on the grounds of religion and disability. She is also a member of the Scientific Personnel of the Greek Ombudsman (Human Rights Division). She will be teaching in Social Studies 10.
Richard Tuck is Chair of Social Studies and Professor of Government. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the 'free rider' problem was only invented, as a problem, in recent decades. Thus his interests to a remarkable degree span concerns in all subfields of the discipline.
Jocelyn Viterna is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard University. She received her B.A. from Kansas State University (1995) and her M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) from Indiana University. She was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans for three years prior to moving to Harvard. Currently, Viterna is completing a book manuscript that investigates the causes and consequences of women’s guerrilla participation in El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and the Latin American Research Review. She will be teaching the junior tutorials “Gender in Developing Nations” in the fall and “Global Social Movements” in the spring.
Christopher Winship is a Professor of Sociology and of the Kennedy School of Government. Winship is currently doing research on the estimation of causal effects with nonexperimental data; the Ten Point Coalition, a group of black inner city ministers who have been working with the Boston Police Department to reduce youth violence; and racial differences in educational performance in elite institutions of higher education. He is also investigating the changing racial composition of prisons on the effects of education on mental ability, and the effects of different components of mental ability on different dimensions of social and economic success. More generally, he is interested in statistical models for qualitative data and in understanding changes in the social and economic status of African-Americans in this century. In the past he has done research on social networks and measures of inequality and segregation. Since 1995 he has been editor of Sociological Methods and Research. For the past four years, Chris has been the FAS Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Service. He is also a member of the Core committee on Quantitative Reasoning and teaches, “Statistics and Public Policy,” and “The New Casual Analysis” for the Sociology Department in the fall. He is a faculty associate of the Hauser Center for the Study of Nonprofit Organizations and the Weiner Center for the Study of Social Inequality. He is an active member of Boston's Jewish community. Professor Winship has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee since 1998. He will be on leave during the spring term of the 2008-09 academic year.
Carla Yumatle is a Ph.D. candidate currently completing her dissertation Philosophical Presuppositions of Liberal Democracy at University of California, Berkeley. Drawing on the work of political philosophers Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Richard Rorty, her dissertation examines why there are competing philosophical justifications for liberal democracy. Prior to her study at Berkeley, she completed a Master’s Degree in Political Theory from London School of Economics and a B.A. in Political Science in Argentina. Her areas of specialization include contemporary, Anglo-American political philosophy and ancient political thought. As a graduate student she worked with faculty both within the departments or Political Science and Philosophy and taught a wide variety of courses—from history of political thought to normative and continental political philosophy. In recognition of her teaching she received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.
Daniel Ziblatt (PhD, University California-Berkeley, 2002) is an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, state-building, democratization, federalism, and comparative-historical methods, with a particular interest in contemporary Europe and European political development. He is the author of Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy, Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton University Press, 2006) based on a dissertation that received two awards from the American Political Science Association: the 2004 Gabriel Almond award for the best dissertation in comparative politics and the 2003 European Politics Division award. He has recently begun a new project on the politics of electoral reform and the dynamics of regime change/ democratization in Europe. Ziblatt is also Faculty Associate of Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, and was a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society (Cologne, Germany) in Spring 2006.