FACULTY COMMITTEE AND TEACHING STAFF, 2009-2010

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) examines the 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 as well as a Junior Tutorial about Islam in Europe.

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.

Tal Arbel is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is a graduate of The Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, Israel. The latter granted her with an M.A. in 2007. Before coming to Harvard, she served as a predoctoral fellow at the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science, where she studied the techno-political history of movement and access restrictions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with a particular emphasis on the establishment and consolidation of the ‘Closure Regime’: its physical and administrative infrastructure, the forms of expertise it gave rise to, the security epistemology informing its operation and the governmental rationality underlying it. She has taught and lectured in the fields of STS, continental philosophy, critical theory, postcolonialism, and gender and queer studies. Her research interests include the political, cultural and intellectual history of Israel/Palestine, history of the human sciences, technoscientific expertise, and the sociology of knowledge. The focus of her dissertation is on the role of the behavioral sciences and other forms of expert knowledge in governing globalized ‘conflict zones.’ She will be teaching in Social Studies 10.

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein 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), Greater Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004), and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007). He is also the editor or co-editor of eight books including, most recently, Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (2009) and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2009). Professor Armitage is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.

Chiwen Bao is completing her Ph.D. in Sociology at Boston College.  She received her B.A. magna cum laude in Psychology from Harvard College in 2001 and her M.A. with distinction in Sociology from Boston College in 2008.  Through her intellectual pursuits, she is dedicated to understanding the workings of race and ethnicity in society – how they are constituted and intersect with other vectors (i.e. class, gender and sexuality), how they evolve as modes of power and control, and how they also open up possibilities of change and resistance.  Her interests also include researching how schools operate, namely how disparities in students’ educational development are perpetuated and disrupted through everyday schooling processes.  Her current research focuses on how students become engaged in their schoolwork, the impact of school reform efforts like high stakes testing, and how racial and gender subjectivities become constructed in the contexts of schools.  She received the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from Boston College in 2006.

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. Professor Beerbohm will be on leave for the 2009-10 academic year.

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 (BA, UC San Diego, Intellectual History; D. Phil, Oxford, German Literature; PhD, Vanderbilt, Philosophy) is interested in the history of ethics and political philosophy as well as in contemporary meta-ethics (Korsgaard, Rawls and others). Historically, his interests span from the Enlightenment through German Idealism to its aftermath in Marx and Nietzsche to the Frankfurt School. Stefan is currently working on a book about the ethical theory of Kant and Hegel as it is worked out in the philosophy of history. He has published on Kant and Heidegger, contemporary issues in meta-ethics as well as on Rawls. Before joining the Committee on Social Studies, Stefan taught political philosophy and ethics at Vanderbilt and at the University of New Hampshire.  Stefan will be teaching Social Studies 10 as well as a Freshman Seminar on the Enlightenment.

Kevin Caffrey is a Lecturer in Social Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from The University of Chicago in 2007. Previously, he taught social theory at The University of Chicago’s Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, anthropological theory in the Ph.D. program at The American University, and Human Justice at The George Washington University. His intellectual interests include culture and politics, China, and conditions of conflict; and he is especially interested in comparative ethno-religious minority epistemes. He has written on Chinese Muslim social history, the geopolitical realities of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and on counterinsurgency in Iraq. He is currently preparing a book on Chinese Muslims, indigeneity, and diaspora.

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, and a junior tutorial on Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Frankfurt School titled "Critics of Enlightenment.”

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. He will be on leave for the fall term of the 2009-10 academic year.

Jennifer Darrah-Okike will be a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer during the 2009-10 academic year.  She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University in 2001 and her M.A. in Sociology from Brown University (Ph.D. expected 2009).  Her areas of research and teaching interest include urban sociology, immigration, political sociology, social movements and sociological theory.  While at Brown University, she has been a Research Assistant and Fellow with the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Initiative.  Her dissertation is a case-study of four contested urban development projects linked to tourism in the state of Hawaii.  She investigates how community residents and local social movements utilize legal regulations and culturally-specific frameworks to assert their influence over urban development.  She has also been involved in a multi-year study of immigrant political incorporation in the U.S. in addition to research on Community Health Studies and the HIV/AIDS social movement in Brazil.  Previously, she served as a Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design and as a Resident Tutor and Assistant Senior Tutor at Currier House.  She will be teaching a junior tutorial in the spring and running a senior thesis workshop.

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.

Lucas Fain is a Lecturer in Social Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis from the University Professors Program at Boston University. From 2003-2005, he was an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He has an A.M. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Philosophy from Skidmore College. His academic work is principally in the history of philosophy, with specific interest in the philosophical problem of modernity. His interests include Enlightenment metaphysics and political philosophy, the difference between ancient and modern conceptions of reason, freedom, and happiness, Freudian psychoanalysis, and contemporary debates concerning the end of metaphysics and the possibility of philosophy. His current work focuses on two related projects. The first concerns the relation between happiness and philosophy in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The second takes up this research as part of a larger project aimed at giving a psychoanalytic account of the possibility of philosophy.

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.

Rebecca B. Galemba is a Lecturer in the Social Studies Program at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies with honors from Dartmouth College in 2003, her MA in Anthropology from Brown University in 2005, and her PhD in Anthropology from Brown University in 2009. At Brown, she was the recipient of a National Institute of Child Health and Development Graduate Fellowship. In the fall of 2008, she was a visiting instructor at Dartmouth College. She also served as the Faculty Fellow on Dartmouth’s Tucker Foundation’s Alternative Spring Break Program to the Dominican Republic. Her research interests include international migration, border studies, Latin America, and informal and illicit economies. She recently had an article published on informal and illicit entrepreneurs in The Anthropology of Work Review. She received a Wenner Gren Dissertation Grant to conduct ethnographic research on the Mexico-Guatemala border from September 2006 to September 2007 and a Craig M. Cogut Dissertation Fellowship through Brown University’s Center for Latin American Studies to support dissertation writing. Her dissertation, entitled Cultures of Contraband: Contesting Illegality at the Mexico-Guatemala Border, examined how residents who live within a clandestine border passage experience and give meaning to the law and create moral norms through their officially illegal cross-border activities. Her subsequent research intends to examine the intersections between gender, kinship, and the illegal economy at the Mexico-Guatemala border.

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 Professor of History at Harvard. He is interested in modern European intellectual history and modern continental philosophy, specifically German and French phenomenology, existentialism, the early Frankfurt School, German idealism and Weimar thought. He has published essays on modern German and French thought, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the repercussions of Heideggerian philosophy and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. His book Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003) received the Salo W. Baron Prize for Best Book in Jewish History, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for Best Book in Jewish Thought and the Forkosch Prize for Best Book in Intellectual History. He is currently working on issues in historical and social theory pertaining to debates over realism and anti-realism. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy and The Modernist Imagination, as well as the editor of “Weimar Thought”, a collection of critical essays by leading scholars on the intellectual history of the Weimar Republic (forthcoming next year from Princeton University Press). His new book, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, is to appear in 2009. Gordon is co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History. In 2005 Gordon received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is also a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.

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 interest are American, Modern, and Contemporary political thought, human rights and humanitarian intervention, theories of liberty, democratic theory, and constitutional law. His dissertation, entitled ‘Independence, Servitude and the Republic: A Critique of the Republican Revival (and its Critics),’ uses the development of American ‘labor republicanism’ to argue that the distinctive feature of republican thought is the idea that liberty is ‘independence,’ where independence is conceived in terms of one’s relationship to one’s labor. The central challenge is whether this ideal can be consistent with human equality, and hence, whether it is universal or particular. When we adopt this interpretive lens, we not only see why the concept of independence was reconceived in modern republicanism as a form of free labor, which all could enjoy, but that perhaps the most interesting contribution republican thought can make to contemporary political thought is a distinctive way of thinking about the relationship between work and freedom. Alex’s other work includes a forthcoming article on human rights in the Journal of Human Rights called ‘Are Human Rights Liberal?’, and 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.

Ludmila Guenova is a Lecturer on Social Studies. She received her B.A. from Harvard College in 2003, and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University in 2009. Her areas of specialization are the History of Modern Philosophy and primarily Kant, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the relation between aesthetics and philosophy of science in Kant’s theoretical philosophy.

Peter A. Hall is the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies based in the Department of Government and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. In 2009-2010, he will be teaching a course in General Education and the Core, HSA73: 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), Varieties of Capitalism (2001) and Successful Societies (2009) as well as over seventy articles appearing in edited volumes and journals. He is Co-Director of the Successful Societies program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and has been President of the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association as well as a member of many editorial boards and advisory councils for European universities. Hall’s current research focuses on how the developed democracies have responded to economic crises and intensified international integration in the years since World War II and on the problem of explaining inequalities in health across nations.  Hall has been a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee for eighteen years. He will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

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 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 serving on the Social Studies Standing Committee.  He will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

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 a junior tutorial in the spring.

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. He will be on leave for the 2009-10 academic year.

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.

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. 

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 spring.

Charles Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History and is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee and served as Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies from 1993 to 1997, and as Acting Chair during the spring of 2002 and the academic year 2007-08. His main interests are recent European and international history and the history of political economy.  He teaches courses on the two world wars (Historical Studies B-53 and B-54), on political justice and political trials (Ethical Reasoning 12), on global history (History 1920), and with Niall Ferguson on international financial history.  His most recent book was Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (2006).

Eric Malczewski is a Ph.D. candidate in the University Professors’ Program at BU and a member of The Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences. His areas of interest include classical sociological theory, political philosophy, and sociology and philosophy of science. He is currently working on a project in the sociology of science concerning the advent and history of sociology in France, with an emphasis on the thought of Emile Durkheim and science in the 19th century. With Liah Greenfeld, he has coauthored two articles, “Politics as a Cultural Phenomenon” in Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective (Springer, 2010), and “Nationalism as the Cultural Foundation of Modern Experience” in The Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Routledge, 2010). He earned his B.S. from NYU and was awarded a Master of Public Policy degree with honors from The University of Chicago.

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 the junior tutorial “Development and Modernization: A Critical Perspective” in the fall semester.

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.  He will be on leave for the fall term of the 2009-10 academic year.

Rachel Meyer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on labor and work, social class, social movements, culture and identity, political sociology, class and race, and globalization. Her current book project investigates how contrasting patterns of collective action differentially transform working-class consciousness and subjectivity. Meyer is also writing on contemporary trends in working-class mobilization and is co-authoring a manuscript about collective action and the transformation of solidarity. Meyer has, in addition, published collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Michigan on the extent and sources of ethical consumption with respect to sweatshops and workers’ rights. She will be teaching the junior tutorial “Social Movements and Social Change” in the fall.

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.

Nick O'Donovan is a Lecturer on Social Studies. Nick completed his doctoral studies in the Government Department here at Harvard, over the course of which he studied in Berlin courtesy of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and at the Kennedy School as a fellow of the Center for Public Leadership. His dissertation explores the assumption that democracy requires common values, an assumption prominent both in contemporary political philosophy and contemporary political practice. Through a critical exploration of Habermas' discourse ethics, he argues that theories of liberal democracy (whether academic or common-sensical) posit unnecessarily demanding standards of political concord. He contends that the maximally inclusive aspirations of liberalism are better served by viewing foundational agreement as something that need only be restored or re-presumed, rather than comprehensively theorised. Nick's research focuses primarily on German political thought from Kant to Habermas, in particular the work of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber and Adorno. His research interests include: conceptions of "totalitarianism", past and present; the philosophy of social science (in particular, the Positivismusstreit of the 1960s); and leadership and political responsibility. He will be teaching Social Studies 10 this academic year.

Thomas Ponniah has a PhD from Clark University. His research is focused on alternative forms of globalization. His research interests include social theory, 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 a forthcoming volume on social change in Venezuela. 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. In 2009 he shared a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for advising one of Harvard's best Senior Theses.

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 “Globalization and the Nation State” in the spring.

Patrick Riley received his M.Phil. from The London School of Economics in 1964 (under Michael Oakeshott).  He later received his PhD. from Harvard under Louis Hartz, John Rawls, Carl Friedrich, and Judith Shklar.  He has taught at Harvard, Wisconsin-Madison, Oxford, Florence, Aix-en-Provence, and Berlin, specializing in the political-moral philosophy of Kant, Rousseau, and Leibniz.  His latest book, on “Jurisprudence” from Grotius to Rawls appears in Berlin in Spring 2009. He will be teaching the junior tutorial “Political Thought of Rousseau” in the fall.

Michael E. Rosen is a British political philosopher who is active in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental European intellectual thought. He is currently a professor at Harvard University. Rosen holds a B.A. in philosophy, awarded in 1974, and a D.Phil. awarded in 1980, both from Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to joining Lincoln College, Oxford, he served as a lecturer in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1980 to 1981, an assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1981 to 1982, a special fellow in politics at Merton College, Oxford, from 1982 to 1985, and a lecturer in philosophy at University College London from 1986 to 1990. Rosen is especially famous for his thorough critiques of Hegel. He will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

Nancy Rosenblum is Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government. She is currently Chair of the Department of Government and also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and on the steering committee of the Center for American Political Studies. Her field of research is political theory, both historical and contemporary political thought. She is the author most recently of On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (Princeton, 2008) and 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 Thoreau: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; with Robert Post, Civil Society and Government; and Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies. Professor Rosenblum is working on The Quality of Life, a study of democratic individualism. Professor Rosenblum is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.

Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. Current projects include a short book on the transnational history of France; “The Inner Life of Empires,” about an adventurous family in 18th-century Scotland; and a book about the East India Company and the American Revolution. She is Director of the Center for History and Economics, and is involved in a collaborative research project, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, “Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760.” Recent publications include "The Archives of Universal History" (Journal of World History, September 2008), “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” (Past and Present, August 2006), and Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2001). She will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

Michael Sandel is 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. Professor Sandel will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

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.

Alex Schulman is a Lecturer in Social Studies. He received his B.A. in English from Brown University in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 2009. His dissertation, The Secular Contract: The Divine, the Human and the Politics of Enlightenment examines the secularization of political theory in the 17th and 18th centuries, both as a history of political thought and a normatively valuable project for recovery by modern liberalism. Aside from the Enlightenment he has broad interests in intellectual history and political theory, and is particularly interested in how the “qualitative” and the “quantitative” might be reconciled, or at least communicate productively, in contemporary academe. This follows in part on his interest in “Darwinism and Social Thought,” which he will teach as a Junior Tutorial this year in addition to teaching in Social Studies 10. Other interests include: international relations theory, Shakespeare, existentialism, and the contemporary attempts to study happiness.

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). Professor Shelby will be on leave for the 2009-10 academic year.

Sergio Silva-Castañeda is Lecturer in History and Social Studies. He received his B.S from CIDE in Mexico City in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2009. His dissertation topic is economic development under authoritarian rule focusing on the cases of Mexico and Spain in the 20th century. His senior thesis received the Luis Chavez Orozco Award for the Best Senior Thesis in Economic History by the Economic History Mexican Association. He has taught in Mexico for the ITESM-CCM and has worked for the UN-ECLAC and the Mexican think tank CIDAC. He has worked as a teaching fellow in many different topics (from statistics to colonial Latin America) in Mexico and at Harvard University. He will be teaching a junior tutorial on development and inequality in Latin America in the fall.

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. 2009).  She received her M.A. from UCSD (Political Science) and her B.A. from Whitman College (Politics and Philosophy).   This year, she will teach a junior tutorial on “The Rule of Law” and 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 how the currents of Anglo-American foreign policy in the 20th century have been reflected in liberal thought. 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, existentialist philosophy and contemporary political economy.

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.

Judith Surkis is Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature. Her work is in the area of modern European cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on France and the history of gender and sexuality. She is interested in the history of social thought and the social sciences, especially in France; histories of law, morality, and secularization; cultural modernity; interdisciplinarity and historical methodology. Her book Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 explained how masculine sexuality was central to the making of republican citizenship and social order. In her current book project, Scandalous Subjects: Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930, Surkis explores the importance of sexual scandals in the constitution of liberal subjectivity, legal exceptionalism, and colonial power. A related field of interest is contemporary European sexual politics and the place of gender, religion, and culture in ongoing debates about the extent and limits of Europe's borders.  She co-directs the Colloquia in Intellectual and Cultural History; the Study Group in French Politics, Culture and Society, and the Humanities Center Seminar in Gender and Sexuality. She is a member of the Social Studies Standing Committee.

Bonnie Talbert is a Lecturer on Social Studies. She was Javits Fellow at Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in philosophy in 2009.  She taught Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum, as well as courses in existentialism, ethics and other topics at Columbia and Hunter College. Her dissertation, “Other Minds and Other People: A Tentative Epistemology,” concerns the “problem of other minds,” and knowledge of other people. She will be teaching in Social Studies 10 this year.

Ioanna Tourkochoriti is completing her dissertation at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France. From the beginning of 2007 till the end of 2008 she was 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 expression and protection of human dignity in France and the U.S.A., a study on two different constitutional precomprehensions.” She has published articles on issues of freedom of expression, self-disposition and protection of human dignity, postmodernism and the law, as well as on issues of discrimination on the grounds of religion and disability. As a lawyer she has handled human rights cases at the European Court of Human Rights. She is also a member of the scientific personnel of the Greek Ombudsman (Human Rights Division). She was nominated for the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for her teaching in Social Studies for the academic year 2008-09. 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.  Viterna is a political sociologist who investigates questions relating to civil society, social movements, revolutions, democratization, and gender, particularly in a Latin American context.  Currently, she 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.  She is also beginning a new project that examines the relationship between the expansion of development NGOs and on-the-ground political mobilization.  Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Latin American Research Review. She will be on leave for the 2009-10 academic year.

Chris Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and also a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Business School’s joint Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior. He is a Faculty Associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Criminal Justice Program, and the Hauser Center for the Study of Nonprofits. He teaches graduate courses in social science and statistical methods and undergraduate courses on American poverty, urban sociology, and statistics and public policy. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1977. Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University.  In 2006 he received the American Sociology Association Methodology Section’s Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for distinguished contributions to the field of sociological methodology. Since 1995, he has been editor of Sociological Methods and Research. With Stephen Morgan, he is author of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. In addition to quantitative methods, his research interests include the evaluation of programs aimed at reducing youth violence, neighborhood effects, the sociology of justice, the relationship between social science and public policy, education, mental ability, their relationship and effect on social and economic success, and changes in the social and economic status of African Americans. He is past chair of Harvard’s Standing Committee on Public Service and has been active in building links between Harvard and the City of Boston. Professor Winship will be on leave for the spring term of the 2009-10 academic year.

Carla Yumatle is a Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her studies at Berkeley, she completed a Master’s Degree in Political Theory from London School of Economics. Her areas of specialization include contemporary, Anglo-American political philosophy, and ancient and medieval political thought. Her research focuses on the foundations of liberal democracy, and the intersections between moral and political theory. Other areas of interest include late modern political theory, and conceptual analysis. This year, she will be teaching in Social Studies 10.

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.