2019-2020 CEMS Visiting Scholars
Patryk Babiracki (University of Texas, Arlington)
Research Interests: transnational dimensions of Soviet and East European communisms during the Cold War.
Dorota Dakowska (University of Lyon 2, Institut Universitaire de France)
Research interests: Transnational relations, European and Polish politics, German party foundations, international organizations and higher education reforms in Europe
Magdalena Gora (Jagiellonian University)
Research Interests: contemporary Polish foreign policy; European foreign policy; enlargement of the European Union, identity formation and European integration; Polish-Jewish and Polish-Israeli relations.
Sigrun Kahl (Princeton University)
Research interests: European politics and history, comparative politics, religion and politics, public policy, poverty and inequality, comparative-historical analysis of the welfare state, and qualitative methods.
Lena Magnone (University of Warsaw)
Research interests: Culture transfer within the Hapsburg empire, birth and spread of pyschoanalysis, Central European late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature.
Daniel Schatz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Research Interests: transatlantic relations, foreign policy change, political psychology, European politics, international affairs.
2018-2019 CEMS Visiting Scholars
Robert Chaouad (CUNY)
Research Interests: The European crisis (Eurozone, legitimacy, migration, Brexit, etc.) and how the narrative and the category of crisis has been used historically and politically in the European integration process to address problems that the EU was facing.
Dr. Arolda Elbasani (NYU)
Research Interests: Religion and politics; Islam in Europe; secular models; nation-building; European Integration; democracy promotion; democratization; accountability; Southeast Europe and Yugoslavia.
Nanette Funk (Brooklyn College)
Research interests: Social and political philosophy, German contemporary philosophy, Marxism, feminist political theory and women and post-communism.
Daniel Hershenzon (University of Connecticut)
Research interests: Early modern Spanish and Mediterranean history, the relations between the Spanish Monarchy and North Africa, slavery and captivity, cultural intermediaries, conversion, and writing and its uses.
Janet Johnson (Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Based on long term fieldwork in Russia, other post-communist societies, and a variety of transnational spaces; gender politics, especially women's organizing, gender violence policy and trafficking in persons.
Azeta Kola (Mercy College)
Research Interests: The history of Early Modern Europe with a focus on Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.
Mara Lazda (CUNY, Bronx Community College)
Research Interests: Latvia; gendered relationships under military occupation; interactions between gender, nationalism, and transnationalism under socialism and post-socialism; politics and memory of regional identity in the European Union.
Elidor Mehilli (Hunter College, CUNY)
Research interests: modern Europe, authoritarian regimes, non-capitalist forms of globalization, and political and economic integration/disintegration.
Mary Ann Newman (Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the U.S.)
Research Interests: Catalan literature; academic and literary translation from Catalan and Spanish to English.
Linh Nguyen (European University Institute)
Research interests: Post-war Poland, twentieth century transnational European history.
Kahl Sigrum (Princeton University)
Research interests: European politics and history, comparative politics, religion and politics, public policy, poverty and inequality, comparative-historical analysis of the welfare state, and qualitative methods.
2017-2018 CEMS Visiting Scholars
Tugba Basaran (Princeton University)
Research Interests: The intersection of socio-political thought, socio-legal studies, critical security, migration, and EU studies.
Robert Chaouad (CUNY)
Research Interests: The European crisis (Eurozone, legitimacy, migration, Brexit, etc.) and how the narrative and the category of crisis has been used historically and politically in the European integration process to address problems that the EU was facing.
Francesca Degiuli (Farleigh Dickinson University)
Research interests: Theoretical connections between political economy and culture; ideology labor markets; intersecting inequalities.
Madigan Fichter (York University)
Research Interests: Socialist Southeastern Europe’s countercultural and youth opposition movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Nanette Funk (Brooklyn College)
Research interests: Social and political philosophy, German contemporary philosophy, Marxism, feminist political theory and women and post-communism.
Janet Johnson (Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Based on long term fieldwork in Russia, other post-communist societies, and a variety of transnational spaces; gender politics, especially women's organizing, gender violence policy and trafficking in persons.
Azeta Kola (Mercy College)
Research Interests: The history of Early Modern Europe with a focus on Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.
Mara Lazda (CUNY, Bronx Community College)
Research Interests: Latvia; gendered relationships under military occupation; interactions between gender, nationalism, and transnationalism under socialism and post-socialism; politics and memory of regional identity in the European Union.
Mary Ann Newman (Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the U.S.)
Research Interests: Catalan literature; academic and literary translation from Catalan and Spanish to English.
Dr. Elise Langan (Bronx Community College (CUNY)
Research Interests: French identity; French education policies for immigrants; EU higher education policy; best practices for training secondary history teachers.
Dr. Diana Mincyte (CUNY)
Research Interests: Environmental and social dimensions of agro-food economies in post-socialist member states in the European Union.
Dr. Arolda Elbasani (NYU)
Research Interests: Religion and politics; Islam in Europe; secular models; nation-building; European Integration; democracy promotion; democratization; accountability; Southeast Europe and Yugoslavia.
Dr. Gyoa Margret Petursdottir (University of Iceland)
Research Interests: Gender; Feminism; Masculinities; Feminities; Gender Relations; Family Responsibility; Work Cultures and Queer studies.
Dr. Rieko Suzuki (Wasoeda University, Japan)
Research interests: the significance of Italy in the works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Dr. Flip Pospisil (Independent Researcher)
Research interests: political anthropology; historical anthropology; migration; minorities; subculture; privacy; surveillance; human rights.
Dr. Robert Peckham (The University of Hong Kong)
Research Interests: Biopolitical Issues, in particular Comparative histories of Epidemic Disease Prevention; Disease Events as the outcome of complex interactions between social, economic, political and biological economies.
2016-2017 CEMS Visiting Scholars
Martia PIa Belloni Mignatti (University of Pavia)
Research interests: American and Eruopean rules on nutrition and health claims made on foods
Ipek Celik Rappas (Koc University)
Research interests: diasporic cinems in Europe; ethnicity and mionities in the Mediterranean; the role of film and television production in urban renovation; film and television tourism in European cities.
Francesca Degiuli (CUNY, College of Staten Island)
Research interests: Theoretical connections between political economy and culture; ideology labor markets; intersecting inequalities
Arolda Elbasani (European University of Tirana, Albania)
Research interests: Religion and politics; Islam in Europe; secular models; nation-building; European Integration; democracy promotion; democratization; accountability; Southeast Europe and Yugoslavia
Filip Erdeljac (Vienna Wiesnthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Research interests: World War II and the Holocaust; nationalism; immigration; East-Central Europe and Yugoslavia
Daniela Fargioine (University of Turin)
Research interests: environmental humanities; ecocriticism; migration literatures; translation studies; the interconnections of modern and contemporary American literature with the other arts
Rosario Forlenza (University of Padova, Italy)
Research interests: Modern Italian history; the US and Europe in the twentieth century; the Cold War; intellectual history; politics on memory; political anthropology; cultural and symbolic politics; politics and religion, cinema and visual culture; democracy (history and theory)
Teresa Fiore (Montclair State University)
Research interests: 19th-20th century Italian literature; Italian cinema; Italian American culture, and immigration in contemporary Italy, with a theoretical focus on space.
Nanette Funk (Brooklyn College)
Research interests: Social and political philosophy, German contemporary philosophy, Marxism, feminist political theory and women and post-communsim.
Maria Hadjipolycarpou (Columbia University)
Research interests: Shared practices of Christians, arbas, and Jews; postcolonial studies and the Mediterranean; musical and oral traditions; secularism and religion in the nation-state; Mediterranean history; Byzantium and modernity; non-Western moderinities; Early modern and Medieval Mediterranean history; multilingualism; online identities; relations of Mediterranean countries; athnoreligious conflicts, partition, and reconciliation; island studies; nationalism; African-American studies; Caribbean studies; women studies; global and transnational comparative methodologies; interdisciplinary dialogue.
Leah Haus (Vassar College)
Research Interests: Historical legacies and comparative politics; Europeanization, education, and school curricula; immigrant integration and education
Janet Johnson (Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Based on long term fieldwork in Russia, other post-communist societies, and a variety of transnational spaces; gender politics, especially women's organizing, gender violence policy and trafficking in persons
Elise Langan (USG)
Research Interests: French identity; French education policies for immigrants; EU higher education policy; best practices for training secondary history teachers
Mara Lazda (CUNY, Bronx Community College)
Research Interests: Latvia; gendered relationships under military occupation; interactions between gender, nationalism, and transnationalism under socialism and post-socialism; politics and memory of regional identity in the European Union
Sylvia Maier (Center for Global Affairs, NYU)
Research interests: women’s rights, empowerment and education in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf States; social and political reform movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan; honor-based violence against women; Islamic feminism; women’s protest movements
Diana Mincyte (CUNY)
Research Interests: Environmental and social justice dimensions of agro-food business, particularly in Eastern Europe
Behrooz Moazami (Loyola University)
Research Interests: Book project “Euro-Asian State System: Climate, Coercion, Capital, 1250-2050”
Mary Ann Newman (Independent Translator and Writer)
Research Interests: Catalan literature; academic and literary translation from Catalan and Spanish to English
Pedro Nungovtich (Independent Researcher)
Research interests: Polish national/historical symbolism and ideas of heroism; Polish historiography, historical monuments, and cultural artifacts; the history of cities; the history of museums; issues relating to cultural heritage
Ozden Ocak (Independent Researcher)
French/European immigration politics, neoliberalism, governmentality, citizenship, race and nationalism
Flip Pospisil (Independent Researcher)
Research interests: political anthropology; historical anthropology; migration; minorities; subculture; privacy; surveillance; human rights
Rieko Suzuki (Wasoeda University, Japan)
Research interests: the significance of Italy in the works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Boaz Vilallonga (Ramaz School)
Research Interests: constitution of a “Catholic modernity” in XIX century Europe
Past Visiting Scholars
Isabella Abbonizio (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Research Interests: History of Italian music and colonialism during Fascism; 20th century French guitar music; music education; classical guitar
Hulya Alev-Baltali (Private Researcher)
Research Interests: international trade and EU external policy;
Aiste Bartkiene (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)
Research Interests: Ethical an political dimensions of Europeanization and Westernization, specifically in the areas of environmental change in new EU member states; bioethics
Christian U. Blume (Leibniz University Hanover)
Research Interests: European Security; Peace Operations; Peacekeeping; Inter-Organizaztional Relations, especially the cooperation between the United Nations and European Security Institutions (EU and NATO)
Holly Case (Cornell University)
Research Interests: Territorial revision and treatment of minorities; WWII; History of European renewal and federative schemes; Relationship between social policy and foreign relations
Simone Cinotto (University of Turin)
Research Interests: Comparative and relative history of Italian and Puerto Rican migration; issues of mobility and power in modern Italy and the Spanish Empire; transatlantic political discourse; emergence of diasporic nationalism, slavery, and labor
Ioana Cirstocea (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Strasbourg)
Research Interests: Transnational circulation of feminist political and theoretical repertoires; mapping the establishment of women’s and gender studies initiatives in Eastern European countries after socialism; international production and diffusion of norms about gender equality
Maria Elena Cavallaro (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca)
Research Interests: International relations; Cold War studies; Political history; Transitions to Democracy; EU studies; History of Movements and Political Parties
Oreste Foppiani (Webster University of Geneva)
Research Interest: Illegal immigration in the US Coast/Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean; Spanish-American War; Anglo-American Relations during World War II; Republican Fascism; the US and Italian navies; British and US intelligence during World War II; history of European integration; EU security policies; EU-US relations; US power politics
Amanda Garrett (Harvard University)
Research Interests: Islam in the West; Minority participation; conflict and political violence; transnational networks; comparative and European politics; Middle East/North African Politics; Social policy and Inequality; Immigration and Integration policy; Urban politics
Magdalena Gora (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
Research interest: the European Union as an actor in international relations, European Neighbourhood Policy and enlargement of the EU, foreign policy and international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and processes of collective identity formation in the context of the EU enlargement and its influence on democracy in Europe.
Deborah Hertz (University of California, San Diego)
Research Interests: Jewish history; Assimilation; European Jewry; Feminist history
Aude Jehan (John Hopkins)
Research Interests: Foreign affairs in the EU and US; relationship between language, collective identity, representation, and power
Jason Jordan (Drew University)
Research Interests: Politics of mature welfare states of Europe; Effects of religious belief and culture on individual and national-level support for the welfare state
Hye-Ran Kim (University of Bologna)
Research Interests: school-to-work transition programs in Italy; employment programs; labor markets
Stefanie Leontiadis (ATHENA Research Center)
Research Interests: Theoretical and schematic interpretation of the evolution of the architecture of public open spaces in Mediterranean case studies within the context of post-WWII evolution expressed through the multidimensional layers of interdisciplinary influence
Fransisco Luque-Castillo (London School of Economics)
Research Interests: The Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism as an idea before the war and how it was put into practice
Margarita Markoviti (London School of Economics)
Research Interests: Religious freedom in European states; European educational systems
Erica Morretti (Brown University)
Research Interests: Italian colonialism; oral memories of deportation; education, specifically the Montessori system
Thomas Ort (Queens College)
Research Interests: East-Central Europe, late-imperial Austria-Hungary, interwar Czechoslovakia, modernism, the avant-garde, memory of WWI
Judith Pajo (Pace University)
Research Interests: American and European environmental policies
Gyda Petursdottir (University of Iceland)
Research Interests: Gender studies and gender relations; gender dynamics, masculinities and the Icelandic financial crises; family responsibility; leave policies; work cultures and gender relations in the Icelandic police force
Stanislao Pugliese (Hofstra University)
Research Interests: Cultural history of Naples
Rebeca Viguera-Ruiz (Universidad de La Rioja)
Research Interests: Political practices of Spanish liberalism
Lidia Santarelli (Harvard University)
Research Interests: Italian and European colonialism
Roman Schmidt (Sciences Po, Paris)
Research Interests: History of the transnational journal network Lettre Internationale; intellectual history
Daniel Schuker (U.S. Court of Appeals)
Research Interests: U.S constitutional law; rule of law from an international perspective; comparative criminal law in United States and Europe; judicial independence in the new constitutional democracies in Central and Eastern Europe
Pasquale Tridico (University of Roma Tre)
Research Interests: How the EU, which employs different varieties of capitalism, and the US, which operates based on a competitive capitalist model, are coping with the current economic crisis
Irwin Wall (University of California, Riverside)
Research Interests: Modern France, French-American Relations; French Communism; the Jews of France
Sarah Zarrow (Independent Researcher)
Research Interests: Jewish ethnographic and art collection practice in interwar Poland