The Woodrow Wilson Center Announces 2007-2008 Fellows

May 14, 2007

WASHINGTON—-Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, announces the selection of the 2007-2008 fellowship class. The 21 fellows, most of whom will arrive in September 2007 to spend an academic year in residence at the Center, will include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Azerbaijan, Chile, India, Israel, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

“We’re pleased to have such a distinguished group of men and women joining us this fall,” said Hamilton. “They represent a variety of disciplines, topics, nationalities, and viewpoints, which will undoubtedly add to the richness of thought and dialogue here at the Wilson Center.”

The fellows are listed below with the projects they will pursue during their Wilson Center residency.
Caroline Bledsoe. Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University. “The Demography of Family Reunification in Afro-Iberia: Emerging Dilemmas for Spain and its African Immigrants”

William Callahan. Chair Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. “Security, Identity, and the Rise of China”

Gokhan Cetinsaya. Professor of History, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. “Turkey and the New Iraq: Past, Present and Future”

Rita Chin. Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan. “The European Left and Postwar Immigration”

Raphael Cohen-Almagor. Director, Center for Democratic Studies, University of Haifa, Israel. “In Internet’s Way: New Challenges for Liberal Democracies”

Marie-Therese Connolly. Coordinator, Elder Justice Initiative and Senior Trial Counsel, United States Department of Justice. “No Place for Sissies: The Silent Scandal of Elder Abuse in an Aging America”

Mary Ellen Curtin. Lecturer, Department of History, University of Essex, United Kingdom. “From Virtue to Power: Barbara Jordan and the Origins of the Black Female Politician in America”

Matthew Dallek. Author and Adjunct Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, School of Public and International Affairs. “Sense of Siege: The Titanic Struggle to Defend America, 1941-1962”

Lucia Dammert. Director, Citizen’s Security Program, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO), Chile. “Diffusion and Confusion: The Importation of U.S. Public Security Policies to Latin America”

Neil Foley. Associate Professor of History and American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. “Jim Crow Good Neighbors: Black and Latino Civil Rights in World War II-Era Texas and the Southwest, 1940-1964”

Dipankar Gupta. Professor of Sociology, Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. “The Vanishing Village: Policy Implications for India in the Era of Globalization”

Frances Hagopian. Michael P. Grace II Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame. “Reorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Parties, Program, and Patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico”

Alexander Knysh. Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. “Islam and Empire in the Northern Caucasus”

Chingiz Mammadov. Professor of Political Science, Khazar University; Manager, Counterpart-International, Azerbaijan. “The Experience of Interfaith and Interethnic Tolerance in Azerbaijan to Moderate Current Religious and Interethnic Confrontation in Iraq”

Deirdre Moloney. Coordinator of Postgraduate Fellowships, George Mason University. “National Insecurities: Immigration and U.S. Deportation Policy”

Daniel Monk. George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program [P-CON], Colgate University.
“Traces of Aggression: Mutual Recrimination and the Elaboration of History in the Aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War”

Robyn Muncy. Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park. “Progressivism and the Great Society: Josephine Roche and the Reform Tradition in Twentieth Century America”

Shobita Parthasarathy. Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. “Crisis at the Patent Office: Rethinking Governance of Biotechnology in Comparative Perspective”

Jill Shankleman. Director, JSL Consulting, United Kingdom. “New Kids on the Block: Chinese State Oil Companies and Governance of Oil Wealth”

Aili Tripp. Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Women and Peacemaking in Africa: When, Why and How Gender Matters”

Salim Yaqub. Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Imperfect Strangers: Americans and Arabs in the 1970s”


The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the living, national memorial to President Wilson. The Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds and engaged in the study of national and world affairs.