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The Woodrow Wilson Center Announces the 2008-2009 Class of Fellows

Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, today announced the members of the 2008-2009 fellowship class. The 22 fellows, most of whom will arrive September 2008 to spend an academic year in residence at the Center, include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Denmark, Ecuador, Israel, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

WASHINGTON-—Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, today announced the members of the 2008-2009 fellowship class. The 22 fellows, most of whom will arrive September 2008 to spend an academic year in residence at the Center, include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Denmark, Ecuador, Israel, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

"We are looking forward to having this prominent group in residence this fall at the Wilson Center," said Hamilton. "These men and women are distinguished in their fields of expertise and will enhance the intellectual discourse at the Center and the public policy community in Washington."

The 2008-2009 fellows are listed below along with the projects they will pursue while in residence at the Wilson Center.

Margot Badran, Senior Fellow, Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. "Islamic Feminism, Human Rights, and Democracy."

Nitsan Chorev, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University. "From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: On the Global Governance of Health."

Sally Clarke, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin. "The Environment and Corporate Responsibility: Law, Science, and Economics at Environmental Defense, 1967-2000."

Bettye Collier-Thomas, Professor of History, Temple University. "We Are in Politics, And in Politics to Stay: African American Women and Politics."

Carlos de la Torre, Professor, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciences Sociales (FLASCO), Ecuador. "Andean Radical Populism: The Foe or the Essence of Democracy?"

David Edelstein, Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University. "Exit Strategies: How States End Military Interventions."

H. Richard Friman, Professor of Political Science, Marquette University. "Crime by Foreigners: Migrants and the Politics of Internal Security."

Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. "Language, Identity, and Democracy in Post-Soviet Ukraine."

Deirdre LaPin, International Consultant. "The Niger Delta Story: Oil, State, and Society in Collision."

Kathryn Lavelle, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University. "Legislating for International Organizations: The U.S. Congress and the Bretton Woods Financial Institutions."

Margarita López Maya, Profesor Titular, Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo (CENDES), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela. "Participatory Innovations in Bolivarian Caracas."

Jennifer Mittelstadt, Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University. "The American Military Welfare State."

Kimberly Morgan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University. "The Political Consequences of Public Policy: Medicare and the Politics of the American Welfare State."

Stephen Negus, Iraq Correspondent, Financial Times, London. "Local Histories of Iraq's Sunni Arab Insurgency."

Liselotte Odgaard, Associate Professor, Institute for Strategy, the Royal Danish Defence College. "Metternich and China's Post-Cold War Grand Strategy."

Gul Berna Ozcan, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. "Control of the Markets and Governance through Strategic Assets in Central Asia."

Samer Shehata, Assistant Professor of Arab Politics, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. "Islamist Electoral Participation in the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy?"

Doh Shin, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri. "Confucianism and Citizen Support for Liberal Democracy in East Asia."

Bartholomew Sparrow, Associate Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. "Brent Scowcroft and the Struggle for the Soul of U.S. Foreign Policy."

Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia. "Struggles for Justice in the Middle East."

Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Maryland, College Park. "Democracy and Memory: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past."

Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. "American Political Science and the Problem of Empire."

Media with questions should contact Sharon McCarter at (202) 691-4016 or by e-mail at sharon.mccarter@wilsoncenter.org.

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.