The 2016-2017 fellows are listed below along with the projects they will pursue while in residence at the Wilson Center.

Ariel I. Ahram, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs. “Territory, Sovereignty, and the New Map of the Arab World.”

Joseph Cassidy, Former Director for Policy, Regional, and Functional Organizations, International Organizations Bureau, U.S. Department of State. “Revisiting International Refugee Law.”

Ken Conca, Professor of International Affairs, American University. “Climate Change, Water, and the Social Construction of Risk.”

Alon Confino, Professor of History, University of Virginia and Ben-Gurion University, Israel. “Imagining Palestine, 1948: Jews and Palestinians between Local Experience and Global History.”

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Trafficking in Persons, Irregular Immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico.”

Stephen Crowley, Professor of Politics, Oberlin College. “The Other Russia: Labor Politics and the Putin Regime in Challenging Economic Times.”

Jytte Klausen, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation, Brandeis University. “Democracy is Forbidden! The Western Roots of the Jihadist Movement.”

Gale A. Mattox, Professor of Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy. “Women in National Security: Struggles Significance, and Impact.”

Christopher Sellers, Professor of History, Stony Brook University. “Toxic Crossings: Hazardous Trades and the Risk Revolution in the U.S. and Mexico.”

Zach Vertin, Former U.S. Diplomat and Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group. “South Sudan: Blood, Brinkmanship, and the Troubled Birth of the World's Newest State.”

Andrew Wedeman, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University. “Corruption, Unrest, and Repression: Implications for China’s Rise and Sino-American Strategic Relations.”

Igor Zevelev, Former Director, MacArthur Foundation, Moscow Office. “Russia Before and After the Annexation of Crimea: National Identity and Foreign Policy Change.”