LUC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROGRAM
In February 2012, the LUCRC launched its Research Associate Programme.
Believing in the fundamental creativity of scholarly activity and that thinkers at all levels are capable of critical innovation and creative insight, at the LUC Research Centre we aim to cultivate excellence and talent both within, outside, and between the boundaries of conventional disciplines. LUC RC seeks to accomplish these goals by creating a highly fertile, international and cosmopolitan environment for motivated thinkers, who work together across boundaries of discipline, media, region and seniority to help build knowledge for a better world.
Therefore, we have developed a Research Associate Programme – a network of scholars and policy-makers with a wealth of experience in tackling global challenges on which the LUC’s curriculum is based. Based on a Research Associate’s own interests and expertise, they will provide a creative contribution to the LUC community—be it by giving a workshop or seminar, contributing to our ‘Working Papers’ series, advising students interested in their specific field, and beyond.
Associates will be appointed for a term of two years, and will be included in our public profile and provided whatever support we can for the activities they seek to perform in the context of their association with us.
We are very honoured to welcome to the first group of distinguished RA’s from 1 February 2012 and look forward to collaborating with them.
For further information, please contact the coordinator of the Research Associate Programme, Priya Swamy.
Believing in the fundamental creativity of scholarly activity and that thinkers at all levels are capable of critical innovation and creative insight, at the LUC Research Centre we aim to cultivate excellence and talent both within, outside, and between the boundaries of conventional disciplines. LUC RC seeks to accomplish these goals by creating a highly fertile, international and cosmopolitan environment for motivated thinkers, who work together across boundaries of discipline, media, region and seniority to help build knowledge for a better world.
Therefore, we have developed a Research Associate Programme – a network of scholars and policy-makers with a wealth of experience in tackling global challenges on which the LUC’s curriculum is based. Based on a Research Associate’s own interests and expertise, they will provide a creative contribution to the LUC community—be it by giving a workshop or seminar, contributing to our ‘Working Papers’ series, advising students interested in their specific field, and beyond.
Associates will be appointed for a term of two years, and will be included in our public profile and provided whatever support we can for the activities they seek to perform in the context of their association with us.
We are very honoured to welcome to the first group of distinguished RA’s from 1 February 2012 and look forward to collaborating with them.
For further information, please contact the coordinator of the Research Associate Programme, Priya Swamy.
Current Research Associates
Professor Ibrahim Awad
Professor Awad is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, University of Cairo and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
He has researched and published in Arabic, English, French and Spanish in political economy, employment, international labour migration, human and labour rights, international relations, international organization and regional integration.
Professor Awad has held positions with regional and United Nations organizations in Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon and Egypt, including, most recently: Director, International Migration Programme, ILO Headquarters, Geneva (2005-2010); Director, Sub-regional Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for North Africa, in Cairo (2001-2005); Secretary of the Commission, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (1999-2001); Member of boards and scientific councils of several institutions, programmes and projects related to research on development, migration and human rights.
At present, he is Professor of Public Policy at the American University in Cairo (AUC), School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Director of the Center of Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at AUC. In addition, he is political analyst and commentator in Egyptian, Arab and International Media.
Professor Awad is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, University of Cairo and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
He has researched and published in Arabic, English, French and Spanish in political economy, employment, international labour migration, human and labour rights, international relations, international organization and regional integration.
Professor Awad has held positions with regional and United Nations organizations in Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon and Egypt, including, most recently: Director, International Migration Programme, ILO Headquarters, Geneva (2005-2010); Director, Sub-regional Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for North Africa, in Cairo (2001-2005); Secretary of the Commission, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (1999-2001); Member of boards and scientific councils of several institutions, programmes and projects related to research on development, migration and human rights.
At present, he is Professor of Public Policy at the American University in Cairo (AUC), School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Director of the Center of Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at AUC. In addition, he is political analyst and commentator in Egyptian, Arab and International Media.
Mr Fateh Azzam
Fateh Azzam has been Regional Representative for the Middle East, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2006, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Center at the American University in Cairo, Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation in Cairo and Lagos, Nigeria, and Director of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization in Ramallah.
He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Essex University and has written on human rights and humanitarian law topics including studies of Arab constitutions, civil and political rights, the right to development and Humanitarian Law. He also has two published plays, Ansar and Baggage.
Mr. Azzam has a long history of voluntary activities which include founding and currently chairing the Board of the Arab Human Rights Fund, membership of the Executive Board of the International Council on Human Rights Policy and others.
Fateh Azzam has been Regional Representative for the Middle East, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2006, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Center at the American University in Cairo, Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation in Cairo and Lagos, Nigeria, and Director of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization in Ramallah.
He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Essex University and has written on human rights and humanitarian law topics including studies of Arab constitutions, civil and political rights, the right to development and Humanitarian Law. He also has two published plays, Ansar and Baggage.
Mr. Azzam has a long history of voluntary activities which include founding and currently chairing the Board of the Arab Human Rights Fund, membership of the Executive Board of the International Council on Human Rights Policy and others.
Professor Sven Beckert
Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor in American History at Harvard University.
Professor Beckert’s research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions.
His publications have focused on the nineteenth-century American bourgeoisie, on labor, on democracy and, in recent years, on the global history of capitalism. Beckert teaches courses on the history of American capitalism, Gilded Age America, the political economy of modern capitalism, labor history and global capitalism.
Beckert is co-chair of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Beyond Harvard, he co-chairs an international study group on global history, is co-editor of a series of books at Princeton University Press on “America in the World,” has co-organized a series of conferences on the history of capitalism, and is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor in American History at Harvard University.
Professor Beckert’s research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions.
His publications have focused on the nineteenth-century American bourgeoisie, on labor, on democracy and, in recent years, on the global history of capitalism. Beckert teaches courses on the history of American capitalism, Gilded Age America, the political economy of modern capitalism, labor history and global capitalism.
Beckert is co-chair of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Beyond Harvard, he co-chairs an international study group on global history, is co-editor of a series of books at Princeton University Press on “America in the World,” has co-organized a series of conferences on the history of capitalism, and is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
Professor David Cingranelli
David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. For the past 15 years, he has served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project. He conducts global, comparative, econometric research examining the causes and consequences of variation in government respect for various types of human rights.
His most recent book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, Cambridge University Press, examined the human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programs in less developed countries. His current book project with Mikhail Filippov titled Institutions, Incentives and Human Rights examines how constitutional design and other factors can provide incentives to politicians to enact policies protecting human rights and to monitor the implementation of those policies. He is also conducting comparative, global, cross-national research on human trafficking, on the relationship between labor standards and employment and on the relationship between repression of human rights and political violence.
He has been employed as a consultant for the World Bank, and his research has been funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
David Cingranelli is a Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
He is a former President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. For the past 15 years, he has served as the co-director of the Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project. He conducts global, comparative, econometric research examining the causes and consequences of variation in government respect for various types of human rights.
His most recent book with Rodwan Abouharb, Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, Cambridge University Press, examined the human rights impacts of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programs in less developed countries. His current book project with Mikhail Filippov titled Institutions, Incentives and Human Rights examines how constitutional design and other factors can provide incentives to politicians to enact policies protecting human rights and to monitor the implementation of those policies. He is also conducting comparative, global, cross-national research on human trafficking, on the relationship between labor standards and employment and on the relationship between repression of human rights and political violence.
He has been employed as a consultant for the World Bank, and his research has been funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. William Hynes
William Hynes is a Policy Analyst in the Development Co-operation Directorate at the OECD, a Research Associate of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs in Sciences Po. At the OECD he has advised donors on evaluation of aid programmes, monitored aid flows and contributed to reports on aid for trade to the World Trade Organisation, UN agencies and the G20. Prior to joining the OECD he was an Economic Affairs Officer at the WTO working in the Office of Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza and the Trade and Finance Division. He is currently co-ordinating a study on Green Growth and Developing Countries at the OECD. He has a doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a college lecturer in economics and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.
William Hynes is a Policy Analyst in the Development Co-operation Directorate at the OECD, a Research Associate of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs in Sciences Po. At the OECD he has advised donors on evaluation of aid programmes, monitored aid flows and contributed to reports on aid for trade to the World Trade Organisation, UN agencies and the G20. Prior to joining the OECD he was an Economic Affairs Officer at the WTO working in the Office of Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza and the Trade and Finance Division. He is currently co-ordinating a study on Green Growth and Developing Countries at the OECD. He has a doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a college lecturer in economics and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Professor Yoh Iwasa
Yoh Iwasa is Professor of Theoretical Biology and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, both at Kyushu University, Japan. He holds a PhD from Kyoto University and has held numerous positions at universities in Japan and around the world.
His research interests include pattern formation in cone mosaic of fish retina, leaf vein formation, circadian rhythm, somatic evolution of cancer, genomic imprinting, mate preference evolution, forest dynamics both in temperate and tropics, species coexistence and diversity in coral reef, and population extinction risk of animals and plants.
Recently, he has become more interested in the boundaries of social sciences and ecology, especially because many environmental problems include socio-economic aspects. In addition, Professor Iwasa has worked on a coupled social-ecological dynamics in deforestation or in lake eutrophication problems, as well as the evolution and maintenance of cooperation, which is an important theoretical theme in biology as well as in social sciences.
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Yoh Iwasa is Professor of Theoretical Biology and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, both at Kyushu University, Japan. He holds a PhD from Kyoto University and has held numerous positions at universities in Japan and around the world.
His research interests include pattern formation in cone mosaic of fish retina, leaf vein formation, circadian rhythm, somatic evolution of cancer, genomic imprinting, mate preference evolution, forest dynamics both in temperate and tropics, species coexistence and diversity in coral reef, and population extinction risk of animals and plants.
Recently, he has become more interested in the boundaries of social sciences and ecology, especially because many environmental problems include socio-economic aspects. In addition, Professor Iwasa has worked on a coupled social-ecological dynamics in deforestation or in lake eutrophication problems, as well as the evolution and maintenance of cooperation, which is an important theoretical theme in biology as well as in social sciences.
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Professor L.H.M Ling
L.H.M. Ling (PhD, MIT) is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at The New School in New York City.
Her research agenda focuses on developing a “multiple worlds” or “worldly” approach to International Relations/World Politics, aided by an integration of postcolonial studies and Daoist dialectics.
Dr. Ling is the author of three books: Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (Routledge, 2009), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou (York University), and The Dao of World Politics: US-China Relations Post-Westphalia (Routledge, forthcoming). Additionally, Dr. Ling is developing a textbook, Learning World Politics: People, Power, Perspective, Volume I: Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, to introduce Other worlds in IR/world politics, and a book of experimental pedagogy titled, Play on Worlds: A Performative Pedagogy for International Relations. Both are for advanced undergraduates and entry-level graduate students. From 2008-2010, Dr. Ling was a Faculty Fellow with the India China Institute (ICI) at The New School. She is working on a manuscript with other ICI Fellows titled, Rethinking Borders and Security, India and China: New Connections for Ancient Geographies. Dr. Ling’s articles have appeared in various journals and anthologies.
L.H.M. Ling (PhD, MIT) is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at The New School in New York City.
Her research agenda focuses on developing a “multiple worlds” or “worldly” approach to International Relations/World Politics, aided by an integration of postcolonial studies and Daoist dialectics.
Dr. Ling is the author of three books: Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (Routledge, 2009), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou (York University), and The Dao of World Politics: US-China Relations Post-Westphalia (Routledge, forthcoming). Additionally, Dr. Ling is developing a textbook, Learning World Politics: People, Power, Perspective, Volume I: Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, to introduce Other worlds in IR/world politics, and a book of experimental pedagogy titled, Play on Worlds: A Performative Pedagogy for International Relations. Both are for advanced undergraduates and entry-level graduate students. From 2008-2010, Dr. Ling was a Faculty Fellow with the India China Institute (ICI) at The New School. She is working on a manuscript with other ICI Fellows titled, Rethinking Borders and Security, India and China: New Connections for Ancient Geographies. Dr. Ling’s articles have appeared in various journals and anthologies.
Professor Rafael Sánchez
Rafael Sánchez teaches at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.
His publications focus on media, politics, populism, and spirit mediumship. His book Dancing Jacobins: A Genealogy of Latin American Populism is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. His current project, “The Fate of Sovereignty in the Landscape of the City,” focuses on urban imaginaries and territorializing practices in Caracas under the current Chávez regime.
Rafael Sánchez teaches at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.
His publications focus on media, politics, populism, and spirit mediumship. His book Dancing Jacobins: A Genealogy of Latin American Populism is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. His current project, “The Fate of Sovereignty in the Landscape of the City,” focuses on urban imaginaries and territorializing practices in Caracas under the current Chávez regime.
Professor Teresa Shewry
Teresa Shewry is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She has a PhD in Literature from Duke University (2008) and an MA in English and BA in Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand (2002). Her research explores how writers and filmmakers from Asia and the Pacific make sense of environment, time, and sociality, and engages fields such as environmental studies, Pacific and Pacific Rim cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory. She is completing a book manuscript, Possible Ecologies: Literature, Nature, and Hope in the Pacific, and is co-editor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Drawing on literary works and other archives, Possible Ecologies explores stories about hope within the context of difficult environmental conditions in the Pacific during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Teresa Shewry is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She has a PhD in Literature from Duke University (2008) and an MA in English and BA in Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand (2002). Her research explores how writers and filmmakers from Asia and the Pacific make sense of environment, time, and sociality, and engages fields such as environmental studies, Pacific and Pacific Rim cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory. She is completing a book manuscript, Possible Ecologies: Literature, Nature, and Hope in the Pacific, and is co-editor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. Drawing on literary works and other archives, Possible Ecologies explores stories about hope within the context of difficult environmental conditions in the Pacific during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert
Christine Van Den Wyngaert is a Judge at the International Criminal Court since 2009, for a term of nine years. She is assigned to the Trial Division. Elected from the Western European and Others Group of States, list A.
Judge Van den Wyngaert (1952) graduated from Brussels University in 1974 and obtained a PhD in International Criminal Law in 1979. She was a professor of law at the University of Antwerp (1985 - 2005) where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative criminal law and international criminal law. She authored numerous publications in all these fields. She was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (Centre for European Legal Studies (1994 - 1996), Research Centre for International Law (1996 1997)) and a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (2001). Her merits as an academic were recognised in the form of a Doctorate Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2001). She was an expert for the two major scientific organisations in her field, the International Law Association and the International Association of Penal Law. She was an observer of the Human Rights League at the trial of Helen Passtoors in Johannesburg in 1986 and made human rights a focal point in her teachings and writings throughout her career. In 2006, she was awarded the Prize of the Human Rights League. Judge Van den Wyngaert gained expertise in various governmental organisations. She was a member of the Criminal Procedure Reform Commission in Belgium (Commission Franchimont) (1991 - 1998) and served as an expert for the European Union in various criminal law projects. She has extensive international judicial experience. She served in the International Court of Justice as an ad hoc judge in the Arrest Warrant Case (2000 - 2002) and was elected as a judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she served for more than five years (2003 - 2009).
Christine Van Den Wyngaert is a Judge at the International Criminal Court since 2009, for a term of nine years. She is assigned to the Trial Division. Elected from the Western European and Others Group of States, list A.
Judge Van den Wyngaert (1952) graduated from Brussels University in 1974 and obtained a PhD in International Criminal Law in 1979. She was a professor of law at the University of Antwerp (1985 - 2005) where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative criminal law and international criminal law. She authored numerous publications in all these fields. She was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (Centre for European Legal Studies (1994 - 1996), Research Centre for International Law (1996 1997)) and a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (2001). Her merits as an academic were recognised in the form of a Doctorate Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2001). She was an expert for the two major scientific organisations in her field, the International Law Association and the International Association of Penal Law. She was an observer of the Human Rights League at the trial of Helen Passtoors in Johannesburg in 1986 and made human rights a focal point in her teachings and writings throughout her career. In 2006, she was awarded the Prize of the Human Rights League. Judge Van den Wyngaert gained expertise in various governmental organisations. She was a member of the Criminal Procedure Reform Commission in Belgium (Commission Franchimont) (1991 - 1998) and served as an expert for the European Union in various criminal law projects. She has extensive international judicial experience. She served in the International Court of Justice as an ad hoc judge in the Arrest Warrant Case (2000 - 2002) and was elected as a judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she served for more than five years (2003 - 2009).
