Mark Beissinger

Mentor: Mark R. Beissinger Princeton University

Jesse Russell Driscoll (2008 Fellow), Stanford University
"Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics and the Post-Soviet Peace"

Mark Beissinger is Professor of Politics at Princeton. His main fields of interest are nationalism, state-building, imperialism, and social movements, with special reference to the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author or editor of four books, including Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002). From 1992-98 he was the founding Director of Wisconsin's Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, and from 2001-04 was Chair of Wisconsin's Political Science Department. He currently serves as Past-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and as Vice-President of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Olin Foundations. He is working on a book tentatively entitled Imperial Reputation: The Politics of Empire in a World of Nation-States.

Tom Burke

Mentor: Tom Burke, Wellesley College

Emily Zackin, Princeton University
"Positive Rights in the Constitutions of the United States"

Tom Burke is the Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of California-Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and with the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program.

Tom's research focuses on the place of rights and litigation in public policy. His most recent project examines how organizations respond to social change laws. The first article from this project, "The Diffusion of Rights," with co-author Jeb Barnes, was published in the fall, 2006 issue of Law and Society Review. Another article, "Political Regimes and the Future of the First Amendment," is forthcoming in Studies in Law, Politics and Society.

Burke has written about the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability politics in the European Union, American campaign finance law, and the role of rights in American politics. He is the co-author, with Lief Carter, of the updated 7th edition of Reason in Law (2007), and the author of Lawyers, Lawsuits and Legal Rights: The Struggle Over Litigation in American Society (2002).

Daniel Byman

Mentor: Daniel Byman, Georgetown University

Walter Ladwig, University of Oxford
"Assisting Counterinsurgents: U.S. Security Assistance and Internal War, 1946-1991"

Daniel Byman is associate professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies. He is an expert on issues surrounding global terrorism including terrorism in the Middle East, the U.S. War on Terror, intelligence and fighting the War on Terror, the practice of suicide bombing, terrorist groups including al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and HAMAS, Osama bin Laden, state sponsored terrorism, counterterrorism tactics, strategies for dealing with terrorists who take hostages, the relationship between Syria and Lebanon, the spread of democracy in the Middle East, Iran and development of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, the War in Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, the practice of renditions, U.S. national security, international security, ethnic conflict, and the use of military force around the globe and its impact on international relations.

John Esposito

Mentor: John Esposito Georgetown University

Kathryn Gardner, Notre Dame University
"Politicizing Religion: A Comparative Look at the Origins and Development of Muslim Incorporation Policies in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945-2008"

University Professor as well as Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. At the College of the Holy Cross, he was Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and Director of the Center for International Studies. A consultant to the Department of State as well as corporations, universities, and the media worldwide, Esposito specializes in Islam, political Islam, and the impact of Islamic movements from North Africa to Southeast Asia. Esposito is a recipient of the American Academy of Religion's 2005 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion and of Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azzam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies. In 2003 he received the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Henry Farrell

Mentor: Henry Farrell George Washington University

David Karpf, University of Pennsylvania
"Network-Enhanced Goods and Internet-Mediated Organizations: The Internet's Effects on Political Participation, Organization, and Mobilization"

Henry Farrell earned a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University in 2000. He also holds a B.A. and M.A. in Politics from University College Dublin. Professor Farrell's publications include: "Constructing the International Foundations of E-Commerce: The EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement," in International Organization, 57,2 (2003); "Trust, Distrust, and Power," in Distrust, ed. Russell Hardin (Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming); and "Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation," in Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming). Dr. Farrell is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Society for the New Institutional Economics, the International Studies Association, and the European Union Studies Association.

John McNeill

Mentor: John McNeill, Georgetown University

Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
"Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic"

John McNeill earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Since 1985 he has cheerfully served two masters, as a faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown. From 2003 until 2006 he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs, until his appointment as University Professor. He teaches world history, environmental history, and international history at Georgetown; and writes books, and directs Ph.D. students, mainly in environmental history.

Silvio Waisbord

Mentor: Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University

Nicole Hemmer, Columbia University
"Messengers of the Right: Media and Modern American Conservatism"

Silvio Waisbord is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is the Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics. After receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at San Diego, he was Associate Professor at Rutgers University and was Director of the Journalism Resources Institute. More recently, he was Senior Program Officer at the Academy for Educational Development. He has also been a fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame University, and the Media Studies Center. His current work focuses on journalism, communication and international development, with particular emphasis on health issues and policies. His work on news, politics, media globalization has appeared in a variety of journals and books. He joined GWU in 2007.

John Waterbury

Mentor: John Waterbury, American University of Beirut

Anne Peters, University of Virginia
"Special Relationships, Dollars, and Development: U.S. Foreign Aid and Economic Development in Egypt and Jordan, 1952-2007"

Recently, Professor John Waterbury stepped down as the fourteenth president of the American University of Beirut in January 1998 and the first president to reside in Beirut since 1984. Before joining AUB, Waterbury was, for nearly twenty years, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He specialized in the political economy of the developing countries with a special focus on the Middle East. He was director of Princeton's Center of International Studies and editor of the academic journal, World Politics, from 1992 to 1998. Waterbury earned his PhD in public law and government at Columbia University in 1968 and went on to the University of Michigan as assistant professor of political science. In 1971 he joined the American Universities Field Staff, a consortium of American Universities, which he represented in Cairo from 1971 to 1977. During 1977-78 he was visiting professor at the Universite‚ Aix-Marseilles III in France. Dr. Waterbury has published widely on the politics of the Middle East, the political economy of public enterprise, and on the development of international river basins. His latest book, The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action, was published by Yale University Press in 2002.

Richard White

Mentor: Richard White, Stanford University

Stefan Heumann, University of Pennsylvania
"The Tutelary Empire: State- and Nation-Building in the 19th Century U.S."

Richard White, a professor of history, is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history and environmental history. Professor White came to Stanford in 1998 and is the author of five books, including The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republic in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, which was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.