Visiting Scholars
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Elena Dmitrieva
February 27-March 17, 2012 Dmitrieva holds a Doctorate of Science in Sociology (2004) from Moscow State Lomonosov University. She is director of the Health and Development Foundation, a Russian NGO that develops and implements health communication and health system improvement projects in Russia. She also heads Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School... Read more -
Siddarth Swaminathan
April 1-May 5, 2012 Dr. Swaminathan is Shri R.K. Hegde Chair Professor on Decentralization and Governance at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University and specializes in comparative political economy and world politics. Titles of some of... Read more -
Binitha Thampi
March 28-April 14, 2012 Thampi is Assistant Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore, India. Her research interests include gender and... Read more -
Rita
April 6-14, 2012 Giacaman is a professor of public health at the Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory. She is a founding member of the Institute, and has worked there for 33 years. During the 1980’s, she participated as a researcher and practitioner... Read more
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Claudia Fonseca
April 15-29, 2012 Fonseca is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande dul Sul, and directs the doctoral program in social anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She began working in Brazil over 30 years ago, first studying class... Read more -
Patricia Agupusi
October 2011 Dr. Agupusi is a Research Fellow and Associate Tutor at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research centers on political economy and philosophical thought, with particular focus on how public and private institutions shape societal development. Her approach is to take global... Read more -
Fulong
February/March 2011 Wu is Professor of East Asian Planning and Development and the Director of the Urban China Research Centre in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. He has published many papers on urban spatial structure, urban housing and land development, and is working on China’s... Read more
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Juan Pablo Luna
March 2011 Luna is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Catholic University of Chile. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include the analysis of political party systems and political representation, the political effects of inequality, status,... Read more -
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
April 2011 Mehta is President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, one of India’s most distinguished think tanks. Dr. Mehta has published widely in the fields of political theory, intellectual history, constitutional law, politics and society in India, and India’s emerging role in world affairs. His most recent... Read more -
Pranab Bardhan
April 2011 (Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Rhodes Center) Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of... Read more
