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MIT Department of Political Science
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Participant Biographies
David Art David Art, graduate student in political science at MIT, studies comparative politics with a focus on Western Europe. His research interests include historical memory, right-wing political parties, and the politics of globalization in advanced industrial societies. Art’s dissertation analyzes how interpretations of the Nazi past shape contemporary partisan politics and political culture in Germany and Austria. An affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, Art’s research has been supported by a Dissertation Research grant from the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, and by an annual grant from the DAAD. Thomas Berger Thomas Berger is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations, Boston University. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from MIT in 1992. Berger has published numerous articles and book chapters on German and Japanese defense policy, international migration, and the politics of historical representation. He is the author of Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Francesca Cappelletto Born in Verona (Italy) on 3-11-1958, Cappelletto completed a PhD in Anthropology with a dissertation on kinship roles in the year cycle rituals of an Alpine community. She is currently an associate professor (‘ricercatore’) of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Psychology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Verona and is affiliated with E.A.S.A. (European Association of Social Anthropologists). Her research interests concern the social formation of memory. Cappelletto conducted an ethnographic inquiry on the perceptions of health hazards in the recollections of Italian migrant workers at an Australian asbestos mine. Additionally, Cappelletto has carried out field research among survivors of crimes committed by Nazis in villages of Central Italy. In this work, she studied the social patterning and emotional quality of remembrance. Jon Elster Jon Elster, b.1940, teaches Political Science at Columbia University. His most recent books are Alchemies of the Mind (1999) and Ulysses Unbound (2000). His main current research interests are the constitution-making, transitional justice, and the microfoundations of civil war. Rauf R. Garagozov (Karakozov) Garagozov holds degrees in Psychology from Moscow Lomonossov
State University (M.S., 1981, Ph.D., 1988). He has served as president
of Baku Center
for Psychosocial Studies (Baku, Azerbaijan). Currently, he is a Fulbright
professor at Washington University in St. Louis (USA).
Yinan He Yinan He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT, with BA from Beijing University and MA from Fudan in international politics. Her areas of research interest include international relations theory, East Asian international security, and Chinese and Japanese politics. She is currently working on a dissertation titled "Shadows of the Past: interstate reconciliation after traumatic conflicts" Olena Ivanova Dr. Olena Ivanova chairs the psychology department at Kharkiv National
University, Ukraine. She completed her doctorate in psychology at Kyiv
National University in 1992. Dr. Ivanova has published several books
and articles in Russian and English about methods of memory, the psychology
of cognition and memory, the history of psychology, and the intersection
of gender and psychology studies. However her primary area of expertise
is the psychological process of memory, particularly individual and collective
memory of WWII in Ukraine. Dr. Ivanova has also lectured widely at international
conferences in Europe, the United States and South America including
the European Congress of Psychology in Dublin Ireland (1997), International
Conference for Socio-Cultural Research in Campina Brazil (2000) and Fifth
Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity
Theory in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2002). Longina Jakubowska Longina Jakubowska is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at University College Utrecht. She was born in Poland, studied in New York, and currently lives in the Netherlands. She conducted long-term fieldwork in the Middle East specializing in nomadic societies and in Eastern Europe publishing extensively on both regions. Jennifer Lind Jennifer M. Lind is a Visiting Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT. Her dissertation is entitled "Sorry States: Apologies and International Politics (forthcoming September 2003). Using the cases of France/Germany and South Korea/Japan, the dissertation tests whether apologies reduce threat perception and promote cooperation between nations. Ms. Lind's research interests include historical memory, East Asian security, and U.S. foreign and military policy in East Asia. David Mendeloff David Mendeloff is Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is also faculty associate of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies and the Institute of European and Russian Studies. Dr. Mendeloff teaches courses in conflict analysis, post-conflict peacebuilding, and U.S. foreign security policy. His areas of research are in the causes and prevention of war, historical memory and interstate conflict, identity and conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, Russian foreign policy, and Russian education. He is author most recently of “Causes and Consequences of Historical Amnesia: The Annexation of the Baltic States in Russian Popular History and Political Memory,” in Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy, eds. Kenneth Christie and Robert Cribb (London: Routledge Curzon, 2002). He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.A. from the Claremont Colleges (Pitzer College) in Southern California. He taught international relations and Russian politics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa before joining the School of International Affairs at Carleton in 2001. Melissa Nobles Melissa Nobles is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Professor Nobles' teaching and research interests are in the comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, nationalism, social movements, and issues of retrospective justice. Her book, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford University Press, 2000) examines the political origins and consequences of racial categorization in demographic censuses in the United States and Brazil. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the political uses of official apologies in comparative perspective. Roger Petersen Roger Petersen is an Associate Professor of Political Science. He studies comparative politics with a special focus on conflict and violence. He has written two books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He also has an interest in comparative method and has co-edited, with John Bowen, Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is currently researching war and violence in the Balkans, especially in Kosovo. Peeter Tulviste Peeter Tulviste is a Psychology Professor (specializing in cultural psychology) at the University of Tartu where he also served as rector (president) from 1993-1998. Since 1994, Tulviste has been vice-president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He spent the 1990-1991 academic year at Clark University in Worcester, MA, and has lectured on various issues in cultural psychology in many countries. Stephen Van Evera Stephen Van Evera teaches international relations at MIT, where he is professor of political science. He received his B.A. in government from Harvard and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include the causes and prevention of war, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security policy, and social science methods. He is author of Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science (Cornell, 1997), Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell, 1999), and articles on the causes of World War I, nationalism and the war problem, American intervention in the Third World, American defense policy, and Europe's future international relations. During the 1980s he was managing editor of the journal International Security. James Wertsch James V. Wertsch is Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences
and Director of the Program on International and Area Studies (IAS).
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975 and spent
the following year in Moscow working with the neuropsychologist A.R.
Luria and other figures before joining the Department of Linguistics
at Northwestern University. Wertsch was on the faculty of the Department
of Communication at the University of California, San Diego until 1987
and then spent 1987-88 as the Belle van Zuilen Chair of Arts and Letters
at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. From 1988 to 1995 he was
a professor of the Department of Psychology at Clark University. During
his time at Clark he spent the 1992-93 academic year as professor of
the Department of Psychology at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Elisabeth Wood In her research on the logic of collective action in civil wars, the
structural foundations of compromise, and the role of subordinate social
actors in democratic transitions, Elisabeth Wood draws on ethnographic
field research, formal modeling, and analysis of macroeconomic and other
data. She is the author of Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions
in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University
Press, 2003). In her new project, she compares negotiated settlements
and patterns of political violence across civil wars. She is an Associate
Professor of Politics at New York University and a Visiting Research
Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. |
