New Fellows at the Centre Upcoming Fellows in May 2016 Dr. A. Burcu Bayram Fellow, May August 2016 Research Project: Decision Maker Perceptions of Negotiation Legitimacy in Multilateral Trade Diplomacy Burcu Bayram is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her PhD in 2011 at the Ohio State University with specialization in International Relations, Political Psychology, and Interdisciplinary Survey Research, followed by a one year tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the McEwan University in Alberta, Canada. International Organization and Law Political Psychology Public Opinion International Relations Theory Behavioral Economics Survey and Experimental Methods More information: http://burcubayram.net/welcome.html Prof. Faten Ghosn Senior Fellow, May August 2016 Research Project: Getting to the Table & Getting to Yes: A New Outlook on Negotiations Faten Ghosn studied Public Administration and Political Science at the American University in Beirut and received her PhD in 2006 at the Pennsylvania State University with a Dissertation in International Relations. She was an Adjunct Professor at The Fund for American Studies/Georgetown University from 2010-2013. In 2006 she joined the School of Government and Public Policy and Faculty of the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, first as an Assistant Professor and since 2013 as an Associate Professor. Political Negotiation Conflict Management Middle Eastern Politics International Organizations More information: https://sgpp.arizona.edu/user/faten-ghosn
Upcoming Fellows in June 2016 Prof. Galya Ruffer Senior Fellow, June December 2016 Research Project: Does the Refugee Convention Regime Contribute to Refugee Protection? Understanding Success in the Implementation of Refugee Status Determination Systems through a Case Study of the Emerging Asylum Systems in Turkey and Israel Professor Ruffer is the founding Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Northwestern University in Illinois, USA. Her work centers on refugee rights and protection, regional understandings of the root causes of conflict and refugee crises, rule of law and the process of international justice with a particular focus on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. She has published on the role of experts in the refugee status determination process, testimony and justice in the DR Congo, asylum law and policy, human rights litigation in transnational courts and immigrant incorporation and integration in Europe. Her new research focuses on refugee protection outside of the international legal framework. Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Citizenship, Comparative Constitutionalism, Testimony and International Criminal Justice; Conflict Studies More information: http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/galyaruffer.html Dr. Jennifer Gronau Postdoc Fellow, June 2016- May 2017 Research Project: External Legitimation Dynamics and Internal Working Practices of Transnational Clubs of States Since April 2015 Jennifer Gronau works as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the University Osnabrück. She wrote her dissertation on self-legitimation of the G7/G8 and the G20 from 1975 respectively 1999 until 2014 within the DFG-funded research group»staatlichkeit im Wandel«in Bremen. From 2007-2014 she did research within the project»die Legitimation politischer und ökonomischer Ordnungen«and also focused on empirical legitimation of the UNO, EU and IMF. In 2008 she was a guest researcher at the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto. International Institutions and Organisations Informal governance-arrangements Legitimation and Legitimacy within post-national constellation Social movements and NGOs Quantitative and qualitative methods More information: http://www.sozialwissenschaften.uni-osnabrueck.de page 2 of 7
Current Fellows at the Centre Gerardo Bracho Senior Expert Fellow, April 2016- March 2017 Research Project: The rise and fall of the modern aid industry: the Development Assistance Committee and the impact of the Southern Cooperation providers After his Master in Development studies at the University of Sussex, Bracho made his PhD in Economic History at the Oxford University on Unconcluded thesis on the transition to a market economy in Russia. Since 1990 Bracho has been working as a Mexican diplomat. He worked at the Mexican Embassy in Moscow and London and was a Mexican delegate in Paris to the OECD. From January 2012 to April 2013 I was posted in Mexico City as Deputy Director- General at the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before returning to the OECD as Senior Policy Advisor at the Development Cooperation Directorate. Since January 2015 he has been working for AMEXCID again. Mexican foreign policy Development Agencies in Emerging Powers OECD and international cooperation More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-1/gerardo-bracho/ Dr. Paula Castro Postdoc Fellow, March 2016 February 2017 Research Project: Cooperating for the climate: States positions on burden sharing of climate change mitigation and finance After finishing her MSc in Environment and Development at the University of Reading, Castro worked until 2007 as consultant on political, social, technical and environmental aspects of biofuels in Peru. She joined the University of Zurich in 2007 as research assistant working on her PhD on The CDM and incentives for climate change mitigation in developing countries. Since 2011 she is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Economy and Development at the University of Zurich. Environmental policy and politics International climate policy Market mechanisms Political economy International negotiations Renewable energy Biofuels More information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-1/paulacastro/ Prof. Larry Crump Senior Fellow, March June 2016 Research Project: Global Governance Revisited via three Levels of Analysis Currently Crump is working as Senior Lecturer and Research Ethics Advisor at the Business School of the Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. He published on multiparty negotiation as well as Theory and practice of public dispute resolution. He was an International Scholar at the Kyung Hee University of the Repubic of Korea and worked for several years at the Sophia University in Tokyo. International Negotiation Multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations WTO, APEC and G20 Turning point theory, Linkage theory, Coalition/Alliance theory More information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-3/larrycrump/ page 3 of 7
Prof. Isabel Feichtner Fellow, April September 2016 Research Project: The Concept of Common Heritage of Humanity: How Can It Be Operationalized To Resolve Conflicts Over the Exploitation of Natural Resources Beyond Territorial Jurisdiction? Since 2011 Feichtner works as Assistant Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt for Law and Economics. Before she was a Legal Advisor on the Reform of International Environmental Governance of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law as well as Teaching Assistant at the NYU School of Law. She did her Doctoral Thesis on Stability and Flexibility in International Public Law. The Law and Politics of WTO-Waivers in 2010 after her First and Second State Exam in 1999 and 2004. Transnational Resource Law, Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, International Institutional Law Theories of Justice More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-1/isabel-feichtner/ Dr. Elisabetta Nadalutti Postdoc Fellow, September 2015 August 2016 Research Project: Within the EU-ASEAN-NAFTA cross-border regionalism: cooperation with(out) an ethical cross-border governance? A comparative perspective analysis Before coming to Duisburg, Elisabetta Nadalutti worked as Senior Researcher at the Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'education at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on EU and Southeast-Asia cross-border regions. In 2013 she was a Visiting Researcher at the United Nations Univeristy in Brugge and in 2012 a postdoctoral researcher at the ANU Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. In January 2012 she gained her PhD in Philosophy at University of Bath, Department of Politics and International Relations. Comparative Politics Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Human Rights More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-2/elisabettanadalutti/ Dr. Mariana Nardone Postdoc-Fellow, April 2016 March 2017 Research project: UNHCR-NGO cooperation in traditional, emerging and new refugee resettlement countries from a neoinstitutionalism perspective Currently Nardone is working as consultant for the InterAmerican Heart Foundation on the Research project on Child and youth obesity in Argentina (funded by UNICEF). From 2013 until spring 2015 Nardone was a Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Before working in Brisbane Nardone finished her PhD in Social Sciences at FLACSO- Argentina in Buenos Aires in 2013 and worked as Lecturer at the Del Salvador University in Buenos Aires. Migration and refugees Social capital Urbanization Civil society in Latin America More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-2/mariana-nardone/ page 4 of 7
Prof. Sigrid Quack Senior Fellow, April September 2016 Research project: Contested authority in transnational governance: The epistemic, organizational and institutional dimensions Since 2013 Quacks has been working as Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg- Essen, with a focus on Comparative and Transnational Sociology. As Leader of the Research Group on Institution Building across Borders she is also affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. From 1993 until 2007 Quack worked as researcher and project leader at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung while finishing her habilitation at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2007. Globalization and institutional change International standard setting (labour, environment, culture, finance) Comparative economic and organizational sociology Professions, expertise and transnational regulation More information: https://www.uni-due.de/soziologie/quack.php Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa Fellow, July 2015 June 2016 Research Project: What if we took autonomous recovery seriously? A democratic critique of contemporary western ethical foreign policy After completing a PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Ghent University in Belgium Olivia Rutazibwa has focused her research on the motivations and effects of western ethical foreign policy in the Global South. As a visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris Rutazibwa did fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland. From 2010 to 2013 she worked as a journalist at the Brussels based monthly magazine, MO*. She is currently a lecturer in International Development and European Studies at the University of Portsmouth in the School of Languages and Area Studies. Motivations and Effects of western ethical foreign politicy in the Global South International Development Studies and Security Issues Francophone Africa International Relations State- and peace building, (humanitarian) interventions Democracy and democratization EU Studies (global actor, foreign policy) Area Studies (sub-saharan Africa) More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/olivia-rutazibwa/ Dr. Shirin Saeidi Postdoc Fellow, May 2015 April 2016 Research Project: Insurgent Citizens: Democratization and the Hizbollah Movement in Iran Shirin Saeidi completed a PhD from Cambridge University, UK in the Faculty of Politics and International Studies on the Topic Hero of Her Own Story: Gender and State Formation in Contemporary Iran. She studied a Master of Arts in Political Science at George Mason University. State Formation Citizenship Gender and Sexuality Qualitative Methodologies Democracy and Democratization Iranian Studies Middle East Studies More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/shirin-saeidi/ page 5 of 7
Dr. Andrea Schapper Fellow, April September 2016 Research project: Righteous Climate Policies: Exploring State-Society Interactions for Institutionalizing Human Rights into Climate Treaties Currently Schapper works as a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling, UK. From 2012 until 2015 she was working as a Lecturer in International Relations at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In 2011 she finished her PhD at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences which was based on her conducted field research in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia and Zambia. International relations Global and transnational governance Human rights Climate change and development More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-3/andrea-schapper/ Prof. Ulrich Schneckener Senior Fellow, April September 2016 Research project: Depoliticization or (Re-)Politicization? The politics of legitimacy in European Security Currently Schneckener works as Professor for International Relations & Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Centre for Democracy and Peace Research at University of Osnabrück. From 2006 until 2009 he was Head of the Research Group on Global Issues, German Institute for International and Security Affairs at the Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik (SWP), Berlin. Before he was Senior Researcher at the University Bremen, where he finished his PhD in 2000. Theories and concepts of International Relations Global Governance International State- and Peacebuilding Non-state violent actors Terrorism More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/ulrichschneckener/ Dr. Katrin Seidel Postdoc Fellow, September 2015 August 2016 Research Project: Involvement and impact of external actors on constitution making on South Sudan and Somaliland: A comparative perspective Since 2012 Katrin Seidel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her research focuses on South Sudan s Constitutional Genesis in the Context of Legal Pluralism. Seidel studied law as well as African and Asian studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2012 she finished her doctorate thesis on Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia: Interdependent Relationships Between Islamic Law and State Law. Legal anthropology, legal pluralism, legal theory, Statehood, governance, constitutionalism, judicial designs, Mobility of legal concepts, Citizenship, autochthony, cultural translation Rule of law More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-3/katrin-seidel/ page 6 of 7
Dr. Balraj Sidhu Fellow, February April 2016 Research Project: International Environment Court: A Legal Study of an Ideal Currently Sidhu is Senior Research Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in International Environmental Law at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and Executive Director of the Centre for Advanced Study on Courts and Tribunals. Sidhu finished her Ph.D. in International Law on International Environmental Dispute Settlement with Special Reference to the Proposed International Environment Court in 2012 and was Visiting Research Scholar in Copenhagen, DAAD Visiting Fellow in Freiburg as well as Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Liverpool. Environmental Law Environmental Courts and Tribunals Arctic Governance Dispute settlement More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-3/balrajsidhu/ Dr. Holger Straßheim Fellow, April September 2016 Research project: Globalizing expertise: the case of behavioural governance Since 2011 Straßheim works as Assistant Professor at the Humbolt University Berlin. Until 2014 he was also project director of the research project Studying the Changing Orders of Political Expertise (SCOPE) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He was Visiting Professor at the University Bremen and University of Technology in Darmstadt. From 1999 until 2009 Straßheim was Research Fellow at the WZB and finished his PhD in 2010 at the University of Tübingen. Public Policy and Governance Expertise and Politics Organisations and Networks Labor market and social state More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/holger-strassheim/ Prof. Dvora Yanow Senior Fellow, April 2016 March 2017 Research project: Citizen-making by the numbers: Counting, category-making, and the state Currently Yanow works as Guest Professor for the Social Sciences Department of the Wageningen University, the Netherlands. From 2005 to 2010 she was Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam. Before she was Professor at the Department of Public Affairs and Administration at the California State University. She did her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Planning, Policy, and Organizational Studies in 1982. Categories and immigration, nationality, and race-ethnicity Interpretive policy analysis Ways of knowing and doing Practices studies Social Science research ethics More Information: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/persons/prof.dr.-d-dvora- Yanow.htm page 7 of 7