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Political Science
David Abraham (2008-09)
David is currently an MBA candidate (2011) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is focusing on finance with an emphasis on developments in emerging markets. During his BUKA year, David's research evolved into an examination of the Freie Demokratische Partei's (FDP) campaign strategy in comparison to its counterparts in the United States during an election year. His study focused on fundraising, public engagement, and utilization of new technologies. In addition, he worked in cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in their analysis of the US financial crisis. Prior to his Humboldt year, David was an operations analyst within the statistics and currency divisions at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. (2/15/10)
Phillip Ayoub(2010-11)
Originally from Seattle, Phillip Ayoub is now a doctoral student at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In his project, he will examine how and if civil society groups and politicians in Germany influence social and political change in former Soviet Bloc states. The research project will focus on international norm diffusion as it pertains to changing legislation and social perceptions of marginalized minorities in an integrating Europe. The research in Germany, involves extensive data collection for statistical analysis, as well as interviews and participant observation with various civil society organizations. The Center for Transnational Relations at the Free University in Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School for Social Science at the Humboldt University, offer essential resources by connecting him to leading scholars on the study of norm diffusion and human rights. The work in Germany will comprise the research for his dissertation at Cornell University, with the hopes bringing new perspectives to the American academy. The findings will broaden the scope of research in international relations and comparative politics by looking closely at “weak” civil society groups and their international interactions, answering key questions about change in world politics. The results will also contribute to our understanding of how civil society organizations strategically function. (5/6/10)
Lee Ann Banaszak (1991-92)
An Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Lee Ann has written on comparative women’s movements and the determinants of feminist attitudes among the mass public in Germany, the U.S. and Europe. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she spent a year in Berlin examining the changes on women’s movements and women in politics that resulted from German unification. She is author of Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage (1996: Princeton), The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State (2010 Cambridge), and editor of The U.S. Women’s Movement in Global Perspective (2005: Rowman & Littlefield), and Women’s Movements Facing a Reconfigured State (2003: Cambridge with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, Politics and Gender, Political Research Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly. She has also served as President of the Organized Section on Women and Politics of the American Political Science Association. Her current research examines the relationship between social movement activity and public opinion. (2/4/10)
John Brady (1996-97)
John spent his Buka year in Berlin conducting research on the political participation of the city’s immigrants and how this participation contributed to the development of an urban multicultural public sphere. John combined this empirical research with a consideration of Juergen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere in his dissertation, “Political Theory and Public Practice: Juergen Habermas and the Development of a Multicultural Public Sphere in Berlin, 1972-1995." After receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, John served as an instructor of political science at universities in Northern and Southern California. While it was difficult to give up the many perquisites of the adjunct academic life, John nonetheless decided in 2005 to move from the theoretical study of politics to the actual practice of the craft. He joined the administration of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in summer 2005, initially serving as the Mayor’s West Area Director. In spring 2007, John transitioned from the field to the policy side of the administration and is now the Mayor’s Housing Policy Coordinator. (12/8/09)
Arista Cirtautas (1990-91)
Arista earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 1996 and has since taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. She is the author of The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights (1997) as well as numerous articles on post-communist political development. Her current research interests include the evolution of post-communist citizenship and the integration of East European countries into the European Union. (6/8/07)
Lindsay Cohn (2002-03)
Lindsay completed her Ph.D. at Duke University in 2007 and is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In Fall 2009 she will begin a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. She specializes in international security, international law, and civil-military relations, and her dissertation investigated the relationship between national labor market structures and military personnel management. She has held fellowships from Harvard University at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow at the Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut der Bundeswehr in Strausberg bei Berlin, where she wrote papers on territoriality in international law, ethics in the social sciences, and American and European civil-military relations. She did the language/text editing for international studies of military law in Europe and of inter-armed forces cooperation at the HQ of the Multinational Corps Northeast, and translated (German to English) Johannes Varwick and Sven Bernhard Gareis's textbook on the United Nations (Macmillan, 2005). Lindsay has published multiple pieces on civil-military relations, counter-insurgency, and the privatization of security. (6/26/09)
Louise Davidson-Schmich (1996-97)
Louise is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she lived in Berlin and studied the politics of budgeting in the Berliner Bezirke. She was affiliated with Prof. Helmut Wiesenthal at the Humboldt University. Louise was recently awarded a resumption of her German Chancellor Fellowship to study electoral gender quotas and political ambition among German women. She will be working with Ulrike Liebert and Konstanze Plett at the Zentrum Gender Studies at the University of Bremen in the summers of 2006 and 2008. Prior to being a German Chancellor Fellow, Louise was a graduate student in political science at Duke University, lived in Kiel as a Fulbright Pädagogischer Austauschdienst teacher, worked at what is today the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and received a BA in International Relations from Brown. Her husband, Michael Davidson-Schmich, is a German citizen and a lecturer in German at the University of Miami; they have two children. (6/26/09)
Peter Dombrowski (1994-95)
Peter is professor and chair of the Strategic Research Department of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. His year in Germany was spent at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn. (12/11/09)
Scott Gissendanner (1993-94)
Scott Stock Gissendanner accepted a Juniorprofessorship in the Department of Political Science of the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen in 2003. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Georgia with a dissertation about the responses of German and American cities to deindustrialization. Before moving to Göttingen, he worked with the urban sociologist Christine Weiske at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Scott's current work and publications focus on governance and leadership in networks, comparative local politics, American and German politics, and immigration/integration issues. For more information see http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~sgissen/index.htm (6/26/09)
Philip Gordon (1992-93)
Philip is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director of
the Center on the United States and France at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, DC. Previous positions include: Director for European
Affairs, National Security Council; Senior Fellow for U.S. Strategic
Studies, International Institute for Strategic Studies; and Professor,
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
As a German Chancellor Fellow, he worked on the domestic determinants
of the German approach to European security at the Research Institute
of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. To learn more
about Philip and to see a list of his publications, visit the site
of the Brookings Institution. (5/16/05)
John Griffin (1994-95)
Jill Hopper* (1997-98)
*deceased
Deron Jackson (1991-92)
Deron Jackson is Deputy Director of the Eisenhower Center for Space and
Defense Studies at the United States Air Force Academy where he also
serves on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Political Science. As a
German Chancellor Fellow, he spent a year at the Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik (then located in Bavaria in the town of Ebenhausen south of
Munich). His research focused on the evolution of trans-Atlantic
relations immediately following the end of the Cold War and efforts to
restructure both NATO and the European Union. (7/16/09)
Wade Jacoby (1994-95)
Wade is a Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses on European and comparative politics, international conflict, and social movements. He is also Director of the BYU Center for the Study of Europe. Wade wrote his dissertation as a German Chancellor Fellow, and that became his first book, published as Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany, (Cornell UP, 2000). His new book is The Enlargement of the EU and Nato: Ordering from the Menu in Central and Eastern Europe, (Cambridge UP, 2004). Wade has also published articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies Politics and Society, the Review of International Organizations, German Politics, Governance, German Politics and Society, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, East European Constitutional Review, and WSI-Mitteilungen. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 1996 and tenure from BYU in 2003. (8/13/09)
Patrick Jefferson (1991-92)
Marlowe Johnson (1992-93)
Damon Linker (1996-97)
Damon received his Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University in 1998. Since then, he has taught political theory at Brigham Young University, served as a speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, and edited First Things, a monthly journal of religion, culture, and public life. He is the author of two books: The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege (Doubleday, 2006; Anchor, 2007); and The Religious Test (forthcoming, W. W. Norton, spring 2010). Damon blogs about religion, culture, and politics for The New Republic and has published articles and reviews in such magazines and newspapers as The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. He has also published two academic articles that grew out of his research in Germany: one on J.G. Herder (in The Review of Politics) and another on Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schelling (in The Review of Metaphysics). Since the fall of 2007, Damon has been a Senior Writing Fellow in the Center for Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where is teaches courses in writing, religious studies, and political science. (6/26/09)
Nedim Ogelman (1996-97)
Clayton Robinson (2008-09)
Prior to his year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Clayton worked as an Energy Program Manager with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, State
Energy Office. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with
minors in International Management and German, and a Master of Regional
and City Planning with an emphasis in environmental and energy planning,
both from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently working as a
consultant in the fields of sustainability management and energy policy
and lives in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
(3/2/10)
Mary Sarotte (1994-95)
Mary is associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California. Her previous work includes the books Dealing with the Devil and German Military Reform and European Security. She has served as a White House Fellow and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War, will be published in November 2009. (6/26/09)
Johanna Schuster-Craig(2010-22)
Johanna Schuster-Craig is a doctoral candidate in German and Women’s Studies at Duke University. In Germany, Johanna will investigate discourses of integration and contemporary Turkish-German identity politics by conducting research at the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at the Technical University in Berlin. She will also engage in participant-observation at Projekt Heroes, a non-profit youth organization that brings young Muslim-Germans together for social dialogue and theater workshops. Her project explores the tendency of both identity politics and integration discourses to invoke spatial configurations in order to claim the need for immigration and cultural reforms.
By exploring Turkish-German women’s autobiography as a contested space of representation, private/domestic spaces of “Turkishness"(Parallelgesellschaften), and territorial debates about Muslim access to German public spaces (seen in mosque construction and headscarf controversies), she will articulate and evaluate a variety of strategies embedded in the landscape of contemporary German politics. (5/8/2010)
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