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Contact: Ryan McKenna
Phone: (202) 691-4217
ryan.mckenna@wilsoncenter.org
Washington, DC鈥The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Congressionally chartered policy center based in the nation's capitol, has announced the 2023-2024 fellowship class members today, which includes 22 scholars and practitioners鈥13 women and 9 men鈥攆rom the United States, Brazil, China, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and Switzerland.
鈥溊钟 体育 fellows are a core part of our mission to provide nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers, delivered through their deep research, impartial analysis, and independent scholarship,鈥 said Ambassador Mark A. Green, 乐鱼 体育 president and CEO.
The 2023-2024 fellows and the projects they will pursue while in residence at the 乐鱼 体育 are:
Natalia Antelava, journalist and editor in chief, Coda Media; former BBC correspondent. 鈥淗ow Big Tech is Helping Authoritarians Win and What to Do About It?鈥
Melinda Baldwin, associate professor of history, University of Maryland College Park. 鈥淚n Referees We Trust? Peer Review and Public Policy in the US, 1945-1990.鈥
Marwa Daoudy, associate professor of international relations and Seif Ghobash chair in Arab studies, Georgetown University. 鈥淕eoclimate Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Bridging Climate Change, Development, and Human Security.鈥
Jennifer Eaglin, associate professor of environmental history and sustainability, The Ohio State University. 鈥淕oing Nuclear: The Rise of Brazilian Nuclear Energy.鈥
Renata Giannini, senior researcher, Igarap猫 Institute, Brazil. 鈥淭he Guardians of the Amazon: Women Defenders Role in Mitigating Climate Change.鈥
Haifeng Huang, board member (2021-2023), PRME Steering Committee of UNGC. Distinguished professor and co-chancellor, China Institute for Responsible Management Education and Sustainable Development at Changzhou University, China. 鈥淲aste Management for Global Sustainability: Comparing China-US Policies and Practices.鈥
Yasheng Huang, professor of global economics and management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 鈥淐onceptualizing the Chinese State: The Hydraulic Contract and Exploring the Right Ways to Engage with China.鈥
Steven Jackson, professor of political science, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 鈥淐hina鈥檚 Waters: Foreign Relations and Hydropolitics.鈥
Robert Jefferson, associate professor of history, University of New Mexico. 鈥淲hen Jim Crow Faced a New Army: World War II and the Nonsegregation of the United States Military.鈥
Moses Kansanga, assistant professor of geography and international affairs, The George Washington University. 鈥淟eaving No Food To Waste: A Geographical Approach to Investigating the Drivers and Scalable Solutions to Postharvest Food Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa.鈥
Natalie Koch, professor of geography, Syracuse University. 鈥淭he Geopolitics of U.S. Science Diplomacy in the Arabian Peninsula.鈥
Roberta Lajous, former ambassador of Mexico to Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, and Spain. Researcher, El Colegio de Mexico. 鈥淭he Economic Integration of North America.鈥
Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno distinguished professor of history and international affairs, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. 鈥淐hina as a Cause of Transatlantic Tension from the 1980s to the Present.鈥
Sung Yoon Lee, former Kim Koo-Korea Foundation professor of Korean studies, and assistant professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. 鈥淧yongyang鈥檚 Playbook: North Korea鈥檚 Provocations, Peace Ploys, Propaganda, and Unification Policy.鈥
Karen Mancl, professor, food, agricultural and biological engineering, The Ohio State University. 鈥淧lanting the Seed for Renewed Agricultural Collaboration between the United States and China.鈥
Jana Morgan, professor of political science, University of Tennessee. 鈥淓xclusionary Democracy: How Ethnoracial Hierarchies Threaten Democratic Citizenship.鈥
Alyssa Park, associate professor of history, University of Iowa. 鈥淗omeward: Korean Refugees and the Politics of Occupation, Division, and War, 1945-50.鈥
David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur professor of Asian studies, political science, and international affairs; Director, China Policy Program, The George Washington University. 鈥淒isillusionment & Disengagement: How China Lost America.鈥
Joanna Spear, director, Foreign Area Officer Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative and research professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. 鈥淧andemic Diplomacy: Pharmaceutical Firms鈥 Independent Domestic Strategies, Foreign Policies, and Negotiations with States.鈥
Kristina Spohr, professor of international history, London School of Economics and Political Science. 鈥淎rctic 鈥 The Last Battleground.鈥
Caitlin Talmadge, associate professor of Political Science and faculty member, Security Studies Program, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 鈥淣uclear Escalation Risk in World Politics.鈥
Ajay Verghese, associate professor of political science, Middlebury College. 鈥淪ecularization in the Hindu Tradition.鈥
Media with questions should contact Ryan McKenna at ryan.mckenna@wilsoncenter.org or (202) 691-4217.
Notes to Editors
- 乐鱼 体育 provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policymaking and scholarship to interact. By conducting relevant and timely research and promoting dialogue from all perspectives, it works to address the critical current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world.
