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New Professors, 2011-2012
The Institute community is delighted to welcome four new professors who will reinforce its expertise with teaching and research in the thematic areas of: armed conflict, development economics, dispute settlement, education policy, gender studies, human rights, international courts and tribunals, history of international organisations and NGOs, humanitarianism, military occupation, and urban questions as well as in the regional focuses of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
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Ravi Bhavnani
Associate Professor, International Relations/Political Science
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor Bhavnani joined the Graduate Institute faculty in 2011. His research focuses on the micro-foundations of civil violence. Relying on agent-based computational modelling and disaggregated empirical analysis, his work consistently underscores the endogenous relationships among the characteristics, beliefs, and interests of relevant actors; social mechanisms and emergent social structures that shape attitudes, decision-making and behaviour; and patterns of violence. Professor Bhavnani’s current research integrates agent-based modelling and micro-level empirical analysis to investigate how ethnic geography—the spatial the distribution of individuals from nominally rival groups—shapes violence. His articles appear in Complexity, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, and the Whitehead Journal of International Diplomacy, with work forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Conflict Management & Peace Science, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics.
Courses Taught: Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda; The Role of Ethnicity in Civil War: Macro and Micro-Perspectives; Statistics for International Relations Research I; TThe Study of International Relations and Political Science V: Comparative Politics.
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Zachary Douglas
Associate Professor, International Law
BCL, Oxford University
Professor Douglas joined the Graduate Institute in autumn 2011 from the University of Cambridge, where he lectured in public international law and international dispute settlement. His research focuses upon areas at the intersection of public and private international law such as investment arbitration, international law in domestic courts and financial crime. He has also published more widely on topics of general international law. In additional to his academic activities, Professor Douglas maintains a practice as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator before international courts and tribunals and is an academic member of Matrix Chambers in London.
Courses Taught: Corporate Responsibility in Transnational and International Law; Private International Law; State Contracts and International Arbitration.
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Davide Rodogno
Associate Professor, International History
PhD, Graduate Institute of International Studies and the University of Geneva
Dr Rodogno was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (2002-2004) and Foreign Associate Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Paris (2004-2005). Since 2005, he has been a Research Council United Kingdom Academic Fellow at the School of History, University of St Andrews. He is currently “professeur boursier” for the Swiss National Science Foundation affiliated to the International History and Politics unit of the Graduate Institute where he leads a research project on the history of humanitarian international associations since 1850. His doctoral thesis was published in Italian as Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo (Bollati Boringhieri, 2003) and in English as Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His second monograph on the concept and practice of international humanitarian intervention in the 19th century has recently been completed.
Courses Taught: International History Doctoral Seminar I; Research Workshop in International History; The Stakes of Humanitarianism: Past and Present Perspectives.
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Martina Viarengo
Assistant Professor, International Economics
PhD, London School of Economics
In addition to her new position at the Institute Martina Viarengo is faculty associate at the Harvard University Center for International Development, at Harvard’s Women and Public Policy Program, and a member of the International Growth Centre in London. Prior to joining the Graduate Institute's faculty, Professor Viarengo was an economist at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Professor Viarengo is a specialist in applied microeconomics and development. Her research focuses on comparative education policy, gender and migration. She has examined education policy, gender gaps and labor market outcomes in the OECD and developing countries in trying to better understand how to reduce poverty and inequality. In 2009 Professor Viarengo was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and she was named Newton International Fellow by the British Academy, Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University.
Courses Taught: Development Economics; Doctoral Seminar: Development Macroeconomics; Gender and Development; Introduction to Development Economics; Trade and Development.
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