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Advisory Committee Maria Cook
Maria Lorena Cook is Associate Professor at the School of
Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. A political
scientist, her current work is a book-length comparative study of labor
movement responses to labor law reforms in Latin America. She is
interested in whether and how labor organizations are able to negotiate
reforms, producing divergent outcomes in a region with convergent labor
policy prescriptions. She is also studying the mechanisms that enable
domestic actors, such as labor unions and social movements, to leverage
international labor standards in order to improve national labor rights
protections. Her
recent publications include, Labor Reform and Dual Transitions in Brazil
and the Southern Cone, Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 44, no.
1, Spring 2002, pp. 1-34; and Political Transition and Labor
Revitalization in Mexico (with Graciela Bensusn), in Daniel B. Cornfield
and Holly J. McCammon, eds., Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives
and New Initiatives, Vol. 11 Research in the Sociology of Work,
(Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press), 2003.
An expert on Mexico,
Professor Cook has also published widely on Mexican labor and social
movements, and on contentious politics in the context of regional
economic integration. Raymond Craib
Raymond Craib is
Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.
A Mexicanist by training, his research interests include the history of
resistance and revolution in Latin America; peasant studies; the history
of space and property; and the relationship between ideology and
experience. He recently completed a manuscript on the politics of
mapping and surveying in rural nineteenth-century Mexico. His current
project deals with student politics, radicalism and anarchism in Chile
from roughly 1900 to World War II, mostly through the eyes and lives of
Pablo Neruda and a number of his fellow students. Stephen Hilgartner
Stephen Hilgartner
is Associate Professor in the Department of Science & Technology Studies
at Cornell University. His research focuses on social studies of science
and technology, especially biology, biotechnology, and medicine;
biology, ethics, and politics; science as property; ethnography of
science; and risk. His recent book, Science on Stage: Expert Advice
as Public Drama, explores the processes through which the expertise
of science advisors is established, contested, and maintained.
Hilgartner is chair of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI)
committee of the Cornell Genomics Initiative. He is a member of the
Council of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). He is also a
member of the Steering Group of the Section on Societal Impacts of
Science and Engineering of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). He is currently completing a book on genome mapping
and sequencing in the 1990s. Mary Katzenstein
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is Professor in the Department of
Government and in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (FGSS)
at Cornell University. Currently, she is completing a book co-edited
with Raka Ray (UC-Berkeley) tentatively entitled, Social Movements
and Poverty in India that looks at the shifting accountability of
social movements in India to Nehruvian social democratic discourse. She
is also in the early stages of a project on incarceration and
citizenship that focuses on activist politics, particularly the efforts
of non-profit reform groups, to challenge existing conceptions of
criminality. Recent papers from this project include, Rights without
Citizenship; Prison Activism in the US in Social Movements, Public
Policy and Democracy, edited by Valerie Jenness, Helen Ingram
and David Meyer, forthcoming, and How different? A Comparison of the
Movement Challenging Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement with Suffrage Politics
of an Earlier Time with Katherine Davison Rubin prepared for the
American Political Science Association meetings, fall, 2002. Barbara Lynch
Barbara Lynch is Associate Professor in the Department of
City and Regional Planning and is the Director for the Program on
International Studies in Planning (ISP) at Cornell University. She also
co-coordinates the Einaudi Center workshop "Landscape Transformations:
Social and Ecological Dimensions of Rapid Regional Change." Barbara
Lynch's interests are the international environment: natural resource
policy, water management, environmental social movements, and
non-governmental organizations as political actors in Latin America and
the Caribbean. She has conducted comparative research on the impacts of
land use policies, environmental quality, and science and urban
environmental action in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. She is a member
of a consortium studying rural and urban land use change in the
Dominican Republic. She has also worked in Peru, Ecuador, Sri Lanka,
Niger, and Burkina Faso. Michael Macy
Michael Macy is Professor in the Department of Sociology at
Cornell University. His current research explores the emergence of
mutually beneficial norms and conventions in a self-organizing social
system. In his research, he assumes no member of the population has
sufficient information to identify an optimal strategy or sufficient
power to impose a global solution. But if everyone flies by the seat of
their pants, what prevents chaos? He uses computer simulation (including
neural nets and genetic algorithms) and laboratory experiments with
human subjects to look for elementary principles of organization that
may yield clues about possible answers. His areas of interests include:
collective action, social control in groups and organizations,
self-organizing group dynamics, cognitive game theory, social exchange
theory. Methods: computer simulation, laboratory experiments.
Philip McMichael Philip McMichael is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Development Sociology at Cornell University. Currently, he serves on the
Executive Board of the Global Studies Association, and an FAO/UN
Scientific Advisory Council in the Food and Nutrition Division. His
research focuses on the politics of globalization, including global
justice movements (presently the Via Campesina), and international food
regimes. Recent publications include: Development and Social Change.
A Global Perspective (3rd edition, 2004); "Globalization," in
Handbook of Political Sociology, eds, T. Janoski, R. Alford, A.
Hicks and M. Schwartz (2004); "Food Security and Social Reproduction,"
in Power and Social Reproduction, eds, S. Gill and I. Bakker
(2003); "Revisiting the question of the transnational state," Theory
& Society (2001); and "World-systems analysis, globalization, and
incorporated comparison," Journal of World-systems Research
(2000). Sidney Tarrow
Sidney Tarrow (PhD, Berkeley, 1965) is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of
Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell. His research interests
span three fields: social movements and parties; local and regional
politics; and European and transnational politics. His most recent
single-authored book is Power in Movement: Collective Action, Social
Movements and Politics (Cambridge, 1994, 1998). With his
collaborators, Charles Tilly and Doug McAdam, he has written Dynamics
of Contention (Cambridge, 2001), and with Doug Imig, Contentious
Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). He is currently
working on transnational activism and directs the Program for the Study
of Contentious Politics.
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Visiting Scholars, 2003-2004
Makiko Nishitani
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