PREVIOUS VISITING SCHOLARS :
Deniz Gõkalp
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Gõkalp’s research interests include political and comparative historical sociology more specifically, issues of political violence and militarism, neoliberalism, democracy, mobilization and contentious politics, identity politics and political identity, globalization, regionalization and transnational forces/processes. She has taught classes on political violence, globalization, and democracy, social justice and urban politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript analyzing the relationship between neo-liberal restructuring of the state, democracy and political violence with a focus on the new face of the Kurdish question in Turkey since the NATO supported 1980 military coup. Gõkalp’s research has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Serif Mardin
Professor Serif Mardin of Sabanci University (Turkey) was a visiting Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University during the Fall 2005 semester. He is one of Turkey's leading political scientists and has previously taught at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, American University, Oxford, and Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (please Click Here to see his attached CV for more information). Professor Mardin taught a graduate seminar entitled "The Turkish Republic & Its Antecedents." Click Here to see syllabus.
Daniel Heradstveit
Daniel Heradstveit spent the Fall 2005 academic year as a visiting professor of International Relations at the Maxwell School. He is Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has been Ford Foundation Fellow at Stanford and Harvard Universities and held positions at Johns Hopkins University (Blogna Center) and the University of Bergen. Heradstveit has also served as a consultant and political analyst for the Norwegian oil Company Statoil. He is the author or co-author of a dozen books on the Middle East, semiotics and political psychology. His most recent edited book (with Helge Hveem) is Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development (Ashgate, 2004). During his residency at Syracuse he taught a graduate seminar titled “Obstacles to Democracy in the Muslim World”. Click Here for syllabus.
Dr. Guitty Khorsand-Tabatabai
Dr. Guitty Khorsand-Tabatabai has been a visiting professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School since 2004. Professor Khorsand-Tabatabi (Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes-Etudes, Paris, 1979) has taught such courses as Middle East through Films, Women in the Muslim World, Politics of Islamic Radicalism, Muslims in Europe and the United States, Islamic Political Thought, and Middle Eastern Political Systems. She has previously worked as a TV correspondent, author, translator and university professor in Iran and France.
Dr. Seyyed Javad Tabatabai
Dr. Seyyed Javad Tabatabai spent the 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years as a visiting scholar at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. As one of Iran's foremost political thinkers, Professor Tabatabai (Ph.D., Sorbonne, 1984) taught political science at Tehran University for many years and also headed the Department of Islamic Civilization at Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation in Tehran. He is the author of such acclaimed books as Philosophical Introduction to the History of Political Thought in Iran Decline of Political Thought in Iran; Essay on Ibn Khaldun: Impossibility of Social Sciences in Islam, and Nizam al-Mulk and Iranian Political Thought: Essay on the Continuity of the Iranian Thought (all in Persian).
Prof. Ahmad Moussalli
Prof. Ahmad Moussalli came from the American University of Beirut and was a visiting scholar at the Maxwell School from March to April 2004. His stay was made possible by the Fulbright Commission as part of their "Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Access to the Muslim World". Professor Moussali was a guest speaker in a number of courses at Syracuse University and delivered lectures in various area colleges as well.