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Intrastate Conflict and the International Security Program at the Belfer
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University. For more information on the fellowship program, please click
here. For more information, or to contact past or present fellows, please contact: Emily Wood, Program
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The Program on Intrastate Conflict is pleased to announce its fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year. Kristin M. Bakke completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle, in the summer of 2007. Her dissertation combines a quantitative study of intrastate conflicts with a qualitative, comparative investigation of separatist conflicts in three federations: Chechnya’s relationship to Moscow, Punjab’s relationship to Delhi, and Québec’s relationship to Ottawa. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway), and the University of Washington’s Graduate School, she spent a year conducting fieldwork in Russia, India, and Canada. Kristin’s dissertation project reflects her broader research interests in civil conflicts, post-conflict societies, political mobilization, sub-national institutions, and state-society relations. She is also currently at work on a joint project that, based on survey data from the North Caucasus and Bosnia, examines trust and ethnic divisions in conflict-affected societies (with Michael D. Ward, John O’Loughlin, and Xun Cao). While at the Belfer Center, Kristin will prepare her dissertation for publication, as well as expand her research on intrastate struggles and the conditions under which agreements and institutions meant to preserve or promote peace actually do so. Her work on civil conflict and federalism (coauthored with Erik Wibbels) has appeared in World Politics in 2007. In 2008, Kristin will join the political science faculty at Leiden University, the Netherlands, as an assistant professor. Emily Balić is a joint fellow with the Belfer Center's program on International Security and Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution. She received her MA and Ph.D. in East European History from Stanford University in the summer of 2007. In 2004–2005, Emily was a Fulbright-Hayes and IREX fellow in Bosnia and Croatia. She received a B.A. in history from the College of William and Mary in 1999. During her year at Belfer, Emily is revising her manuscript, "A City Apart: Sarajevo in the Second World War," which examines the ways that Sarajevo's Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox Serb elite responded to the crisis of Nazi invasion and the trials of a multi-sided civil war. In addition, she is working on related articles on genocide in the Independent State of Croatia and the role of Islam in Balkan wartime politics. In the spring 2008 semester, she will also be a lecturer in Russian and East European history at Boston University. Zeynep Bulutgil is a pre-doctoral Fellow at the International Security Program and the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, “Interstate Conflict and Ethnic Cleansing,” explores the conditions under which states choose to deport or exterminate ethnic minorities in their territory. Her work demonstrates that ethnic cleansing is caused by territorial competition between states. This type of competition increases the likelihood of military occupation as well as the likelihood that rival states will ally with ethnic minorities on their competitors’ territory. These alliances lead to ethnic cleansing because they simultaneously turn the minority issue into the predominant political cleavage and enhance the number and clout of exclusionist or radical politicians. Her fieldwork has been supported by the National Science Foundation during the 2004-2006 academic years. She has also received fellowships from the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. Her general research interests include political violence, comparative state formation, relations between religious institutions and states, and European history. Kelly M. Greenhill is assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and is continuing as a post-doctoral Fellow at the International Security Program and the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at CISAC and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Greenhill completed a Ph.D. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she wrote a dissertation that focused on asymmetric coercion and the use of refugee flows as political and military weapons. Greenhill also holds an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, a C.S.S. in International Management from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Political Economy and in Scandinavian Studies (double major) from the University of California at Berkeley. Greenhill’s research has appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Security Studies, International Migration, and Polity and has been supported in part by the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Eisenhower Foundation. Outside of academia, she has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as a defense program analyst for the US Department of Defense, and as an economic policy intern in the Office of Senator John F. Kerry. Adria Lawrence completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago in September 2007. Her research interests include nationalist and ethnic politics, political mobilization, state formation, international security, and Middle East politics. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism.” This project investigates the conditions that encouraged populations to revolt against empire in both violent and non-violent ways. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze variation in elite and popular responses to foreign rule in the 20th century French Empire, using data collected in France and North Africa in 2005 and 2006. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. In 2008, Ms. Lawrence will join the political science faculty at Yale University as an assistant professor. Elias Mudzuri is a fellow with the Program on Intrastate Conflict and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He is the former mayor of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city, and a leading member of the opposition to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Mudzuri spent 2006-2007 as a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School earning a master's degree in public administration. Wendy Pearlman earned her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University, where she was a Karl W. Deutsch Fellow. Her dissertation, a study of the Palestinian national movement from 1918-2006, examines how a self-determination movement's internal cohesion or fragmentation affects its tactics. Having defended her dissertation in September 2007, she is currently researching the generality of her findings in a comparative study of other self-determination movements. Her larger research interests include political violence, conflict processes, social movements, nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Middle East politics. Wendy is a prior recipient of a United States Institute of Peace ‘Peace Scholar’ Fellowship, a Palestinian-American Research Center Grant, a Harvard University-Hebrew University Graduate Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Spain, among other awards. Her commentaries have appeared in several newspapers and her book, Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada was a Washington Post and Boston Globe Bestseller. She is fluent in Arabic and Spanish and has basic competence in Hebrew. She has lived and studied in Morocco, Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. She holds a B.A. in History from Brown University. Stephanie Rupp is a Research Fellow with the International Security Program and the Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the politics of categorization in comparative contexts (Africa, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, and the United States), examining the disjuncture between the fluidity of social categories and the rigidity of institutional categories, as well as how the institutional appropriation and manipulation of social categories may either exacerbate or attenuate conflict. Rupp is currently on leave from the National University of Singapore, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University in 2001, having conducted her dissertation research on the formation and transformation of categories of identity in the Congo River Basin in central Africa.
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