Senior Fellow in Residence
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Visiting Fellows For more information about the Dickey Center's visiting fellows program, please click here.
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Patrick Forest completed his PhD in International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université Laval. His academic interests are foreign policy and international studies with a special interest in transboundary collaboration and conflict over natural ressources and his work is interdisciplinary. Forest’s dissertation is focused on water-related conflict resolution and transboundary cooperation in North America. Within the Dickey Center, he intends to expand his understanding of water-related conflict issues through the study of local water governance along the Canadian-American border as well as water exports within North America. Forest is the editor of "Géographie du droit" (Legal geographies), published in 2008, in French, at Presses de l'Université Laval.
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Maria Koinova obtained her Ph.D. degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in September 2005, where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Schmitter. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center and Davis Center at Harvard University (2001-2005), and a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell University (2007-2008), and has taught her own courses on international relations and comparative politics at Cornell University, University of Masssachusetts at Amherst, and the American University of Beirut.
Koinova’s underlying research interests focus on delineating the conditions and dynamics driving identity-based actors to develop moderate or radical behaviors in world politics. Her current research focuses on the transnational impact of diasporas on deeply divided societies. It draws theoretical leverage from works on diasporas and homeland conflicts, intervention of external actors in internal conflicts, transnational social movements, and transnational networks. So far, she has worked on a wide range of cases of diasporas linked to the Balkans, Caucasus, and the Middle East, and has three articles with peer-reviewed journals at different stages of the publication process. During her time at Dartmouth Koinova plans to work on a project asking whether diasporas are agents of moderation or radicalization of emerging states, with a specific focus on diasporas linked to Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Palestinia territories. She plans to publish a peer-reviewed article and establish the fundamentals of a book. She also plans to finalize her book manuscript which has emerged out of her dissertation investigating why ethno-national conflicts reach different levels of violence.
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Jill Mikucki completed her PhD. in Microbial Ecology from Montana State University in November 2005 where she studied subglacial microbial community structure and function in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Dr. Mikucki's Visiting Fellowship is cosponsored with the Earth Sciences Department and runs from Winter 2008 to Fall 2009. During this time she will work in the laboratory of James Scott. Jill is interested in all aspects of microbial ecology, but specifically in the role of microorganisms in the biogeochemical cycles of permanently cold, high latitude ecosystems. Currently she is using molecular biology and isotope geochemistry to examine microbial energetics in ice-covered systems.
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Paul Miller aka "DJ Spooky" |
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Paul Miller is a conceptual artist, writer and musician based in New York City. He has been commissioned to compose a multimedia performance piece, Terra Nova, by Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts and by BAM for the 2009 Next Wave Festival; Change Performing Arts; Melbourne International Arts Festival; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College; and UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures Series. Miller will spend November 2008 in residence at Dartmouth as a Dickey Fellow, using the resources of Dartmouth, and in particular the arctic and antarctic collections of the Rauner Special Collections Library, to prepare his commissioned piece, and to develop new ideas from his interaction with Dartmouth faculty and students.
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Julie Norman is completing her Ph.D. in international relations from American University's School of International Service, with concentrations
in peace and conflict resolution and human rights. She is currently finalizing her dissertation, "The Activist and the Olive Tree: Nonviolent
Resistance in the Second Intifada," which she plans to adapt into a book manuscript for publication through the Dickey Fellowship. She also plans to continue developing her other research interests in media activism, gendered violence, and youth and conflict. In addition to her research, Norman is the co-coordinator of the Contrast Project, which facilitates video and photography workshops with refugee youth in the West Bank. She is also the producer of "This Palestinian Life," an upcoming documentary film on nonviolent resistance in Palestine. Norman is a 2007-2008 Fellow with the Palestinian American Research Council (PARC) and a 2008 Just Jerusalem Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will be in residence at Dartmouth starting in the Winter 2009 term.
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Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., is a Professor of Politics at Brandeis University, where he served as Chairman of the East Asian Studies Program from 2004-08. He is a Research Associate at the Harvard University John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. His most recent publication is Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village (Cambridge University Presss, 2008). He also is author of Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest in China (University of California Press, 1997) and China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World (Yale University Press, 1983). He was named a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Center for Chinese Studies 1974-75 and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2002). He has won numerous prizes and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Humanities University Teachers' Fellowship, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Fellowship, and the United States Institute of Peace Fellowship. During his tenure at the Dickey Center Professor Thaxton will be working on a sequel to Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China and on issues that are central to reform and stability in contemporary China.
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Denise Walsh is Assistant Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia, where she is completing a book on public debate and gender justice in South Africa. She received the Best Dissertation Prize from the Women in Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association in 2007. She also was co-winner of the Journal of Southern African Studies 2006 Best Article Prize. At the Dickey Center, Walsh will be working on her second book, Rejecting the Culture-Women’s Rights Dilemma, a comparative analysis of the battle over cultural claims and women’s rights in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
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Paddy Woodworth was a staff journalist at the Irish Times from 1988 to 2002, first as arts editor and then as an editor and contributor on the foreign desk. He is currently a freelance author. His first book, Dirty War, Clean Hands (Yale 2003), was described by Franco biographer Paul Preston as “one of the most important books about post-Franco Spain ever published”. His new book, The Basque Country (Oxford 2008) is a series of essays on the region, ranging from gastronomy to the Guggenheim museum, from folk rituals to political violence. In 1973, he was William B Quarton Fellow on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He has a BA (Hons) degree in English Language and Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. He has lectured widely in the US, Britain, Ireland and Spain. He is a member of the European Cultural Parliament. Woodworth is currently researching and writing Restoring the Future, a book assessing the capacity of ecological restoration to meet the challenge of the global environmental crisis. He is a contributing author to Restoration of Natural Capital: Science, Business and Practice, Island Press 2007, edited by James Aronson, James Blignaut and Sue Milton. He has worked for numerous publications, including the London Times, the Sunday Times, The International Herald Tribune, El País, Política Exterior, the International Journal of Iberian Studies, the World Policy Journal, BBC Wildlife and The Scientist. He has broadcast for Radio Telifís Éireann (RTE), the BBC, Sky, Spanish radio and television and US networks.
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