Jonathan Bach

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Positions:

2009-	Chair, Global Studies Bachelor’s Program, The New School.
2005-	Associate Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.

 

Education:

1997	Ph.D. Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Political Science.
1993	M.A. Syracuse University, Political Science.
1990-1991	Graduate Study at the Free University of Berlin, Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy.
1988	B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Magna Cum Laude), Political Science.

 

Academic Appointments:

2002-2005	Core Faculty (Assistant Professor), Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.
2000 spring	Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
1999-2000	Adjunct Faculty, Social Sciences Department, State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology.
1997 summer	Instructor, Syracuse University, Department of Political Science.

 

Administrative Appointments:

2008 spring	Acting Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.
2005-2008	Associate Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.
2002-2005	Director, International Field Programs, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.
2000-2004	Director, “Graduate Practicum on International Organization,” Syracuse University Geneva Internship Program, Geneva, Switzerland, Summer 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.

 

Visiting Positions:

2009 summer	Visiting Scholar, Center for Literature and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany.
2008-2009	Visiting Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
1998-1999	Visiting Scholar, the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
1995 spring	Visiting Scholar, Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Germany.

 

Fellowships:

2001-2002	Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
1999-2000	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs.
1999, 2000 summers	Young Scholar’s Summer Institute on “The Unification of Germany: Problems of Transition in Comparative Perspective,” Social Science Research Council / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
1998 spring/summer	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Mina de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
1991-1996	Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship.

 

Grants:

“The Empty Center: The Post-Unification Trajectory of the Palace of the Republic,” DAAD Faculty Research Visit Grant, Berlin, Germany, summer 2009, EUR 3,980.

“Urban Appropriations and the Political Economy of China’s Transition,” Faculty Development Grant, The New School, 2008, $5,000.

“Deterritorialization and State Strategies,” Faculty Fellow Grant, India China Institute, The New School, 2006-07, $5,000.  Invited Participation in India Residency (November-December 2006) and China Residency (June 2007).

“Exploratory Mapping: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media Studies and International Affairs,” Faculty Development Grant, The New School, collaborative project between Media Studies and the International Affairs Program, 2003-2004, $2,000.

“Organizational Innovation and Interactive Media among NGOs in Postsocialist Eastern Europe,” National Science Foundation, Program on Innovation and Organizational Change, SES-0115378, July 2001-August 2003, $316,592. (David Stark, Principal Investigator)

“Technologies of Civil Society: Information Technology and the Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe,” National Council on Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), 2000-2001, $70,000. (With David Stark)

“Expanding the Web of Civil Society: The Internet and the Third Sector in the Transition to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” Aspen Institute Nonprofit Research Sector, 2000, $25,000. (With David Stark)

 

Research:

My research is grouped below by publications and presentations in four overlapping areas. For a chronological list of publications please click here.

 

I. Historical legacies and inheritance of the past in Germany: My book Between Sovereignty and Integration explores how united German foreign policy in the early 1990s coalesced around competing national narratives of “normalcy” and “responsibility” in the search to manage the constraints of the militarist past. Current work examines the united German inheritance of the East German socialist legacy, especially the struggle over representations of the socialist everyday into a new national narrative.

 

II. Social and organizational adaptation in post-socialism: This area examines innovative adaptations in the transition from socialist to market economy. Together with David Stark I explored how non-governmental organizations in East Central Europe co-evolved with the use of digital technologies. Current work looks at the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, China, and the process by which former collective farms become “urban villages” that exploit ambiguities at the intersection of socialist values and market practices.

 

III. Spaces of exception—territorial and political reconfigurations:  The third area addresses the fundamental tension in globalization between de-territorialization and renewed forms of state intervention. I explore state responses to globalization through two projects that examine exceptional spaces. The first examines economic zones as territorial anomalies and new urban spaces where sovereignty and citizenship are renegotiated. The second explores how transnational migrants shape new articulations of belonging and political membership through their claims on the political process of their home countries.

 

IV. Other research: This includes work on political theory, globalization and democracy, transatlantic foreign and security policy, and the organization of academic events.

 

 

I.         Historical Legacies and inheritance of the past

Ongoing Project:

I am currently researching the afterlife of the East German state in united Germany today. Specific cases include the phenomenon of nostalgia for communism, the controversial demolition of the East German Palace of the Republic, and contentious representations of the socialist everyday.

Publications:

·       ‘The GDR Never Existed’: Traces of the East in United Germany. Book manuscript in preparation.

·       “Three Modes of Inheritance: Material Legacies of Berlin’s Symbolic Center.” Revise and resubmit for Contemporary Studies in Society and History.

·       “Vanishing Acts and Virtual Reconstructions: Technologies of Memory and the Afterlife of the GDR.” In Silke Arnold-de Simine, ed., Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

·       “Komunismus jako zbozí?” (“Communism as Commodity?”) Fórum architektury a stavitelství (Forum of Architecture and Construction), Prague, Czech Republic, 4-5, 2004.

·       “’The Taste Remains’: Consumption, (N)ostalgia and the Production of East Germany.” Public Culture, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall 2002.

·       “Cultural Identity and the Legacy of the GDR: ‘Eastproducts’ and Television after Unification.” [in German] (with Karin Wehn). In Wolfgang Schluchter and Peter Quint, eds., Der Vereinigungsschock [The Shock of Unification] Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, October 2001.

Conference Presentations:

·       “Inheritance and Memory: Museums of the Socialist Everyday in Re-United Germany.” The Limits of Memory: NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, The New School, New York, March 4, 2010.

·       “Berlin’s Royal and Communist Palaces: From Relic to Restoration.” Presented at:

o   American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Boston, November 13, 2009.

o    German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, Saturday, October 10, 2009.

·       “Inheritance and Its Others: On the Way to the Humboldt Forum.” Inheriting the World: Intergenerational Transfer and Global Cultural Policy, Center for Literature and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany, May 23, 2009.

·        “Nostalgia and Identity in Eastern Germany.” International Conference on Conflict in Identities and Identities in Conflict, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, March 2, 2004.

·       “Re-Imagining East Germany.” German-American Academic Council Summer Institute, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, July 26, 2000.

·        “Is there a Postcommunist Identity?” German-American Academic Council Summer Institute, Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany, July 1999.

Invited Lectures:

·       “The Palaces of Berlin: Inheriting the Prussian and Communist Past.” Workshop on Power, Identity and Contestation, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, April 1, 2009.

·       “The Taste Remains: Nostalgia and the Production of East Germany.” Deutsches Haus, New York University, February 24, 2004.

·       “Producing East Germany Today: Vanishing Acts and Virtual Reconstructions.” East European Politics and Society Lecture Series, Graduate Faculty, The New School, April 10, 2003.

·       “Producing East German Identity.” University Seminar on Post-Communist States, Economies, and Societies, Columbia University, NY, December 1, 1999.

 

Completed Project:

My book and related publications and presentations explored how foreign policy discourses immediately after German reunification influenced the narrative of German national identity at a crucial moment of national reconstruction.

Publications:

·       Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

·       “The New Spirit of German Geopolitics” (with Susanne Peters). Geopolitics, vol. 7, no. 3, Winter 2002.

·       “Germany after Unification and Eastern Europe: New Perspectives, New Problems.” Intermarium, December 1998.

·       “Deploying Soldiers, Deploying Words.” Peace Review, December 1998.

Conference Presentations:

·       “Germany, Europe and the United States.” Germany Today, Rutgers University, Center on Global Change and Governance, April 28, 2000.

·       “The Bundestag Debate on Deploying German Troops to the Former Yugoslavia.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 1996.

·       “The ‘Normalization Approach’ in German Foreign Policy and Implications for German Relations with Eastern Europe.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September, 1995.

·       “The Conceptual Underpinnings of German Foreign Policy.” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 1995.

·       “German Foreign Policy, Neoliberalism, and the Search for the Normal State.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, October 1994.

·       “One Step Forward, Three Steps Back? Germany, The European Community, and the Recognition of Croatia and Slovenia.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 1993.

Invited Lectures:

·       “Germany after Unification and Eastern Europe: New Perspectives, New Problems?” University Seminar on Post-Communist States, Economies, and Societies, Columbia University, NY, November 10, 1998.

·       “Germany Ten Years After Unification: Contradictions and Challenges.” Executive MBA International Seminar on Europe, Columbia Business School, January 28, 2000.

 

II.       Social and organizational Adaptation in Post-Socialism

Ongoing Project:

I am conducting research on the phenomenon of “urban villages” as innovative urban forms in the Chinese Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, where I have conducted field research over the last three years. I plan to edit a book on urban and social transformation in Shenzhen with the anthropologist Mary Ann O’Donnell.

Publications:

·       “Peasants into Citizens: Urban Villages in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology, August 2010.

Invited Lectures:

·       “Globalization and China’s Transition to Market Economy:  Urban Adaptations in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 22, 2010.

·       “Peasants into Citizens: Urban Villages in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 28, 2009.

Conferences co-organized:

·       “Shenzhen: On and Beyond China’s Fastest Growing City” (with Brian McGrath). The New School, February 13-15, 2008.

 

Completed Project:

With David Stark I explored how non-governmental organizational structures co-evolved with the introduction of digital technologies, with cases drawn from East Central Europe.

Publications:

·       “Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association” (with David Stark). In Saskia Sassen and Robert Latham, eds., Digital Formations, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

·       “Link, Search, Interact: the Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology” (with David Stark). Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 21, no. 3, 2004.

·       Technology and Transformation: Facilitating Knowledge Networks in Eastern Europe (with David Stark). Geneva: United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, Technology, Business and Society Program Paper 10, November 2003.

o   Reprinted in Transnational Associations: The Review of the Union of International Associations 1, 2004.

·       “Innovative Ambiguities: NGOs’ use of Interactive Technology in Eastern Europe” (with David Stark). Studies in Comparative and International Development, vol. 37, no. 2, summer 2002.

·       “Charting the Web of Civil Society: How Information Technology is Transforming NGOs in East Central Europe” (with David Stark). Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Working Paper Series, Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2002.

Conference Presentations:

·       “Shaping the Virtual Public Sphere in East Central Europe.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, February 24, 2001.

·       “Internetworking to Bridge the Divide: How NGOs' use of IT reshapes Agendas in Eastern Europe” (with David Stark). Digital Dilemmas: The Divide in Latin America, Columbia University, February 2, 2001.

·       “Charting the Web of Civil Society: NGOs use of Interactive Technologies in Eastern Europe.” Geneva 2000 Forum on Social Development, Geneva, June 28, 2000.

Conference co-organized:

·       “New Spaces for Civil Society in Latin America and Eastern Europe: Strengthening or Fragmenting Democracy?” (With Elizabeth Friedman), Columbia University, April 20, 2001.

 

III.       Spaces of Exception: Territorial and Political Reconfigurations

The following two ongoing projects emerged from a graduate seminar entitled “Spaces of Exception.”

Ongoing Project (A):

This project explores the phenomenon of economic zones as exceptional spaces where modernist fantasies converge and constitute new forms of neoliberal urban space.

Publications:

·       “Modernity and the Urban Imagination in Economic Zones.” Theory, Culture & Society (forthcoming).

Conference Presentations:

·       Roundtable participant, “Borders of the Borderless World: Responses and Reflections on Design and the Social” (with David Harvey, Keller Easterling, and Grahame Shane). Vexed Urbanism: A Symposium on Design and the Social, part of the series on Shenzhen: On and Beyond China’s Fastest Growing City, The New School, February 15, 2008.

·        “New Spatial Forms and Urban Imagination: Free Economic Zones at the Border of the Borderless World.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2007.

·       “Zones of Exception: Trade ?Zones and Sovereign Reformulations.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1, 2005.

Invited Lectures:

·       “Globalization, Cities and Citizenship.” Colloquium on Citizenship and the New Metropolis, Development Studies Group, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 6, 2009.

·       “Zonal Logics and Urban Imaginations: New Spatial Forms at the Border of the Borderless World.” Invited lectures at Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan, June 19, 2007, and Shenzhen University, School of Architecture, Shenzhen, China, June 5, 2007.

·       “Economic Zones and Spaces of Exception.” School of Global Studies Colloquium, Arizona State University, February 22, 2005.

 

Ongoing Project (B):

This project concerns how transnational labor migration shapes new articulations of belonging and political membership. With M. Scott Solomon I explore the relation between state strategies to profit from migrant labor and the increasing claim of migrants for political participation in their home countries.

Publications:

·       “Remittances, Gender, and Development.” In Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan, Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Resistances Second Edition, Routledge, 2010 (forthcoming).

·       “Labors of Globalization: Emergent State Responses” (with M. Scott Solomon). New Global Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2008.

·       “Processi Transnationali e Progretti Nazionali: migrazione del lavoro globale, Zone di esportazione e strategie statali emergenti” (“Transnational Processes and National Projects: Emergent State Strategies”) (with M. Scott Solomon). 2006. Il lavoro publblico No. 8, August. Translated from English by Elena Maiorano.

Conference Presentations:

·       Moderator, “Global Flows and Migration.” The Limits of Memory: NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, The New School, New York, March 5, 2010.

·       Discussant, “Migration in the Post-Communist World:  Causes and Consequences.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Boston, November 12, 2009.

·       “Extending Political Rights to Citizens Abroad: Implications for the Nation-State.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 15, 2009.

·       “Remittances, Gender, and Global Restructuring.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.

·       “Remittances and Migration: An Overview.” Exchanging Change: Gender, Migration and Remittances, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)/New School Graduate Program in International Affairs, New York, September 12, 2006.

·       “Labors of Globalization” (with M. Scott Solomon). Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Hong Kong, April 7, 2006.

·       “Transnational Processes and National Projects: Emergent State Strategies” (with M. Scott Solomon). International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 23, 2006.

Panel organized:

·       “Migration, Participation, and Representations.” Panel at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 15, 2009.

 

IV. Other Research

A. Political Theory:

Publications:

·       “Power, Secrecy, Paranoia: Technologies of Governance and the Structure of Rule.” Cultural Politics vol. 6, no. 3, November 2010 (forthcoming).

·       “Globalization, Democracy and Modernity.” In Cheryl Hughes and Hudson Yeager, eds., Cultural Integrity and World Community. Studies in Social and Political Theory No. 22, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

·       “A Critique of Rawls’ Hermeneutics as Translation” (with Jim Josefson). Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 23, no. 1, January 1997.

Conference Presentations:

·       “The Disease of Power: Paranoia and Politics.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 19, 2004.

·        “Democracy in the Age of Globalization.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 15, 2000.

·       “Postmodern Political Identity.” (with Jim Josefson) New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, St. Johns College, New York, May 1999.

·       “Encounter and Re-Encounter in International Relations.” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 19, 1999.

·       “Can Democracy Survive Globalization?” International Social Philosophy Conference, North Adams, MA, August 1998.

·        “Rawls’ Hermeneutics of Translation: A Critique” (with Jim Josefson). Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Newark, NJ, November 1995.

Invited Lectures:

·       “Power, Secrecy, Paranoia.” Center for Literature and Cultural Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 15, 2009.

·        “Sovereignty and the Modern Nation State.” The Summit: ?A General Assembly with Representatives of Real and Possible Countries?, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, June 23, 2005.

·       Discussant, “Sovereignty and Identity in the Former Yugoslavia.” Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Conference, Columbia University, April 14, 2000.

·       “Globalization, Democracy and Modernity.” World Affairs Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York, March 16, 1999.

·       “The Crisis of Democratic Discourse: Nationalism and East-Central Europe.” International Studies Association Annual Conference, Acapulco, Mexico, March 1993.

 

B. Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy:

Publications:

·       The Partnership and the Pendulum: The Foreign Policy Debate in the United States and Implications for European Security. Hamburg Monographs on Peace Research and Security Policy, Hamburg, Germany: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, 1995.

·       “The Politics of Security: The View from New York Five Years After 9/11.” Sicherheit und Frieden / Security and Peace, 2006.

·        “The Transatlantic Partnership in the Shadow of Globalization.” In Tom Barry and Martha Honey, eds., U.S. Global Affairs 1999-2000, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

·       “US-EU Trade Issues.” Foreign Policy in Focus, Albuquerque, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies, December 1999.

·       “Die USA und den Kalten Krieg: Ende Gut, Alles Gut?” (The USA and the Cold War: All’s Well that Ends Well?), Dialog (Austria), no. 19, Summer 1991.

Conference Presentations:

·        “Emerging from the Cold War: The United States in 1990.” State of Peace Conference, Austrian Institute for Peace Research, Burg Schlaining, Austria, November 1990.

Invited Lectures:

·       “A War within a War: Policies and Paradoxes of the Bush Administration,” Masaryk University Faculty of Social Sciences, Brno, March 24, 2003, and Institute of Political Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, March 26, 2003.

 

C. methodological issues in international affairs:

Presentations:

·       Chair, “Law’s Performativity: Anthropological Interventions in Legal Studies” Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, 13th Annual Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 19, 2010.

·       Discussant, Panel on “Globalizing Security Regimes.” Global Security Regimes in the Making? Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 20, 2009.

·        “Relational Topographies: Media and International Affairs” Channels: Emerging Media Publics, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, May 16, 2006.

·       “Everyday Life and Transnational Research.” Salon 615, Art, Culture and Communities in International Development, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, December 10, 2005.

·       Discussant, “Agenda for the Future: New Perspectives of International Relations Theory.” Union of Political Science Students' Annual Conference, Graduate Faculty, The New School, May 1, 2004.

·       “Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: Separated at Birth or Incommensurable Universes?” Seminar of the International Political Psychology Working Group, Global Affairs Institute, Syracuse University, November 1996.

·       “Toward Narrative Methodologies in Political Science.” Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Albany, New York, March 1993.

 

D. Other Conferences and sessions (co)organized:

·       “China’s Aid to Africa: Implications and International Perspectives.” International workshop, The New School, April 24-25, 2008.

·       “Kosovo’s Final Status in Historical Context” (with Anna Di Lellio). Panel discussion, December 3, 2008, The New School.

·       “The Tibet Crisis: State Power, Global Public Opinion and Political Pressure” (with Tianle Chang and Xiaoyang Tang). Panel discussion, April 15, 2008, The New School.

·       “Global Civil Society: Four Scenarios.” Panel discussion, The New School, December 4, 2002.

·       “Political Aphasia: Vestiges of Soviet and Yugoslav Identity” (with Serguei Oushakine). Conference panel, Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Conference, Columbia University, April 17, 1999.

·       “Reassessing the Transformation Five Years On: New Approaches to Politics, Society and Security in Eastern Europe.” Conference panel, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 1996.

 

Translation:

Book translation from German into English of Warfare Since the Second World War by Klaus-Jürgen Gantzel and Torsten Schwinghammer. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.

 

Book Reviews:

• Review of Eli Ruben, Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. Forthcoming, German Studies Review.
• Review of Esther von Richthofen, Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR. H-Net, November, 2009.
• Review of Daniel W. Drezner, All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes. Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 2007.

·       Review of Christopher J. Bickerton, et al., Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations. International Studies Review, vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2007.

·       Review of John Mosher, Unavoidable Germans: Art vs. Politics and the Consequences. German Studies Review, XXI: 2, May 1998.

·       Review of Jens Hacker, Integration und Verantwortung. German Studies Review, XX: 2, May 1997.

·       Review of Peter H. Merkl, German Unification in the European Context. German Studies Review, XVII: 2, May 1994.

 

Manuscript Referee:

Columbia University Press

Oxford University Press

Westview Press

Theory, Culture & Society

International Studies Quarterly

Qualitative Sociology

Geopolitics

Focus on German Studies

Global Society

Human Organization

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

 

Teaching Experience:

Graduate seminars: ·       Global Flows and the International Community ·       Spaces of Exception ·       Critical Security Studies ·       Urban Archipelagos: Transnational Intersections in New York ·       Theories of Global Politics ·       Confronting Conflict ·       Geneva Practicum in International Organization ·       Technologies of Civil Society: NGOs and Information Technology in East Central Europe ·       Thesis Workshop

Undergraduate courses: ·       (Dis)Order and (In)Justice: An Introduction to Global Studies ·       Introduction to World Affairs ·       Contemporary Western Europe ·       Introduction to International Relations ·       The Global Community

First or Second Reader on over 45 Masters Theses, 2002-present, at the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.

 

 

Academic Administrative Experience:

Founding chair of a new interdisciplinary undergraduate Bachelors degree program in Global Studies. Responsibilities include:

·       Curricular development for New York State Department of Education approval and subsequent modification. ·       Creation of primary materials for the major and minor and outreach to students through fairs, open houses, etc. ·       Course creation, planning and coordination across departments and divisions. ·       Work with admissions and communications and external affairs to develop marketing plans and materials for student recruitment. ·       Work with the development office on grant and fundraising prospects. ·       Creation of a hiring plan and initial hiring of full and part-time faculty. ·       Development of experiential learning experiences to leverage university field programs in New York and abroad. ·       Work collaboratively with sister interdisciplinary programs in Urban Studies, Media Studies, and Environmental Studies. ·       Initiate public events to promote Global Studies.

Associate and Acting Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs—a rapidly growing Masters degree program—as it expanded from 100 to over 400 students, from 15 to over 35 full-time, joint, visiting, and part-time faculty, and from approximately 25 to over 60 course offerings. I played a major administrative role working collaboratively with the Director, faculty, students and administrators in the following areas:

Program Development:

·       Curricular review, including revisions of core and methods courses and thesis requirements. ·       Course planning and concentration coordination. ·       Introduction of a practicum capstone. ·       Major expansion of summer international field programs. ·       Part-time faculty supervision, hiring, and evaluation. ·       Development of program guidelines for faculty and students. ·       Internal program review. ·       Career and alumni development strategies.

Supported the director in the following supervisory areas:

·       Certifying students for graduation. ·       Supervision of career, internship, and alumni development. ·       Supervision of office staff and procedures. ·       Supervision of faculty advising. ·       Liaison with student government. ·       Investigating and adjudicating student-faculty and faculty-faculty complaints and disputes. ·       Faculty sabbatical and leave requests. ·       Representing the program on university committees.

 

University Service:

·       University Curriculum Committee, New School, 2010-2011.

·       Chair, Divisional Undergraduate Restructuring Committee, The New School, 2009-2010.

·       “Mission/Vision” Committee on Divisional Restructuring, The New School, 2009-2010.

·       Co-Chair, International Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, The New School, 2007-2008.

·       India-China Institute Faculty Advisory Council, The New School, 2005-present.

·       Council on Global Initiatives, The New School, 2005-2008.

·       Chairs and Directors Group, The New School, 2005-2008.

·       Chair, Governance and Rights Concentration, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, 2004-2008.

·       Divisional Web Committee, The New School, 2003-2008.

·       Faculty Senate, The New School, 2003-2005.

·       Divisional Executive Committee, The New School, 2003-2005.

·       International Advisory Committee, Milano School, The New School, 2002-2004.

 

Search Committees:

·       Search Committee, Executive Dean, The New School for General Studies, 2009-2010.

·       Co-Chair, Search Committee, Anthropology/International Affairs joint faculty position, The New School, 2006-2007.

·       Co-Chair, Search Committee, Political Science/International Affairs joint faculty position, The New School, 2006.

·       Co-Chair, Search Committee, Law and Society joint faculty position, The New School, 2005-2006.

·       Search Committee, Director of Graduate Studies for Media Studies, The New School, 2005-2006.

·       Search Committee, Comparative Politics/Political Theory faculty position, The New School, 2003.

·       Search Committee, Associate Dean, The New School, 2002-03.

·       Search Committee, Sawyer Chair in Constitutional Law, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, 1993-1994.

 

Fellowship Selection Committees:

·       Fellowship Selection Committee, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2003-present.

·       India China Institute Fellows Selection Committee, The New School, 2005-present.

·       Fulbright Committee, The New School, 2003.

 

 

External Review and Visiting Committees:

·       External Reviewer, City College of New York, Masters Program in International Relations, March 2009.

·       Board Member, Institute for Cultural Enterprise (ICE), New York, 2007-2009.

·       Program Committee Member, Human Development Capabilities Association (HDCA), for 2007 HDCA Conference on “Ideas Changing History”, New York, September 16-20, 2007.

• Board Member, International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education (IISCE), University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland, 2003-present.

 

Other Professional Experience:

• Co-Chair, Thematic Network on Contemporary European Cities, Council on European Studies, 2003-2004.
• Content Specialist, International Institute of Education, Fulbright Program, Enrichment Seminar on Conflict Resolution for Fulbright Students, Spring 2003.
• Learning Consultant, Social Science Research Council, Program on “Information Technology, Global Security and International Cooperation,” 2001-2003.

·       Research Associate, “New Emissaries and No Emissaries: The Representation of New Voices in Global Politics.” Project at the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, 2001-2002.

·       Program Director, USAID Training Program “Becoming Citizens: A Training Program for the Latvian Naturalization Board,” February 1999.

·       Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, VA. Projects on German security policy and conventional arms control, 1990-1991.

·       Program Officer and Executive Assistant to the Director of Research, Institute for East-West Security Studies (currently the EastWest Institute), New York, 1988-1990.

• Consultant, United Nations, Disarmament Department, United Nations Study on Nuclear Weapons, Spring, 1990.

 

Languages:

English (native), German (fluent), French (intermediate), Japanese (elementary)