The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Jonathan Bach (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Associate Director of the International Affairs Program. He works on contemporary reformulations of sovereignty, identity and memory. Before coming to the New School he held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, and visiting positions at Columbia's Harriman Institute and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989, and his articles have appeared in Geopolitics, Public Culture, Studies in Comparative International Development, Foreign Policy in Focus, Peace Review, and Philosophy and Social Science.

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Cyril Ghosh (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is as Assistant Professor in International Affairs. His research interests include identity politics, immigration, American political thought, Lockean political theory, liberalism, critical theory, gender and sexuality, rhetoric/language, international political economy, religious fundamentalism, popular culture, methodology, and the American Dream. His article, "The Heavenly Chorus of the American Dream Sings with Multiple and (even Foreign) Accents: Democratic Inclusion in late 20th-Century Political Talk" is currently under review at Perspectives on Politics.

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Nina L. Khrushcheva is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. She is also an editor of and a contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. Dr. Khrushcheva’s articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and other international publications. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale University Press, 2007), and is currently working on a new book project “Russia’s Gulag of the Mind.”

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L.H.M. Ling (PhD, MIT) is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in New York City. Ling’s research interests include democracy in international relations, critical security studies, transcultural politics and postcolonial discourses (race/gender/class/culture), modalities of transnationalism, ethnographies of knowledge production and international development practice, and emerging regional economies. Her geocultural area of interest centers on East, Southeast, and South Asia and its relations with the West. Her books include Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (London: Routledge, 2009), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou (York University). Ling’s publications have appeared in International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Peace Research, Millennium, positions: east asia cultures critique, Review of International Political Economy, Review of Politics, among others, as well as various anthologies.

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Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and The New School. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, human rights education, and documentary practice. His current projects include a study of seven photojournalists for the Rio-based web portal, Viva Favela. His book, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil is forthcoming.

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Vyayanthi Rao (Ph.D., University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment with the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, where she is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of technology, infrastructure, memory and modernity in South Asia. She currently has two book projects in development, to be titled ‚ Ruins and Recollections: the Heritage of Modernization in a South Asian Context and Infra-City: Catastrophic Urbanisms in Post-Industrial Mumbai.

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