Conflict and Security Faculty

Faculty members in the Conflict and Security Concentration include both academic researchers and practitioners with extensive experience in the field. 

 

Eleanor Acer

Eleanor Acer (J.D., Fordham) has been the director of the Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First for over ten years. As the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection Program, Eleanor Acer supervises Human Rights First's pro bono representation program and works with our Washington staff on matters related to domestic refugee policy. Under Eleanor's leadership, Human Rights First has obtained asylum for more than 90% of our refugee clients in the New York and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. Eleanor oversees our 1,000-member volunteer lawyer network, maintains the quality of our legal service provision to asylum seekers from 88 countries, directs the program's training component, and guides Human Rights First's staff attorneys. Eleanor speaks and writes regularly on issues relating to U.S. asylum law and policy. Before coming to Human Rights First, Eleanor was an associate handling federal litigation at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP and before that at Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith. She has coordinated mentoring programs and has served on the International Human Rights Committee and Immigration Committee of the Association of the Bar of New York.  Her area of interest is promoting fair asylum laws and procedures consistent with international human rights standards.

Jonathan Bach

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.

Louis Bickford

Louis Bickford (Ph.D., McGill University) is a political scientist. Dr. Bickford is also the Director of the Policymakers and Civil Society unit at the International Center for Transitional Justice, where he has worked since its founding in 2001. He also manages the Memorials, Monuments, and Museums program.

Stephen J. Collier

Stephen J. Collier is an Assistant Professor at GPIA and has been teaching in the Program since 2003. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and held research and teaching positions at Columbia University before joining the New School Faculty. He has conducted research and published on a range of topics including post-socialism, neoliberalism, infrastructure, social welfare, and, in a new project, contemporary security. He is the co-editor (with Aihwa Ong) of Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Blackwell, 2004) and (with Andrew Lakoff) of Biosecurity Interventions (Columbia University Press, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in Theory, Culture, and Society, Economy and Society, Environment and Planning D, Anthropology Today, Anthropological Theory, and Post-Soviet Affairs. He is currently working on book manuscript on urbanism and neoliberal reform in post-Soviet Russia and on the genealogy of vital systems security.

Anna DiLellio

Anna DiLellio (Ph.D., Columbia University) teaches for the International Affairs program. DiLellio is also a consultant and advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo working on Capacity Building Facility of the UNDP Fund and the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society.

David Gold

David Gold (Ph.D., Economics, City University of New York) is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, where he teaches in the Conflict and Security and Development concentrations. He is a Fellow of Economists for Peace and Security, an Associate Editor of The EPS Journal, and a member of the Security Policy Working Group. He is a co-founder and co-chair of the New School Study Group on the Economics of Security and, with Sean Costigan, edited a volume of papers from that group, Terrornomics (Ashgate, 2007). Professor Gold is currently conducting research on economic aspects of terrorism, the globalization of military production, and the political and economic determinants of military spending in the United States.

Professor Gold chairs, with Sean Costigan and William Hartung, the Economics of Security Study Group.


L.H.M. Ling

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.


Erin McCandless

Erin McCandless (Ph.D. American University) is a specialist in peacebuilding and development with over fifteen years experience working in areas of integrated programme design and management, policy development and advising, research, writing and publishing, teaching and training. Over nine years experience in conflict and post-conflict recovery contexts globally, with in-depth experience in Africa. Areas of specialization include: peacebuilding and development related strategic frameworks, conflict sensitivity, inter-agency and UN Mission coordination, civil-society-government and donor relations, governance related capacity-building, addressing post-conflict war economy challenges, poverty reduction strategy processes, evaluation methods – in particular peace, conflict impact assessment related.

Timothy Pachirat

Timothy Pachirat (Ph.D. 2008, Yale University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. His research and teaching interests include comparative politics, the politics of Southeast Asia, spatial and visual politics, the sociology of domination and resistance, the political economy of dirty and dangerous work, and interpretive and ethnographic research methods. Pachirat's work has received awards from the American Political Science Association's Section on Qualitative Methods and from the American Political Science Association's Labor Project. He is currently working on a book project that draws on an ethnography of immigrant labor on the kill floor of an industrialized slaughterhouse to explore how violence that is seen as both essential and repugnant to modern society is organized, disciplined, and regulated.

Vyjayanthi Rao

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.

Janet Roitman

Janet Roitman holds a joint position as an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and in the Graduate Program for International Affairs. Roitman has conducted extensive research in Central Africa, focusing specifically on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic and Chad. She has recently published an analysis of the unregulated commerce that transpires on those borders, which inquires into emergent forms of economic regulation in the region of the Chad Basin and considers consequential transformations in the nature of citizenship. Her topical interests are in political economy, the anthropology of economics, the constitution of contemporary economic subjectivities, the anthropology of reason, and the sociology of critique.

Everita Silina

Everita Silina is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Her research interests include theories of justice, representation and democracy in post-national context, political economy and theories of integration, the European Union and the politics of Europeanization, human rights and international law. Currently she is working on a project with Sheri P. Rosenberg at the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that reassesses the concept of genocide by combining international law, human rights and political spheres of inquiry. Co-authored study on Genocide by Attrition is due to be published later in 2008. Everita also chairs the IFP summer program in Hong Kong.