Visiting Scholars, Adjunct Faculty and Guest Lecturers

Ruth Ben-Artzi - Post doc, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
214 Stiteler Hall
Phone: 898-6155
Office Hours: R 10-12
E-mail: benartzi@sas.upenn.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF) (WORD)
Web Page: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~benartzi/

Ruth's research is on international financial institutions, aid, and development. She is currently working on a manuscript on the lending of regional development banks. This study and other projects related to it, explore the impact of aid and development projects generated by international financial institutions and the way these institutions function (how members interact and vote and how decisions are made). Ruth is also interested in the political economy of the Middle East and the extent, impact, and politics of development in this region.

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Craig Ewasiuk - Cornell University Doctoral Candidate
209 Stiteler Hall
Phone: (773) 908-5408
Office Hours: M & W, 12-1
E-Mail: ewasiuk@sas.upenn.edu

Craig works on modern political theory, specifically German Idealism and early liberalism. His dissertation is on the notion of “recurrence” in the writings of Hobbes, Hegel and Nietzsche. This project explores how different notions of temporality, and different ways of framing political narratives in time, can promote competing modes of political activity. His secondary interests include American political development, esotericism, governmentality, as well as thinkers as diverse as Pierre Bourdieu and Eric Voegelin.

He is currently teaching a seminar at the University of Pennsylvania entitled, “Risk as a Political Question,” which investigates changing conceptions of risk in American political history. At Cornell University, he taught a number of courses, including a seminar on The Onion and another on esoteric writing.

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Jennifer M. Lind - Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor,
Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
235 Stiteler Hall
Phone: 215-898-6187
Office Hours: TBA
Email: jlind@sas.upenn.edu
Web Page: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~jlind/

Jennifer Lind's research focuses on international security relations in the East Asian region. Her book manuscript, Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, tests whether apologies and other acts of contrition promote reconciliation and reduce threat perception between countries. Her other research interests include democratization and stability in the East Asian region, U.S. foreign and military policy toward East Asia, Korean international relations, and Japanese foreign and security policy.

At Penn, Professor Lind teaches a lecture course on East Asian Security and a seminar on Memory and Justice After War.

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Jeff Weintraub - Visiting Scholar
Phone: 610-525-4330
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: aweintra@sas.upenn.edu

Jeff Weintraub is a social and political theorist with overlapping interests in comparative politics, political sociology, political economy, and culture. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and his Ph.D. from Berkeley (in 1979). He has taught at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in Sociology and in the interdisciplinary Social Studies program, and in Political Science and Sociology at the University of California in San Diego, Williams College, and Bryn Mawr/Haverford. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (in Florence, Italy) and a Visiting Research Scholar at Lehigh University.

Weintraub's most durable concerns have been at the intersection of theory, politics, and culture (including the "social construction of reality" and the role of culture in the formation of the self). A forthcoming book entitled Freedom and Community: The Republican Virtue Tradition and the Sociology of Liberty seeks to combine a reinterpretation of the historical and philosophical roots of modern social theory, an inquiry into the bases of social and political order, and a reassessment of the nature and conditions of democratic citizenship. Some related long-term preoccupations include the theory and politics of the public/private distinction; the study of revolution as process, concept, and myth since 1776; the relationship between war, society, and politics in comparative and historical perspective; Freud's theory and its significance for understanding culture, society, and politics; and a cultural approach to the analysis of social movements. One current (long-term) project is a book exploring the interplay between citizenship, nationalism, socialism, and revolution in the modern era, from 1776 and 1789 through 1989 (and beyond).