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Julie Hardwick, Director GAR 1.104, Mailcode B7000, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-3261

Current Fellows, 2012-13

Visiting Research Fellows

Edward J. Kolla
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Legal Justifications of Territorial Annexations during the French Revolution

Christopher J. Lee
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Indian Ocean as a “Zone of Peace”: Nuclear Ambition and Non-Alignment in the Third World, 1955-1979

Stephen Porter
University of Cinncinati
A Benevolent Empire? Refugees, NGOs, and the American State

Internal Research Fellows

Daina Ramey Berry
The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of Human Property

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
The Bible in the Spanish Monarchy, 1492-1830

Huiayin Li
Geopolitics, Development Strategy, and Microfoundations: Maoist China in Comparative Perspective

Karl Miller
Sound Investments: Amateur Musicians Making American Pop

Denise Spellberg
U.S. Treaties, Their Problematic Translations, and U.S. Diplomatic Relations with North Africa:
18th-century Precedents and their 21st-century Implications for the Historiography of an Allegedly Eternal Islamic Terrorism


Visiting Research Associates

Shigeru Akita
Professor of British Imperial History and Global History, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
U.S. Aid Policies to India in the late 1950s and 1960s


Luis Gordo Pelaez
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ministry of Education, Spain
Urban Planning and Civic Architecture in the Viceroyalty of New Spain


Enrique G. Ramirez
Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University
Architecture, Aeronautics, and Air Resistance, 1881-1914

Aristides Ramos Penuela
Ph.D. candidate, The University of the Andes
The Elusive Unity of the Diverse: Formation the Santander Region, 1821-1910

Perrin A. Selcer
Fellow, National Science Foundation
Patterns of Science: Developing Knowledge for a World Community at UNESCO

Bruno Silva
Ph.D. candidate, Fluminense Federal University
Project title forthcoming

Woodruff D. Smith
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
A Study of Respectability as a Global Cultural Pattern


Sam C. Vong
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Compassionate Politics: Care and Suffering in the History of Southeast Asian Refugee Migrations, 1960s-1980s


Past Fellows and Affiliates

Downloadable list, 2011-12 (PDF, 41K)
Downloadable list, 2010-11
(PDF, 41K)
Downloadable list, 2009-10
(PDF, 36K)
Downloadable list, 2008-09
(PDF, 40K)

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