Dear Members,
Here are the bios for the slate of candidates for the next year (in some cases--where there are fresh faces-- the term is two years). A ballot has been sent to each member in good standing of the caucus. We need a minimum of 15% of the members to vote to constitute a valid election. You can check all the boxes or only those persons that you wish to approve. Only the current treasurer, Seifudein Adem, will handle the ballots. You may also write in candidates if you wish. (Even if your candidate does not get elected, this gives us a change to add new persons to our roster for the next round of elections.) Just in case, a ballot copy has been appended as a link to this note as well. Please cut and paste it.
jbw
Bios and term (for ballot scroll down to the end):
To be elected for one additional year 2016-7:
Paul G. Adogamhe (AFRICA REP) is
Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science
at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater-Wisconsin, USA.
The focus of his research interest includes Pan-Africanism, Nigeria’s
Foreign Relations, Issues of Poverty and Economic Development in Africa
and UN Reforms. Aside from the contributions to edited volumes, his
articles have been published in the Nigerian Journal of International
Affairs (NJIA), African Integration Review, Poverty and Public Policy,
the Journal of Energy and Development, Journal of Development
Alternatives and Area Studies, among others.
Serkan Bulut
(MIDDLE EAST REP) is an alumnus of Bogazici and Bilkent Universities in Turkey and
University of Delaware in the United States. Currently he is a resident
research fellow at CICP focusing on civil-military relations and foreign
policy analysis. While most of his work is on Turkish foreign policy,
the neo-ottomanism debate and its impact on Middle East, he also
published articles on civilianization of politics and its reflection on
foreign and security policy making process. He has traveled and done
research in various Middle Eastern countries and presented his work in
various international avenues. Mr. Bulut worked for several National and
International organizations like Turkish Grand National Assembly and
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in different capacities.
Kristina Hinds Harrison
(LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN) (PhD, London School of Economics) is currently a lecturer in
political science and international relations at the University of the
West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, where she has worked since 2006. During
her time at the University of the West Indies she served as the
coordinator for the MSc Integration Studies from 2007 until 2013 and
designed the BSc International Relations for the Cave Hill Campus.
Kristina Hinds Harrison has published work on the role of civil society
in Caribbean regional integration, on political protest in the Caribbean
Community, as well as on gender in Caribbean politics/political
economy. She continues to conduct research on Caribbean civil society
involvement in regional and international politics and on gender in
Caribbean politics. She is currently working on a comparative study of
the mechanisms for civil society participation in Caribbean and African
integration initiatives.
Aigul Kulnazarova
(DEVELOPING EURASIA) is Professor of International Relations and International Law at the
School of Global Studies, Tama University, Japan. Born and raised in the
USSR (now independent Kazakhstan), in the mid of 1990s she left for
India to pursue her M.Phil. and Ph.D. studies at Pune University. In
2001, she joined the Graduate School of Law of Nagoya University in
Japan, as a postdoctoral fellow and the Japan Foundation scholar. Dr
Kulnazarova specializes in international organizations, international
relations, human rights, global history and political thought. Her
recent publications include two book chapters, Bridging Cultures:
Negotiating Difference (2014), and Communication and New Technology
(2014), both with SAGE Handbook of Globalization and Handbook of Human
Rights, respectively. Concurrently, Dr Kulnazarova (2013-2017) is a
senior member of international research project “Routes of Knowledge:
The global history of UNESCO: 1945-1975,” which is sponsored by the
Danish Research Council and in conjunction with the History Project of
UNESCO in Paris, France. As part of this research, she now works on two
independent book projects, one that examines the global impact of
UNESCO’s education for international understanding and peace, and the
other - the USSR’s relations with international organizations during the
Cold War.
Imad Mansour (FOR VICE CHAIR) is
Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, University of
Qatar, 2013. He was formerly Visiting Professor, Institut d'Études
Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) – Campus Moyen-Orient
Méditerranée, 2012-2013 and Faculty Lecturer, Department of Political
Science, McGill University, 2005-2011. He has published a number of
articles on the Arab Spring and instability in the Middle East. He has
been a member of the Global
South Caucus from its initiation in 2011, serving on the EXCOM as its
Middle East representative. He chaired the first GSCIS conference in
Menton, France.
Nannette Archer Svenson (
FOR CHAIR) teaches at Tulane University. She has
lived and worked for the past 20 years in Tokyo, Barcelona and Panama.
She has experience in the private sector, international development and
academia, and currently works as a consultant for the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and various Panamanian public and private
entities. She received a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from IESE
in Barcelona, and an MS and PhD in International Development from Tulane
University. Apart from Tulane, she has taught at Panama’s Catholic
University (USMA), the Panamanian Secretariat for Science, Technology
and Innovation (SENACYT) and UC Berkeley. She helped found and head Pro
Artesana, the leading NGO for Panamanian artisan capacity development
and is a member of Panama’s FUDESPA, a private foundation for national
economic and social development. She has been a member of the Global
South Caucus from its initiation in 2011, serving on the EXCOM as its
Latin American representative and afterwards as a Vice-President.
Mariana Alves da Cunha Kalil (COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR) is Visiting Professor, Institute for
Strategic Studies, Fluminense Federal University (INEST/UFF). She has
been Editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy in Debate
http://politicaexternabrasileira.com/; Associate
Researcher at the Lab for Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies (LEPEB/UFF);
Associate Researcher at GAPCon/UCAM (Group for the Analysis of
International Conflict Prevention); and Executive Coordinator for the
Sergio Vieira de Mello School (EPAZ). She is working for her Ph.D., She
holds a Master's in Comparative and International Politics at IRel/UnB
and a Bachelor in International Relations at IRI/PUC-Rio. She is a
member of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFF), Women in
International Security (WIIS), in the International Studies Association
(ISA) and in the Brazilian Association for International Studies (ABRI).
NEW PERSONS: TWO YEAR TERMS
Matthew Bishop (FOR TREASURER) is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the
Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Before taking up this post he taught in the Department of Politics at Sheffield, from where he also earned his PhD. Matt has held visiting positions at Warwick University (as Transatlantic Fellow), the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Leiden) and Wuhan University, China. He is currently the managing editor of the
Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy, and he has undertaken consultancies on behalf of various organizations, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the
UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Commonwealth Secretariat, and
Project Ploughshares. Matt’s main area of research interest is the political economy of development, with a particular focus on small state; global patterns of growth and development after the crisis; regional and multilateral trade politics, the global politics of democratization, and the implications of hegemonic transitions in the global political economy and the attendant rise of China for small, developing countries. He is currently working on a grant from the Social Sciences Research Council to conduct a project on the Turning Tide of Drug Policy Reform in the Americas. He is the author of two books:
The Political Economy of Caribbean Development, and, with Jean Grugel,
Democratization: A Critical Introduction, both published by Palgrave in 2013.
Kevin Funk (FOR NEWSLETTER EDITOR) is completing his PhD in the Department of Political
Science and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of
Florida.His dissertation analyzes the political economy and
geopolitical significance of relations between Latin America and the
Arab
world, and utilizes interpretive methodologies to interrogate the claim
that
there is a “transnational capitalist class” with a shared class
consciousness.He also serves as the Co-President for Graduate Assistants
United, the labor union representing approximately 4,000 Graduate
Assistants at
the University of Florida
.
Dr Pichamon May Yeophantong [พิชามญชุ์ เอี่ยาพานทอง; 皮查蒙 约范童]
(FOR ASIA REP) is Lecturer (Asst Prof) in International Relations and Development in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. Pichamon is also the Director of the Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Asia project at the Australian Human Rights Centre, as well as Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford, and ASEAN-Canada Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the RSIS Non-Traditional Security Studies Centre, Nanyang Technological University.Prior to joining UNSW, Pichamon was a Global Leaders Fellow at Oxford University and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University. She has held visiting fellowships at a number of universities, including Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai International Studies University, and National Taiwan University (as an inaugural Taiwan Fellow), having also taught at Thammasat University and the Australian National University. Pichamon has conducted extensive fieldwork in China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, and has been a consultant to the Africa Progress Panel and the Overseas Development Institute on issues relating to natural resource governance and humanitarianism in the Global South. Her work has appeared in edited volumes and publications such as Pacific Affairs, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Asian Survey, as well as in popular media outlets including Yale Global and The Diplomat. She is working on two book manuscripts: one on how 'responsibility' features in China's engagement with global governance; and the other on the ecological footprint of Chinese resource investment in Southeast Asia. Pichamon speaks Thai, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and reads/writes Sanskrit, among other languages.
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