In addition to the Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Fellows, the Institute is hosting three Kroc Institute Visiting Fellows during 2001-02, who will be contributing to Kroc research initiatives on ethnic conflict
and globalization.

 

TRISTAN BORER is Associate Professor of Government at Connecticut College and the author of the award-winning study of resistance to apartheid, Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994 (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). Borer specializes in African politics, human rights, transitional justice and the roles of religious, ethnic and cultural actors in these realms. A co-director of the Kroc Institute’s Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC), her forthcoming book will evaluate the success of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

ELISE GIULIANO earned her doctorate in Comparative Politics at the University of Chicago in 2000 with a dissertation entitled “Paths to the Decline of Nationalism: Ethnic Politics in the Republics of Russia.” Her post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute last year was one of several fellowships and research grants Elise has won recently. During her visiting fellowship at the Kroc Institute, Giuliano will extend her research on the rise and decline of ethnic conflict in Russia to other republics in the post-Soviet region.

ELAINE THOMAS earned the Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 with a dissertation entitled “Nation After Empire: The Political Logic and Intellectual Limits of Citizenship and Immigration Controversies in France and Britain, 1981-1989.” After graduation, Thomas accepted the position of Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. The recipient of a SSRC-MacArthur fellowship, she was also a research fellow at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. During her fellowship at the Kroc Institute, Thomas is revising the dissertation into a book showing how globalization is transforming existing conceptions and practices of political membership and how those transformations are affecting social justice and relations among ethnic groups as well as the prospects for lasting peace in Europe.

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