Senior Fellows
Oliver Benoit
Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at St. George’s University, Grenada
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Oliver Benoit is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at the School of Arts and Sciences at St. George’s University in Grenada. He works in the areas of comparative and historical sociology, political science, Caribbean studies and sociological theory. His recent paper 2007 “Ressentiment and the Gairy Social Revolution” is an examination of the emergence of Nationalism in Grenada. His forthcoming paper in Nations and Nationalism entitled “The Question of National Identity and the Institutionalization of the Visual Arts in Grenada” explains the lack of development of the visual arts in Grenada. Professor Benoit holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University.
Jonathan Eastwood
Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington and Lee University
Ph.D., Boston University
Jonathan Eastwood is Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington and Lee University. He completed his doctorate under Professor Greenfeld’s supervision in 2004. He then held an appointment as Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies for two years before taking up his current position. His first book, The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela, was published by the University Press of Florida in 2006. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on subjects including Latin American politics and society, sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and the sociology of literature.
Xinqi Jia
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University
Ph.D., Beijing Normal University
Xinqi Jia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of Philosophy and Sociology at Beijing Normal University in Beijing. He studied as a visiting scholar under the supervision of Professor Liah Greenfeld in 2010. His research interests include ethics, political philosophy, and history of Chinese philosophy. He is the author of several books and more than twenty papers. Since 2004 he has been advising graduate students in the M.A program at Beijing Normal University.
Joanna Michlic
Director, Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust, HBI, (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute), Brandeis University
B.A. U. Lodz, M.A., Ph.D., U. of London
Joanna Michlic received her doctorate and her master’s degree in modern European and Jewish history from University of London, and her bachelor’s degree in Slavonic studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Until December 2008 she was Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania. She is an Affiliated Fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies and the Center for Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky) and Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (2006, 2008 paperback edition)(Polish and Hebrew translations in preparation). She is currently working on two monographs, The Social History of Jewish Children in Poland: Survival and Identity, 1945—1949 and Bringing the Dark to Light: The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka.
Her publications on Jewish childhood in wartime and post-1945 Poland include: “”Who Am I?” The Identity of Jewish Children in Poland, 1945-1949.” Polin, Vol. 20, Focusing on Memorialization the Holocaust, (2007); “The Children Accuse, 1946: Between Exclusion From and Inclusion Into the Holocaust Canon,” in Krzysztof Ruchniewicz and Jürgen Zinnecker eds., Zwischen Zwangsarbeit, Holocaust und Vertreibung. Polnische, jüdische und deutsche Kindheiten im besetzten Polen. ( München, 2007) and also online in the Newsletter of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, H-Childhood, No. 9, February 2007; and Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Early Post-War Recollections of Survival and Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust published by Search and Research Lectures and Papers, no. 14, Yad Vashem. Her “The “Raw Memory of War:” the Reading of Early Postwar Testimonies of Children in Dom Dziecka in Otwock,” appeared in vol. 37, no. 1, 2009, Yad Vashem Studies.
Nicolas Prevelakis
Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
Ph.D., University of Paris-Sorbonne , Ph.D., Boston University
Nicolas Prevelakis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), on the notion of the self in Eastern Christianity (Orthodoxy), and a second one in Political Sociology from the University Professors’ Program of Boston University (on the interconnection between nationalism and religion in Modern Greece), under the direction of Professor Liah Greenfeld. His research interests include ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of the social sciences, globalization, nationalism, and the sociology of religion. He has been involved, in particular, with the “Hellenism and Modernity Program” of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences.
Prevelakis is currently a lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches a sophomore tutorial on Social Theory (SSTUD 10b), and a junior tutorial entitled “Globalization and the Nation-State” (SSTUD 98if). In the fall of 2009, he taught the course “The Politics of Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism in International Relations” in the Department of International Relations of Boston University. He is also working with the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and is teaching the orientation seminar of its summer internship progam in Nafplion, Greece.
Chikako Takeishi
Assistant Professor, The Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University, Tokyo
B.A., Waseda University, Tokyo, M.A., Harvard University, Ph.D., Harvard University
As a scholar of the sociology of knowledge and cognitive styles, Chikako Takeishi has authored numerous works, including: “Communication Distances and Domination: Translation from Language to Language” (The Journal of Social Science, November 1992), “Main Currents in Theories of Nationalism” (Shizen, Ningen, Shakai, January 1993), and “Japanese National Identity in Transition: Who Wants to Send the Military Abroad?” (International Sociology, June 1996). As Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chuo University in Tokyo, she teaches courses in sociological theory, statistics for sociological analysis, the Social Research Seminar for upperclassmen, and Seminars on National and Organizational Culture. She is also involved in a project on developing conceptual tools to improve communication skills in Buyer-Seller interactions. In her research she is currently undertaking a statistical analysis on workplace bullying. She is also pursuing conceptualization of interrelations among nationalism, organizational culture, and individual cognitive styles, and how these three constructs influence cross-national business interactions and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) within firms.
Francesco Duina
Professor of Sociology, Bates College
Ph.D. Harvard University
Francesco Duina is Professor of Sociology at Bates College, and Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. His research and teaching interests include economic sociology, the nation state, institutionalist theory, regional economic integration, and the sociology of culture. He has published numerous chapters and articles in leading journals such as Economy and Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Comparative European Politics, European Law Journal, and Global Social Policy. He is also the author of four books: Harmonizing Europe (SUNY Press 1999), The Social Construction of Free Trade (Princeton University Press 2006), Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession (Princeton University Press 2011), and Institutions and the Economy (Polity 2011).
