New Professors
Spring 2019
Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Switzerland and Italy)Professor, International EconomicsPhD, University of California, Berkeley |
Autumn 2018
Rui Esteves (Portugal)Associate Professor, International HistoryPhD, University of California, Berkeley Rui Esteves previously held academic positions at the University of Oxford and Simon Fraser University. He is specialised in monetary and financial history straddling the fields of international finance, institutional economics, and public finance. His research provides perspective on the globalisation of finance, financial crises, sovereign debt, financial market architecture, the choice of exchange rate regimes and emigrant remittances, as well as rent-seeking and corruption in public office. |
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Michael Goebel (Germany)Associate Professor, International History
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Dennis Rodgers (Switzerland, France and United Kingdom)Research Professor in Anthropology and SociologyPhD, University of Cambridge Dennis Rodgers held appointments at the Universities of Amsterdam, Glasgow, Manchester, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on issues relating to the dynamics of conflict and violence in cities in Latin America (Nicaragua, Argentina) and South Asia (India). Much of his work involves the longituidinal study of youth gangs in Nicaragua but he also works on the political economy of development, the politics of socio-spatial segregation, participatory governance processes, the historiography of urban theory, and the epistemology of development knowledge. In 2018 he was awarded a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project on “Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Comparative Global Ethnography” (GANGS), which aims to systematically compare gang dynamics in Nicaragua, South Africa and France. |
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