Philip T Hoffman

Philip Hoffman is interested in combining economic theory and historical evidence to explain long-term changes in politics, society, and the economy—in particular, economic growth and political dev

Stefano Bottoni

Stefano Bottoni is a senior research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a visiting fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena (Ma

Nazif Shahrani

Two facts have shaped my career as a "native" anthropologist. My personal conviction, formed in the mid-1960's as a college student in Afghanistan, that anthropology was a discipline relevant to th

Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist who works in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call Cliodynamics. His research interests lie at the intersection of social an

James C Scott

James Scott, Ph.D., Yale University, 1967, is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program and a mediocre farmer. His

Michael R Auslin

Michael Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in US policy i

Guy de la B�doy�re

Guy de la Bédoyère is a freelance historian, archaeologist, writer and broadcaster. 

His special interests, apart from the Roman Empire and Roman Britain, include coinage (ancient and mo

Eric D Duke

Dr. Eric D. Duke is Associate Professor of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. 

He completed his B.A. and M.A. at Florida State U

Tony Spawforth

Tony Spawforth was Assistant Director of the British School of Archeology at Athens, Greece, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before holding his current position as pro

Sandra Fahy

Sandra Fahy is associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo.

My current research at the Human Ri

Alain Bresson

Alain Bresson is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and History at the University of Chicago, and he was previously Professor of Ancient History at the University of

Christophe Guilluy

Christophe Guilluy is a French geographer and the author of several books, including La France périphérique: Comment on a sacrifié les classes populaires. He also writes occasionally for The Guardi

Shakira Hussein

Writer and researcher, National Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne. 

Author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11.

 
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Alexander A Cooley

Alexander Cooley is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute (2015-present).

Professor Cooley’s research exami

Bruno Ma��es

Bruno Maçães is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a Senior Advisor at Flint Global in London. He was the Portuguese Europe Minister from 2013-2015, and was decorated by Spain

Uri Ben-Eliezer

URI BEN-ELIEZER is a political sociologist and chair of the department of sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. 

His research interests include Israeli democracy, civil society,

Marcus Tanner

Marcus studied theology at Cambridge before becoming the Balkans correspondent for The Independent from 1988 to 1994.

He returned to London to become the Assistant Foreign Editor of The Indep

Paul Frymer

Paul Frymer is a Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests are broadly in American politics and public

Krishan Kumar

Krishan Kumar is a University Professor, as well as William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the U

Thomas N Mitchell

THOMAS N. MITCHELL was a Deputy Chair of the Board through December 2017. He became a Director of Atlantic Philanthropies in 2002.

Professor Mitchell was Provost of