Larry Bartels (Princeton Faculty in Residence, The Politics of the Economic Crisis; January 2011-June 2011). Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He has written extensively on American electoral politics, public opinion, and representation. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008), received the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the year’s best book on U.S. national policy and the Leon D. Epstein Award for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on political organizations and parties. Ph.D. University of California–Berkeley.

Nancy Bermeo (Senior Scholar, The Politics of the Economic Crisis; January 2011-June 2011). is the Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics and director of the Center for the Study of Inequality and Democracy at Oxford University. She is the author and editor of nine books on comparative politics and public policy, including Unemployment in the New Europe (2001) and Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Collapse of Democracy (2003), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Democratization section.  Ph.D. Yale University.

Naokatsu Hikotani (Visiting Professional Specialist, PIIRS; September 2010–June 2011). Hikotani joined Japan’s Ministry of Finance in 1990, serving most recently as secretary to the finance minister. Prior to that he worked in the tax bureau where he was  involved in policy discussions related to raising the consumption tax, creating tax exemptions for basic-needs good, and rolling back the capital-gains tax. Hikotani was also in charge of public works budgeting and financial regulation during Japan’s 1997 economic crisis. His research at Princeton involves comparative studies on income inequality and redistribution policies and recent tax reforms in Organization and Economic Cooperation and Development countries, and an examination of policy implications and policy options for the fundamental tax reform in Japan.  M.A. Columbia University. 

Takako Hikotani (Visiting Associate Professional Specialist, PIIRS; September 2010–June 2011). Hikotani is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Japan. Her research interests include how the U.S. has influenced the national security identity of Japan and the U.S.-China military-to-military relationship. While at Princeton, Hikotani will participate in a project comparing national identities in Asia. M.A. Columbia University.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Visiting Fellow, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2010–June 2011). Hurd is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her current research focuses on how religion has been governed at the international level both legally and politically. While at Princeton she will teach a graduate seminar on secularism, religion, and politics for the MPA and MPP programs at the Woodrow Wilson School; participate in the Luce speaker series, workshop, and conferences; and present research at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations. Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University.  

Christophe Jaffrelot (Visiting Fellow, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2010–January 2011). Jaffrelot is a senior researcher at the Centred’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) in Paris, where he also served as director from 2000–2008. His research focuses on the politics of India and Pakistan. As a visiting fellow with the Luce project, Jaffrelot will teach a course with Luce codirector Mirjam Künkler on Muslim politics in India, Pakistan, Iran, and Indonesia (WWS 517B/NES 584), and will participate in the project’s other activities. Ph.D. Sciences Po, Paris.

Hanna Lerner (Visiting Fellow, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2010–June 2011). Lerner is an assistant professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches courses on sovereignty and democracy, religion and state, and constitution-making. Her book, Making a Constitution in Deeply Divided Societies, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. At Princeton, Lerner will work on her research and participate in Luce project activities. Ph.D. Columbia University.  

Jin Sato (Visiting Fellow, Project on Democracy and Development; September 2010–June 2011). He is an associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo and a Fulbright scholar for the academic year 2010–11. He has studied issues related to the politics of natural resources and foreign aid, focusing on Southeast Asia in general, and Thailand, in particular. His current research addresses how state control of natural resources may evolve into the control of people.  His works in the English language have appeared in journals such as Development and Change, Sustainability Science, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Development in Practice. Ph.D. University of Tokyo.

Murat Somer (Visiting Fellow, Project on Democracy and Development; September 2010–June 2011). Somer is visiting from Istanbul's Koç University, where he is an associate professor of international relations. His research on ethnic conflict and nationalism, public and private polarization, religious politics and secularism, democratization, political Islam, and the Kurdish question has been published in book volumes and journals such as the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Comparative Political Studies, the Middle East Journal, and Third World Quarterly. At Princeton, Somer will work on a book on religious and secular values and democracy as well as participate in Democracy and Development project activities. Ph.D. University of Southern California–Los Angeles.