Writing-ups, Visiting Fellows and Guests 2017

Dissertation Writing-up Fellows (in chronological order)

Catherine Larouche (March–September 2017)

Institution: McGill University
Dissertation: Spiritual and Material Development: The Politics of Islamic Charitable Work in North India
PhD conferred: 2018
Award: Nominated by McGill University for the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Laval University, Canada.

Felix-Anselm van Lier (May–November 2017)

Institution: Oxford University
Dissertation: Legal Politics in the Libyan Constitution-Making Process
PhD conferred: 2019
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Salman Hussain (September 2017–April 2018)

Institution: City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation: Together without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007–09) in Pakistan
PhD conferred: 2018
Award: UC Berkeley S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies
Current position: Lecturer/Research and Teaching Fellowship, Amherst Legal Studies Program, University of Massachusetts

Anna Wyss (October 2017– March 2018)

Institution: University of Bern, Institute for Sociology
Dissertation: Interrupted Journeys – Disrupted Control. Male Migrants with Precarious Legal Status and the European Migration Regime
PhD conferred: 2019
Awards: SNIS award for the best PhD thesis in international studies
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Social Processes at the University of Neuchâtel

Kyriaki Topidi (Oct 2016–Jan 2017)

University of Lucerne

Current position: Senior Research Associate, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany.

Monica Maria Gusmao Costa (Nov 2016–March 2017)

Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Current position: advocate in human rights cases and in the defense of users of Health Plans and the Single Health System (SUS)

Katja Seidel (March–June 2017)

University of Vienna

Current position: Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Maynooth University, Ireland

Joseph David (May–June 2017)

Associate Professor of Law, Sapir Academic College, Israel

Current Position: Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, USA

Rama Srinivasan (May–August 2017)

Brown University, Providence

Current position: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Valentino Cattelan (May–August 2017)

IE Business School, Madrid

Current position: Associate Researcher, Saudi-Spanish Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance (SCIEF), IE Business School, Madrid, Spain

Matthew Canfield (July–August 2017)

University of New York

Current position: Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University