CISSR SPOTLIGHT

 
 
 
 

Hiroko Kumaki Named a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows

 
 
 

Congratulations to CISSR Dissertation Fellow Hiroko Kumaki (Anthropology) for recently being awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows starting in Fall 2020! The Dartmouth Society of Fellows seeks to create an interdisciplinary community grounded in exceptional and innovative research and the ability to transcend disciplinary boundaries.


Hiroko will participate in research, teaching, and mentorship over the course of the three year fellowship while continuing her research "Living Fukushima: Politics and Ethics of Living "Well" with Radiation in Japan," which examines the everyday politics and ethics of living with environmental toxicity in the aftermath of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan in 2011.


 
 
 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

 
 
 
 

All Events are Subject to Change, Cancelation, or Postponement

 
 
 

Apr. 7

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Battling the Bottleneck: Moving Vital COVID-19 Medical Supplies to the Front Lines

Dr. Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University, and Dr. Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University

12:00pm, Webinar


 
 

Apr. 8

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Confronting COVID-19 in Latin American Cities

Claudio Orrego, Former Mayor, Peñalolén;  Eduardo Paes, Former Mayor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Mauricio Rodas, Former Mayor, Quito

4:00pm, Live Stream

Registration Required


 
 

Apr. 21

African Studies Workshop

Wealth Acquisition and Marital Quality among Young Couples in Malawi

Johanna Oh, University of Chicago

5:30pm, Live Stream

Zoom link will be circulated via the ASW listserv


 
 

Apr. 28

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

From Islam to Oil: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Influence

Krithika Varagur, Correspondent, The Guardian

1:00pm, Live Stream

Registration Required


 
 

ONLINE EXHIBITS

 
 

Oriental Institute

Hieroglyphic

Persepolis

Doing Business in the Ancient World


 
 

Smart Museum of Art

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China


 
 
 
 

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Militants’ New Covert Approaches in Iraq


Following a March 11 attack on an Iraqi base which has been claimed by a militant group called the League of Revolutionaries, CISSR Field Research Grant recipient Ramzy Mardini was quoted in an article for The Wall Street Journal as part of a discussion of how Iran-backed militias in Iraq may be reconstituting themselves. "You can’t do coercion effectively if the U.S. can locate you and retaliate...” Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Blackmail, Transparency, and Politics


CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa and Konstantin Sonin recently published their new working paper "How Does Kompromat Affect Politics? A Model of Transparency Regimes.” Using models of incumbent and voter behavior, Nalepa and Sonin examine the circumstances around the implementation of transparency regimes and why these regimes are so rare. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

"A lot of criminal governance looks 

like business as usual..."


Recently, CISSR Faculty Fellow Benjamin Lessing participated in a discussion as part of the article "What Does Coronavirus Mean for Criminal Governance in Latin America?" in InSight Crime. As the threat of coronavirus grows in Latin America, criminal organizations have begun enforcing quarantines and distributing supplies, filling gaps where national governments might fall short. Lessing discusses the variety of motivations that lead gangs to take these actions. Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

Political Resistance in a Non-Democracy


2017-2018 CISSR Faculty Fellow Luis R. Martinez recently published the working paper "A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany” with his co-authors Jonas Jessen and Guo Xu.  Looking at regions of Germany which experienced Allied occupation before transferring to Soviet control, Martinez, Jessen, and Xu investigate protests and regime support to study the costs of this early “glimpse of freedom." Read more here...


 
 
 
 
 
 

US Foreign Policy and the Coronavirus


Given the international scope of the coronavirus, scholars have questioned what the effects of the pandemic may be on the international order and the United States’ place in it. CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast was quoted in a recent Foreign Policy piece discussing the economic turmoil of the coronavirus and the strength of the dollar among further investigations of how international confidence in the United States could be restored. Read more here...


 
 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Patchwork City

 
 
 

On a recent New Books in Sociology podcast, CISSR Faculty Fellow Marco Garrido and CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sneha Annavarapu discuss Garrido’s new book The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila. Garrido discusses his process and framework for researching questions about proximity, discrimination, class relations, and politics in the urban space of Manila, Philippines. To listen...


 
 
  
 
  
 
 
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