February 23, 2005 The Watson Institute regularly hosts distinguished scholars and visitors from around the world to contribute to the academic excellence of the Institute and Brown University. The visiting faculty participate in multidisciplinary research and teaching, while providing a spectrum of expertise to inform and enhance the Institute's research and outreach programs. This spring the Institute welcomes six new visiting scholars.
Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi, has been appointed a visiting senior fellow (January–December 2005). He did postgraduate studies at the École d'Application des Troupes Blindées, École des Capitaines et École d'État-Major in Saumur, France, and the Kriegsschule in Hamburg, Germany. Buyoya served two terms as president of Burundi, 1987–1993 and 1996–2003. In the interim between his presidential terms, he created and served as head of the Foundation for Unity, Peace, and Democracy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to studying institutional judicial and security systems, peace and reconciliation, and education and orphan children in Burundi. He also served as a member and advisor of the Council for Africa, which studies African development at the World Bank. Moreover, he was an African Union observer of the first democratic elections in South Africa. Buyoya is the author of Mission Possible (L'Harmattan, 1998).
Rafael Hassanov, visiting associate professor (research), is a sociologist from Azerbaijan. Hassanov received his PhD in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy and Law at the National Academy of Sciences in Baku. His research interests involve civil society formation in Islamic countries, social structure and social stratification, socioeconomic factors in national security, and transformational processes and national security in Azerbaijan. He is the recipient of a Faculty Development Fellowship, sponsored by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).
Eun-Shik Kim, professor of ecology and dendrology and dean of the College of Forest Sciences at Kookkmin University in Korea, is a visiting professor (research). He will work with Steven P. Hamburg on projects in the Global Environment Program. His research interests include LTER/NEON, desertification and restoration of degraded ecosystem global ecology, eco-informatics and biometrics, tree growth and environmental change, dendroecology, and tree-ring studies. Kim received his MS, MPhil, and PhD in forestry and environmental studies at Yale University, and MS in Forestry from Seoul National University in Suweon, Korea. He is the author and editor, with Sun-Kee Hong, et al., of Ecological Issues in a Changing World: Status, Response and Strategy (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) and Beautiful Wildflowers in Korea (GOT and NAMO Pub. Co., 2002).
Ricardo V. Luna, a career diplomat, served as ambassador of Peru to the United Nations (1989–1992) and then as ambassador to the United States (1992–1999). He is a Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies. Previously, he was senior advisor to the foreign minister of the Rio Group. Luna received an MA in international affairs from Columbia University, and a license in international relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru. He is teaching a course on Latin American and U.S. relations.
Rosa Maria Perez is a visiting professor (research) and a Luso-American Foundation (FLAD) Visiting Pofessor with the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. She is also a professor of anthropology at the Superior Institute of Labor and Enterprise Sciences (ISCTE) in Lisbon from where she received her PhD in anthropology. Perez is currently coordinating a project sponsored by the Foundation of Science and Technology on Portuguese colonialism in India, and is also working with Brown professor Lina Fruzzetti on a comparative analysis of British and Portuguese colonialism and gender in India. She is the author of Kings and Untouchables: A Study of the Caste System in Western India (DC Publishers, 2004), and editor, with Clara Carvalho, of Mirrors of Empire (Celta, 2002).
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is a Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies. He holds a law degree from the Catholic University Law School in Rio de Janiero, a master's degree in sociology from the University of Paris in Vincennes, and PhD in political science from the National Foundation of Political Science (IEP) in Paris. He is professor emeritus of political science at the University of São Paulo and a research associate at its Center for the Study of Violence. Pinheiro also has taught at Columbia and Notre Dame Universities, Oxford University, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In addition to his scholarly work, Pinheiro has focused much of his career on human rights. He served as United Nations special rapporteur of human rights in Myanmar, and from 1995 to 2000 in Burundi. He is the chairman of the UN Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva. In December 2002, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him an independent expert to prepare a study on violence against children. He also served as secretary of state for human rights under Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He is the co-author of, with Guilherme Assis de Almeida, Violencia Urbana (2003); with Jorge Wilheim and Ignacy Sachs, Brasil: um Século de transformações (2001); and with Juan Méndez and Guillermo O'Donnell, The (Un) Rule of Law and the Underpriviledged in Latin America (1999).
Other Visiting Watson Faculty, 2004–2005
Jeff Albert, Visiting Scholar (2004–2005); environmental scientist; AAAS Fellow, EPA.
Kosta Barjaba, Visiting Senior Fellow (Fall 2004); Chief, Albania's Cabinet of Ministers and Director, Department of Migration; Lecturer, University of Tirana, and Director, Albanian Center for Migration Studies, Center for Sociological, Political, and Communication Research, and International Sociological Institute of Siranda.
Cristiana Bastos, Luso-American Foundation (FLAD) Visiting Professor (Research) (Fall 2004); Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon.
Ruth Cardoso, Visiting Professor (Fall 2004); President of Brazil's "Comunidade Solidaria"
Alberto Coll, Visiting Professor (2004–2005); Dean, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center, Salve Regina University.
Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Visiting Fellow (2004–2005); heads a joint research project on education in the Middle East.
Miguel Glatzer, Visiting Fellow (Fall 2004); Visiting Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Elizabeth Dean Hermann, Visiting Associate Professor (Research) (2004–2005); Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architectural history, Rhode Island School of Design.
Sebastian Kaempf, Visiting Fellow (Fall 2004); doctoral candidate, University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
Melissa Labonte, Visiting Scholar (2004–2005); doctoral candidate, Political Science Department, Brown University.
Charles Dennison Lane, Visiting Senior Fellow (2004–2005); former United Nations Administrator for the Vucitrn/Vushtrri Municipality, Mitrovica Region and then Administrator the Peje/Pec Municipality in Kosovo; Colonel (ret.) of the U.S Army Special Forces.
Teng-chiu Lin, Visiting Scholar (Summar 2004); Professor, National Changhua University of Education.
Mohammed Kombo Maalim, a Visiting Scholar (Fall 2004); Senior Laboratory Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
René Mayorga, Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies (2004–2005); political scientist, Bolivian Center of Multidisciplinary Studies (CEBEM), La Paz; Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.
Pierre Mumbere Mujomba, Brown International Writing Fellow; actor, playwright, producer, and novelist.
Richard Polonsky, Visiting Senior Fellow (2004–2005); Principal, Innovation Works in Bethlehem, NH.
James F. Robinson, Visiting Professor (Research) (2004–2005); Professor, Department of International Studies , Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Hengameh Saberi, Visiting Assistant Professor (Research) (Fall 2004); Doctor of Juridical Science candidate, Harvard Law School.
Photo: Ricardo V. Luna, a career diplomat, served as ambassador of Peru to the United Nations (1989–1992) and then as ambassador to the United States (1992–1999). He is a Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies.