The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes (Chris Patten), Chancellor of the University of Oxford. A former European Commissioner and Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten's books include: The Tory Case (1983); East and West (1998) and the most recent one Not Quite the Diplomat (2005). Lord Patten holds a regular Chancellor's Seminar once a term under the auspices of the Centre, usually with a distinguished European guest
Dr Othon Anastasakis is Director of the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX). He studied Economics at the University of Athens, Comparative Politics and International Relations at Columbia University, New York and obtained his PhD in Comparative Government from the London School of Economics. He was previously Research Fellow at the London School of Economics; Expert & Advisor on European Union matters at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Lecturer at the National School of Administration in Athens. He has written extensively on comparative authoritarian regimes, the European extreme right, EU's eastern enlargement, EU-Balkan relations and Greek foreign policy. His current focus is on democratisation and transition in the Balkans and Turkey's accession into the European Union. Full profile (including list of recent publications)
Dr David Rechter is University Research Lecturer, Research Fellow in Modern Jewish History at St Antony's College, and Fellow in Modern Jewish History at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His research interests are in central and eastern European Jewry in the modern period, with a particular focus on Habsburg Austrian Jewry. He is currently writing a history of the Jews of Habsburg Bukovina from the late-18th century to the First World War. In addition, he is interested in modern Jewish politics in east-central Europe, and is at present preparing a source book on modern Jewish political movements and ideologies. He is the author of The Jews of Vienna in the First World War (2001), and co-editor of Two Nations: British and German Jews in Comparative Perspective (1999) and of Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry (2003). http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/hjs/drechter.html
Dr Dimitar Bechev is a Junior Research Fellow at South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX). He holds a D.Phil. and an MSc in International Relations from the University of Oxford. His research interests include the external and enlargement policies of the EU, regional integration, the history and contemporary politics of South East and Central Europe.Full profile (including list of recent publications)
Dr Kerem Oktem is Senior Associate of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Principal Investigator of the research project Europe’s Muslim Neighbourhoods (EMN). Since he defended his Oxford D.Phil. thesis Reconstructing Geographies of Nationalism: Nation, Space and Discourse in Twentieth Century Turkey at the School of Geography in 2006, he has concentrated on questions of conflict and memory in Turkey, South East Europe and the Mediterranean. More currently, he has started working on Muslim communities in Europe and their impact on foreign policy choice of EU governments. His most recent publications are In the long Shadow of Europe. Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism, Brill and Martinus Nijhoff 2009, with Kalypso Nicolaidis and Othon Anastasakis, and The Nation’s Imprint: Demographic Engi-neering and the Change of Toponymes in Republican Turkey in the European Journal of Turkish Studies 2009 . He is a regular contributor Middle East Report , with a focus on minority and Kurdish affairs in Turkey. Kerem Oktem is also a tutor for Middle Eastern Politics at St Antony's College and co-convenor of and instructor at the Summer School at the American College of Thessaloniki.
Visiting Fellows
ESC Visiting Fellows
Dr Noe Cornago is the 2011/12 Basque Visiting Fellow. He is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao (Spain), where he is also in charge of the Masters Degree in Peace and Development. He has widely published on both the theoretical and practical dimensions of the contemporary transformations of diplomacy as well as on the global politics of development. He is also particularly interested in critical sociology of knowledge and the interplay between aesthetics and politics. He has held diverse short visiting positions at Ohio State University (1992); Université Laval (2002); Sciences Po Bordeaux (2004); University of Idaho (2006) and Free University of Colombia (2008). Particularly active in the field of career opportunities for graduates, he has promoted a number of decentralized partnerships with various UN institutions. As the Basque Visiting Fellow (2011-2012) at St. Antony´s College, his research project entitled “Plural Diplomacies: Changing Practices, Institutions and Discourses”, aims to connect on-going discussions on the obsolescence of conventional diplomacy with the critical insights of both agonistic pluralism theories and current debates on global governmentality. Further information can be found at: http://ehu.academia.edu/NoeCornago
Dr Claire Dupuy is the 2011/12 Deakin Visiting Fellow. Dr Claire Dupuy is the 2011-2012 Deakin Fellow. Her research focuses on territorial restructuring in Western European states, mainly the United Kingdom, France and Germany. She conducts fieldwork on British secondary education and health care policies. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2010. Her dissertation dealt with the rise of regional governments across Europe and its impacts upon territorial fragmentation and territorial inequalities. It investigated regional education policy in France and Germany (1969-2004). Claire’s research interests include multi-level governance, state transformation and territorial restructuring, institutional change and education and social policy. She was awarded the Mattei Dogan Foundation – French Political Science Association Best dissertation Prize, category Policy analysis.
Mr John Farnell is the EU Visiting Fellow for 2011/12. He is a senior European Commission official whose area of study is "The EU's economic relations with China: priorities for the next decade". He will be focussing on policy areas that are critical to the future industrial relationship between the EU and China, such as direct investment, intellectual property protection and research and innovation, looking at the strategy of both the EU and China and examining how the EU's current approach towards a strategic partnership with China can be made more effective
Dr Diego Muro is the 2011/12 Santander Visiting Fellow in Iberian Studies. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) since 2009. Prior to joining IBEI he was Associate Professor in European Studies at King’s College London (2003-2009) and Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (2008-09). Trained as a political scientist (PhD, LSE, 2004), he has maintained an involvement in politics, sociology and international studies. His main research interests are nationalism, social movements, ethnic conflict and asymmetric warfare. While at the European Studies Centre, he will carry out a comparative research on terror victims’ organisations in Spain and the United Kingdom.
Further information can be found at: http://ibei.academia.edu/DiegoMuro
Professor Lutz Raphael, is the 2010/2011 Stifterverband Visiting Fellow. He has been professor of modern and contemporary history at the Universität Trier since 1996. He was a visiting professor at the EHESS and the University of Paris VII-Denis Didérot, in 2010/11 he has been fellow of the International Research Center IGK “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2007 he has been member of the scientific commission of the German Council of Science and Humanities.
At the European Studies Centre , he will research on the impact of the changes in Western European economy and society since the 1970s on industrial work, in particular on the life cycles, generational mobility and class affiliation in West Germany, France and the UK. Books: Imperiale Gewalt und mobilisierte Nation. Europa 1914-1945. (Munich 2011)
Together with Ilaria Porciani (as authors and editors): Atlas of European Historiography: The Making of a Profession 1800-2005 (Basingstoke 2010).
Together with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel: Nach dem Boom: Perspektiven der Zeitgeschichte nach 1970 (Göttingen 2008, second edition 2010) Geschichtswissenschaft im Zeitalter der Extreme: Theorien, Methoden, Tendenzen von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart. (Munich 2003, second edition 2009) Recht und Ordnung: Herrschaft durch Verwaltung im 19. Jahrhundert (= Europäische Geschichte)(Frankfurt am Main 2000).
Media And Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe Project Senior Research Fellows
Dr Peter Bajomi-Lazar is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations. He heads research on media policy for the ERC-funded project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. He has a PhD on Media Freedom in Hungary from the Central European University, Budapest, and before joining the project was Professor of Communication at the Social Communication and Media Department of the Budapest Business School. Peter has published on Hungarian journalism education, the consolidation of media freedom in post-Communist democracies and trends in media policies and politics in East Central Europe. He was awarded the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Award in 2002 and is the editor of the Hungarian media studies quarterly Mediakutato.
Dr Henrik Ornebring is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations. He heads research on journalism, professionalism and democracy for the ERC-funded project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. He has a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from Goteborg University, Sweden, and has worked at several Swedish universities, including Goteborg, Halmstad and Sodertorn University College. Henrik has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, and worked at the Universities of Leicester and Roehampton before coming to the University of Oxford in 2007 as Axess Research Fellow in Comparative European Journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He has published on media history, the history of journalism and the comparative analysis of journalism.
Dr Vaclav Stetka is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations. He heads research on media ownership and market structures for the ERC-funded project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. He received his PhD in Sociology from Masaryk University, Brno, where he then worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism between 2006 and 2009, teaching courses on media, modernity and globalisation, and methodology of mass media research. Vaclav has been a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University and has participated in several European comparative research projects, including the COST A30 Action ‘East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern European Media Research Agenda’ (2007-2009) and EU Kids Online (2006-2009). He has published on Czech television, children and new media and on media spaces.
SEESOX Visiting Fellows
MrMax Watson is co-ordinator of a programme on the political economy of Southeast Europe. Together with Othon Anastasakis, the Director of SEESOX, he has been organizing a number of regional workshops and conferences concerned with the impact and implications of the global crisis in Southeast Europe. He has helped foster co-operation in such activities between SEESOX and officials actors in the region, includin central banks and the EBRD. During the past year he has also been active on the Cyprus issue, convening a bi-communal economists group. He continues to be active on euro area issues, and was recently appointed a Director of the Central Bank of Ireland. His recent publications have been mainly on economic issues in the region
Staff
Miss Julie Adams, SEESOX Administrator, joined the Centre in 2004 and is responsible for the activities of the South East European Studies at Oxford programme at the Centre.
Miss Anne-Laure Guillermain, Administrator of the ESC & Personal Assistant to Prof. Caplan, joined the Centre in 2007. She has worked in secretarial and administrative roles in France, Italy and England in international businesses and educational establishments. She finished her Ba in Language Studies with the Open University in 2009.
Miss Judith Bruhn, Personal Assistant to Prof. Timothy Garton Ash and Administrator of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom, joined the centre in 2011. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies from Oxford. Her thesis focused on Chinese youth literature and online culture in relation to freedom of expression.
Members of the Academic Steering Committe
Professor Anne Deighton
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Miss Judith Bruhn Personal Assistant to Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Ms Julie Adams
Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis
Dr Kerem Oktem
Professor Luc Borot
Professor Dr Lutz Raphael
Mr Max Watson
Professor Norman Davies Visit Professor Davies' website.
Dr Othon Anastasakis Visit Dr Anastasakis' Webpage.
Dr Paola Mattei
Professor Paul Flather
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Prof. Renée Irschon
Professor Stephen Weatherill
Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Prof. Robert Gildea
Dr Senel Simsek
Dr Sophie Heine
Dr Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Emeriti Fellows
Mr Richard Clogg
Prof Jack Hayward
Mr Herminio Martins
Prof Anthony J Nicholls
Prof Patrick O'Brien
Dr Theodore Zeldin
SCR Members
Prof. John Loughlin
Prof Paul Corner Siena
Richard Davy Editorial Adviser
Dr Heather Grabbe Brussels
Prof Anand Menon Birmingham
Prof Jan-Werner Müller Princeton
Dr Ilaria Poggiolini Pavia
Dr Charles Powell Madrid
Prof Sir Adam Roberts Oxford
The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes (Chris Patten), Chancellor of the University of Oxford. A former European Commissioner and Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten's books include: The Tory Case (1983); East and West (1998) and the most recent one Not Quite the Diplomat (2005). Lord Patten holds a regular Chancellor's Seminar once a term under the auspices of the Centre, usually with a distinguished European guest
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