Sherman Emerging Scholars and Lecture Titles:

2002     Michael S. Doran
Princeton University
The United States, the Arab World and the Question of Palestine
Dr. Doran is now working for National Security Council and is the author of Pan-Arabism Before Nasser (Oxford).

2003      Amy L. Staples
Middle Tennessee State University
Imagining an International Community Based on Development and Peace
Dr. Staples is the author of The Birth of Development (Kent State).

2004  R. Kim Cragin
Rand Corporation
Terrorism: Past, Present and Future Trends
Kim Cragin and Andrew Curiel published "Prime Numbers 9/11 + 5" in the Sept. 11, 2006 edition of Foreign Policy.

2005     Zsuzsa Csergo
George Washington University
What Europe's Emerging Democracies Can Teach Us: Lessons in Historical Division and Integration Dr. Cesrgo is curently in the Department of Political Studies, Queens University. Her recent book is: Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell).

2006     Alexander Cook
Columbia and Brown Universities
China from Mao to the WTO: Experiments in the Laws of History
Dr. Cook is currently a Humanities Fellow in the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University.

2007 Jonathan Eastwood
Washington & Lee University
Venezuela and Hugo Chavez: Reform or Revolution?
Dr. Eastwood's recent book is The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela (Florida).

2008 Ebenezer Obadare
University of Kansas
Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Postcolonial State