Manfred Brocker (Visiting Fellow, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2009–June 2010). Brocker is a professor of political theory at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. His research interests include religion and politics, religion-state relations, and religious fundamentalism. While at Princeton, Brocker will work with Mirjam Künkler on the joint project, “Religious Parties in Democratic Consolidation Processes—Revisiting the Inclusion-Moderation Thesis.” Ph.D. University of Cologne.

Rafaela Dancygier (Princeton Faculty in Residence, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2009–June 2010). Dancygier is an assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs. Her research interests are in comparative politics and comparative political economy and focus on the domestic consequences of international immigration, the political incorporation of immigrants, the relationship between ethnic diversity and redistribution, and the determinants of ethnic conflict. She is currently working on a book that explores how immigration regimes and welfare states affect interethnic conflict and immigrant integration in Western Europe. Ph.D. Yale University.

Naokatsu Hikotani (Visiting Professional Specialist, PIIRS; September 2009–June 2010). Hikotani joined Japan’s Ministry of Finance in 1990, serving most recently as secretary to the finance minister. Prior to that he worked in the tax bureau where he was  involved in policy discussions related to raising the consumption tax, creating tax exemptions for basic-needs good, and rolling back the capital-gains tax. Hikotani was also in charge of public works budgeting and financial regulation during Japan’s 1997 economic crisis. His research at Princeton involves comparative studies on income inequality and redistribution policies and recent tax reforms in Organization and Economic Cooperation and Development countries, and an examination of policy implications and policy options for the fundamental tax reform in Japan.  M.A. Columbia University. 

Takako Hikotani (Visiting Associate Professional Specialist, PIIRS; September 2009–June 2010). Hikotani is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Japan. Her research interests include how the U.S. has influenced the national security identity of Japan and the U.S.-China military-to-military relationship. While at Princeton, Hikotani will participate in a project comparing national identities in Asia. M.A. Columbia University.

Amaney Jamal (Princeton Faculty in Residence, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2009–June 2010). Jamal is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and the Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptor. Her current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Middle East, and Muslim and Arab Americans and the pathways that structure their patterns of political and civic engagement in the U.S. Her most recent book is Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (2008), an edited volume with Nadine Naber that looks at the patterns and influences of Arab and Muslim American racialization processes. Her current book project is on citizenship in the Arab world. Jamal is principal investigator of “Mosques and Civic Incorporation of Muslim Americans,” funded by the Muslims in New York Project at Columbia University; co-PI of the “Detroit Arab American Study,” a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation; co-PI of the Arab Barometer Project; and senior advisor on the Pew Research Center Project on Islam in America. Ph.D. University of Michigan.    

Niraja Gopal Jayal (Visiting Fellow, Project on Democracy and Development and the University Center for Human Values); September 2009–June 2010.) Jayal is visiting from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, where she is a professor at the Center for the Study of Law and Governance. Her research focuses on the intersection of normative political theory and the empirical study of Indian politics. Her most recent book is Representing India (2005). While at Princeton, Jayal will work on her current book project, an account of the Indian idea of citizenship in the twentieth century. Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru University.

John T. Jost (Visiting Fellow, PIIRS and the Department of Psychology; September 2009–June 2010). Jost is a professor of psychology at New York University. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical implications of a system justification theory. He is currently interested in the psychological basis of political ideology. While at Princeton Jost will teach as part of the Joint Degree Program in the Social Sciences and work on a book on system justification theory. Ph.D. Yale University.   

Dieter Kuhn (Visiting Faculty, New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Asia, and the Department of East Asian Studies; January–June 2010). Kuhn is visiting from the University of Würzburg in Germany where he is a professor of Chinese Studies. His research focuses on the history of material culture, technology, and archaeology in medieval China, especially of the Song period (960-1279). Kuhn'ss most recent publications are Perceptions of Antiquity in Chinese Civilization (2008) and The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (2009). While at Princeton Kuhn will be involved with New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Asia, a PIIRS-Program in East Asian Studies research cluster that is also supported by a Princeton/Columbia/Oxford collaborative project known as the Comparative History of Philology in Early Modern Asia. He will also teach one course for the EAS department.

Mirjam Künkler (Princeton Faculty in Residence, Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World; September 2009–June 2010). Künkler is an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Her research interests are in comparative politics and political theory and focus on comparative relations between religion and state in the Muslim world. She is currently working on a book that analyzes processes of regime transformation in Iran (1989–2005) and Indonesia (1974–1998), particularly with regard to how social movements and religion-state relations bore on the erosion or stabilization of political rule. Künkler is co-PI of the project “Religious Parties in the Muslim World” funded by the United States Institute for Peace, and co-PI of the “Iran Social Science Data Project” funded by the Social Science Research Council. Ph.D. Columbia University.

Rachel Beatty Riedl (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, September 2008–August 2010). Her research agenda focuses on institutional development in new democracies, particularly in Africa. Riedl’s recently completed dissertation, “Institutions in New Democracies: Variations in African Political Party Systems,” was funded in by a MacArthur Foundation grant. Ph.D. Princeton University.