- Matt A. Barreto (mbarreto@washington.edu). Associate professor of Political Science and director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality (WISER) at the University of Washington. Dr. Barreto’s work focuses primarily on the political participation and incorporation of racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants in the U.S. In addition his work focuses on conflict, competition, and coalitions between different racial groups in America, and he is currently undertaking a national study on inter-group relations and attitudes between Latinos and African Americans, in conjunction with Prof. Gabriel Sanchez at the University of New Mexico.
- Katherine Becket (kbeckett@u.washington.edu). Professor of Sociology and Law, Societies & Justice.
- George Behlmer (behlmer@uw.edu). Professor of History. Research interests: Modern Britain, Social History of the Family, History of Medicine, Colonialism in Comparative Perspective.
- Rick Bonus (rbonus@uw.edu). Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies. While Professor Bonus is primarily an associate professor of American ethnic studies, he also has strong interests in the conjunctions among ethnic studies, American studies, Pacific Islander Studies, and Southeast Asian studies, particularly as they deal with the historical and contemporary phenomena of migration, transnationalism, interdisciplinary work, and multicultural pedagogy. His first book, Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space (Temple 2000), is a study of transnational Filipino experiences in the U.S. within the contexts of U.S. imperial histories, labor recruitment, and ethnic community formations. He co-edited the anthology, Intersections and Divergences: Contemporary Asian American Communities (Temple 2002), a collection of essays that grapple with the heterogeneities, complexities, and contradictions of racialized group formations. He has written essays on the cultural politics of difference, media representations, and multicultural education. Rick teaches courses pertaining to U.S. multiracial society, Filipino American History and Culture, ethnographies of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America, and Education in relationship to race. His forthcoming book is based on an ethnography of underrepresented students whose college experiences become generative sites for critiquing and transforming university schooling. He is also an adjunct associate professor in Communication, the director of the College of Arts and Science's Diversity Minor program, and the director of graduate studies in the Southeast Asia Center. He has been involved in the creation and sustenance of several UW mentorship programs that specifically target the retention and eventual graduation of students who identify as, or are allies with, Pacific Islanders, Chicanos/Latinos, Native Americans, African Americans, and African diasporic people. He also works on advocacy for underrepresented faculty, curriculum transformation, and nurturing community linkages with many groups. Currently, he is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
- Eugene Edgar (ebedgar@u.washington.edu). Professor in the college of education with an emphasis on disability. Edgar is interested in citizenship and how to nurture citizens, and as such worked with Jim Clowes on numerous projects around conflict. In 2008 he led a group of students on a study abroad in Port Elizabeth South Africa using many of the ideas developed by the CHID Program in Cape Town. Research interest is in the role of schools in nurturing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be good citizens.
- María Elena García (meg71@u.washington.edu). Assistant Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas program and Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Her book, Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru (Stanford, 2005) examines indigenous politics and multicultural activism in Peru. Her work has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals such as Latin American Perspectives, Anthropological Quarterly, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Her research and teaching interests focus on indigeneity, the production of alternative knowledge, the articulation of human and non-human struggles, and Latin American/Latin@ cultural politics. Her research in the coming years will be focused on thinking about the consequences and impact (on both human and non-human lives) of the commercialization of Andean animals.
- Anthony L. Geist. Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Geist has taught at the University of Washington since 1987, having taught previously at Princeton, UT San Antonio, and Dartmouth. He holds a BA in Spanish from UC Santa Barbara and his MA and PhD in Romance Languages from UC Berkeley. He has been awarded Fulbright and NEH grants. He is the author of four books, seven scholarly editions and nearly 50 articles, and has given over 100 lectures in conferences and at colleges and universities in the US, Spain and Latin America. He has translated the poetry of Spanish and Latin American poets, including Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, Luis García Montero, Edgar O’Hara and Luis Hernández. Geist has curated three traveling exhibits that have toured the US, Europe and Latin America. In 2006 he co-produced and co-directed a documentary film on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that has been screened widely in the US, Spain and Cuba. He has been visiting professor at UCSD, Ritsumeikan University (Japan), and the University of Granada (Spain). Geist’s research and teaching interests include Spanish poetry of the 1920s and 30s, as well as 1975 to the present; art and literature of the Spanish Civil War; Spanish film and visual culture; children’s drawings in wartime; literary translation. Geist has been Chair of Spanish and Portuguese Studies since 2003.
- Christoph Giebel (giebel@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of History and International Studies. Research Interests include: representations of war (Viet Nam), legacies of war and community recovery, imperialism and anti-colonialism in Asia, and human rights.
- Angelina S. Godoy (agodoy@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of Law, Societies and Justice and of International Studies. Research interests: human rights, Central America, intellectual property and trade.
- James Gregory (gregoryj@uw.edu). Professor of History and the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies. Professor Gregory’s research and teaching center on four aspects of 20th century United States history: (1) labor history, particularly the history of American radicalism; (2) regionalism, both the West and the South; (3) race and civil rights history; (4) migration, especially inside the United States. In addition, he is active in the field of public history, directing a set of online public history projects focused on the labor and civil rights history of the Pacific Northwest
- Michelle Habell-Pallan (mhabellp@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor in the Women Studies Department and an adjunct in the School of Music. Professor Habell-Pallan’s book, Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2005) received an MLA book prize honorable mention. In her role as guest curator of the award-winning traveling exhibit American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music, a collaboration between the University of Washington and The Experience Music Project Museum, she is engaged in developing public humanities projects. She is also a past recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Award as well as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Research Award for her research and writing on gender, popular music and culture. Her new book, Beat Migration: Chicano/a Roots/Routes of American Pop Music is currently in-progress. Her research areas are: Cultural Studies Methodologies, Chicana Feminist Theory and Methodologies, Politics of Representation in Latina/o cultural production (including performance, music, and museum presentation), Feminist Pop Music and Pop Culture Criticism, Public Humanities/Engaged Scholarship, and Cultural Politics of Immigration Discourse.
- Steve Herbert (skherb@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of Geography and Law, Societies and Justice.
- Danny Hoffman (djh13@u.washington.edu). Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Selected publications include 2006 "Disagreement: Dissent Politics and the War in Sierra Leone," Africa Today 52(3): 3-24; 2005 "Violent Events as Narrative Blocs: The Disarmament at Bo, Sierra Leone," Anthropological Quarterly 78(2): 329-354; 2005. The Brookfields Hotel (Freetown, Sierra Leone). Public Culture 17(1):54-74; 2004. “The Civilian Target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political Power, Military Strategy, and Humanitarian Intervention.” African Affairs 103:211-226; 2003. “Like Beasts in the Bush: Synonyms of Childhood and Youth in Sierra Leone.” Postcolonial Studies 6(3):295-308. His research interests include West Africa, youth violence, militias, and visual Anthropology.
- Lucy Jarosz (jarosz@u.washington.edu). Associate professor in the Department of Geography and adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Women Studies. Professor Jarosz’ teaching and research interests center upon the political economy/ecology of food and agriculture in relation to the critical human geographies of hunger and poverty. She teaches courses on the geographies of food and eating, world hunger and critical development studies. Her research interests include political economy/ecology of food and agriculture, hunger and poverty, critical development studies.
- Bruce Kochis (bkochis@uwb.edu). Senior Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program of the University of Washington, Bothell. Professor Kochis teaches courses in international human rights, political culture and public policy, and Eastern European history and culture with special emphasis on human rights development in emerging democracies. His current research is a comparative analysis of the construction and implementation of human rights in developed and developing societies. He is a founder of the University of Washington’s Human Rights Education and Research Network and its former director. Professor Kochis received a University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award for the year 2000.
- Ron Krabill (rkrabill@uwb.edu). Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program on the Bothell campus. Professor Krabill teaches in the fields of media and cultural studies. He is also affiliated with the Department of Communication and the African Studies Program on the Seattle campus and has been involved with the CHID study abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa, since 2008. He is the author of Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid (2010) and is the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award. His research interests are media studies, cultural studies, African studies, critical pedagogy, community-based learning, and participatory media production.
- José Antonio Lucero (jal26@u.washington.edu). Assistant Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He was born in El Paso, Texas and has lived, studied, and worked on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Dr. Lucero received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2002. His research focuses on indigenous politics, social movements, and development. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Institute of International Education, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work has been published in the Journal of Democracy, Comparative Politics, Latin American Perspectives, Latin American Research Review, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and several edited volumes. Professor Lucero’s book on indigenous movements, Struggles of Voice: Indigenous Representation in the Andes was published in 2008 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is currently at work on two book projects. The first book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, is the Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Peoples’ Politics, which presents the work of twenty-four scholars from across the Americas and Europe on the theoretical, methodological, and political issues that have emerged in the political and social scientific study of indigenous politics on local, national, and global scales. The second book project in progress explores the contentious and cultural politics that accompany extractive industry in the Americas. Tentatively titled Extracting Culture: Mining, Filmmaking and Social Movements in the Indigenous Americas, the study examines cases of indigenous resistance to outside forces that include filmmaker Werner Herzog and Canadian mining companies. His research interests are social movements, indigenous politics, and Latin America.
- Jamie Mayerfeld (jasonm@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Societies & Justice. Professor Mayerfeld teaches courses on political theory and human rights. In his current book project, he argues that constitutional democracy is incomplete unless domestic human rights protections are bolted into an international system of guarantees. His recent articles have addressed the justification of international human rights law, the International Criminal Court, the European human rights regime, the origins of the U.S. torture policy, and the absolute prohibition of torture. His research interests are human rights and political theory.
- Suhanthie Motha (smotha@u.washington.edu). Assistant Professor in the English Department. Her work explores the interconnectedness of racial identity and linguistic identity in the global context of English language learning. Her current project examines the ways in which investments and desires around acquisition of, access to, and contested ownership of the English language contribute simultaneously to resolving and fostering conflict. Her work has appeared in journals including Peace and Change Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language Teaching, TESL Canada Journal, and Educational Practice and Theory. Her research interests include critical applied linguistics, race and racialization, teacher identity, and anticolonial epistemologies in English language teaching.
- Christian Novetzke (novetzke@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor Novetzke teaches in the Jackson School for the South Asia Program and the Comparative Religion Program. His subjects of study including the history, culture, and religions of India; performance arts and cinema; theoretical issues related to religion and history, particularly in postcolonial contexts; and the critical appraisal of the field of religious studies in general. He teaches several courses, including introductions to Hinduism, Indian cultural history, and theories for the study of religion. He has several seminars on the philosophy of history in the context of religion and alternative modernities. More information on Professor Novetzke can be found at his website: faculty.washington.edu/novetzke.
- Arzoo Osanloo (aosanloo@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Law, Societies, and Justice Program. Professor Osanloo also holds Adjunct positions in the School of Law, Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Near East Languages and Civilization, and Women Studies. Professor Osanloo received her Ph.D. in 2002 in Anthropology from Stanford University. She received her J.D. in 1993 from American University and the Washington College of Law. Formerly an immigration and asylum/refugee attorney, Arzoo conducts research and teaches courses focusing on the intersection of law and culture, including human rights, refugee rights and identity, and women’s rights in Muslim societies. Her geographical focus is on the Middle East, especially Iran. Arzoo has published in various journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology and Iranian Studies. Her book, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (2009), is published by Princeton University Press. She is currently working on a new project that considers the Islamic mandate of forgiveness, compassion, and mercy in Iran’s criminal sanctioning system, jurisprudential scholarship and everyday acts among pious Muslims. Her research Interests are law and culture, Islamic law, human rights, refugee rights, women’s rights in Muslim societies, mercy, compassion, and forgiveness.
- Lorna A Rhodes (lrhodes@u.washington.edu). Professor, Department of Anthropology. Lorna A. Rhodes teaches medical anthropology, the anthropology of institutions, and ethnographic research methods. She is the author of Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (University of California Press, 1991) and Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (University of California Press, 2004), which was awarded a 2004 Prevention for a Safer Society Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the 2005 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology. She has also published a number of articles about supermax prisons, including “Changing the Subject: Conversation in Supermax” (Cultural Anthropology, 2005), and “Supermax as a Technology of Punishment” (Social Research, 2007), and “Supermax and the Trajectory of Exception” (New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society ed. Austin Sarat, 2009). In 2008 she conducted a month of ethnographic research at Grendon prison in England, where she was particularly interested in how the social emphasis of the therapeutic community contrasts with the isolation imposed by supermax confinement. Her first article on Grendon will appear in HMP Grendon and Beyond: Studying Therapeutic Communities in Prison, edited by Elizabeth Sullivan and Richard Shuker (Wiley). Rhodes was medical anthropology editor of Social Science and Medicine from 1989 to 1993 and currently serves on several editorial boards, including Medical Anthropology and the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. Her research interests include: the anthropology of institutions, prisons, psychiatric anthropology, and medical anthropology.
- Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva (imrodrig@u.washington.edu). Assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history. Dr. Rodríguez-Silva earned a B.A. from the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. She holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies and another in Latin American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also completed a History Ph.D. in 2004. Rodríguez-Silva’s research focuses on racial identity formation, post-emancipation racial politics, and comparative colonial arrangements in the configuration of empires. She is the author of “Exploring the Lives of Freedwomen: Choices, Family, and Gender during the Processes of Emancipation in Puerto Rico, 1873-1876” in Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective, Diana Paton and Pamela Scully, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript entitled “Conspiracy of Silence: Blackness, Colonial Regimes, and National Struggles in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico (1850-1920),” (under contract with Duke University Press). Rodriguez-Silva is also working on an interdisciplinary project with UW Prof. Kiko Benítez on the formation of modern imperial fields in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. She is a Ford Foundation 2008-09 Post-Doctoral Fellow.
- Matthew Sparke (sparke@u.washington.edu). Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington. Funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, his recent research and teaching have been about globalization, neoliberal governance, and the impact of transnational market ties on the geography of politics. He is the author of In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation-State and Introduction to Globalization (Blackwell, forthcoming), as well as over 50 articles, book chapters and reviews. In 2007 he received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teacher Award. His teaching on globalization, and engagement with the work of Paul Farmer in particular, has now led into his new research focus on the geography of Global Health. His research interests are structural violence, accumulation by dispossession, neoliberalism, and global health. More information about Professor Sparke’s current work as well as other recent articles on border regions, cosmopolitanism, structural violence, and the Global South can be found at http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/
- Cynthia Steele (cynthias@u.washington.edu). Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from UCSD in 1980 and taught at the Ohio State University and Columbia University, before arriving at the University of Washington in 1986. She has published two books and twenty-eight articles on contemporary Latin American literature and culture, primarily on Mexican narrative. Her first book, Narrativa indigenista en los Estados Unidos y México (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1985) examines the relations between race, ethnicity, and nation-building in U.S. and Mexican fiction. Her second book, Beyond the Pyramid: Politics, Gender and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988 (U of Texas P, 1992), addresses issues of democratization and gender in Mexican narrative, following the student movement of 1968 and its repression. Her current book project examines the new literature and art being produced by Mayas in Chiapas and the cross-cultural collaborations that have facilitated them. Her next book will be on Mexican auteur cinema of the past decade. Steele has also translated various Mexican authors, including José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Inés Arredondo, and Zapotec poets from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Steele has served on the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the SSRC-ACLS and as co-program chair of the Latin American Studies Association convention in 2009. She has led CHID study abroad programs in both Chiapas and Oaxaca. Research Interests are Mexican literature and film, Indigenous literature, Translation, and Border studies.
- Anu Taranath (anu@u.washington.edu). Department of English and CHID. Teaching and research interests: contemporary world and multi-ethnic literatures; colonial and postcolonial literatures and theory; pedagogy; transnational feminist and cultural studies; social justice movements.
- Lynn Thomas (lynnmt@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Professor Thomas teaches courses in African history, gender history, and colonial and postcolonial studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1997 and has been awarded Thomas J. Watson, Jacob Javits, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, Charlotte Newcombe, Charles A. Ryskamp, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships for her research. Thomas's first book, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (California, 2003) drew on extensive oral history and archival research in Kenya and the United Kingdom. It was selected for the American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project. In addition to authoring various journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited with the Modern Girl Research Group The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (Duke, 2008); and with Jennifer Cole Love in Africa (Chicago, 2009). Currently, she is one of the co-editors of The Journal of African History, and is writing a monograph on the transnational history of the manufacture, use, and opposition to skin lighteners in South Africa, the United States, and East Africa. Research interests are African history; gender and race; colonial and postcolonial studies.
- Phillip Thurtle (thurtle@u.washington.edu). Associate professor in the Comparative History of Ideas program and the History Department at the University of Washington and an adjunct in Anthropology. He received his PhD in history and the philosophy of science from Stanford University. He is the author of The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology 1870-1920 (University of Washington Press, 2008), the co-author with Robert Mitchell (English, Duke University) and Helen Burgess (English, University of Maryland) of the interactive DVD-ROM BioFutures: Owning Information an Body Parts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), and the co-editor with Robert Mitchell of the volumes Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003) and Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002). His research focuses on the material culture of information processing, the affective-phenomenlogical domains of media, the role of information processing technologies in biomedical research, and theories of novelty in the life sciences. His most recent work is on the cellular spaces of transformation in evolutionary and developmental biology research and the cultural spaces of transformation in superhero comics.
- John Toews (toews@u.washington.edu). John Toews has chaired the Comparative History of Ideas Program (CHID) since 1982. Through his pioneering efforts the program has become one of the leading interdisciplinary undergraduate majors in the country. In addition to building up the Comparative History of Ideas Program, Toews's own scholarly work was recognized with a fellowship prize in 1984 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation--one of the famed "genius grants." His book, Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, concerns the reconstruction of the historical contexts and trajectories of nineteenth century German thought in the tradition that evolves from Kant and Hegel to Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche. His work placed the transformation and differentiation of this stream of thought within the historical context of early nineteenth century academic intellectuals adapting to the pressures of secularization and social modernization. His most recent book is Becoming Historical : Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Toews studies the historical consciousness that emerged from early nineteenth-century breaks with tradition and shaped the development of new forms of personal and collective identity. This book examines the stages and conflicts involved in “becoming historical" through the works of prominent Prussian artists and intellectuals who attached their personal visions to the reformist agenda of the Prussian regime that took power in 1840.
- Adam Warren (awarren2@u.washington.edu). Assistant professor of Latin American history in the Department of History. A specialist in colonial and nineteenth-century Peru and the history of medicine, he is interested in how medical and scientific research have been used to explain social inequalities and frame projects of population reform and “improvement” in the Andes. He is the author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press. His new research focuses on the history of psychiatry, eugenics, and scientific racism in Peru’s Víctor Larco Herrera Psychiatric Hospital during the first half of the twentieth century. His research interests include Peru, Latin American history, history of medicine, comparative colonialisms, psychiatry, scientific racism, and indigenous people.
- Jonathan Warren (redstick@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of International Studies. Jonathan Warren was born (1963) and raised in St. Johns, Michigan. He completed his B.A. at Michigan State University in Psychology and German (1987) and received a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley (1997). At present he is Chair of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Jonathan has written extensively on racial identity formations and antiracism in Brazil and the US. Some of his most significant publications in this area include Racing Research, Researching Race: Methdological Dilemmas in Critical Racial Studies (NYU Press 2000) and Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil (Duke UP 2001). More recently he has been completing a book-length ethnographic study of culture and development in Brazil and Vietnam titled The Sociocultural Foundations of Development: Vietnamese and Brazilian Modernities in Comparative Perspective. Jonathan has also been involved in a number of projects that are visual in focus: co-produced the award winning documentary, Just Black? (Filmmaker's Library 1993), curator of the controversal art exhibit Viet Nam Now (Billy King Art Gallery, Seattle, 2005) and is currently completing The Art of Change, an ethnographic film that explores the role of art, education and religion in ending oligarchic rule in rural Brazil. Some of his more significant applied projects include helping to establish a pre-school in Ha Noi, serving as a member of the Mayor's Council for African American Elders, co-founding a UW certificate degree in urban planning for civil servants in Sai Gon, and designing and directing a number of racial literacy workshops in the United States. His research interests include identity formations, racism and antiracism, critical pedagogy, art and consciousness, post-positivist research methodologies, development and modernities. His geographical interests include Brazil, Vietnam, Germany/Switzerland, and the United States.
- James Wellman (jwellman@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor and Chair of the Comparative Religion program at the Jackson School of International Studies. Professor Wellman teaches in the area of American religious culture, history and politics. He has published an award-winning book, The Gold Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism (Illinois 1999). He has published two edited volumes, The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society (Praegers 1999); the second edited volume, Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence Across Time and Tradition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). A third edited volume, Religion and Human Security: A Global Perspective, will be published later this year. It explores the relation of religion and human security by looking at case studies from across the globe, analyzing the degree to which religion sustains or threatens human security in relation to states, whether religious or secular. His most recent book is Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest published by Oxford University Press; it received Honorable Mention for the 2009 SSSR Distinguished Book Award. This book comes from research on 34 vital evangelical and liberal Protestant congregations in the Pacific Northwest. He seeks to understand and explain the rise and vitality of churched religion in a traditionally unchurched region. His next project is entitled, Getting High on God: Desire and Power in the American Megachurch. This book looks at interviews from eleven national megachurches and how they facilitate human desire and use that power to mold and shape their congregations.
- Glennys Young (glennys@u.washington.edu). Associate Professor of History and International Studies. Dr. Young is a historian whose research interests focus on Russia and the USSR, the history of communism, and European history. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her book, Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village (1997), was awarded Honorable Mention for the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Prize from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She is currently completing The Communist Subject Around the World: A Narrative in Documents (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), which is a grassroots history of ordinary people in Communist polities and movements through primary documents, many of them never previously published. She has also completed a manuscript entitled Writing the Soviet Project: Concepts, Paradigms, and the Making of the Soviet Experience. She is co-editor of Reginald E. Zelnik, Perils of Pankratova: Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography (2005). Recent articles have appeared in Russian Review and Ab Imperio. She is working on two monographs: The World the Refugees Made: Los Niños de la Guerra in the USSR and Beyond, a transnational history of approximately 3000 Spanish Republican children who were evacuated to the USSR during the Spanish Civil War, and After Bloody Saturday: State Violence and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution, which is a study of the political, institutional, and cultural implications of a 1962 strike and workers’ protest in Novocherkassk (a city in the Northern Caucasus region of the USSR) in which 25 people were killed and at least 87 people were wounded. Her work has been supported by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Fulbright-Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kennan Institute, the Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis, and, at the University of Washington, the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Royalty Research Fund. She has conducted research in the Russian Federation, the USSR, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. From 2001 to 2009, she was the editor of the Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, co-published by the University of Washington Press and the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.
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