Fellows:

Ertan Aydin
ertana@bilkent.edu.tr

Ertan Aydin completed his Ph.D. at Bilkent University in 2002. His dissertation examined a specific version of Turkish Revolutionary ideology, which he calls the Ulku version of Kemalism. He primarily works in the areas of political theory, political culture, and revolutionary politics, concentrating on the People's Houses as the major ideological institutions of the Turkish Revolution in the 1930s. Currently, Aydin teaches several courses on Turkish politics and political science at Cankaya University in Ankara, Turkey.

Marc David Baer
mbaer_2000@yahoo.com

Marc Baer earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago in 2001. Previously he taught Middle Eastern and World history at Kalamazoo College. He now teaches Islamic Middle Eastern history at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include historicizing the changing relations between the Ottoman state and Christians and Jews, conversion to Islam in the early modern Ottoman Empire, the history of the messianicmovement of Sabbatai Tzevi and his followers, and the intersection of race, nationalism, secularism, and religion in the making of modern Turkey.

James Dorsey
james.dorsey@dartmouth.edu

James Dorsey received his Ph.D. in Japanese Literature at the University of Washington in 1997. His academic interests combine literature and history, and he has just recently completed studies of the critic Kobayashi Hideo and the writer Sakaguchi Ango. Current topics of interest include fascism, issues of national identity, and conceptions of the literary in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. He teaches both Japanese language and literature as an assistant professor at Dartmouth College.

Laura Dudley Jenkins
laura.jenkins@uc.edu

Laura Jenkins received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her forthcoming book, Identity and Identification in India: Defining the Disadvantaged (Routledge Curzon 2002), examines India's affirmative action policies and the political disputes that occur over the definition of beneficiaries on the basis of caste, class, religion, and gender. This research inspired her ongoing project on mass religious conversion as a form of political protest in India. Jenkins is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati.

James Bernard Murphy
james.murphy@dartmouth.edu

James Murphy got his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Political Science at Yale University. His current research interests include ancient and medieval political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and ethics. Murphy is now writing a book about intellectual virtue as the moral and academic aim of schooling. He is an Associate Professor in the Government department of Dartmouth College.

Barbara Reeves-Ellington
breeves@binghamton.edu

Barbara Reeves-Ellington received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2002. Her dissertation presented a case study of the transforming zeal of American Protestantism among Bulgarian Christians of the Ottoman Empire. A Fulbright Scholarship funded study in Bulgaria. Her research interests include gender, imperialism, and the intersections of diplomacy and philanthropy. Reeves-Ellington will soon become a Visiting Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Connecticut College.

Nancy Kinue Stalker
stalker@stanford.edu

Nancy Stalker received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Stanford University in 2002. Her research interests include popular religion and the construction of cultural and gender identities in modern Japan. She is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale.

Alan Martin Tansman
tansmana@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Alan Tansman received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1989. His research interests include modern Japanese fiction, Japanese literature and culture of the 1930s, and Japanese popular music and culture. Tansman's current projects focus on fascism and culture in Japan. He is an Associate Professor at the University of California-Berkeley.