BIOGRAPHIES
Peggy Levitt, Sanjeev Khagram and Tamara Kay are the co-directors of the Transnational Studies Initiative at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and at the Lindenberg Center at the University of Washington.
Tamara Kay is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her work centers on the political and legal implications of regional economic integration, transnationalism, and global governance. Her research agenda stems from a commitment to better articulate how regional economic integration affects workers and labor movements. In particular, she is concerned with how labor movements respond to changes in the global political economy and to the creation and development of global governance institutions and international legal structures. She is also interested in how these changes in the international arena affect the relationship between social movements and nation-states. She is currently writing a book that addresses the nature of transnationalism in the context of North American regional economic integration. She is starting a new project that examines NGOs engaged in transnational collaboration to identify the kinds of practices that empower local communities and organizations and preserve local culture. It also seeks to determine the strategies and institutional structures that facilitate collaborative relationship-building with international counterparts that are characterized by trust and equity.
Professor Kay has worked as a consultant to the International Labour Organization, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, and the United Farmworkers of America. At Harvard, she has affiliations with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Transnational Studies Initiative. She received a dual B.A. in sociology and art theory and practice (with a concentration in painting) from Northwestern University, a Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2004, and spent two years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies, as well as Director of the Mark Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship at the University of Washington and Senior Advisor to the Tutu Peace Center. He was previously a faculty member at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and visiting faculty at the Stanford Inst
Sanjeev
Khagram is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies, as well as Director of the Mark Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship at the University of Washington and Senior Advisor to the Tutu Peace Center. He was previously a faculty member at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and visiting faculty at the Stanford Institute for International Studies, as well as Senior Advisor to the World Commission on Dams from 1998-2000. His current interdisciplinary work addresses transnational dynamics and "glocalization"; the political economy of and rights/risks-based approaches to human security and sustainable development; innovations in and strategies for (democratic and democratizing) governance at the global, national and sub-national levels; the contested structuration of corporate citizenship and regulation; foundations of interdisciplinary research; and fieldwork research in Brazil, India, South Africa, Thailand and the United States. His co-edited volume entitled Restructuring World Politics: The Power of Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2002, and his book Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power, was published by Cornell and Oxford University Presses in 2004. His recent articles include "Inequality and Corruption," "From Human Security and the Environment to Sustainable Security and Development," and "Neither Temples Nor Tombs: A Global Analysis of Large Dams."
Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Her new book, God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape was published by The New Press in July 2007. The Transnational Studies Reader was also published by Routledge Press in 2007. She coordinates the Social Science Research Council working group on religion and globalization and is Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation project about how global ideas about women's rights are translated in local contexts. She is also Co-Principal Investigator on a Metanexus Foundation study of spiritual capital and immigrant incorporation. Her book, The Transnational Villagers, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation was published by Russell Sage in 2002. She also edited a special volume of International Migration Review on transnational migration in Fall 2003. For more information, please visit her website: www.peggylevitt.org.
Srilatha Batliwala is a Research Fellow of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where her research focuses on transnational grassroots movements. She is a practitioner researcher with over twenty five years experience in a range of social change and gender justice activities that spanned grassroots organizing, advocacy, and research in India. She serves on the board of three international NGOs: 1) WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization), an international advocacy organization for promoting women’s equality in the economy, political institutions, and in sustainable development; 2) PLAN International, an international humanitarian child-centered organization that raises resources through child sponsorship programs in 15 developed countries and supports child development initiatives in over 40 developing countries; and 3) ISTR (International Society for Third Sector Research), a major international association promoting research and education in the fields of philanthropy, civil society and the nonprofit sector. She is currently co-editing, with L. David Brown, the volume Transnational Civil Society: A Primer, and is writing a book on grassroots movements’ links to the global arena. Srilatha was Program Officer for Civil Society at the Ford Foundation, New York, before joining the Hauser Center in 2001 and is currently based in Bangalore, India.
L. David Brown is Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of International Programs at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was President of the Institute for Development Research, a not-for-profit center for institutional research and consultation for development and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of Management. His research and consulting interests have focused on organizational change and inter-organizational relations that foster social transformation and sustainable development. He has written Practice-Research Engagement for Civil Society in a Globalizing World; The Struggle for Accountability: NGOs, Social Movements and the World Bank (with Jonathan Fox); Managing Conflict at Organizational Interfaces; and, Learning from Changing: Organizational Diagnosis and Development (with Clayton Alderfer). He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India, a Peace Corps community organizer in Ethiopia, and an appreciative (but frequently absent) husband and father.
Peter Dobkin Hall is Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. His current research interests include the development of the modern welfare state and social welfare policy, the role of educational institutions in creating leadership and civic engagement, and the emergence of transnational institutions, communities, and identities. His publications include Inventing the Nonprofit Sector: Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations (1992); Lives in Trust:The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America (1992). He co-edited Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations (1998) and wrote a chapter on nonprofits for the forthcoming Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. Before coming to KSG, Hall served as director of Yale's Program on Nonprofit Organizations (PONPO) and held teaching appointments in Yale's Department of History, School of Management, Divinity School, and Ethics, Politics, and Economics Program.
Mary Lewisis John L. Loeb Associate Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard, where she is affiliated with the the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Her work focuses on Europe, especially France and its former empire, and on the intersection of everyday life, national politics and international relations from the 19th century to the present. Her book, The Boundaries of Belonging: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 was published by Stanford University Press in 2007. Currently, she is researching a new book, "Divided Rule: French Conquest, Tunisian Sovereignty and the Imperial Game in North Africa." This examines how individuals in Tunisia drew on international imperial rivalry to advance their local social interests, negotiating among multiple “national” identities in matters as important as marriage and divorce, commercial and property rights, inheritance and burial. Lewis has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Fulbright Commission.
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