Gregory Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a Certificate candidate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gregory received his M.A. from Hunter College in psychology and his B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College in psychology with a minor and professional certification in industrial/ organizational psychology. Raised on the South Shore of Massachusetts and presently located in New York City, his writing and research interests explore the role media space plays in generating, processing and transmitting information and how such practices negotiate processes of education and citizen participation within hybrid urban environments. Gregory has conducted research at the CUNY New Media Lab, The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy, The Public Space Research Group, The Housing Environments Research Group and with several children’s educational media groups.

Email: gregory@gregorydonovan.org

Selected Publications:

• Research Wiki http://www.gregorydonovan.org/wiki

Zeynep Gambetti is associate professor of political theory at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She obtained a Ph. D. degree at the University of Paris VII with a dissertation entitled Lies and Politics: The Implications of Visibility in 1999. She is particularly interested in theories of the public sphere, critical theory, ideology and discourse theories and in questions such as collective agency and ethics in the era of neoliberal globalization. She has carried out research in Southeastern Turkey on the transformation of the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists, and has published several articles on action, subjectivity, mob violence and the neoliberal order, and the decolonization of urban space. She is currently exploring a theoretical framework through which to reflect upon recent radical movements, especially those that can create alternative spaces of existence.

Email: gambetti@boun.edu.tr

Selected Publications:

• “Mob violence, the state and the neoliberal order”, unpublished paper presented at the “Citizenship, Securitization and Vernacular Violence Workshop” organized by the Social Science Research Council and hosted by the Bogaziçi University Department of Political Science and International Relations, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 26-27, 2007. (Word)
  
• “Conflict, ‘commun-ication’ and the role of collective action in the formation of public spheres” in Seteney Shami (ed), Publics, Politics and Participation: Locating the Public Sphere in the Middle East and North Africa, New York, SSRC Books, forthcoming (2008) (Word)
  
• “Decolonizing Diyarbakir: culture, identity and the struggle to appropriate urban space” in Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker (eds), Re-exploring The Urban: Comparative Citiscapes in the Middle East and South Asia, Karachi, Oxford University Press, (2007), forthcoming. (Word)
  
• “De la critique du totalitarisme à l’action : Arendt, ou la politique comme critique”, En Hommage à Miguel Abensour : Actes du Colloque “Critique de la Politique”, Paris, Harmattan, 2006. (Word)
  
• “The conflictual (trans)formation of the public sphere in urban space: the case of Diyarbakir”, New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 32, Spring 2005, p. 43-71. (PDF)
  
• "The agent is the void! From the subjected subject to the subject of action”, Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 17 (3), July 2005, p. 425-437.
  
• “Did somebody say liberal totalitarianism? Yes, and despite the 5½ (mis)uses of the notion” (co-authored with Refik Güremen), Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 17 (5), 2005, p. 638-645.
  

Tina Harris is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, writing a dissertation titled “On the Trail of the Yak: The Social Geography of Tibetan Trade,” which examines the past sixty years of social and economic changes along a trade route that cuts across China, India, and Nepal. In particular, the project investigates how infrastructural and political transformations on a larger, regional scale might be experienced through smaller scale, “everyday” sites of trading activity. She received her B.A. in Anthropology in 1998 from Wesleyan University, and recently spent over twelve months conducting fieldwork in Lhasa, Tibet, Kalimpong, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal on a Wenner-Gren Foundation grant. Her research interests include globalization and transnationalism, material culture, consumption, and social and economic geography.

Email: Charris@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• “Towards a Geographical Anthropology of Trade in the Himalayas.” Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia: Traders and Trade Routes of Central and Inner Asia, Then and Now, Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn Bulag, and Gillian Long. Toronto: CIAS, 2007.
  
• Multimedia Review of “Music of the Silk Road” and “The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan” (with Evan Rapport) Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Volume 8, Issue 3, 2007.
  
• “Measuring International Collaboration” (with Itty Abraham) Items and Issues, International Collaboration: Lessons from the Past, SSRC Working Paper Series, Vol. 3, 2000.
  

Lynn Horridge is a Phd candidate in anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. Based on fieldwork conducted in Guatemala and New York City, Lynn is writing her dissertation on the experiences of gays and lesbians who arrange open adoptions with pregnant women not bio/genetically linked to themselves. She also holds degrees from the University of Rhode Island and the Boston University School of Social Work. For this year’s seminar, Lynn is focusing on the recent social history of adoption from Guatemala to the U.S., and the overlapping political, economic, bio-genetic, and social “insecurities” that influence adoption practices in both places. Her research is driven by interests in social inequality, neoliberalism, and biopolitics.

Email: Lhorridge@gmail.com


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Ervin Kosta is a Ph.D. student in sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. Born in Albania, he completed his undergraduate studies in sociology at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and attended the one-year master programme in Economy and Society at CEU in Warsaw, Poland. Research interests include urban sociology, globalization theory, and race, ethnicity, and immigration studies. His dissertation explores the role immigration and market dynamics play on the negotiation of ethnicity in urban communities in global cities. As a 2007-2008 Fellow in the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, he is exploring the historical context and local mechanisms through which the current geopolitical reorganization of US hegemony is advancing in Eastern Europe. He lives, teaches, and conducts research in the Bronx.

Email: ekosta@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• "Bourdieu Off-Broadway: Managing Distinction on a Shopping Block in the East Village," with Sharon Zukin, City and Community, vol. 3 [2], 2004.
  

Peter Liberman is professor of political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D from MIT, and is the author of Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton, 1996), as well as journal articles on political psychology, alliance politics, the causes of war, trade conflict, and nuclear proliferation. He is currently working on the role of moral emotions in punitive motives for war. Please click here for his webpage.

Email: peter.liberman@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• Eye for an Eye (PDF)
  
• Punitiveness and Elite Gulf War Support (PDF)

John Morrissey lectures on historical, political and cultural geography at National University of Ireland, Galway. His research focuses on the study of identity and conflict, especially in the context of colonialism and geopolitics. His work also explores broader questions of representation and the political and cultural use of geographical knowledges. Please click here for full publication list (PDF).

Email: jmorrissey@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

• Forthcoming: (with Ulf Strohmayer, Yvonne Whelan and Brenda Yeoh): Key Concepts in Historical Geography, Sage, London
  
• Forthcoming: 'US CENTCOM and Iraq: Geopolitics, grand strategy and the global war on terror', in Ryan, D. (ed.), The United States and Iraq, Routledge, New York
  
• 2006: 'Ireland's Great War: representation, public space and the place of dissonant heritages', Journal of Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 58, pp. 98-113 (PDF)
  
• 2005: 'A lost heritage: The Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness', in: McCarthy, M. (ed.), Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 71-87 (PDF)
  
• 2004: 'Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland', Irish Geography, Vol. 37 (2), pp. 166-176 (PDF)
  
• 2003, Negotiating Colonialism, HGRG, Royal Geographical Society, London (Book Description)
  

Mitra Rastegar is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her interests include secularism, cultural studies and the politics of representation of Islam in the United States.

Email: mitraellen@gmail.com

Selected Publications:

• "Reading Nafisi in the West: Authenticity, Orientalism and “Liberating” Iranian Women." 2004.(PDF)
  

Charlotte Recoquillon is a PhD candidate at the French Institute of Geopolitics (Paris 8 University) after graduating in 2006. She is a 2007 fellow of the Georges Lurcy foundation and Educational Trust and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place Culture and Politics for 2007-2008 year. Her work explores the conflicts and power rivalries over the territories of gentrification in New York City and the intersection between power, justice and democracy in the process. For more information, www.charlotterecoquillon.com.

Email: charlotte.recoquillon@geopolitique.net




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