New Visiting Scholars & Researchers

Stanford Global Studies welcomed several visiting scholars and researchers during the winter quarter of 2017. Read about the new visitors below:

Veronika Lapina

2017 WAYNE VUCINICH FELLOW

CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES

DURATION: JANUARY 2017 TO MARCH 2017

Veronika Lapina received her Ph.D. in Sociology from European University at St. Petersburg in December 2016. Her doctoral research, Queer Nomads: In-Country Mobility of Sexual Becomings in Russia, offers a reparative reading of queer lives at Russia’s periphery trying to depart from a paranoid perspective where homophobia is seen as upholding the explanatory power over the way lives of non-heterosexual residents are structured. Borrowing analytical tools from new materialist philosophy, she explores the existing lacuna within the field of queer sexuality in Russia and challenges the metronormative perspective in studying post-Soviet sexualities. Her work discusses liminality, remembering, and affect-shame, and addresses questions of space-time-mattering. She is using her fellowship to prepare a dissertation-based book proposal for Duke University Press.

Henrique M Pereira

TINKER VISITING PROFESSOR

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

DURATION: JANUARY TO MARCH 2017

Henrique Pereira received a master’s in Biophysics from the University of Lisbon in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he coordinated the Portugal Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and from 2006 to 2009 he was the Director of Peneda-Gerês National Park in Northern Portugal. From 2009 to 2014 he was a Research Group Leader at the Center for Environmental Biology of the University of Lisbon. Since 2013, he is the Professor of Biodiversity Conservation at iDiv - German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Invited Professor at InBio, Universidade do Porto (Portugal). He is the Chair of the Biodiversity Observation Network of the Group on Earth Observations. He was one of the lead authors of the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 and a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Scenarios Methodological Assessment. He has published over one hundred scientific papers and reports on biodiversity issues. His research interests revolve around global biodiversity change, including monitoring schemes for biodiversity, spatially explicit and species-area models for biodiversity scenarios, and empirical studies of the consequences of rewilding abandoned farmland for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Professor Pereira will be teaching BIO 328: Managing Biodiversity Change: from Science to Policy in Winter 2017.

Dirk Rupnow

DISTINGUISHED VISITING AUSTRIAN CHAIR PROFESSOR (2016-2017)

THE EUROPE CENTER

DURATION: 2016-2017

Dirk Rupnow is Professor of Contemporary History and Head of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. He is also the Founding Coordinator of the Center for Migration & Globalization at the university. His main research interests include twentieth century European history, holocaust and Jewish studies, cultures and politics of memory, as well as intellectual and migration history.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Rupnow studied history, German literature, art history and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna, earning his M.A. in 1999 (Vienna), Ph.D. in 2002 (Klagenfurt) and Habilitation in 2009 (Vienna). Prof. Rupnow was Project Researcher with the Historian’s Commission of the Republic of Austria in 1999/2000. He has been awarded numerous research stays and fellowships in Austria, Germany, France, Israel, and the U.S., as well as the 2009 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library, London. Prof. Rupnow will be teaching the course "The Holocaust and its Aftermath" for the Department of History in the Spring Quarter.

CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES (CREEES)

DURATION: DECEMBER 2016 TO MAY 2017

Nona Shahnazarian is Associate Researcher at The National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia and Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her project title while at CREEES is “Mutual Accusations of Ethnic Cleansing in the Azeri-Armenian Conflict: Memory Wars and Emerging State Ideologies.” She was a foreign visiting fellow at UCLA on Fulbright program (2006-2007), at SRC Hokkaido university, Japan (2011-2012), at Halle-Saale, DAAD, Germany (2012), at Higher School of Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris (2013), at Academic Swiss Caucasus Network, Fribourg university, Switzerland (2015), and at Armenian Research Center, Dearborn-Michigan University, USA (2015). She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Russia, Armenia, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabagh and has published on the issues of gender, war, migration and diaspora in the Caucasus. She has published numerous academic articles and books, and has run the regional office of the Women in War Think Tank in Yerevan since 2015.