Grete Brochmann (2007-2008)
Grete Brochmann earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Oslo in 1990. She is currently Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Research, as well as Professor of Sociology, at the University of Oslo. Brochmann has published several books and articles on international migration, covering topics such as sending and receiving country perspectives, EU policies, welfare state dilemmas, and historical studies on immigration. She has also been involved in a number of International research projects and evaluations. She has lectured internationally for many years and served as a visiting scholar in Brussels (Université Catholique de Louvain) and at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2002 she held a visiting professorship in honor of Willy Brandt in Malmo, Sweden. Brochmann is currently researching welfare state dilemmas in a Nordic comparative perspective. She has been member of several commissions in the Norwegian Research Council and held/holds a number of board positions in research institutions. She has also been member of two Governmental commissions, held positions and board memberships in international contexts such as the Council of Europe, COST, the Danish research program AMID, and the Swedish Power and Integration Investigation.
Paulina Napierala (2007-2008)
Paulina Napierala is a Ph.D. student at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. As a Fulbright grantee, she is conducting her research at the Boisi Center. She graduated from Jagiellonian University receiving two M.A. degrees: International Relations and Ethnic and Migration Studies. As a student she was granted two foreign scholarships: in Bristol, UK, at University of the West of England and in Georgia, USA, at Valdosta State University. As a Ph.D. student she has been conducting her research in Poland and in Germany (J.F. Kennedy Institute at Free University of Berlin). Her research explores a variety of issues concerning relations between religion and politics in the United States. One of the topics she has thoroughly researched is the rise of the Religious Right and its influence on American political life. She is an author of several articles and reviews published in Poland. These publications touch upon such issues as: the role of religion in American foreign policy, political strategy and institutionalization of the Religious Right, dispensationalism and Christian Zionism in the Left Behind series, or fundamentalist movements in contemporary world. She also lectures on “Religion and Politics in the USA” at her home institution.
Martin Putna (2007-2008)
Martin C. Putna is an historian of European literature in religious context. His published books include My posledni krestane (We, the Last Christians; Prague 1994), Ceska katolicka literatura v evropskem kontextu 1848-1918 (The Czech Catholic Literature in European Context 1848-1918; Prague 1998), and Origenes z Alexandrie - Kapitola ze vztahu mezi krestanstvim a antikou (Origenes from Alexandria - The Chapter from Relations between Christianity and Antiquity; Prague 2001). He has also published three other monographs, several translations from Latin, German and Russian Literature to Czech, and two non-academic books (a collection of short essays and a novel). He studied Classical and Slavonic Philology (Charles University, Prague) and Theology (South Bohemian University, Ceske Budejovice). Since 1998 he has been an Associate Professor at Charles University, Prague. During the academic year 2004-05, he was a Visiting Professor at University of Regensburg, Germany. He is a co-founder of Souvislosti - Revue for Christianity and Culture (published since 1990). He is also a frequent contributor to Czech media, including Czech television, and leading Czech newspapers on religious, cultural, and political issues. Currently he is a Fulbright Fellow at the Boisi Center, Boston College, where he is working on a research project "The Other Religious America: Contemporary Attempts to Find Solutions to Conflicts Between Religious and Civic Principles in American Society and Culture."
Rowan Ireland (2005)
Rowan Ireland who was a Visiting Scholar in 2005 is on a return visit until the end of May. Ireland has retired from undergraduate teaching and administration at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, but he continues with graduate dissertation supervision and research activities. He is presently working on chapters for a book on residents' associations in favelas in Brazil, and on a paper for an edited book on the University of Melbourne Catholic Apostolate (aka the Newman Society) 1950-1970.
Anthony Waterman (2002)
Anthony Waterman was a fellow at St John's College, Winnipg from 1959 through 2006, where he taught economics and political science. He holds a PhD in economics from Australian National University and is an ordained priest. He retired in 2006 and resides in Winnipeg.
Lynn Davidman (2000-2001)
Lynn Davidman (Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1986) is a qualitative sociologist who is Professor of in American Civilization, Gender Studies and Judaic Studies. She works in the fields of gender studies and the sociology of religion. She has published books and articles that offer feminist perspectives of Jewish Studies, and explore the topics of women and religion, women and Judaism, and gender and religion. She is currently working on her new book, Leaving Home. She is the author of the book Motherloss (University of California Press, 2000). She is on the advisory board of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton,and is a member of the Editorial Board for Qualitative Sociology.
Douglas Creed (2001-2002)
W.E. Douglas Creed is an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the College of Business Administration. He holds a PhD in Business Administration at Haas School of Business, University of California. He has previously taught at Boston College, University of Massachusetts (Boston) and MIT Slone School. His research interest include organizational behavior and industrial relations organization theory, identity and diversity, and social movement activities, corporate community responsibility, strategies. In 2007 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for study in New Zealand.