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Jonathan Rieder

Sociology professor Jonathan Rieder recalls being interested in issues of race since junior high school when he was allowed to skip a chemistry test to picket for civil rights in Philadelphia tells how youthful passion and forward-thinking education formed the basis for his life’s work, specializing in the study of race and class in America.

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Perry Mehrling

This fall, Barnard Professor of Economics Perry Mehrling intended to kick off his year of academic leave by buckling down to work on his next book. But after Wall Street reached a crisis point in mid-September, he realized he'd have to postpone those plans.

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NEW & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Contracting States
by ALEXANDER COOLEY

Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts"--agreements that are intentionally ambiguous and subject to future renegotiation--to explain how states divide and transfer their sovereign territory and functions, and demonstrate why some of these arrangements offer stable and lasting solutions while others ultimately collapse.

Contracting States provides guidance to policymakers about how states with equally legitimate claims on the same territory or asset can create flexible, durable solutions and avoid violent conflict.

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JOURNAL ARTICLES

SEVERINE AUTESSERRE, "Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International
Intervention," International Organization, volume 63, pages 249-280

CHRISTIAN ROJAS, "Protecting Group and Solvent Control of Stereo- and Chemoselectivity in Glucal 3-Carbamate Amidoglycosylation," Organic Letters 2009

DINA C. MERRER, "A Computational Study of Chlorocarbene Additions to Cyclooctyne," Journal of Organic Chemistry

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AS QUOTED IN...

WABC-TV • ALAN DYE, economics, discusses the impact of lifting Cuban travel restrictions

Worldstreams • SEVERINE AUTESSERRE, political science, discusses the complex politics surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo

Worldfocus • KIMBERLEY MARTEN, political science, discusses NATO’s 60th anniversary and the war in Afghanistan

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AWARDS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

ROSS HAMILTON, Eglish, awarded the 2009 Harry Levin Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association

WADDA RIOS-FONT, Spanish and Latin American Cultures, awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

SASKIA HAMILTON, English, awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

MONA EL-GHOBASHY, political science, named 2009 Carnegie Scholar

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