Contributors
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Jan Eckel is associate professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Freiburg. His first two books, Hans Rothfels: Eine intellektuelle Biographie im 20. Jahrhundert (Wallstein, 2005) and Geist der Zeit: Deutsche Geisteswissenschaften seit 1870 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), examine the interdependence of political experiences, intellectual conceptions, and academic institutions in German historiography and the humanities during the long twentieth century. He is currently working on a book exploring the history of international human rights politics during the second half of the twentieth century. Among his publications on the topic are “Utopie der Moral, Kalkül der Macht: Menschenrechte in der globalen Politik nach 1945,” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 49 (2009), and a volume (co-edited with Samuel Moyn) entitled The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (Pennsylvania, 2014).
Martha Lagace is a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at Boston University. She focuses on Africa’s Great Lakes region. In addition to working on a co-authored book on Rwanda’s lieux de mémoire, she is conducting dissertation field research in northern Uganda. She studies how and why individuals speak or act on behalf of others in everyday life, as a lens on social cohesion.
Michael E. Latham is professor of history and dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill at Fordham University. He is the author of The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (Cornell, 2011) and Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (North Carolina, 2000). He is particularly interested in the intersection of development theory, foreign policy, and global decolonization since 1945.
Jens Meierhenrich is senior lecturer in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His forthcoming Lawfare: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Jurisdictions in Rwanda, 1994–2012 (Cambridge, 2014) analyzes trajectories of transitional injustice in Rwanda. His first book, The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000 (Cambridge, 2008), won the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. Aside from a co-authored book on Rwanda’s lieux de mémoire, he is presently at work on a genocide trilogy for Princeton University Press and just finished Genocide: A Very Short Introduction and Genocide: A Reader (both Oxford, 2013).
Johannes Paulmann is director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) and professor of modern history at the University of Mainz. His book Pomp und Politik (Paderborn, 2000) deals with the history of royal meetings and state visits in Europe from the ancien régime to the First World War. It won the prize of the German [End Page 337] Association of Historians. He co-edited The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War (Oxford, 2001). He is co-chief editor of European History Online, an open-access transnational history of Europe.
Bradley R. Simpson is associate professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Connecticut and the author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960–1968 (Stanford, 2010). He is currently writing a global history of self-determination since 1945, as well as a history of U.S.-Indonesian international relations during the reign of Suharto (1966–98). Simpson is also founder and director of the Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the nonprofit National Security Archive.
Robert Vitalis teaches political science at the University of Pennsylvania. The London Guardian named his America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford, 2007) a book of the year. His next book, The End of Empire in American International Relations, moves away from the Middle East to explore the unwritten history of the international relations discipline in the United States and the recovery of its critical “Howard School” tradition.
John R. Wallach is professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He co-edited Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (Cornell, 1994) and authored The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (Penn State, 2001). The latter...
