Comparative Area Studies
Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications
Edited by Ariel I. Ahram, Patrick Köllner, and Rudra Sil
Author Information
Ariel I. Ahram is associate professor of government and international affairs in Virginia Tech's School of Public and International Affairs.
Patrick Köllner is vice president of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, and professor of political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Rudra Sil is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania where he is also SAS Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business.
Contributors:
Amel Ahmed is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the dynamics of democratization in both historical and contemporary contexts. H
André Bank is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Middle East Studies at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. He received his doctoral degree in Political Science from Philipps University Marburg in 2010.
Dirk Berg-Schlosser has been Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. His research interests include political culture, empirical democratic theory, development studies, comparative politics, and comparative methodology.
Calvin P. Chen is Associate Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts), where he was Department Chair from 2012 to 2014. His research and teaching interests encompass comparative politics, Chinese politics, East Asian political economy, comparative labor politics, rural economic development, and ethnographic methods.
Cheng Chen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research and teaching interests include post-communist politics, nationalism and nation-building, Chinese politics, and comparative-historical methodology.
Mikko Huotari is Head of the Program on Foreign Relations at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. His research interests include international political economy, regional order in East Asia, Chinese foreign (economic) policy, China-Europe relations, methodology and Asian Area Studies.
Jürgen Rüland is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Chair of the university's Southeast Asia program. From 2006 to 2014, he served as Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies Hamburg. His research interests focus on Southeast Asian regionalism, democratization and international relations theory.
Ryan Saylor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa, where he teaches courses on bureaucratic reform, state building, Latin American politics and African politics. His principal research examines state building in the developing world.
Rudra Sil is Professor of Political Science and SAS Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Smith is Research Foundation Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research focuses on ethnic conflicts and on the politics of resource wealth.
Alexander Stroh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where his focus is on African politics and development policy.
Christian von Soest is Head of the "Peace and Security" Research Program at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and a Lead Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs.
Laurence Whitehead is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University, where he also served as Senior Proctor in 2011-2012. He is presently editing the Oxford University Press series "Studies in Democratization."
