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Joint Princeton-Columbia Graduate Student Workshop,
September 29 - October 1, 2000

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National Identity and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

Participating Graduate Students

Dissertation summaries in Adobe PDF-format are available by clicking on dissertation titles. For a copy of a particiants' paper, please contact the author directly.

Name Paper Title Dissertation Title Discipline University
Fiona Adamson Rethinking the "Identity Debate" in International Relations Theory: Factoring in the Role of International Migration and Transnational Identities Globalization and the Territorial State: International Migration, Transnationalism, and "National" Security PoliSci Columbia
Lia Antoniou National Identity and the Instruction of History Why Does History Matter? The Changing Nature of National Identity Representations in Greek Elementary School History Textbooks Soc European University Institute
Nina Bandelj National Identity Encounters Globalization: Foreign Direct Investment Policy in Central and Eastern Europe Foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe Soc Princeton
Robin Brooks Cultural Dissimilation, Political Entrepreneurs, and Nation-Building in Three Post-Communist States - Bulgaria, Hungary, and Macedonia Ethnic Self-Identification, Cultural Dissimilation, and Nation-Building in Post-Communism PoliSci UC Berkeley
Janine Chi Identities in Tension: National and Ethnic Identities in Postcolonial Southeast Asia Emergent Development Paths and Identities: The Cases of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand Soc Univ. of Washington
Jane Cowley Confronting the Legacy of the Polish State: the Impact of Past and Future Policy on Political Identity Remembering a Nation, Recreating a State: Memory and Political Identity among Polish Youth Anthro UPenn
Julian Dierkes The Impact of Policy-Making Regimes on Portrayals of the Nation in History Education Teaching Portrayals of the Nation - Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys Soc Princeton
Theodora Dragostinova Memories of the Past: The Greek Refugees from Bulgaria in the Period 1906"-1"939 State Policies and Local Demands in the Refugee Communities of "Bulgarian Greeks" in the Interwar Period History Univ. of Florida
Rachel Epstein Polish Post-Communist Transition: Expressing a European Identity through Public Policy International Sources of Domestic Policy: Persuasion and Coercion in Post-Communist Poland PoliSci Cornell
Robert Fish Conception and Education of Mixed-Blood Children in Japan: 1945-53 The Heiress and the Love Children: The Elizabeth Saunders Home for "Mixed-Blood" Orphans in Japan, 1948-1973 History Univ. of Hawai'i
Aya Homei Giving Birth to a Rich Nation and Strong Soldiers: Midwives and Nation Building in Japan between the Meiji Period and the 1940s. From "midwives in Japan" to "the Japanese midwives": medicalization of childbirth and professional midwives in early twentieth century. History of Science, Technology and Medicine Univ. of Manchester (UK)
Hikari Hori Contradictions in Gendered National Identity: Ideal and Reality in Japan's Wartime "Motherhood" Policies Female Agency in Japanese Film Production from the Fifteen Years War to the Occupation Era Women's History Gakushûin Univ. (Japan)
Carolyn Kissane Transitionary Shifts in the Teaching of History: An Examination of Two Schools in Kazakhstan The Teaching of History in Transition: A Case Study of Two Schools in Kazakhstan Comparative Education Columbia
Jobst Koehler Policy Learning and the Decline of the Ethnocultural Paradigm of Germany's Citizenship Policy in the 1980s and 1990s Cooperative federalism, immigration and the redefinition of Germany's citizenship policy for foreigners Politics Oxford
Ulrich Krotz National Role Conceptions and Foreign Policies: France and Germany Compared Interaction, Meaning, and Interests: Domestic and Relational Sources of French and German Foreign Policies PoliSci Cornell
Gal Levy Constructing Ethnic Boundaries: The Israeli Educational Policy and the Making of a Nation Ethnicity and Education: Nation-Building, State-Formation and the Construction of the Israeli Educational System PoliSci London School of Economics
Sophie Mützel The Move of the German Capital - The "Berlin Republic" and Other Suspects Making Meaning of the Move of the Capital - "Capital City Journalism" and the "Berlin Republic" Soc Columbia
Andrew Oros National Identity and Foreign Policy Making: The Case of Japan's Arms Export Ban Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Foreign Policy Making in Japan PoliSci Columbia
Paula Pickering The Role of Identity in the Choices that Minorities Make: The Case of Minorities in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina The Choices that Minorities Make Under Conditions of Severe Constraint: The Case of Minorities in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina PoliSci Univ. of Michigan
Johanna Polvi-Lohikoski The Europeanization of National Policy Objectives in Finland and Sweden: Instrumental Identity Politics The Europeanization of Policy Objectives in Finland and Sweden: The Case of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and Common Security and Defense Policy (CESDP) International Relations European University Institute
Kakoli Ray Repatriation of Meskhetian Turks and the Question of Sovereignty in the Caucasuses Displaced Populations: Re-Shaping to International Planning Urban Planning Columbia
Anindya Saha Searching for National Identity while Electioneering: Hindu Nationalism and Competitive Party Politics in India The Strategic Logic of Party System Change in India: Ideology, Organization and Competition PoliSci Cornell
Harald Salomon An Imagined Family: the Japanese Nation as Represented in Government Awarded Feature Films: 1942-44 Japanese Cinema, State and Propaganda in Wartime Japan: The National Films (1941-5) Japanese Studies Humboldt Univ. (Germany)
Orna Sasson-Levy Constructing Gender and National Identities within the Israeli Army Constructing Gender Identities within the Israeli Army Soc/Anthro Hebrew Univ.
Yuichi Tamura School Rules and National Identity: Education in the Age of Globalization Controversy and Change: Identity and School Rules in Japan, 1975-2000 Soc Univ. of Kansas
Kate Taylor Myth and Realities: The European Dimension of Education Policy in Scotland and England The European Dimension of Education and Culture Policies in Scotland and England Social & Pol Science European University Institute
Roxanne Varzi Re-forming Religious Identity in the Isalmic Republic of Iran Shifting Subjects: Teens in post-Revolution Tehran Soc & Cult Anthro Columbia
Mark Wolfgram Rebuilding the Divided Nation: Popular German Cinema and Nation Building in Divided Germany Visualizing the Imagined Community: Collective Memory, History and Politics in Germany PoliSci Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison

Participating Faculty Mentors and their Interests

Name Discipline University Current Interests Reference
Peter Katzenstein PoliSci Cornell Regionalism in World Politics, In Search of Germany The Culture of National Security Columbia UP, 1996.
Cultural Norms and National Security Cornell UP, 1996.
Michèle Lamont Soc Princeton Culture, racial and class inequality, comparative sociology, the sociology of knowledge and science, and sociological theory "Meaning-Making in Cultural Sociology: Broadening our Agenda", Contemporary Sociology, 29 (4): 602-607, 2000.
Richard Samuels PoliSci MIT Political leadership in Japanese and Italian history Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan Cornell UP, 1994.
David Stark Soc Columbia Postsocialist transformations; organizational innovation in the New Economy. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in Eastern Europe (with Laszlo Bruszt), Cambridge UP, 1998.
Charles Tilly Soc and PoliSci Columbia Large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Western Europe Citizenship, identity and social history, Cambridge UP, 1996.
Kosaku Yoshino Soc Univ. of Tôkyô Cultural nationalism in Japan, national identities in Southeast Asia, English in Asia "Rethinking Theories of Nationalism" in Kosaku Yoshino (ed.), Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1999.

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October 10, 2000