Visting Scholars Program | CEPS

CEPS Visiting Scholars Program (2010-2011)

First call for applications for 2010/2011 closes 31 May 2010.

NB. A second call for applications will occur in October 2010.

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Previous Visiting Scholars:


	David Bayley dbayley@albany.edu+1 518 442 5630	Professor David Bayley is a Distinguished Professor at University at Albany, and visited CEPS during late May – early June 2008. During his time at the Australian National University, Professor Bayley met with senior members of the IDG and also participated in a CEPS roundtable discussion with PhD students and research staff. During his time at Griffith University, Professor Bayley presented a seminar on 'The changing environment for policing' and also presented at the QPS headquarters. Distinguished Professor David Bayley is a specialist in international criminal justice, with particular interest in policing. He has done extensive research in India, Japan, Australia, Canada, Britain, Singapore, and the United States. His work has focused on strategies of policing, the evolution of police organizations, organizational reform, accountability, and the tactics of patrol officers in discretionary law-enforcement situations. Professor Bayley's most recent publication is Police for the Future (Oxford University Press, 1994) based upon field research in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, and the United States.
	Anthony Braga anthony_braga@ksg.harvard.edu+1 617 496 9835	Dr Anthony Braga - Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Dr Braga visited CEPS in March 2009 during which time he presented on 'Policing gangs and gun problems' at the inaugural CEPS Policing Symposium. Biography: Dr Anthony A. Braga, Lecturer in Public Policy, is Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. His research focuses on working with criminal justice agencies to develop strategic crime-prevention strategies to deal with urban problems such as firearms violence, street-level drug markets, and violent crime hot spots. He has served as a consultant on these issues to the Rand Corporation; National Academy of Sciences; U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Department of the Treasury; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Boston Police Department; New York Police Department; and other state and local law enforcement agencies. He received his MPA from Harvard University and his PhD in criminal justice from Rutgers University.
	Ralf Emmers isremmers@ntu.edu.sg(65) 6790 4340	Associate Professor Ralf Emmers - Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Associate Professor Emmers visited CEPS during April – early May 2009. During this time, Associate Professor Emmers presented a seminar on ‘Geopolitics and maritime disputes in the South China Sea: From competition to cooperation' at both the Australian National University (listen to presentation) and Griffith University. Biography: Ralf Emmers is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He completed his MSc and PhD in the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests cover security studies and international relations theory, maritime security, international institutions in the Asia-Pacific, and the security and international politics of Southeast Asia.
	Joel Garner jgarner@jcjs.org+1 304 876 3460	Dr Joel Garner - Joint Centers for Justice Studies, Inc. Dr Garner visited CEPS in April 2008 and presented a seminar at Griffith University on 'The crime control effects of prosecuting intimate partner violence: The relationship between research and reform'. Dr Garner has conducted extensive research in the areas of use of force, domestic violence and racial profiling. Biography: Dr Joel H. Garner became the Chief of the Law Enforcement Statistics Unit of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009. As the deputy to the director of research at the U.S. National Institute of Justice, he was the program manager for the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment and the subsequent program which replicated that experiment in six jurisdictions. He was the first manager of the joint NIJ-MacArthur Foundation sponsored Program in Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Dr. Garner has served as the director of research at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and at the Joint Centers for Justice Studies, a nonprofit research corporation based in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
	Carole Gibbs gibbsca1@msu.edu+1 517 355-2199	Assistant Professor Carole Gibbs – Michigan State University Assistant Professor Gibbs visited CEPS in January 2009 and presented a seminar on ‘Conservation Criminology and Electronic Waste’ at the Australian National University. Biography: Assistant Professor Carole Gibbs is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Her most recent research involves studying the relationship between corporate citizenship, sanctions, and environmental performance. Other research interests include criminological theory, corporate crime, gender/race/class and crime, and environmental justice.
	David Johnson davidjoh@hawaii.edu+1 956-8462	Professor David Johnson – University of Hawaii Professor Johnson visited CEPS during August 2008. He presented a seminar at Griffith University on A' tale of two cities: Capital punishment and homicide deterrence in Hong Kong and Singapore', and at the Australian National University on 'The next frontier: National development, human rights, and the death penalty in Asia'. Biography: David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii. This research was stimulated by the book he wrote (with Franklin Zimring) on a related topic. It is called The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia, and it will be published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.
	Leslie Kennedy kennedy@newark.rutgers.edu+1 973-353-3310	Professor Leslie Kennedy – Rutgers University Professor Kennedy visited CEPS in August 2008. During this time, Professor Kennedy met with Griffith University’s Vice Chancellor, participated in a roundtable discussion with members from the CEPS Intelligence Methods project, met with the Queensland Police Minister, and participated in a round table discussion with PhD students. He also presented at seminar at Griffith University on 'Implementing risk assessment in crime prevention and control' which reviewed the underlying concepts of risk as they are used in criminology and investigated how they can be applied in risk assessment procedures adopted by police agencies. Biography: Leslie W. Kennedy, University Professor, served as Dean of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice from 1998 to 2007. Dr. Kennedy has published extensively in the areas of fear of crime, victimology, and violence. He is the co-author with Vince Sacco of The Criminal Event, appearing in its 4th edition this year. In this book he advocates a holistic approach to the study of crime in social context. In addition, he has published extensively on spatial and temporal analysis of crime patterns.
	Gary T. Marx gtmarx@mit.edu+1 (617) 253-1907	Professor Gary T. Marx - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Marx visited CEPS in April 2008 and discussed his latest book with researchers at the Australian National University. Biography: Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus from M.I.T. He is the author of Protest and Prejudice, Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (with Doug McAdam) and editor of Racial Conflict, Muckraking Sociology, Undercover: Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective (with C. Fijnaut) and other books. With Norman Goodman, he revised Society Today and edited Sociology: Popular and Classical Approaches. Undercover received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and Marx was named the American Sociological Association's Jensen Lecturer for 1989-1990. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from its section on Crime, Law and Deviance, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association and the Bruce C. Smith Award for research achievement. In 1992 he was the inaugural Stice Memorial Lecturer in residence at the University of Washington and he has been a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow, the A.D. Carlson Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences at West Virginia University, and the Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. Major works in progress are books on new forms of surveillance and social control across borders. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
	Jianming Mei jianming_m@hotmail.com	Professor Jianming Mei – Chinese People's Public Security University Professor Mei visited CEPS during August 2008. He presented seminars on ‘Organised crime in contemporary China: Fictional anecdote or factual existence?’ at both the Australian National University and Griffith University. Biography: Professor Jianming Mei is an Associate Professor for the Department of Criminology, Chinese People's Public Security University, Beijing, China. Professor Mei’s research interests include terrorism, organised crime, policing, and crisis management.
	Daniel Nagin dn03+@andrew.cmu.edu+1-412-268-2159	Professor Daniel Nagin – Heinz College Professor Nagin visited CEPS in July 2008 to conduct a three day workshop at Griffith University on trajectory modelling using the statistical software program SAS. Biography: Daniel S. Nagin is Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics and since January, 2006 has served as the School’s Associate Dean of Faculty. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from what is now the Heinz School. Nagin has participated in two MacArthur Foundation Networks—the Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice and the Network on Economic Inequality and Social Interactions. He is on the editorial board of six journals, and served on numerous national committees and advisory boards and served as Deputy Secretary for Fiscal Policy and Analysis in the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from 1981 to 1986. Nagin is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He is the 2006 recipient of the American Society of Criminology Edwin H Sutherland Award (for research contributions) and is a 1985 recipient of the Northeastern Association of Tax Administrators Award for Excellence in Tax Administration.
	T.J. Pempel pempel@berkeley.edu+1 510-642-4688	Professor T.J. Pempel – University of California, Berkeley Professor Pempel visited CEPS in August 2009 when he presented a seminar on ‘The Economic-Security Nexus and East Asian Regionalism’ at the Australian National University (listen to presentation) and Griffith University. Biography: Professor T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined Berkeley's Political Science Department in July 2001 and became director of the Institute of East Asian Studies in January 2002. He holds the Il Han New Chair in Asian Studies. Just prior to coming to Berkeley, he was at the University of Washington at Seattle where he was the Boeing Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and an adjunct professor in Political Science. From 1972 to 1991, he was on the faculty at Cornell University; he was also Director of Cornell's East Asia Program. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Colorado and the University of Wisconsin. Professor Pempel's research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, and Asian regionalism.
	Jerry Ratcliffe jhr@temple.edu+1 215 204 7702	Professor Jerry Ratcliffe – Temple University Professor Ratcliffe visited CEPS in November 2008. He presented a seminar on ‘A holistic view of the criminal environment’ at Griffith University and met with members from the CEPS Intelligence Methods project and also Executives at the QPS. Biography: Professor Jerry Ratcliffe is on the faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia. In a previous life he was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) where he served for a number of years on patrol duties, in an intelligence and information unit, and as a member of the Diplomatic Protection Group. Due to a severe winter mountaineering accident while ice climbing in the Scottish Highlands, he left the police after 11 years of service. He completed a B.Sc. with honors in Geography and GIS at the University of Nottingham (UK) and has a Ph.D. from the same institution.
	Greg Rawlings greg.rawlings@otago.ac.nz64 3 479 4905	Dr Greg Rawlings – Otago University Dr Rawlings visited CEPS during July – August 2008. During this time, Dr Rawlings conducted collaborative research on CEPS Fragile States project with Professor Jason Sharman. Biography: Dr Greg Rawlings is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Otago University, New Zealand. Currently, Dr Rawlings is researching the ways in which legal notions of citizenship intersect with subjective notions of identity by affirming or negating essentialised categories of ‘race’ in the colonial Pacific. From 2002-2005, Dr Rawlings was post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI) in the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the ANU. Dr Rawlings has a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU. While his interests and work on offshore finance, citizenship, accountability, oversight, network theory and changing property relations appear diverse they are unified by an overall interest in the production of globalisation and transnationalism in ways that both reinscribe and transform culturally mediated notions of power, law, society and economy.
	Bilveer Singh polbilve@nus.edu.sg+65-65163398	Associate Professor Bilveer Singh – National University of Singapore Associate Professor Singh visited CEPS during June and July 2009. He presented a seminar at the Australian National University on 'Islamist extremism in Indonesia - implications and the road ahead' and at Griffith University on 'Australia's role in Counter-Terrorism in Southeast Asia since 2001'. Biography: Dr Bilveer Singh is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore. He is also the Vice President of the Political Science Association in Singapore and the Deputy National Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network (SEASCN). Dr Singh’s research interests are in International Relations and Comparative Politics and he teaches Government of Politics of Singapore; Singapore's Foreign Policy; International Security; and Contemporary Issues in Indonesian Politics.
	John Stasko stasko@cc.gatech.edu+1 404 894 5617	Professor John Stasko – Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Stasko visited CEPS in June 2008 and spoke at a Griffith University Intelligence workshop regarding the challenges of making sense of ever-increasing amounts of data and using science and technology to “connect the dots” to uncover embedded stories and information. Professor Stasko also demonstrated how visual analytics systems can assist investigation and the analysis of intelligence. He also presented a CMC Intell shortcourse. Biography: Professor John Stasko is the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Brown University in 1989 and joined the faculty at Georgia Tech that same year. His research is in the area of Human-Computer Interaction with a specific focus on information visualization and visual analytics.
	Michael Tierney mjtier@wm.edu+1 (757) 221-3039	Professor Michael Tierney – College of William and Mary Professor Tierney visited CEPS in August 2008 and presented two seminars at Griffith University - one on 'Greening aid' and the other on 'The view from the ivory tower: International relations scholarships 1980-2000'. Biography: Professor Michael Tierney received a B.A. from William and Mary in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 2003. He teaches courses on international relations, international organization, and research methods. He has published two books: Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance, Oxford University Press, 2008; Delegation and Agency in International Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
	David Wall law6dw@leeds.ac.uk+44 0113 343 5023	Professor David Wall – University of Leeds Professor Wall visited CEPS during April and May 2009. He presented a seminar at the Australian National University on 'Organised Cybercrime and the Organisation of Crime Online' and at Griffith University on ‘Policing Cybercrimes: Situating the public police in networks of cybersecurity’. Biography: David S. Wall (BA, MA, M Phil, PhD, FRSA, AcSS) is Professor of Criminal Justice and Information Society at the University of Leeds. Formerly Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (2000-2005) and Head of the School of Law (2005-2007), he conducts research and teaches in the fields of criminal justice and information technology (Cybercrime), policing, cyberlaw and intellectual property crime.
	Catherine Weaver ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu+1 512-232-3443	Assistant Professor Catherine Weaver – The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor Weaver visited CEPS during August 2009 and presented a seminar on ‘In the Heart of Darkness? The Ethics of Defense Funding for Scholarly Research on Climate Change and Political Fragility in Africa’at both Griffith University and the Australian National University. Biography: Catherine (Kate) Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Weaver received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. From 2001-2002, she was a Brookings Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and from 2002-2008 an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. Dr. Weaver's research focuses on the organizational culture, behavior and reform of international financial institutions, foremost the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Her book, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform, was published by Princeton University Press in November 2008.
	Jeremy Wilson jwilson@msu.edu+1 517 353 9474	Associate Professor Jeremy Wilson – Michigan State University Associate Professor Wilson visited CEPS during May – June 2009. He presented seminars on ‘Community Policing and Crime Prevention in Practice: Lessons from a US Field Intervention’ at Griffith University and the Australian National University. Measure Y Reports - Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland, Community Policing and Crime. Biography: Dr Jeremy M. Wilson is the Associate Director for Research and an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). He recently founded and directs the MSU Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection Program and the Police Studies Consortium.