CISRUL PhD students 2011-12
Our PhD students
This year we’re welcoming three new PhD students, Ulisses Pereira-Terto,
James King and Cosmin Radu, which brings our total to five:
Alena Thiel had previously studied both anthropology and politics and is working on Ghanian market women’s organizations and how they impact on state policy (rather than just seeing them as responding to state policy). That has led her to reflect on questions of citizenship (the exercise of political rights), civil society (are market women’s organizations civil society?) and rule of law (since they are considered part of the informal sector). She is co-supervised by Ritu Vij (Politics) and Trevor Stack.
Marek Szilvasi holds a
joint Masters in sociology and philosophy and is focusing on EC policy towards
the Roma minority – including recognition of European Roma and Travellers’
Forum as its representatives – in order to reflect on social theories of
cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism and human rights. He is supervised by CISRUL
member Claire Wallace (Sociology) and Chris Brittain (Divinity).
Cosmin Radu is an anthropologist who has already published articles in international journals and conducted extensive fieldwork along the Romanian-Serbian border on smuggling, viewed as a site of cooperation that blurs differences between state and non-state, legal and illegal, licit and illicit, and that transforms the ways people relate to their living conditions, their statuses as citizens, and their modes of belonging. Trevor Stack will be his main supervisor, together with Matyas Bodig (Law) and Andrea Teti (Politics).
Ulisses Terto-Pereira is a human rights lawyer who will study the implementation of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders to draw global lessons about how international human rights norms can bring about real changes in domestic political behaviour. Matyas Bodig (Law) will be his main supervisor assisted by Andrea Teti (Politics) and Trevor Stack.
James King is a theologian whose thesis will examine the writings of two popular contemporary US theologians who discourage Christian participation in liberal politics. He will focus on their understandings of what compels one to engage in democracy and ask what we learn from their theology about what the citizen necessarily is and how we are to understand the 'secular' and 'religion.' His main supervisor is Phil Ziegler (Divinity) who is joined by Tamas Gyorfi (Law) and Trevor Stack.
Trevor Stack
08 November 2011