Date: October 11, 2024
Location: AB1079
Professor Gurol Baba
Gürol Baba is a Professor at the Social Sciences University of Ankara;Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Relations. His research focuses on Middle Powers in International Politics, Asia-Pacific Regional Affairs and more. He published An Asymmetrical Transregionalism, in the Journal of Asian and African Studies, which he guest edited with his colleague Amit Ranhan. The issue features Baba and Ranjan’s introduction, as well as Baba’s research article Middle East–South Asia Relations: Transregional Minilateralism Cemented with Bilateralism. Baba, G. (2023). Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58(4), 500–517.
Professor Zach Fredman
Zach Fredman is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. His research focuses on US-China relations. He is the author of The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949 (UNC Press, 2022) and co-editor of Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937-1949 (Cambridge UP, 2024).
Peter E. Hamilton (韓墨松) is the Assistant Professor in World History (Pacific World) at Lingnan University. He is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Press, 2021). It was recently translated into Chinese as 香港製造：跨太平洋網絡與全球化新史 (Monsoon Zone, 2024). His second book project is researching the history of scientific management across twentieth-century Chinese thought and society. Research from this project has recently been published in The Journal of Asian Studies, Business History, and multiple anthologies.
Erez Manela is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and the history of the United States in the world. He is the author of the prize-winning book The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007) and co-editor of four collaborative volumes, most recently The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire (2023). He also has a longstanding interest in the conceptual and methodological aspects of writing international history and is currently working on a collaborative volume titled Explaining International History.
Professor Ivan Willis Rasmussen
Professor Ivan Willis Rasmussen is the Undergraduate Coordinator of Social Sciences and an Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai. He previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College and a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. His research includes contributions to the Asian Journal of Public Affairs and Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, and he co-authored the book At the Dawn of Belt and Road: China in the Developing World (RAND Report).
Professor Rasmussen has taught at institutions such as Tufts University and Boston College and has worked with the US Department of State, Duke University/Gates Foundation, and the RAND Corporation. He is a member of several associations, including the American Political Science Association, and has received the Teaching Excellence Award from NYU Shanghai. Recently, he was named a Mansfield Luce Asia Scholar.