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Robert C. Bartlett聽

Robert C. Bartlett is the first Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies at 艾可直播 College. His principal area of research is classical political philosophy, with particular attention to the thinkers of ancient Hellas, including Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics, Review of Politics, and other leading scholarly journals. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Idea of Enlightenment, Plato's Protagoras and Meno, and Xenophon's The Shorter Socratic Writings. He is also the co-translator of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (University of Chicago Press, 2011), the author of Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates (Chicago, 2012), and a new edition of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric (Chicago, 2019).

Before coming to 艾可直播 College, Robert Bartlett served as the Arthur M. Blank/National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor at Emory University.

Sheri Berman

Sheri Berman is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.听 Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left.听 She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX.听 She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Dissent and Political Science Quarterly.听 Her most recent book, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

Gerald Easter

Gerald Easter teaches courses in Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. His research interests include the modern state, post-communist transitions, comparative political economy. Current research projects focus on comparative politics of policing and pre-modern politics.

He is the author of the following books: Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Shaping the Economic Space of Russia (ed., Ashgate, 2000), Capital, Coercion, and Post-Communist States (Cornell University Press, 2012), The Tsarina's Lost Treasure (Pegasus, 2020), and Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russia Went to War in America (Pegasus, forthcoming).

He joined the Political Science 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College in 2000. He also taught at Georgetown University, Miami University (Ohio), European University in Saint Petersburg, Venice International University, and University of Rome at Tor Vergata. He is currently the Department Chair.听

Ingu Hwang

Ingu Hwang is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the International Studies Program, and a 艾可直播board member of the Asian Studies Program. His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history and politics, Cold War East Asian diplomacy, and the history of human rights/humanitarianism. He teaches interdisciplinary courses that examine Korean and East Asian history from a global perspective.听

Hwang's first book, (University of Pennsylvania Press, Human Rights Series). was published in March 2022. This book, developed from his dissertation, is the first monograph to address the role of South Korean pro-democracy actors in (re)shaping the global history of human rights activism and politics in the 1970s. It shows how local prodemocracy activists pragmatically engaged with global advocacy groups, especially Amnesty International and the World Council of Churches, to maximize their socioeconomic and political struggles against the backdrop of South Korea鈥檚 authoritarian industrialization and US hegemony in East Asia. It details how local prodemocracy protesters were able to translate their sufferings and causes into international human rights claims that highlighted how US Cold War geopolitics impeded democratization in South Korea. In tracing the increasing coalitional ties between local prodemocracy protests and transnational human rights activism, the book also calls attention to the parallel development of counteraction human rights policies by the South Korean regime and US administrations. Thus, this book argues that local disputes over democratization in South Korea became transnational contestations on human rights through the development of trans鈥揚acific human rights politics. This book project was awarded the 2020 publication grant from the Academy of Korean Studies.

In keeping with the university鈥檚 mission of promoting academic and cultural diversity, Prof. Hwang also teaches a summer introductory immersion course in Seoul, South Korea.