Julien Barrier

Visiting Scholar, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact: julien.barrier@northwestern.edu

Julien Barrier is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. His research addresses how economic forces shape the production of knowledge and contribute to institutional change. Julien is hosted by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Sociology Wendy Espeland and is at Northwestern through June 2024. He is in office 3025 at Northwestern Buffett. 

During his stay at Northwestern University, Barrier is working on a book manuscript addressing how the development of university-industry relations redefined the organization, values and orientation of academic research in France. He also intends to explore emerging global trends and curriculum change in higher education.

Ghazi Hashimi

Clinical Fellow, Pritzker School of Law and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact: ghazi.hashimi@law.northwestern.edu

Ghazi Hashimi joins us from Kabul University in Afghanistan, where he served as an Associate Professor of Law teaching criminalistics, general criminal law, international criminal law, trial advocacy in criminal cases and criminal procedure. He is supporting research efforts at Northwestern Buffett and Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law through June 2024. Ghazi’s office is located in the Arthur Rubloff Building at 750 N. Lake Shore Drive on Northwestern’s Chicago Campus.

Hashimi has collaborated on several projects with the National Center for Policy Research since 2006. He went on to complete his Master’s in Law (LLM) at the University of Washington School of Law in 2013. His article “Helping Afghanistan’s Informal Dispute Resolution Systems Follow Afghan Law in Criminal Matters: What Afghanistan Can Learn from Native American Peacemaking Program” was published in the Michigan State International Law Review, and his article “Defending the Principle of Legality in Afghanistan: Toward a Unified Interpretation of Article 130 to the Afghan Constitution” was published in the Oregon Review of International Law.

Haman Mana

Visiting Lecturer, Medill School of Journalism and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact: magloirepepin.hamanmana@northwestern.edu

Haman Mana is a Cameroonian journalist and author. He will spend his time at Northwestern continuing to run Le Jour, one of Cameroon’s largest daily newspapers, and working on a book about Cameroon’s slide toward authoritarian rule, from which he was forced to flee following the paper’s investigation of corruption and influence peddling by a powerful media mogul. Haman has joined us as a Visiting Lecturer with a joint appointment in the Medill School of Journalism through August. He is in office 3026 at Northwestern Buffett.

Hafizullah Seddiqi

Clinical Fellow, Pritzker School of Law and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact: hafizullah.seddiqi@law.northwestern.edu

 

Hafizullah Seddiqi joins us from Herat University in Herat, Afghanistan, where he served as a lecturer and Associate Dean of Law and Political Science Faculty. He also served at the Head of Quality Assurance Committee, observing all faculty subcommittees and reporting back to the Dean. He has taught Islamic Law, Family Law, Contracts Law, International Trade Law, Labor Law and Intellectual Property Law. 

Seddiqi worked for seven years as a defense attorney in addition to training students seeking to become defense attorneys. He graduated from Herat University in 2013 and earned his LLM from the University of Washington School of Law in 2019, after which he interned in the Law Library of Congress where he conducted research on legal issues in Afghanistan and published an academic article in Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by Indiana University.

Dima Younes

Visiting Scholar, Kellogg School of Management and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Contact: dima.younes@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Dima Younes is an Associate Professor of Organization Theory at Emlyon Business School in France. Her research investigates the transformations of capitalism, work and organizations with particular attention to power and resistance, gender and social movements. She is hosted by Kellogg School of Management Professor Brayden King, who co-leads our AI and Social Movements Global Working Group, and will be in residence at Northwestern through July 2024. Dima is in office 3025 at Northwestern Buffett.

To understand the possibilities to organize for a fairer and more sustainable world, Dima is currently working on two projects. The first one examines the day-to-day life of the Lebanese (previously) middle-class after the economic crisis of 2019. It examines how individuals deal with scarcity problems while contesting the existing political and economic regime. The second project attempts to compare the surprises and experiences of Lebanese post-2019 immigrants in different countries. It attempts to better understand the characteristics of different Western economies with regards to family/work relationships, gender and foreignness. 

Ekin Kurtiç

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: ekin.kurtic@northwestern.edu

Ekin Kurtiç (PhD, Harvard University, 2019) is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research is at the intersection of environmental humanities, social studies of infrastructure and technopolitics and political ecology. She is the 2022–2024 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, Kurtiç is working on her first book manuscript, Infrastructural Landscapes: Building Dams, Restoring Ecologies in Turkey, which critically examines state-led projects of restoring and salvaging nature in the process of large dam building. Infrastructural Landscapes shows that dam building is a central site of governing the environment not only through conquest but also through conservation and a process in which people navigate the life shaped by the intersection of dam-induced destruction and reconstruction. She is also developing a new book on the techno-ecopolitics of reframing soil as a "carbon sink" against the backdrop of the climate crisis and its implications for human and non-human lives in agricultural and pastoral landscapes of Turkey. Prior to coming to Northwestern, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.

Bilge Yabanci

Visiting Scholar and Marie Curie Global Fellow

Contact: bilge.yabanci@northwestern.edu

Bilge Yabanci is Marie Curie Global Fellow (2022–2024) at Northwestern University and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Her research interests are interdisciplinary and relate to political science, sociology, and communication studies. In her current project co-hosted by Northwestern and Ca' Foscari, she investigates how the immigrant and refugee rights movement (IRRM) in Turkey can tailor its public communication strategies to reframe migrants and refugees as 'deserving' and 'rights-bearing agents'. In the first stage, the project maps the capacities, networks and communicative strategies of the emergent IRRM in the country. In the second stage, survey experiments aim to identify which language—or linguistic framing—can solicit broader support and replace the racialized and marginalizing views. Currently, Bilge is also working towards finalizing her book manuscript titled 'Civil Society and Autocratization: Repression, Cooptation and Contestation in Turkey'. Before joining Northwestern, she was the recipient of Open Society Fellowship (Human Rights Cohort) and Swedish Institute postdoctoral fellowship. In her previous projects, she researched the transformation of social movements and civil society under the pressure of democratic backsliding. Carrying out on extensive fieldwork on women, youth and diaspora organizations, she investigated both cooptation and resistance dynamics within civil society.