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 December 2024. He is in office 3026 at Northwestern Buffett.

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. 

Roberto Mazza

Visiting Scholar

Contact: roberto.mazza@northwestern.edu

Roberto Mazza is a Visiting Scholar at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. A historian specializing in the modern Middle East, Mazza has contributed to the field of urban history and the study of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods. Mazza hosts the popular Jerusalem Unplugged podcast, which explores various aspects of Jerusalem's rich history and contemporary issues. He also serves as a regular host for the New Books Network and is executive editor for Jerusalem Quarterly, an academic journal.

Mazza authored two books focusing on Jerusalem during the First World War period. His scholarly output also encompasses exploring themes of urban history and the history of violence in the region. Mazza is a board member of  the Filistin Araştırmaları Dergisi Yayın Kurulu (Bulletin of Palestine Studies).

Önder Eren Akgül

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: onder.akgul@northwestern.edu

Önder Eren Akgül is the 2024–2026 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. Akgül is a historian of capitalism, political economy and the environment in the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean. He is currently working on his first book manuscript, A Global Hinterland: Crisis and the Order of Accumulation in Late Ottoman Greater Izmir, an intertwined history of global capitalism, Ottoman political economy and local labor and ecology. Akgül is concurrently developing two new research projects—the first exploring the history of extractivism in the Ottoman mountains and the second focusing on the global history of the left in Turkey during the long 1960s. 

Akgül is a regular producer for the Ottoman History Podcast. Before coming to Northwestern, Akgül taught classes on the history of Modern Turkey and global capitalism at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, and International Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.