Visiting Scholars
The Buffett Institute’s Visiting Scholars are academics from around the world who collaborate with the Buffett and University communities.
Learn about past Buffett Visiting Scholars.
Buffett Visiting Scholars
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 July 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.
Mika Tamai
Visiting Scholar, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Contact:
mika.tamai@northwestern.eduHaman 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.
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. He is supporting research efforts at Northwestern Buffett and Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law through July 2024.
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 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.
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program
Find more information on Keyman Postdoctoral Fellows.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.
Kenan Behzat Sharpe is the 2023–2025 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. He completed his PhD in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2019. His dissertation focused comparatively on the poetry and popular music of 1960s social movements in Turkey and the United States. He is currently writing his first book manuscript: Rockers and Radicals in Anatolia: Turkish Psychedelic Rock and the World 1960s. The project discusses an experimental genre of popular music that combined melodies, instruments, and lyrics from the Turkish countryside with world trends of surf, psychedelic and progressive rock. It treats Anadolu Rock as a window into the politically turbulent and culturally rich period of the long Turkish 1960s, analyzing music’s central role in Turkish opposition movements and the influence of rural and minority musical traditions on urban youth culture. Before coming to Northwestern, Sharpe conducted field research as a postdoctoral fellow with the American Research Institute in Turkey and also taught literature classes at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Besides the 1960s in Turkey, his published research focuses on Turkish and Greek literature, comparative social movements, theories of aesthetics and politics, non-western modernisms and feminist film theory. While in Istanbul, he also worked as a journalist, publishing in outlets like the Washington Post and Al-Monitor and working as a columnist and show host for various independent Turkish media outlets.
