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The Asch Center is a vibrant community of diverse individuals with varying backgrounds, areas of expertise, and responsibilities. The Center's leadership includes Directors Marc Ross and Clark McCauley, and Associate Directors Roy Eidelson, Ian Lustickand Paul Rozin.
The Center is proud of its distinguished Affiliated Faculty. These individuals represent four different local colleges and universities--Penn, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, and Drexel University--and span a broad range of disciplines including psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, public policy, communication, education, and medicine.
The Asch Center benefits from the contributions of faculty-level Visiting Scholars from other universities for visits of up to one year in duration. The Center also hosts Postdoctoral FellowsandResearch Fellowsunder a variety of different arrangements.
Also maintaining professional connections with the Asch Center are 75 Summer Fellows from the 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Summer Institutes. This interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners represent over 20 different regions or states, including Australia, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Moldova, Poland, Northern Ireland, Romania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Directors
Affiliated Faculty
Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows – current and past
Summer Fellows – 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005
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Directors add research interests
Clark McCauley, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Bryn Mawr College
Marc Ross, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Political Science
Bryn Mawr College
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Associate Directors
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D
Licensed clinical psychologist
Eidelson Consulting
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Ian Lustick, Ph.D.
Heyman Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
Paul Rozin, Ph.D.
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Affiliated Faculty
Sandra Barnes
Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
African urbanism, religion, politics, history, and the African diaspora.
Gordon Bermant
Lecturer, Benjamin Franklin Honors Program
University of Pennsylvania
Psychology and law, the role of judiciaries in political affairs, judicial administration, Buddhist psychology.
Charles Bosk
Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Deviance and social control; interactional social psychology; sociology of religion; mistakes, errors, accidents, and disasters.
Lee Cassanelli
Director, African Studies Center and
Associate Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
Horn of Africa; social and cultural and transformations in Somalia; history and memory in Somali refugee communities.
Thomas Callaghy
Berry Term Professor in the Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Lauder Institute of Management & Int'l. Studies
Cross-regional and historical comparative politics of debt and economic reform in the Third World; historical development of states, bureaucracies, and capitalism.
Randall Collins
Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Long-term social and economic change, with an emphasis on the meshings and mutual embeddings of political, economic, and cultural networks and dynamics.
Robert DeRubeis
Director of Clinical Psychology Area
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Psychopathology, especially the affective disorders; treatment process and outcome in depression.
Edna Foa
Director of Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Research and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.
Renee Fox
Annenberg Professor Emerita of Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Social and humanist aspects of medical care, medical sociology.
Paul Kaiser
Associate Director, African Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania
Religious and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
Igor Kopytoff
Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Cultural anthropology; Africa; history of anthropology; social structure; African religious transformations and African political culture; culture history; economic anthropology.
Rob Kurzban
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
The nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for sociallife, including relatively low-level processes of social categorization as well as higher-level processes including cooperative decision making, discrimination, and social exclusion.
Ann Lesch
Professor of Political Science
Villanova University
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Egyptian and Sudanese politics, ethnicity and religion in politics.
Ian Lustick
Heyman Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
Comparative politics, international politics, Middle Eastern politics,
agent-based modeling.
Jeanne Marecek
Professor of Psychology
Swarthmore College
Sri Lanka; psychology and the construction of gender.
Carolyn Marvin
Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Cultural studies, social construction of taboo, symbols and rituals of nationalism.
Clark McCauley
Professor of Psychology
Bryn Mawr College
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Stereotypes, psychology of terrorist groups, group dynamics, personality in culture, quality of life.
Usha Menon
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Drexel University
Cultural anthropology, issues in health, family, and gender.
Diana Mutz
Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Mass media and political behavior, public opinion, research design, and political psychology.
Anne Norton
Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
Identity and history; gender; race; colonialism and post colonialism; tradition and revolution.
Brendan O'Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
National and ethnic conflict regulation; national self-determination; Northern Ireland; consociations and federations; the life and thought of Ernest Gellner.
Albert Pepitone
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Aggression, cultural psychology.
Marc Ross
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science
Bryn Mawr College
Group conflict in pre-industrial societies, theories of group conflict.
Paul Rozin
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Cultural psychology, contagion, food, lay thinking about risk.
Paula Sabloff
Senior Research Scientist, Asian Section, University Museum
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Cultural anthropology; political anthropology; applied anthropology; Mongolia; United States of America; Latin America; anthropology of complex societies.
Marc Sageman
Private Practice in Forensic Psychiatry, Philadelphia
Terrorist networks; history of concept of traumatic disorders, anxiety disorders, intercultural adaptation, forensic and organizational psychiatry, ethnopolitical conflicts.
Harold Schiffman
Luce Professor of Language Learning
University of Pennsylvania
Language policy and language conflict in South and Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. More information about the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning is available here:
Lawrence Sherman
Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations
Department of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Criminology, in particular crime patterns and control, police patrols and raiding tactics, police corruption, domestic violence, and criminal penalty alternatives.
Margaret Spencer
Professor of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Developmental psychology; race relations; resiliency, identity, and competence formation in African American children and adolescents.
Lee Smithey
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Swarthmore College
Northern Ireland, conflict transformation, nonviolent strategy, social movements.
Brian Spooner
Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Cultural anthropology; Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia; social organization; religion; ethno-history; ecology; rural development.
Stephen Steinberg
Executive Director
Penn National Commission on Society, Culture, and Community
University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy of nationalism; phenomenology; existentialism; postmodern thought; psychoanalysis; contemporary issues in higher education.
Henry Teune
Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania
Democracy, globalization, local politics and governance.
Greg Urban
Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Linguistic and cultural anthropology; metaculture; cultural motion; public sphere processes; world cultures; Amerindian cultures.
Robert Vitalis
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director of the Middle East Center
University of Pennsylvania
Middle East politics, historical comparative political economy, American expansionism, the history of international relations theory, African-American intellectual traditions.
Arthur Waldron
Lauder Professor of International Relations, Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
China and East Asia, world military and diplomatichistory.
Andrew Ward
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Swarthmore College
Psychological barriers to negotiated resolution of disputes, overcoming obstacles to successful negotiations, "naive realism," egocentric construal, other inferential biases.
Current Visiting Scholars
Muhammad Ishaque Fani, Ph.D. (drishaquefani at yahoo.com) is Associate Professor of International Relations at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Pakistan. He is working on a book that will describe how religious radicalism emerged in madrassahs and mosques in Pakistan since the 1990s. Previously, Dr. Fani has written on numerous topics including decentralization in the United States, US-China relations, US and Russian views of the Kashmir conflict, and Pakistan’s post-9/11 Afghan policy.
Past Visiting Scholars
Ifat Maoz, Ph.D. (msifat at mscc.huji.ac.il) a social psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was in residence at the Asch Center during the 2002-2003 academic year, and from August 2006 to February 2008. Her work here focused on patterns of communication and interaction between groups in conflict and the effects of bias mechanisms on attitudes toward conflict and its resolution. She has also initiated and remains involved in collaborative research with directors at the Asch Center.
Alan Keenan, Ph.D. (akeenan23 at earthlink.net) was a Visiting Scholar at the Solomon Asch Center during the 2005-2006 academic year. With funding from the United States Institute of Peace he is working on a book manuscript entitled Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: On the Politics of Human Rights and Civil Society Building in Sri Lanka. The book will examine the complex politics of human rights in Sri Lanka, with particular focus on the difficult relations between the discourses of "human rights" and of "conflict resolution." From 2003-2005, Alan was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at Bryn Mawr College. There he taught courses on human rights, conflict, democratization, and transitional justice. Before coming to Bryn Mawr, Alan spent much of the previous four years in Sri Lanka as a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. His field research, sponsored by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Asch Center, focused on the work of Sri Lankan human rights groups and other local "civil society" organizations and the role their efforts played in attempts to bring about a negotiated settlement to Sri Lanka's two decade old war. In addition to his academic research, Alan has also worked as a consultant for the Programme on Human Rights and Conflict at the Law and Society Trust in Colombo and with the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York. Alan received his Ph.D. in political theory from the Johns Hopkins University, and has previously taught political, legal, and social theory at the Universities of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz, and in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford Univ. Press, 2003), as well as articles in a number of academic journals and edited volumes.
Tina Kempin (tkempin at sas.upenn.edu) was a Visiting Scholar at the Solomon Asch Center during the 2005-2006 academic year. She received her doctoral degree in International Relations and International Law from the University of Zurich in Summer 2006 and is now on the faculty of Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Her interdisciplinary dissertation project (Ethnic Conflict and International Law: Group Claims and Conflict Resolution within the International Legal System) examines international legal approaches to ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. The examination of the problem of defining ethnic conflict and the analysis of the relevant international legal basis, especially in relation to collective rights such as the right of peoples to self-determination and minority rights, lead to the conclusion that the potential contribution of international law has not yet been fully realized in conflict research. Tina's dissertation describes how processes of ethnic conflict resolution can benefit from international legal norms, procedures, and institutions. In turn, she argues that international law can profit from findings of political and social sciences concerning the problem of definition of the terms "ethnic group," "peoples," and "minority." Tina received her M.A. in history, economics, and international law from the University of Zurich. She worked as a research and teaching assistant for the Center for Security Policy and Conflict Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, where she wrote her Masters thesis on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. Tina was a research fellow at the Institute of Public International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law at University of Zurich Law School and was awarded the University of Zurich Research Grant for research and the completion of her dissertation, 2005-2007.
Shane O'Neill, Ph.D., was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asch Center in 2005. He is a Full Professor of Political Theory at Queen's University in Belfast, where he is Chair of the 35-member School of Politics and International Studies. Shane studied at University College Dublin (BA in History andPolitics, MA in Moral and Political Philosophy) and subsequently for his doctorate at Glasgow University in Scotland. He was a member of the Department of Government in Manchester University, England, before moving to Queen's University in 1994. His research interests can be located at the interface between Anglo-American normative political theory and continental philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and German critical theory. In his published work he has investigated a variety of critical approaches to social scientific research and has examined a range of questions concerning the demands of justice and democracy under conditions of pluralism. His main project at present focuses on the normative dimensions of ethnonational conflict.
Adebayo Okunade, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan and Director of the University’s Centre For Peace and Conflict Studies (CEPACS). He was a visiting scholar at the Asch Center during 2005 as part of a MacArthur Foundation funded collaboration between CEPACS and the Asch Center. Dr. Okunade’s current research examines terrorism and counter-terrorism from the perspective of categorical moral imperatives. This study proffers some categorical political, economic and social imperatives for change and for the repositioning of Africa beyond merely “oiling” the economy of the North, thereby reducing its current status as a burden to the international system and making it a relevant partaker in globalization. Professor Okunade is also pursuing research related to Blair’s New Labour and the “Northern Ireland Question;” political conditionality and aid in Africa; and the laws of armed conflict and modern warfare. He has written over 50 articles, chapters, or books bearing on issues of communal conflict.
Rotimi Suberu, Ph.D. is a Professor of Politics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a visiting scholar at the Asch Center during 2005 as part of a MacArthur Foundation funded collaboration between CEPACS and the Asch Center. Dr. Suberu is coeditor of Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria (1998) and author of Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria (1996) and Public Policies and National Unity in Nigeria (1999), as well as a number of articles on Nigerian politics published in both Nigerian and international journals. He was a fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1993-1994 and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Florida (1995), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1999-2000), and Northwestern University (2002).
Florian Bieber, Ph.D. received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Vienna. During the 2004-2005 year, he undertook a research project on institutional design in multiethnic states of the former Yugoslavia under the mentorship of Asch Center Director Brendan O’Leary. More information about Dr. Bieber's current work is available at his website:
Amal Jamal, Ph.D., a political scientist and Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University in Israel, spent a year in residence at the Asch Center (2002-2003) furthering his research and writing related to political communication; state building and civil society; minority politics and democratic theory; and Palestinian and Israeli politics.
Ifat Maoz, Ph.D., a social psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, spent a year in residence at the Asch Center (2002-2003) furthering research and writing relating to patterns of communication and interaction between groups in conflict and the effects of bias mechanisms on attitudes toward conflict and its resolution. She also initiated and remains involved in collaborative research with directors at the Asch Center.
Malathie Dissanayake, a psychology graduate of the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka spent two years at the Asch Center (2002-2004) as part of a post-baccaulaureate and graduate student visiting scholar program that brings talented overseas students to the Asch Center and the University of Pennsylvania for informal but structured programming in order to help advance their graduate-level studies. Previous participants include Libby Eaton and Yoesrie Toefy from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Nishani Samaraweera, also from the University of Peradeniya.
Sonia Roccas, Ph.D., a social psychologist from the Open University in Israel, spent a year in residence at the Asch Center (2000-2001) during which time she pursued her research program examining group identification, the management of ethnic identities, and the phenomenon of "collective guilt" (guilt associated with wrongdoing by a group with which the individual identifies). She also initiated and remains involved in collaborative research with directors at the Asch Center.