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Writing-ups, Visiting Fellows and Guests 2017

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Dissertation Writing-up Fellows (in chronological order)

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Catherine Larouche (March–September 2017)

Institution: McGill University
Dissertation: Spiritual and Material Development: The Politics of Islamic Charitable Work in North India
PhD conferred: 2018
Award: Nominated by McGill University for the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Current position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Laval University, Canada.

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Felix-Anselm van Lier (May–November 2017)

Institution: Oxford University
Dissertation: Legal Politics in the Libyan Constitution-Making Process
PhD conferred: 2019
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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Salman Hussain (September 2017–April 2018)

Institution: City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation: Together without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007–09) in Pakistan
PhD conferred: 2018
Award: UC Berkeley S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies
Current position: Lecturer/Research and Teaching Fellowship, Amherst Legal Studies Program, University of Massachusetts

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Anna Wyss (October 2017– March 2018)

Institution: University of Bern, Institute for Sociology
Dissertation: Interrupted Journeys – Disrupted Control. Male Migrants with Precarious Legal Status and the European Migration Regime
PhD conferred: 2019
Awards: SNIS award for the best PhD thesis in international studies
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Social Processes at the University of Neuchâtel

Visiting Fellows (in chronological order)

Kyriaki Topidi (Oct 2016–Jan 2017)

University of Lucerne

Current position: Senior Research Associate, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany.

Monica Maria Gusmao Costa (Nov 2016–March 2017)

Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Current position: advocate in human rights cases and in the defense of users of Health Plans and the Single Health System (SUS)

Katja Seidel (March–June 2017)

University of Vienna

Current position: Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Maynooth University, Ireland

Joseph David (May–June 2017)

Associate Professor of Law, Sapir Academic College, Israel

Current Position: Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, USA

Rama Srinivasan (May–August 2017)

Brown University, Providence

Current position: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Valentino Cattelan (May–August 2017)

IE Business School, Madrid

Current position: Associate Researcher, Saudi-Spanish Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance (SCIEF), IE Business School, Madrid, Spain

Matthew Canfield (July–August 2017)

University of New York

Current position: Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University

Quotes

“The final writing stages of a PhD are often the hardest…. The six-month doctoral writing-up fellowship I undertook in the Department of Law and Anthropology in 2017 not only gave me the means to complete my doctoral dissertation in a timely manner, but also gave me the opportunity to discover a stimulating new research environment and to benefit from fresh input when it was the most needed. During my stay at the Max Planck … I received important critical feedback that helped me strengthen my dissertation.”

—Catherine Larouche

"Due to Professor Foblets’s warm academic hospitality and approach to guest scholars, I was included in a variety of ongoing academic activities, including the Department’s write-up and research seminars and the “Law After Lunch” seminars. …

I would recommend the experience without any hesitation to any researcher who wishes to visit the Department. The seamless conditions of academic work that prevail and, at least as importantly, the human factor, allowed … new academic bonds to emerge and older ones to grow stronger. I very much look forward to having the opportunity to return to Halle in the not-so-distant future and benefiting again from the intellectual energy that the Institute provides."

—Kyriaki Topidi

“Even though my time at the Department was limited, I greatly benefited from the engagement with colleagues interested in similar topics, the use of the library, and the professional guidance of Marie-Claire Foblets. I remain grateful for the enduring inspiration and academic exchanges that I was able to establish during the fellowship, and I look forward to continuing the professional collaboration well into the future.”

—Katja Seidel

“I believe that my stay at the Max Planck Institute was of essential importance in pairing my legal background with anthropological methodology. In fact, since my time in Halle, social and cultural anthropology have become a fundamental aspect of my work on legal pluralism, comparative law, and the law of Islamic finance.”

—Valentino Cattelan

“During the summer of 2017, I was fortunate to be invited to the Department of Law & Anthropology as a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher. My visit to Max Planck was a period of great productivity. … Ultimately, the opportunity to visit the Institute was invaluable to my career. It helped to extend my networks in the field of Law and Anthropology and provided a productive working environment that supported my future success.”

—Matthew Canfield