Weingartner Faculty and Student Fellows
Weingartner Professor
Associate Professor Paula Pickering has been named the 2011-2013 Weingartner Professor. She has been mentoring the Weingartner Student Fellows, Anushree Banerjee and Connor Smith. Pickering received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1989 and a PhD. from the University of Michigan in 2001. Her research focuses on how Western Balkan citizens and elites influence international efforts to rebuild post-conflict societies and states. She teaches comparative politics of the Eurasian region and is active in the Government department, International Relations, and Russian & Post-Soviet Studies programs.
Weingartner Student Fellows
Anushree Banerjee is a class of 2012 Government major. Her research involves analyzing the connection between ethnic violence and civic participation. Through the Weingartner Fellowship, Anushree is hoping to better understand the relationship between municipalities that have experienced high levels of violence, and how effective their local government structures are. Additionally, she hopes to use this research to better understand how the international community can target their aid to build up the political structures of these post-conflict communities.
Connor Smith, Class of 2014, is an International Relations major. His Weingartner research has focused on local-level governance in Bosnia and Macedonia, particularly the impact of international aid. He will be conducting an Upperclass Monroe Project in Macedonia this summer to build on the data collected and analyzed as a part of his Weigngartner research. In addition to this, he is an intern for the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS).