Teaching Assistants

Cordier Fellows | Writing Tutors

 

Cordier Fellows

Hisham Aidi

e-mail: ha26@columbia.edu

sections:

Section 2 Thursday 2:10-4:00 room 901 IAB
Section 10 Thursday 6:10-8:00 room 902 IAB
Section 18 Friday 11:00-12:50 room 501A IAB

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Hisham Aidi is a doctoral candidate in the Political Science department concentrating in the sub-field of comparative political economy, which looks at the challenges of capitalist development and democratization in the Third World.  His regions of interest are Africa and Latin America.   He is currently working on a dissertation that addresses the question of regime-type and development efforts;  the title of the dissertation is,"Economic Restructuring and the Corporatist State:  The Political Obstacles to Neo-Liberal Reform in Egypt and Mexico".  Hisham is also a writer for Africana.com, an on-line magazine that deals with the cultural and political affairs of Africa and the African Diaspora.


Evan Resnick

e-mail: er179@columbia.edu

sections:

Section 5 Wednesday 11:00-12:50 room 409 IAB
Section 9 Wednesday 11:00-12:50 room 222 Pupin Labs
Section 15 Thursday 11:00-12:50 room 901 IAB

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Evan Resnick is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science. His primary research interests are international seucrity and United States Foreign Policy. His dissertation is entitled "Ties That Bind? Hypotheses on Peaceful Engagement as a Tool of American Foreign Policy".


Holger Schmidt

e-mail: hs265@columbia.edu

sections:

Section 4 Wednesday 4:10 - 6:00 room 1401 IAB
Section 13 Monday 4:10 - 6:00 room 902 IAB
Section 14 Tuesday 4:10 - 6:00 room 1401 IAB

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B.A. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. & Bologna, Italy.

Holger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, specializing in international security issues. His main research interests include the causes of war, the relationship between democracy and foreign policy, and the dynamics of bargaining during international crises.


Neema Nori

e-mail: nn88@columbia.edu

sections:

Section 6 Thursday 9:00 - 10:50 room 418 IAB
Section 7 Friday 11:00 - 12:50 room 418 IAB
Section 17 Friday 9:00 - 10:50 room 501 IAB

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B.A. University of Utah 1992, M.A. University of Texas at Austin 1994. A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, his research interests include state formation, social movements, and the sociology of development, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Central Asia.  More specifically, his current research focuses on the continuing role of Soviet institutions in maintaining state authority in rural Uzbekistan. He has studied Russian at the Tashkent Institute of Oriental Studies in Uzbekistan and Arabic at UCLA.  This summer he undertook intensive Uzbek language study and pre-dissertation research in Uzbekistan.   


Nicole Hala

e-mail: nh21@columbia.edu

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Nancy Kwak

e-mail: nhk4@columbia.edu

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Nancy Kwak is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Columbia
University. She completed her M.A. in Education at Harvard University
and her B.A. in US History at UC Berkeley. She previously pursued her
interests in urban development by teaching under the reconstitution
program at Balboa High School, San Francisco for three years. She is
particularly interested in issues of urban development and public housing
in New York City from 1945-1970.


writing tutors -- office hours start on 10/3

Sharon Otterman (slo26@columbia.edu) -- Rm 1305 IAB
Monday 10 am - 12 pm -- Rm 1305 IAB
Tuesday 9:30 am - 11:30 am -- Rm 1305 IAB
Thursday 3 pm - 8 pm -- Rm 1305 IAB
Friday 1 pm - 4 pm -- Rm 1305 IAB

Madiha Murshed (mm1705@columbia.edu)
Monday 11 am - 1 pm -- Cafe Cappuccino, 6pm - 8pm -- Rm 1305
Tuesday 4pm - 6pm -- Cafe Cappuccino
Wednesday 4pm - 6pm -- Rm 1305 IAB
Thursday 2pm - 6pm -- Cafe Cappuccino

Writing Workshops:
Friday, 9/28, 1-2pm, room 404
Tuesday, 10/2, 10-11am, room 413