People
Principal Investigator & Co-PIs
Daniel Laqua
Principal Investigator
Daniel is Associate Professor of History at Northumbria University. He is the Principal Investigator for GLO; apart from coordinating the overall project, he holds special responsibility for the project activities funded via the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.
Carolyn Biltoft
Co-PI (Switzerland)
Carolyn is Associate Professor of History at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). She is responsible for the project activities funded via the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Daniel Gorman
Co-PI (Canada)
Daniel is Professor of International History and Chair of the History Department at Waterloo University. He is responsible for the project activities funded via Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Susan Stokes
Co-PI (USA)
Susan Stokes is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago. She is responsible for the project activities funded via the USA's National Science Foundation.
Co-Investigators
Richard Huzzey
Co-Investigator
Richard is Professor of History at Durham University in the UK. Within the GLO project, he is conducting research on the Jubilee 2000 campaign and contributing to work on the project monograph.
Henry Miller
Co-Investigator
Henry is Associate Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowe at Northumbria University. He is coordinating the public engagement and policy activities of GLO.
Amalia Ribi Forclaz
Co-Investigator
Amalia is Associate Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Within GLO, she is undertaking research on popular engagement with the International Labour Organization and the League of Nations.
Anne-Isabelle Richard
Co-Investigator
Anne-Isabelle is University Lecturer in History at Leiden University. As part of the GLO project, she is researching debates about the relationship between democracy and European institutions.
Researchers
Simón Ballesteros
University of Chicago
Simón is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Chicago Centre on Democracy. For GLO, he will investigate Argentinian responses to the IMF in the early 2000s as well as the contested legitimacies of regional international organizations in Latin America.
Gordon Barrett
Northumbria University
Gordon's contribution to the GLO project focuses on Chinese engagement with international organisations as well as global governance in the field of science
Thomas Gidney
Geneva Graduate Institute
Thomas is exploring how national liberation movements in the 1920s and 1930s responded to the League of Nations. He will also investigate efforts to promote the work of the League at a time of international crisis in the 1930s.
Nivedita Joon
Geneva Graduate Institute
Nivedita is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Working as a Research Assistant within the Swiss research team, she is researching a case study of the International Women's Tribune Centre as well as investigating how women campaigners sought to effect change by targeting international institutions.
Yi Liu
Geneva Graduate Institute
Yi Liu is a PhD candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute. As a Research Assistant within the Swiss GLO team, she is conducting archival research on personal responses to international institutions, as well as researching a case study of efforts to reform the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) during the Cold War.
Sophie Scott-Brown
Northumbria University
As a Research Associate of the UK's GLO team, Sophie particularly focuses on transnational anti-nuclear protests across different regions (Europe, North America, West Africa) during the Cold War. She is also contributing to the public engagement activities associated with GLO.
Matthew Robertshaw
Waterloo University
Matthew is a postdoctoral researcher working with the Canadian GLO team.
His contributions focus on connections between the Caribbean, Africa, the League of Nations and the UN.
He is also
His contributions focus on connections between the Caribbean, Africa, the League of Nations and the UN.
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Collaborator
Kevin Kromash
(Chicago Center on Democracy)
Kevin is the Operations Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy.
He is running the activities that are connecting GLO to the Center's work.
He is running the activities that are connecting GLO to the Center's work.
Advisory Board
The project benefits from the support of an international advisory board with wide-ranging expertise. The board members are as follows:
Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo (USP)
Dena Freeman, Professor of Global Studies at Shanghai University
Sandrine Kott, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Geneva and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University (NYU)
Hanspeter Kriesi, Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute (EUI)
Stephen Legg, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham
Kiran Klaus Patel, Professor of Modern History at Ludwig Maxmilian University (LMU), Munich
Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at Boston University
Christy Thornton, Associate Professor of History at New York University (NYU)
Marco van Leeuwen, Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Utrecht
Tara Zahra, Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago
