Visiting Scholars

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Chambi Chachage
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Department of English

Chambi Chachage’s postdoctoral research project is on the history of racial capitalism in Tanzania with a particular focus on the business culture of people of African descent. He is the co-editor of Africa’s Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere. He has just completed a Ph.D dissertation at Harvard University on A Capitalizing City: Dar es Salaam and the Emergence of an African Entrepreneurial Elite (c. 1862-2015).

Milad Hooshyar
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Community on Climate Change and Epidemic Disease in the Indian Ocean at PIIRS

Hooshyar holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Central Florida. His research interests include surface water hydrology, surface processes, geomorphology, dynamical systems and numerical simulation.

Larissa Kyzer
Translator in Residence, PIIRS Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC)

Kyzer is a writer and Icelandic - English literary translator. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, she lived in Reykjavík for five years after receiving a Fulbright grant in 2012. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature, an MS in Library and Information Science, and an MA in Translation Studies, which she earned at the University of Iceland. Her translations include novels, children’s books and chapter books for young readers, short stories, poetry, essays, plays, nonfiction, and, most recently, Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s Nordic Council Literature Prize-nominated A Fist or a Heart. Kyzer is a member of Ós, an Iceland-based international and literary collective, the American Literary Translators Association, and PEN America’s Translation Committee.

Tomaz Mastnak
Research Scholar

Mastnak received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His primary area of research is the emergence and articulation of conflictual relations between East and West, Christendom and the Muslim world, and between Europe and the non-European world.

Mastnak is the author of a wide range of books and articles in the history of political thought and political theory.

He has been a research fellow at the European University Institute, Oxford University, American University of Cairo, Harvard University and New York University.

Priti Narayan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies(PIIRS) and the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities in connection with the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India under PIIRS.

Narayan uses ethnographic and archival methods to investigate how residents of Chennai, India make claims to city land in a landscape marked by violent, large-scale slum evictions. Her research project, Terrains of Negotiation: Strategic Residents and the State in a
Developing City, explores how the urban poor navigate ‘terrains of negotiation’ among politicians, local bureaucrats, and activists to preserve their citizenship in the city. Her work highlights how historical structures of patronage-based state society relations interact with
neoliberal urbanism. Narayan is a member of Pennurimai Iyakkam, a slumdweller rights organization, and has been working on housing rights in Chennai for over seven years now. She has a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University; an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University; a PG Dip. in Television Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism; and a B.Sc. in Electronic Media from the University of Madras. She has book chapters and web publications published on slum evictions and resettlement, environmental gentrification, and urban participation.

Danielle Stewart
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies(PIIRS) and the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities in connection with the Brazil LAB of PIIRS.

Stewart is an art historian whose research centers on Modern photography and the visual culture of mid-century Brazil. Her work investigates the capacity of mass distributed artistic, documentary, journalistic, and advertising photographs to shape urban spaces and construct urban imaginaries. At Princeton, Danielle will work on revising her dissertation, Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930-1955, into a book manuscript that analyzes how photographs of mid-twentieth century São Paulo helped to forge the city’s identity as a modernized, industrial metropolis. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, educated in Utah, and a resident of Harlem, Danielle has also lived in Curitiba, Brazil. This wide range of American cityscapes fundamentally informs Danielle’s research. Danielle completed her MPhil and PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and her BA and MA degrees at Brigham Young University. She has presented her research at domestic and international venues including conferences hosted by the Universidade de São Paulo, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the College Art Association, and the Latin American Studies Association. Her work has appeared in publications by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the Instituto Moreira Salles, the
Fundación Cisneros, and H-ART (Universidad de los Andes). Danielle has also taught courses on Latin American art and photography at Hostos College, Brooklyn College, Lehman College, and The Cooper Union.