Visiting Scholars
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Dr. Usman Ladan is currently a WARA Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar in the African Studies Program. He received his B.A (1987) and PhD (2002) degrees from the Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, where he now holds tenure appointment as a lecturer in History. He was also the Chair of the Academic Staff Union in the University from 2002 to 2005. He teaches courses on Nigerian and African history and his area of interests are philosophy of history, politics and urban studies. Dr. Ladan is currently conducting research on : The Politics of the Bornu Youth Movement and editing his doctoral dissertation on colonial urbanization in Nigeria for publication. |
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Nurliah Nurdin is a visiting Fulbright Student Researcher from Indonesia who was in residence at OHIO from September through November 2009 conducting research for her dissertation on the topic of democracy in presidential systems and specifically its implementation in Indonesia. She is jointly hosted by the Department of Political Science and the Center for International Studies. Nurliah is a lecturer at the State Institute of Government Studies in Indonesia and also an academic expert at the Ministry of Home Affairs. She earned her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Hasanuddin University and her Master's degree in Comparative Politics from Northern Illinois University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at the University of Indonesia. She is a founder of Dharma Praja Utama Foundation and a PublicRelations Officer at the Society of Government Studies. |
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Mustafa Izzuddin is a PhD student in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a visiting ASEAN Fulbright Fellow at the Ohio University's Center for International Studies and Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is concurrently a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and an Alumnus of the National University of Singapore. Mustafa will also spend time as a Visiting Doctoral Student at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford later next year. His research interests include the international politics of Southeast Asia with specific reference to ASEAN, and Islam and the Middle East. Mustafa's doctoral thesis studies the evolution of Malaysia-China relations from 1974 to 2009 through the lenses of neoclassical realism. |
| Mustafa is also an active Muslim community leader in Singapore in which he has served on a number of management boards and executive committees of several community-based NGOs; and has represented Singapore in a number of regional and international meetings. |