2012-2013 Residential Fellows

Zinaida Miller is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her dissertation analyzes international intervention and the construction of the ‘international community’ by examining the framing and institutional design of, as well as resistance to, international activity from the League of Nations until the contemporary era. Her research interests include critical examinations of transitional justice, international intervention, human rights, and the politics of humanitarian aid.  Her publications include Effects of Invisibility: In Search of the ‘Economic’ in Transitional Justice (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2008). She holds a B.A. from Brown University, a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lisa Kelly is a doctoral (S.J.D.) candidate at Harvard Law School where her research focuses on family law, education law, and law and sexuality.  Her doctoral dissertation analyzes the legal regulation of the child at school and the law and politics of universal schooling.  Lisa is a Trudeau Scholar, a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, and a Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  She holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and an LL.M. (waived) from Harvard Law School.  After law school, Lisa articled with the Department of Justice in Ottawa and also clerked for Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Past Post-DocFellows of the Institute have included:

  • Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chile)
  • Yun-Ru Chen (Taiwan)
  • Iain Frame (Scotland)
  • Ermal Frasheri (Albania)
  • Havva Guney-Ruebenacker (Turkey)
  • Moria Paz (Israel)
  • Hengameh Saberi (Iran)
  • Hila Shamir (Israel)