Mar 17, 2025
Kathleen Powers researches foreign policy, public opinion, and international security using theories and concepts from psychology. Much of her work examines how nationalism and values shape foreign policy public opinion. She also conducts research about motives in international conflict. At Dartmouth, Powers teach courses on international relations, political psychology, and foreign policy public opinion.
Her book, Nationalisms in International Politics, was published by Princeton University Press and received the International Political Psychology’s 2023 David O. Sears award for the best book on the psychology of mass politics. Powers’ research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, and the State of Nationalism: An International Review. She received her PhD from Ohio State University. Before joining Dartmouth’s Government department, Powers held a fellowship at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and taught at the University of Georgia.
Feb 11, 2025
Udi Greenberg studies and teaches modern European history. His scholarship and teaching focus especially on the history of ideas, politics, and gender and sexuality. His work has been supported, among others, by the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the DAAD. At Dartmouth, he teaches a wide variety of classes on modern European and international history. In 2016, he was elected by the senior class as Dartmouth’s best professor, and was awarded the Jerome Goldstein Award, Dartmouth’s top teaching prize.
Greenberg’s first book, The Weimar Century: German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2015), traces the intellectual, institutional, and political journey of five influential political theorists from their education in Weimar Germany to their participation in the formation of the Cold War. His second book, The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s (Harvard University Press, 2025) focuses on the intersection of religion, politics, gender, and imperialism. Together with Giuliana Chamedes (UW-Madison), he is also co-writing a book, which is tentatively called Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe (under advance contract with Princeton Univesity Press). His articles (mostly related to these book projects) have appeared in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Contemporary European History, and Journal of Contemproary History, among others. He has also published several essays on politics, religion, and history in The Nation, The New Republic, Dissent, Boston Review, L.A. Review of Books, n+1 and elsewhere (links to a few recent examples are available below). Together with Elizabeth Foster (Tufts University) he is the co-editor of the essay collection Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity (UPenn Press, 2023). He is also editorial board member of Modern Intellectual History, and was editorial board member of the Journal of Modern History (2020-2023).
Feb 11, 2025
Stuart Finkel joined the Department of East European, Eurasian, & Russian Studies in 2018, after having taught for a number of years in the History Department at the University of Florida; he was not entirely new to Dartmouth, having previously taught as a visitor including courses on the Russian Revolution, Soviet history and culture, and the history of human rights. He is currently working on a multi-volume project surveying the long, complex history of aid to political prisoners & exiles in Russia and the Soviet Union, critically engaging with the burgeoning scholarship on the origins and genesis of international humanitarianism & human rights. The first book, Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024), which details the origins of “political philanthropy” in the late nineteenth century, will be available in spring/summer 2024 (e-book available in May, print edition in July). The second volume in the larger project, tentatively entitled Defending the Enemy: The Political Red Cross and Aid to Soviet Political Prisoners, will provide a detailed examination of the so-called “Political Red Cross,” led by Ekaterina Peshkova, which lobbied on behalf of political prisoners and exiles from 1918 to 1937.
Feb 11, 2025
Stefan Link specializes in the history of global political economy and the intellectual history of capitalism. His book, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order, came out with Princeton UP in 2020. The book explores how the 20th-century automobile industry took shape as activist states confronted America, competed over industrial development, and clashed over the terms of globalization. It also talks about the ideological origins of mass production in Midwestern Populism, the Soviet context of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, and how the Nazi state harnessed American corporations to its purposes.
In current research I ask how the Great Depression, understood as a global crisis, shaped the history of globalization, and how the economic history of the United States looks from the perspective of state-led development. He continues to be interested in how social theory, politics, and ideology might be leveraged for understanding business history.
Feb 11, 2025
Robert Staiger is an economist specializing in the study of international trade policy rules and institutions, with particular emphasis on the economics of the GATT/WTO. His research has been published in a variety of academic journals, and in a book, The Economics of the World Trading System, co-authored with Kyle Bagwell and published by MIT Press (2002). In the Fall of 2016, Staiger gave the Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics, which led to a second book, A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century, published by MIT Press in its Ohlin Lecture series in December of 2022 and featured in Trade Talks Episode 180 and in a “Meet the Author” session at the WTO Public Forum 2023. He also served as Editor, with Kyle Bagwell, of The Handbook of Commercial Policy, published by Elsevier in December 2016.
Staiger received his A.B. from Williams College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1985. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford from 1985 through 1991 and promoted to tenure in 1991. In 1993, he joined the Economics Department at Wisconsin, where he remained until returning to Stanford in 2006. In 2011, Staiger rejoined the Economics Department at Wisconsin, before joining the Economics Department at Dartmouth in the Fall of 2014. He is also an affiliated faculty member of Dartmouth’s Globalization Cluster.
Staiger was a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution (1988-89), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1990-92), a Senior Staff Economist at CEA (1991-92) and a CASBS Fellow at Stanford (1996-97 and 2020-21). He was a Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics from 1995 to 2010 and served as Editor (with Charles Engel) from 2010 through 2017; he was a Reporter for the American Law Institute in its study of Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization (2002-12); and he has served on the selection panel for the WTO’s Award for Young Economists since 2009. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 2008).
