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In the Spring of 2002, the International Studies Program welcomed the first McGill Fellow in International Studies to the campus. A generous gift from Patricia C. and Charles H. McGill III\u00a0(class of \u201963) enabled us to bring a fellow from around the planet to teach two courses, be in residence for a term and offer a public lecture. The fellows ranged from the award winning Indian journalist P. Sainath to the Iranian human-rights leader Nastaran Moosavi to the Cuban poet\/artist Pedro P\u00e9rez Sarduy. They enriched our program, and inspired and challenged our students.<\/p>\n

In 2008, we decided to rework the McGill Fellowship. No longer do we invite a distinguished fellow to spend a semester with us each year. Instead, we are able to have a McGill Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies on campus for a year (to teach three courses and deliver a lecture) and in the next to invite a prominent public personality to deliver the Patricia C. and Charles H. McGill III \u201963 Distinguished Lecture in International Studies at Trinity College.<\/p>\n

In the Spring of 2009, we held the first McGill Distinguished Lecture in International Studies. The Indian Ambassador to the United Nations, Nirupam Sen, delivered the lecture on February 9, 2009.\u00a0 This was followed by the first McGill Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies, Samanthi Gunawardana, who joined the Trinity faculty in 2009-2010.<\/p>\n

Since then, thanks to the continued support of the McGill family, we have continued the tradition of alternating a Distinguished Lecturer with a Visiting Assistant Professor, expanding both curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for our students and enlivening discussions about issues of global importance across campus. As of 2019, the McGill Fellowship is for two years.<\/p>\n

McGill Fellow, 2023-2026<\/h3>\n

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Giancarlo Rolando is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in the quotidian experience of Indigenous-settler relationships in Amazonia and the politics of identity, environmental conservation, and development. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the Mastanawa People of the Upper Purus River and written about their experience of the encompassing society through analysis of their quotidian interactions with their neighbors and narratives of their contact process. His current research examines the ways in which Indigenous Peoples of Peruvian Amazonia engage with and participate in development projects and environmental conservation initiatives that overlap with their ancestral territories. At Trinity, he teaches classes on contemporary Indigenous worlds and the making of the Global South.<\/p>\n

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McGill Fellow 2021-2023<\/h3>\n

\"\"Natassja B. Gunasena is the 2020- 2022 Patricia C. and Charles H. Mcgill III Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies. She holds a Ph.D in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin where her research focused on transnational Afro\/Asian public cultures and diasporic formations of race, gender and sexuality. In her research and teaching, Dr. Gunasena emphasizes the urgency of transnational analytics for grasping how raced and gendered violence, as well as resistance to such violence, circulates through diasporic bodies and diasporic praxis. She is currently working on a monograph entitled \u201cCobra Women: Race, Sexuality and Afro\/Asian Diasporic Formations\u201d that explores linkages between visual cultures, race science, nation building, and racialized, performing female bodies in the late 1800s to the mid-to-late 1900s. As an instructor, she is passionate about encouraging students to think transnationally, comparatively and critically about discourses on race, gender, militarism and imperialism. At Trinity, she teaches \u201cGlobal South,\u201d \u201cWar and the Asian Diaspora\u201d and \u201cQueer South Asian Identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McGill Fellow 2019-2021<\/h3>\n

\"\"Daniela F. Gomes da Silva is from S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil and is a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gomes has been using her work to connect people in the African Diaspora. The focus of her efforts is to build international bridges to fight against racism around the globe. She has developed several lectures and participated in conferences focusing on race relations in Brazil and other countries.\u00a0As an educator, Dr. Gomes believes that good teaching involves helping students to discover their path, how they want to construct a classroom environment that allows them to pursue their future. She designs her classes by thinking about strategies that will contribute to students\u2019 growth both personally and professionally. In addition, she values the concept of intersectionality and creates her classes under an interdisciplinary approach that welcomes students\u2019 particularities.<\/p>\n

McGill Distinguished Lecture, 2002-2025<\/h4>\n

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2025: Giancarlo Rolando
\nTopic: “Singing, Dancing, Feasting, and Dreaming: Indigenous Amazonian Lessons to (Hopefully) Postpone the End of the World”<\/a><\/p>\n

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2023: Natassja B. Gunasena
\nTopic:\u00a0 \u201cThe Specter of Blackness: Alexander Siddig, Tayeb Salih, and Queering Afro\/Arab Masculinities in the Black Atlantic\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

2021:Daniela Gomes
\nTopic \u201cDiaspora Circularities: How Hip Hop and Activism Made an Afro-Brazilian Scholar\u201d<\/p>\n

2018: Emily Mitchell-Eaton (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cWe are Here Because You Were There: The Imperial Migrations from the Marshall Islands to Arkansas<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2016: Anida Ali (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cTranscending the In Between: A lecture, performance and visual experience of hybridity, otherness and exiled bodies\u201d (read a news article about the performance<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2014: Anne-Marie Hanson (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: Political ecology, recycling, marine litter, environmental justice, urban sustainability, gender and global environmental change (read a news article about the lecture<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2012: Joaquin Chavez (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cRevolutionary Pedagogies: Catholic Intellectuals, The Second Vatican Council, and the Origins of the New Left in El Salvador, 1960-1975\u201d (read the media advisory<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2010: Samanthi Gunwardana (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: Questioning the Global Anti-Sweatshop movement<\/p>\n

2008: Thoko Ruzvideo
\nUnable to fulfill obligations<\/p>\n

2006: Augustine Hungwe
\nTopic: Human rights and international law<\/p>\n

2004: Pedro Perex-Sarduy
\nTopic: Afro Cuban race and identity<\/p>\n

2002: Palagummi Sainath
\nTopic: \u201cSo Near to God, So Far From Heaven; Reporting Rural India\u201d<\/p>\n

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robert D. Kaplan delivers the McGill Lecture on April 15, 2024 (Cloe Poisson \/ Special to Trinity College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2024: Robert D. Kaplan
\nTopic: “Geopolitics in 2024: Our World in Permanent Crisis”<\/p>\n

2022: Craig Whitlock (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: “Devoid of Fundamental Understanding of Afghanistan”<\/a> (full lecture)
\nLink to Media Coverage<\/a>
\nLink to Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

2019: Sisonke Msimang (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cWinnie and her husband: gender and global power iconography<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2017: Santiago Gamboa (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u2018The art of narration and travel writing: a Latin American Writer in India<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n

2015: Ambassador Liu Jieyi
\nTopic: \u201cChina and the United Nations<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2013: Sharif Abdel Koudous (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cEgypt: Is it a Revolution?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2011: L. Muthoni Wanyeki (view the photo gallery<\/a>)
\nTopic: \u201cKenya and its Democratic Presence<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2009: Ambassador Nirupam Sen
\nTopic: challenging UN\u2019s economic and political justice<\/p>\n

2007: Pratyoush Onta
\nTopic: \u201cCan NGOs generate knowledge? Reflections on the landscape of the knowledge enterprise\u201d<\/p>\n

2005: Nastaran Moosavi
\nTopic: \u201cRevisiting Secular Thoughts in Iran\u201d<\/p>\n

2003: Pavel Lion
\nTopic: Russian folk, performance, intellectual comedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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