Oxford Visitors to Cornell
Owen Darbishire is the Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Scholar & Rhodes Trust University Lecturer in Management Studies, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. His research focuses on how labour markets, employment patterns and work are changing in countries such as Germany, the United States and Great Britain. In examining how corporations respond to such pressures as new technology, increased competition and the deregulation of markets, the research explores the influence of national systems of corporate governance and industrial relations. A particular focus has been comparative research in the telecommunications and automobile industries. Professor Darbishire visited Cornell March 22 – 28, 2008 and met with many students and faculty throughout the week. At 4:30pm on Tuesday, March 25th, he gave a public lecture at the A.D. White House on "The Emergence of an Anglo-Saxon Model? Convergence in Industrial Relations Institutions."
Edwin Williamson is the King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College. He has previously held the Forbes Chair of Hispanic Studies at Edinburgh University and academic posts at Trinity College, Dublin, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been visiting professor at Stanford University, California, and at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and a Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1995-96. In 2002 he was appointed "Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica" for services to Hispanism in the United Kingdom. His research and publications reflect his interests in both Latin America and the Golden Age of Spain. A historian as well as a literary scholar, his books include The Half-Way House of Fiction: "Don Quixote" and Arthurian Romance (Oxford University Press, 1984), Cervantes and the Modernists (Tamesis, 1991), The Penguin History of Latin America (1992), and Borges: A Life (Viking, 2004), which is being translated into six languages. He is currently leading a series of seminars on "Authority and Power in the Golden Age of Spain" with researchers from Oxford, Munster (Germany) and Navarra (Spain). Professor Williamson visited Cornell November 12 – 18, 2006, which coincided with International Education Week. He gave a public lecture on "The Politics of Comedy in Don Quixote: Four Crises in the Development of the Narrative" on November 14th.
Walter Mattli is the Fellow in Politics at St. John's College and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Geneva and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1995 until 2004 he taught at Columbia University in New York where he was Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the author of The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He has published articles on European legal integration, comparative regional integration, international commercial dispute resolution, and globalization and international governance. His new book project is titled "The Political Economy of International Standards Setting." Smaller projects concern transatlantic relations and EU enlargement. He has been a Forum Fellow as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Fellow at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, and a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies) in Berlin. In 1995, he was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association and in 2003 the JP Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics of the American Academy in Berlin. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked in international banking. He visited Cornell from April 7 – 14, 2006 and gave a public lecture on Global Rule-Making Battles: The Case of Product Standards.