Faculty and Staff

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Michelle Murray

BA, MA, PhD, University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, University of Chicago (2007–10); Deans Fellow in International Security and US Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (2014–15). Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2006–07), Smith Richardson Foundation Summer Research Grant (2004/2006). Teaching and research interests include international relations theory; security studies; the politics of recognition among states; international history, especially pre–World War I Europe; and global governance and international organization. Her current research focuses on how the desire for status recognition shapes the military strategies of rising great powers, with a particular focus on American, British, and German naval strategy before World War I. This work has appeared in the journals Security Studies and Global Discourse, and as chapters in edited volumes. She presents regularly at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and International Studies Association. At Bard since 2010.

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Elmira Bayrasli

Elmira Bayrasli joined BGIA in 2016 as an adjunct lecturer, teaching Foreign Policy in the Time of the Internet. She is the cofounder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and the host of the Project Syndicate podcast Opinion Has It. She is the author of From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places, a book that looks at the rise of entrepreneurship globally. Elmira has lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she was the chief spokesperson for the OSCE Mission from 2003 to 2005. From 1994 to 2000 she was a presidential appointee at the US State Department, working for Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrooke, respectively. Elmira provides analysis on foreign policy, particularly on Turkey, global entrepreneurship, and gender issues. Her work has appeared in Reuters, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, Quartz, Techcrunch, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Bayrasli sits on several boards, including Invest2Innovate, Turkish Women's International Network, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, and Our Secure Future.

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Thomas Fetzer

Thomas Fetzer received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Department of History and Civilization) in 2005. Before joining CEU, Thomas held post-doctoral research and teaching positions at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne (2006), the London School of Economics (2007-2008) and the University of Warwick (2009). His current research interests are primarily related to the role of ideas in the international political economy, with a specific focus on (economic) nationalism, as well as the impact of economic globalization on socioeconomic inequality and processes of collective interest formation. In a recent project, Thomas has also explored the emergence of various notions of 'economic Europeannness'. Beyond his own research, Thomas is interested in a number of other fields, including the comparative political economy of labor and industrial relations, EU social policy and the European social model, the history and contemporary development of multinational firms, the politics of consumption, as well as the broader area of contemporary European and transnational history, in particular with regard to issues of collective memory and identity. He also has a strong interest in the methodological debates about the relationship between history and the social sciences.

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Amanda Hutson

Amanda Hutson oversees graduate programs for the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program. She received her BA in International Studies and History from Emory University, focusing on Western European politics and history. Amanda spent a semester at University College London studying British history, and used that experience to develop an honors thesis on Scottish national identity. She then received a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Georgia, specializing in nonprofit administration. Before joining BGIA, Amanda worked for the City of Savannah for several years, and most recently as the Academic Degree Program Coordinator for the Political Science Department at Emory University in Atlanta.