Anne Pitcher, David Porter and Sueann Caulfield have been named fellows of the Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS).

Pitcher, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, has been named a CICS International Security and Development Fellow. Her current research focuses on the interaction of political and economic reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Pitcher analyzes how differences in party politics and the quality of democracy affected the process and outcome of privatization in transitional countries in that region. She will develop a course on business and politics in developing countries, and will give a public lecture.

Porter, associate professor of English language and literature, has been named a CICS Human Rights Fellow. His research interests include travel literature, aesthetics, 18th-century cultural history, China and the West, and Internet culture. He will teach a course on literature and human rights, and will deliver a public lecture on “From Paragon to Pariah: China and Enlightenment Ideals as part of the Human Rights fellowship.”

Caulfield, associate professor of history and the Residential College, has been awarded a CICS Human Rights Fellowship. She specializes in the history of modern Brazil, with emphasis on gender and sexuality. Caulfield has published a variety of works in both U.S. and Brazilian journals on the topic of gender and historiography, family, race and sexuality in Brazil. She will develop the course “Sexual Rights are Human Rights: International Law and Human Rights Law and its Application to Gender and Sexual Orientation”; and will deliver a public lecture.