Karol Berger (Ph.D. Yale 1975) is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Emeritus at the Department of Music, as well as an affiliated faculty at the Department of German Studies, and an affiliated researcher at the Europe Center.  A native of Poland, he has lived in the U.S. since 1968 and taught at Stanford since 1982.  He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center, and Stanford Humanities Center.  In 2011-12 he has been the EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.  In 2005-2006, he was the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.  He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow), and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.  His Musica Ficta received the 1988 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, his Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow the 2008 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America, and his Beyond Reason the 2018 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society.  In 2011 he received the Glarean Prize from the Swiss Musicological Society and in 2014 the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Selected publications:

• Musica Ficta:  Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto da Padova to Gioseffo Zarlino (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; paperback 2004).
• A Theory of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback 2002; also available in the Oxford Scholarship Online philosophy series). Polish translation: Potega smaku. Teoria sztuki, trans. Anna Tenczynska (Gdansk: slowo/obraz terytoria, 2008).
• Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow:  An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007; paperback 2008). 
• Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche (Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press, 2017).

Martin Connor is presently a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.  These fellowships are delivered by the Commonwealth Fund and support mid-career physicians and health service managers and researchers to study in the US.  During his time at CHP/PCOR Martin will be studying integrated care and its potential to contribute to the delivery system aspects of Health Reform as well as maintaining long standing interests in policy developments in the UK and developments in physician leadership and accountability.

Prior to starting the fellowship, Martin was Director of the Trafford Integrated Care Organisation Programme in the UK NHS, as the follow on to his role as Deputy Chief Executive at Trafford PCT in Manchester, England.

Before this, he worked from 2005-08 as special policy adviser to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, leading the development of national policy at Permanent Secretary and ministerial level.  He went on to lead the reform programme and established the Service Delivery Unit in Northern Ireland.  This transformed waiting times for elective assessment and treatment, increased the involvement of clinical professionals in decision making and the developed a novel, high frequency, patient level information base to support strategic decision making.

Between 2002 - 2005, he was Associate Director (Health Reform) for the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority.  He co-authored the strategy for GMSHA, which led to the area moving from 'special measures' to 'high performing' within 2 years.  This strategy included the first health authority-wide demand management system in the NHS that was commended by the Audit Commission.

In his twenties, he studied classical and linguistic philosophy following the award of a studentship from Durham University where he received his doctorate in 2001.  He joined the NHS on the graduate management training programme in 1999.

Awudu Abdulai, chair of food economics at the University of Kiel, Germany, was FSE's Cargill visiting scholar from October 2010 - March 2011. While at Stanford he pursued three research themes. The first looked at how farmers risk preferences influence their decisions to adopt water conservation technologies and how that impacts farm productivity. The second examined how social capital, property rights and tenure duration affect farmers' investment decisions on sustainable management practices. The third involved an analysis of the welfare impacts of cultivating export crops in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Kiel, Professor Abdulai taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) and also held visiting positions at the Departments of Economics at Yale University and Iowa State University, as well as the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. Abdulai is originally from Ghana and his fields of interests span development economics, consumer economics and industrial organization.

Susanna Rabow-Edling is a research fellow at the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. She received her PhD from Stockholm University and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Cornell University before taking up a position at the department for East European Studies at Uppsala. She is the author of Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism (SUNY Press, 2006) as well as several articles about cultural and civic aspects of Russian nationalism.

Her main research interests are: Russian political thought, nationalism, imperialism (especially the civilizing mission), identity issues, and gender studies.

 Susanna is currently working on a book project about three governor’s wives, who accompanied their husbands to Russian Alaska and lived there in the period between 1829 and 1864. She is interested in how they tried to fulfill sometimes conflicting roles as wives, mothers, and representatives of empire in this distant colony and how contemporary notions of womanhood affected them.