New Faculty Profiles Fall 2009

CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS

Jennifer Trahan

An expert in international law and human rights, Jennifer Trahan joins the Center for Global Affairs (CGA) as clinical professor and will teach courses focused on international criminal law and tribunals, war crimes, and human rights issues and law, among other topics within the M.S. in Global Affairs program. Trahan previously taught part-time at the Center and at such institutions as Columbia University, Salzburg Law School (Austria), and Fordham University School of Law.

Trahan has written numerous law review articles on genocide and war crimes. She also has authored two major books—and is writing a third—on the case law of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. An experienced attorney, Trahan was a litigation associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel from 1990 to 2000, and has been counsel to the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch for the last decade.

Trahan earned a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, an LL.M. (with a concentration in International Law) from Columbia Law School, and an A.B. from Amherst College.

Everett E. Myers

Everett E. Myers joins CGA as clinical assistant professor and will teach graduate courses in the areas of international business and finance. An experienced entrepreneur and banker, Myers has taught part-time at NYU-SCPS as well as at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Berkeley College, where he served as chair of the network management curriculum.

Myers’s long career in the private sector includes founding partner of Fulcrum International Partners, an investment banking firm based in New York and Tokyo; country manager for PaineWebber in Japan; and director of the Japan Desk in the global leasing group at the former Chase Investment Bank.

Myers has an M.B.A. in finance and a B.S. in management and economics, both from St. John’s University. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in business education at the NYU Steinhardt School for Culture, Education, and Human Development.

PAUL MCGHEE DIVISION

Kofi Afriyie

Kofi Afriyie joins the Paul McGhee Division as clinical associate professor of business studies and curriculum coordinator of the Leadership and Management Studies department. Previously, he was an associate professor at Kean University.

Afriyie’s research centers on emerging markets and patterns of foreign direct investment, with particular emphasis on sustainable management and development and host-country relations with multinationals. His research has been published in academic journals, books, and proceedings of major academic conferences.

A member of several scholarly organizations, Afriyie was vice chair of the northeast U.S. chapter of the Academy of International Business from 2003–2006. He has also taught in the Rutgers International Executive M.B.A. programs in Beijing and Shanghai, China, and in Singapore; at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et de Management in Tours, France; and was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Afriyie holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Anderson School, and a B.Sc. from the University of Ghana.

Lisa DiCaprio

Lisa DiCaprio is the new associate director of curriculum and clinical associate professor of social sciences at McGhee. She teaches courses on the history and politics of modern Europe.

Prior to her appointment at NYU-SCPS, DiCaprio held faculty positions at Smith College, the City University of New York (CUNY), Washington and Lee University, and Boston College. She has taught courses on modern Europe, European women’s history, the historical development of human rights and international justice, and the politics of memory. She is the director of the photographic exhibit project, “The Betrayal of Srebrenica: The Ten-Year Commemoration."

DiCaprio is the author of The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution (University of Illinois Press, 2007), the first study to examine women and the welfare state in its formative period when modern concepts of human rights were elaborated. She is also co-editor, with Merry E. Wiesner, of Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women’s History (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001).

DiCaprio holds a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. Among her honors is the American Historical Association Coordinating Council for Women in History 2002 Catherine Prelinger Award.

Pierre Lacour

Pierre Lacour has been appointed clinical assistant professor of economics and, as the new coordinator of the economics concentration, will oversee the entire economics curriculum in the Paul McGhee Division. He will teach Introduction to Macroeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics.

Lacour’s significant teaching record, as well as his advising and administrative experience, includes positions at Drew University, St. Francis College, and Kean University. Before joining NYU-SCPS, Lacour was an assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz (2006–2009).

A specialist in experimental economics, microeconomic theory, and history of economic thought, Lacour’s research centers on such topics as choice theory; the economics of happiness and well-being psychology; and trust, reciprocity, and decision-making in experimental settings.

Lacour obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the New School in 2004. His doctoral dissertation, “Mimetic Desire in Theory of Value: The Way out of Hedonic Dead Ends,” was published by VDM (Verlag Dr. Müller) in August 2009. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Université de Paris.