Corruption (1998-1999)

Man in suit with woman's hand reaching to take banknotes

During the academic year 1998/99, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the problem of corruption.

Topics Included:

  • Cultures of corruption
  • Commerce, empires, and corruption
  • Anti-corruption campaigns
  • Perceptions of public corruption
  • Legitimacy and trustworthiness
  • Police and corruption
  • Testimony
  • Scientific fraud

Davis Center Fellows

  • Yemi Akinseye-George, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Virginie Coulloudon, Harvard University
  • Gabriella Etmektsoglou, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
  • Robert Gregg, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  • Vinod Pavarala, University of Hyderabad
  • David Witwer, Lycoming College

Shelby Cullom Davis Center Volume

Corrupt Histories Edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan

Corrupt Histories

Edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan
Copyright 2004 University of Rochester Press