Two Cornell faculty members have been selected as Woodrow Wilson Fellows.

Lourdes Bener’a, professor of city and regional planning and of women's studies and director of the Latin American Studies Program, and Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies and Comparative Politics, are among 34 individuals chosen from more than 600 candidates to serve as Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., for the 1997-98 academic year.

Bener’a's research project is titled "Towards Human Development: Gender and the Global Economy." Her academic research interests have focused on issues related to women and development in the Third World. She has authored several books, including The Sexual Division of Labor Rural Societies (Prager, 1982) and The Crossroads of Class and Gender (University of Chicago, 1987). In 1992, she traveled to China as a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations to conduct a survey on social and economic conditions. Bener’a joined the Cornell faculty in 1986.

Katzenstein's research project is titled "Globalism and Regionalism: Japan and Asia, Germany and Europe." A former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Katzenstein is the author of several books dealing with industrialized nations. His book Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1985) won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Katzenstein joined the Cornell faculty in 1973.

Created by Congress in 1968 as the nation's official memorial to its 28th president, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars seeks to commemorate both the scholarly depth and the public concerns of Woodrow Wilson through scholarship at the most advanced level. By bringing fellows from around the world to Washington, D.C., encouraging discourse among academic disciplines and policy professions and publishing the results of these activities, the center aims to enrich the quality of knowledge and debate in the nation's capital.