Of Trustees and Offsprings: A Diasporic Trail of Parsi “Crisis” from Bombay to Hong Kong

This thesis examines the discourse(s) of crisis in the Parsi diaspora. Treating crisis as a common variable, rather than a singular and unique event across various Parsi communities, I investigate the dimensions of crisis that bind separated Parsi communities in anxiety through a shared language, cultural experience, and historical memory. Turning first to India and then Hong Kong as my case studies, I analyze “crisis,” that has often been identified in terms of demographic decay or postcolonial decline, in the context of more subtle debates around racial purity and trust funds. Crisis, for the Parsi diaspora, while indicating a critical moment in the present, also serves to reveal the underlying and pre-existing socio-economic and cultural tensions in the communities. Relying largely on life-story interviews, online blogs and articles, and archival work, I portray the crisis not as a unique and sporadic event, but rather as one of continuity and complexity, albeit manifesting each time in different and unique guises, that continues to disrupt as well as unite the Parsi diaspora today.

1977 Board of Trustees

Pictured here from left to right are: T. Breithaupt, Marianne Stevens, J. Miller, T. Briant, M. Van Neirpt, C. McMillan, D. Townson, R. Bannister, E. Marsh, T. Varcoe, A. Earp, A. Chown, R. Nairn, W. Jolly, M. Miller, and C. Shaver.

2004-05 Board of Trustees

The 2004-2005 Board of Trustees. Pictured here from left to right are: Front Row - Val Fleming; Dr. Patricia Teal; Wendy Staff; Dr. Norris Walker, Chair; Dr. David Atkinson, President and Vice Chancellor; Dr. Val Jaeger; Donna Scott; and Steven Lalinovich. Middle Row - Mike Farrell, Secretary to the University; Rudi Kroeker; Brandon Larry, President, Brock University Students' Union; Dr. Terry Boak, Vice-President, Academic and Provost; Mitzi Banders; Geeta Powell; Dr. Sid Segalowitz; Tom Gauld; Karin Jahnke-Haslam; and Dr. Mohammed Dore. Back Row - David Edwards, Immediate Past Chair; Bruce Wormald; Willy Heldbuechel, Vice-Chair; Brad Clarke; David Howes, Vice-Chair; Mark Steinman; Peter Partridge; Michael Sidenberg; Angelo Nitsopoulos; Steven Pillar, Vice President, Finance and Administration; Ron Dubien, Chief Information Officer. Absent from photo - Dr. Raymond Moriyama, Chancellor; Eleanor Ross; Jagoda Pike; Dr. Mary Frances Richardson; and Nick Brown.

Board of Trustees

Left to Right in clockwise fashion (Seated) B.P.R. Newman, C. Bruce Hill, Alan J. Earp (Provost), I.D. Buchanan, W.J. Marshall, Patrick Beard, H.C. Blenkhorn, H.W.M. Smith, Dr. James A. Gibson (President), D.W. Lathrop (69/70 chairman), E.R. Davey (68/69 chairman), Dr. C.A. Sankey (Chancellor), E.E. Mitchelson (Secretary), Dan Biggar, Mrs. J.J. Bench, M.L. Stwart, W.D. Chisholm, W.A. Thomas Left to Right (Standing) R.M. Schmon (Vice Chairman 69/70), E.S. Howard (Vice Chairman 69/70), S.S. MacInnes, QC (Vice Chairman 69/70)

1977 Board of Trustees Session

Pictured here from left to right are: Dr. M Millar, Dr. C Shaver, Mr. O Loberg.

1977 Board of Trustees Session

Pictured here from left to right are: R. Nairn, W. Jolly, M. Miller, C. Shaver, C. Slemon, O. Loberg, W. Thompson.

1977 Board of Trustees Session

Pictured here from left to right are: W. Thompson, M. Williams, M. Stevens, C. McMillan.

1977 Board of Trustees Session

Pictured here from left to right are: Chairman, Mac Chown, Mr. R. Nairn, Dr. W. Jolly.

Chapman College Alumni Trustees pose for a portrait on the campus in Orange, California

Chapman College Alumni Trustees pose for a portrait on the campus in Orange, California in the late 1980s. Left to right: James Roosevelt, A. Andrew Johnson, George Argyros, Harmon Wilkinson, Irvin C. Chapman and Myron Cole.

Agents, Trustees, and International Courts: Nomination and Appointment of Judicial Candidates in the WTO Appellate Body

Scholars have increasingly theorized, and debated, the decision by states to create and delegate authority to international courts, as well as the subsequent autonomy and behavior of those courts, with principal–agent and trusteeship models disagreeing on the nature and extent of states’ influence on international judges. This article formulates and tests a set of principal–agent hypotheses about the ways in which, and the conditions under which, member states are able use their powers of judicial nomination and appointment to influence the endogenous preferences of international judges. The empirical analysis surveys the record of all judicial appointments to the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization over a 15-year period. We present a view of an AB appointment process that, far from representing a pure search for expertise, is deeply politicized and offers member-state principals opportunities to influence AB members ex ante and possibly ex post. We further demonstrate that the AB nomination process has become progressively more politicized over time as member states, responding to earlier and controversial AB decisions, became far more concerned about judicial activism and more interested in the substantive opinions of AB candidates, systematically championing candidates whose views on key issues most closely approached their own, and opposing candidates perceived to be activist or biased against their substantive preferences. Although specific to the WTO, our theory and findings have implications for the judicial politics of a large variety of global and regional international courts and tribunals.

Address of the Trustees of a London Charity School to the Parent of a proposed scholar, 1776 June 24

This two-and-a-half-page handwritten document contains a copy of a set of rules for a parent of a school identified as "Saint Mary Rotherhith United Society."

Memorial to the Trustees of the Pemberton Fund, 1826 April 19

Draft of a letter accompanied by two copies of a statement of money received from the Pemberton Fund.

Annual report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the year ... / Field Museum of Natural History

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