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Senior Scholars

The Wilson Center is honored to host the following distinguished individuals. Some are in residence at the Center. Scholars are listed below with their term at the Center. Some scholars have provided more detailed information.

Bahman Amini (September 2004 - August 2010)



Sandy Apgar (March 2008 - January 2010)

Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
Project: Project on Privatization and Partnerships


Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (November 2009 - September 2010)

Professor of History at Georgetown University and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Project: "The International Repercussions of America's Decline"


Leslie Bethell (November 2009 - May 2012)

Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford; and Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro
Project: "Brazil in the Regional and Global Order in Historical Perspective"


David Birenbaum (March 2003 - February 2011)

Of Counsel Resident, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson; Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN for UN Management and Reform
Project: A Study of UN Reform


Mary Brown Bullock (September 2006 - January 2011)

President Emerita, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia
Project: "American Science and Medicine in China: A Century of Rockefeller Philanthropy"


Shahid Javed Burki (May 2008 - April 2010)

Chairman, Advisory Council, Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan


Skip Burkle (June 2008 - August 2010)

Professor; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Project: "Ground Truth: Infulence of Politics on Health"


Marie-Therese Connolly (August 2007 - July 2010)

Coordinator, Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative US Department of Justice; Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division
Project: “No Place for Sissies: The Silent Scandal of Elder Abuse and Neglect in an Aging America”


Zdenek David (February 2002 - January 2010)



Murray Feshbach (October 2002 - September 2010)

Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
Project: "Policy Implications of Population, Health, and Environment Trends in Russia"


Jo Freeman (July 2006 - June 2010)

Independent Scholar
Project: "The Woman Who Ran for President"


Alan Goulty (March 2009 - February 2011)

Project: "Peacemaking in Sudan"


Bruce Hoffman (January 2006 - January 2011)

Professor, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University


A. Ross Johnson (October 2006 - October 2010)

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Adviser to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Project,Hoover Archives; Member of the Board of Directors of the Freedom Broadcasting Foundation (Washington) and the Institute of Transnational Studies (Munich)
Project: "Role and Impact of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty(RFE/RL): Lessons from the Cold War"


Jan Kalicki (July 2006 - June 2010)

Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron Corporation; Former White House NIS Ombudsman and Counselor to U.S. Department of Commerce
Project: Policy Issues and Opportunities in Russia and the New Independent States


Linda Killian (May 2007 - August 2010)

Director, Washington Journalism Center; Director, Boston University Washington Internship Program and Washington Center
Project: "The Democrats: The People and Events Which Have Shaped the Modern Democratic Party"


John A. Koumoulides (January 2003 - December 2011)

Honorary Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professory of History, Ball State University
Project: "Greece and the Greek Diaspora: The Greek-American Community at the Dawn of the 21st Century; Religion + Nationalism in the Balkans"


William K. Krist (September 2002 - September 2010)

Senior Policy Scholar, Environmental Change and Security Program; Former Senior Vice President, American Electronics Association


Dennis Kux (September 2002 - September 2010)

Senior Policy Scholar, Asia Program; Former Foreign Service South Asia Specialist and U.S. Ambassador to the Ivory Coast


Michael J. Lacey (June 2003 - June 2010)



John Lampe (January 2006 - December 2009)

Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Project: "Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans: From Post-Conflict Struggles to European Integration"


Jeffrey Lehman (August 2005 - July 2010)

Former President, Cornell University
Project: "Multilateral Cooperation Among Transnational Research Universities"


Wilfred M. McClay (July 2004 - June 2010)

SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities; Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Project: Working on a book of essays about the humanities; conducting a biographical study of David Riesman


Andrew A.. Michta (September 2009 - August 2011)

M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College
Project: "Getting the Balance Right: NATO and Transatlantic Security Relations in the Next Decade"


William Milam (November 2002 - October 2010)

Ambassador to Pakistan (1998-2001); Ambassador to Bangladesh (1990-93); Chief of Mission in Liberia (1995-98); Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development (1985-90)
Project: Post-Musharraf Pakistan; Back to Square One in Bangladesh; The 1998 Attack on the U.S. Embassy in Liberia


William Green Miller (January 2003 - December 2010)

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine


James Morris (January 2006 - December 2009)



Joan M. Nelson (October 2002 - October 2010)

Scholar in Residence, School of International Service, American University
Project: "Democratic Politics and Social Service Reforms"


David Ottaway (December 2006 - December 2010)

Washington Post, retired
Project: "Remaking of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance: The Bandar Years and Beyond"


Joseph F. Pilat (July 2008 - June 2010)

Senior Advisor, National Security Office, LANL
Project: The History of Nonproliferation


Roger Porter (September 2002 - August 2010)



Walter Reich (September 2002 - August 2010)

Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


James Reston, Jr. (October 2002 - September 2010)

Author


John W. Sewell (September 2003 - August 2010)

Author; Former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC)
Project: "A New Realism: Globalization, Development and American National Interests"


Philippa Strum (September 2008 - August 2010)

Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Project: "We Always Tell Our Children They Are Americans": Mendez v. Westminster and the Fight to Desegregate Schools


Joseph S. Tulchin (January 2006 - December 2009)

Senior Scholar


Alexandra Vacroux (September 2006 - August 2010)

Independent Scholar
Project: "Inside the Black Box: What Failed Health Care Reforms Tell Us About the Russian State"


Shankar Vedantam (July 2008 - June 2010)

National Reporter and Columnist, Washington Post
Project: Creation of online social network


Martin Walker (August 2004 - July 2010)



Samuel Wells (October 2008 - September 2010)

Former Associate Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Director of the West European Studies Program
Project: "Escalation of the Cold War: The Impact of Korea"


Howard J. Wiarda (October 2002 - August 2010)

Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Head, Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia
Project: American Foreign Policy: Comparative Democracy, Development, and Civil Society


Stephen Younger (April 2004 - March 2010)

Author; Physicist; Former Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Former Senior Associate Director, National Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Project: “Future of Strategic Weapons and Deterrence”





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