Scholars
Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...
Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Linda Kirschke (Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2010), works on armed conflict during periods of regime change. Her manuscript, Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence During Democratization, draws on a large-N study of 68 multiparty transitions and fieldwork in Serbia and Romania. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies and The Journal of Modern African Stu...
Adjunct faculty of the Central European University.
George Kopits is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC). Between 2009 and 2011 — elected unanimously by Parliament — he served as chairman of the Fiscal Council, Republic of Hungary. During 2004-09, he was a member of the Monetary Council, National Bank of Hungary.Kopits began his professional career in 1968-74 at the Office of the Secretary, U.S....
1 July 2012, he begins a joint appointment at the University of Virginia as ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Department of History and Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Dr. Piotr H. Kosicki specializes in the transnational history of 20th-century Europe, focusing particularly on religion, politics, and the history of ideas. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University for his work on state socialism’s reshaping of Catholicism in 20th-century Poland and France. Currently under preparation is his book entitled Between Catechism and Revolution: Catholic Eu...
PhD Candidate, Dept of Political Science, Boston University
Erzen Oncel is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at Boston University. She received her BA degrees in History and International Relations & Political Science from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Her major field of study is Comparative Politics with a special interest in political elite, descriptive representation, and ethnic politics in the Middle East. From September 2008...
A sociologist who is currently on the faculty of the Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina
Dr. Susan C. Pearce research concerns the relationships between culture and politics, with a focus on marginalized groups. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York; her dissertation consisted of a participant observation of the movement to protect the colonial-era New York African Burial Ground.Susan has been on the faculties of so...
Former Associate Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Director of the West European Studies Program
Samuel F. Wells has taught at Wellesley College, and for thirteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the Wilson Center he founded the International Security Studies Program in 1977 and directed that program until 1985. Since then he has served as Associate Director and Deputy Director of the Center while also serving as Director of West European Stud...
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Croft Institute
for International Studies, The University of Mississippi
During my M.A. studies at the University of Denver, I developed an interest in the role of Islamic movements in civil society and socio-political development of Middle Eastern countries. This interest grew into pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at Boston University, where my dissertation fieldwork focused on comparing Turkish Islamic communities in Germany and the Netherlands. I continued...
