Scholars
Lecturer, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Michael J. Geary (Irish) is Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Maastricht University in The Netherlands where his teaching and research focuses on Modern Europe and the European Union. A First Class Honours graduate (summa cum laude) of the National University of Ireland, he holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In January 2012, he was awarded a European Parliament-...
Senior Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
Konrad Jarausch has been the author or editor for about 40 books on European and German History in the last two centuries.
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. King is the author or editor of six books, including Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (Norton, 2011), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford, 2008),...
Member, Public Finance Council, Portugal;
Visiting professor, Central European University
George Kopits is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where his primary research interest is the Euro debt crisis. He is also a member of Portugal’s Public Finance Council and a member of the Commission on Strengthening the Macro-Fiscal Framework in Peru.From 2009 to 2011, Kopits served as the first chair of the Fiscal Council in Hungary—elected una...
ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer in History, and Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia
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: Catho...
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Professor Lampe has proceeded with two current book projects. One, with Emeritus Professor Lenard Cohen, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada, Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans: From Postconflict Struggles Toward European Integration, was published in October 2011 by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The John Hopkins University Press....
Professor of Sociology, Goethe University
As a Sociology professor and chair of Women and Gender Studies at Goethe University, Helma Lutz has been the initiator and advisor of numerous gender and diversity activities at her school. She is associate executive director of the Cornelia Goethe Center of Women’s and Gender Studies at Goethe University. She is also the director of ‘IPP Transnational’, a program for the interna...
Assistant Professor of Sociology, East Carolina University
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...
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
A professor with expertise in the Balkans and Turkey, Dr. Frances Trix has been working in Turkey since the 1970s, and in Kosovo since the late 1980s. Fluent in Turkish, Albanian, and colloquial Arabic, Dr. Trix has specialized in Muslim communities: Muslim immigrant communities in North America, Muslims in Kosovo and Macedonia, and Balkan Muslim immigrants in Turkey. Frances lived in Kosovo when...