Wilson Center Experts
Johanna Bockman
Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, East European Stu
European Studies
Expertise:
Europe
Affiliation:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, MA
Wilson Center Project(s):
Constructing Markets and Democracy: Economists, Scientific Knowledge, and Politics in Hungary, 1945-2000
Term:
Dec 01, 2001
Mar 01, 2002
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