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Class Notes are brief announcements about alumni's various accomplishments and news such as awards, new positions, new books, etc. Please keep us up to date on what you are doing!

Csaba Békés,
Class of 1992

The Cold World History Research Center (CWHRC) Director Csaba Békés has been awarded a “For the University Medal” from Corvinus University of Budapest. Békés is a former research fellow for the Cold War International History Project.

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Carole Fink,
Class of 1990

West Germany and Israel: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974 is an upcoming book authored by Carole Fink, who was a guest scholar at the Wilson Center in 1990. 

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Michael Dobbs,
Class of 2010

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between is a book written by Michael Dobbs, who was a short-term scholar with the Kennan Institute and the History and Public Policy Program in 2010. 

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Ivan Pavlov,
Class of 2003

The Human Rights Watch recently awarded the 2018 Alison Des Forges Award to Ivan Pavlov, who is a former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution with the Kennan Institute.

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Michael J. Geary,
Class of 2013

Current Global Fellow and former Fellow Michael J. Geary was appointed Associate Professor of Modern History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in early January of 2018.

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Fernando Reinares,
Class of 2015

Former Global Fellow and Public Policy Scholar Fernando Reinares's book Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings was recently reviewed in the January/February 2018 issue of

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