Ekiert CV fall 2012 - Department of Government - Harvard University

GRZEGORZ EKIERT
Harvard University
ekiert@fas.harvard.edu
Center for European Studies fax: (617) 495-8509
27 Kirkland Street phone: (617) 495-4303
Cambridge, MA 02138 ext. 213
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Degrees
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1991
M.A. Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1987
M.A. Jagiellonian University, Poland, Department of Sociology, Summa Cum Laude, 1980
Academic and Senior Administrative Positions
2012 – Present Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard
University
2010 Acting Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2000 - 2006 Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University
2002 - Present Member of the Advisory Committee, Club of Madrid, Spain
1998 - Present Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University
1998 - Present Senior Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies,
Harvard University
1995 - Present Research Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
University.
1991 - Present Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
1990 - Present Resident Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University
1995 - 1998 Associate Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard
University
1991 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard
University
1980 - 1984 Lecturer in Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University,
Krakow, Poland
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Publications
Books and special editions of journals:
Editor of the special issue of Taiwan Journal of Democracy, A Liberal Challenge? Civil Society and
grass-roots Politics in New Democracies, Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes, Vol. 8,
December 2012 (co-editor Sunhyuk Kim)
Editor of the special issue of East European Politics and Societies, Democracy in Postcommunist
World, Vol. 21: 1, 2007
Editor of the special issue of East European Politics and Societies, The Next Great Transformation:
the EU Eastward Enlargment, Vol 17, No. 1 Winter 2003, (co-editor Jan Zielonka)
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist
Rule, (co-editor Stephen Hanson), Cambridge University Press 2003. Romanian translation
of the book published by Polirom in Bucuresti in 2010
Rebellious Civil Society. Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, (co-author Jan
Kubik, Rutgers University) University of Michigan Press 1999
The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe, Princeton
University Press 1996
Journal articles:
“Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 100 years On,” co-author Daniel Ziblatt, in: East
European Politics and Societies Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 88-105.
“The Illiberal Challenge in Post-Communist Europe: Surprises and Puzzles,” Taiwan Journal of
democracy, Vo. 8, No. 2, December 2012, pp.
“Prawidlowosci transformacji w Europie Wschodniej, Studia Sociologiczne, No. 1 (200), 2011,
pp. 501-526 (in Polish)
“Civil Society: From Myth to Reality,” co-author Roberto Foa, in: Civil Szemle, Spring 2011,
No, 1-2, pp. 90-119 (in Hungarian)
“The End of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Last Middle Class Revolution?”
in: Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 21, 2010, pp. 99-123
“Dilemmas of Europeanization: Eastern and Central Europe after the EU Enlargement, Acta
Slavica Iaponica 2008, vol. 25, pp. 1-28
“Democracy in Postcommunist World: An Unending Quest,” co-authors Jan Kubik and Milada
Anna Vachudova), East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 21: 1, 2007, pp. 1-24
“Party Politics: The Weak Link in Polish Democratic Consolidation, Pouvoirs, No. 118, 2006,
pp. 37-59 (in French)
“Introduction: Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing The EU’s Eastward
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Enlargement,” (co-author Jan Zielonka) East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 17, No. 1
(Winter 2003) pp. 3-19
"Europa orientale, il peso del passato: continuita' e cambiamento negli scenari regionali", in
Ventunesimo secolo, No. 2 (2002), pp. 117-139 (in Italian)
“Response to Mark Kramer,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Communist and Post-Communist Studies,
(2002), Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 220-228
“Models of Transformation in Eastern Europe,” in: Studia Sociologiczne, (2000) No. 3, pp. 11-41
(inPolish)
"Ten Years After: An Optimistic View," East European Politics and Societies (1999) Vol. 13, No. 2,
pp. 278-284
"Protest Politics in Post-Communist Poland: A Research Report," (co-author Jan Kubik),
Communist and Post-communist Studies (July 1998) 31, 2, pp. 91-117
"Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, the former East Germany, Poland and
Slovakia," (co-author Jan Kubik), World Politics (July 1998) 50, 4, pp. 547-581
"Protest Politics in Postcommunist East Central Europe," (co-author Jan Kubik), in Studia
Sociologiczne (1997) No. 4, pp. 21-59 (in Polish)
"Paradigmas de la transicion post-comunista en Europe del Este," Encuentro (1997) No. 6/7, pp.
127-141 (in Spanish)
"Rebellious Poles: Political Crises and Popular Protest under State Socialism, 1945-1989," East
European Politics and Societies (1997) Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 299-338
"Rebellious Poles (1968-89)," Periphery (1996) Vol. 2, No. ½, pp. 32-37
"Collective Protest as the Mode of Political Participation in Post-Communist Poland, 1989-1992,"
Studia Sociologiczne (1994) No. 2, pp. 5-31. (In Polish)
"Prospects and Dilemmas of the Transition to a Market Economy in East Central Europe," in:
Research on Democracy and Society (1993) Vol. 1, pp. 51-82.
"Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Analysis," in: Studia Polityczne
(1993) Vol. 5, No. 1-4, pp. 87-112. (In Polish)
"Peculiarities of Post-Communist Politics: The Case of Poland," in: Studies in Comparative
Communism (1992) Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 341-361
"The Return of the German Minority to Poland," in: German Politics and Society (Summer 1992)
No. 26, pp. 90-108
"Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Reconsideration," in: British
Journal of Political Science (1991), Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 285-313. Re-printed in: The
International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, edited by D. Arter, Volume
on Transitions to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives from Southern Europe, Latin
America and Eastern Europe edited by Geoffrey Pridham, Dartmouth Publishing Company
1995
"Transitions from State-Socialism in East Central Europe," in: States and Social Structures
Newsletter (Winter 1990) No. 12, pp. 1-7
"The Poles at the Polls: Voting Attitudes and Behavior in Cracow during the Local Election in
1984," (co-authors: Janusz Mucha, Tadeusz Borkowski), in: East European Quarterly (1986)
Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 359-375
"Voting Behavior and Motivation of Inhabitants of Podgorze District in Cracow," (co-authors: J.
Mucha, T. Borkowski), in: Studia Sociologiczne (1985), No. 2, pp. 213-227. (In Polish)
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"Collective Behavior and Social Change," in: Studia Sociologiczne (1983) No. 3, pp. 77-94 (In
Polish)
"Ruling Party in the Socialist Society," (co-author: Jacek Szmatka), in: Przeglad Sociologiczny
(1983). Accepted for publication by the editor but prohibited by the censorship. Published in
Solidarity's underground journal Documenty i Analizy (In Polish)
"Toward a New Framework for Analyzing Strikes," (co-author: Aleksander Marcinkowski), in:
Studia Sociologiczne (1983) No. 2, pp. 393-406 (In Polish)
"The Vision of Future Society in the Theoretical Structure of Marxism," in: Studia Sociologiczne
(1981) No. 2, pp. 5-22 (In Polish)
Book chapters:
“Civil Society as an Political Strategy and Analytical Approach to Social Transformation,”
forthcoming in: Handbook on Transformation Research edited by Raj Kollmorgen and
Wolfgang Merkel.
“Social Movements and Transitions to Democracy in Communist and Post-Communist East
Central Europe: Protest, Institutionalization and Accommodation, forthcoming in: Social
Movements in Times of Transition, edited by P.G. Klandermans.
“Dilemmas of Europeanisation: Eastern and Central Europe after the EU Enlargement,” in:
Democracy, State and Society. European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe”
edited by Magdalena Góra and Katarzyna Zielińska, Krakow: Jagiellonian University
Press, Krakow 2011, pp. 37-63.
“Protesty spoleczne w nowych demokracjach: Polska, Slowacja, Wegry i Niemcy Wschodnie,” (coauthor
Jan Kubik) in: Wielka transformacja zmiany ustroju w Polsce po 1989, edited by
Ireneusz Krzeminski, Warszawa: Losgraf 2011
“Strengthening Pluralism and Public Participation in New Democracies,” (co-author Anna
Grzymala-Busse), in: The Construction of Democracy, edited by Anthony Jones and Jorge
Dominguez, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. 20-45
“EU membership, consolidation, and quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, ” in
Stawanie sie Spoleczenstwa, Andrzej Flis, ed. Krakow: Universitas, 2006, pp. 267-91 (in
Polish)
“Time, Space and Institutional Change in Central and Eastern Europe” (co-author Stephen Hanson)
in: Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by G. Ekiert and S.
Hanson, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 15-48
“Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe,” in: Capitalism and
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by G. Ekiert and S. Hanson, 2003, pp. 89-
119
“The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective,” in: The Nation-State in
Question, edited by John Hall and John Ikenberry, Princeton University Press 2003, pp. 291-
320
“Strengthening of Political and Social Pluralism and of Political Parties,” Conference on Democratic
Transition and Consolidation, Madrid: Siddharth Mehta Ediciones 2002, pp. 107-122
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“Civil Society and Democratization in Poland. Forms of Organization and Types of Foreign
Assistance,” (co-author Jan Kubik), in: Democratic Consolidation. The International
Dimension, edited by Gerhard Mangott, Harald Waldrauch and Stephen Day, Baden-Baden:
Nomos (2000), pp. 257-92
"Political Parties and Party Systems," in: The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Wladyslaw
Kwasniewicz, Vol. 3, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa (2000), pp. 70 -76 (in Polish)
“Patterns of Postcommunist Transition in Eastern Europe,” in: Democracy in Central Europe, edited
by Justyna Miklaszewska, Krakow: Meritum (1999) pp. 13-40
"Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Democratic Consolidation" (co-author Jan Kubik) in: Acts
of Dissent. New Developments in the Study of Protest. edited by Dieter Rucht, Ruud
Koopmans and Friedhelm Neidhardt, Berlin: Sigma Press (1998) pp. 317-48. Also published
by Rowman and Littlefield in 1999
"Legacies of Struggle and Defeats" in: Transition to Democracy in Poland, edited by Richard F.
Staar, St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, (1998) pp. 15-47
"Poland," "Solidarity," "Liberum Veto," "Lech Walesa," in: The Encyclopedia of Democracy, edited
by Seymour M. Lipset, Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books 1996, pp. 947-53, 1158-
60, 1340-46, and 1359-60
"Aussichten und Dilemma des Ubergangs zur Marktwirtschaft in Ostmitteleuropa," in: Herbert
Matis and Dieter Stiefel (eds.) Der Weg aus der Knechtschaft, Wien: Ueberreuter 1992, pp.
77-121
"Kazimierz Kelles-Krauze; From Marxism to Sociology," in: Piotr Sztompka (ed.), Masters of
Polish Sociology, Cracow, Wroclaw & Warsaw: Ossolineum (1984) pp. 67-81 (In English)
Working papers and other publications:
“The Weakness of Post-Communist Civil Society Reassessed,” (co-author Roberto Foa) Center for
European Studies, Open Forum Series, September 2012
“Building Post-Communist Democracy: Poland’s Unlikely Success Story, “ (co-author George
Soroka), report for the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, forthcoming 2013
“Eastern Europe’s Postcommunist Transformations,” World Politics Review, Special Report
(worldpoliticsreview.com) 20 March 2012
“Civil Society Weakness in Post-Communist Europe: A Preliminary Assessment,” (co-author
Roberto Foa), Carlo Alberto Notebooks, Working Paper No. 198, Moncalieri (Turin), Italy,
2011
“Democracy in the Post Communist World: Unfinished Business.” Conference Report, the IV
General Assembly of the Club of Madrid (co-authors Jan Kubik and Milada Anna
Vachudova), 2006
“The Perils of Partnership,” (co-author Andrew Moravcsik), Newsweek, International Edition, May
10, 2004
“Demokratyczny zgryz,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Newsweek Polska, 12/22/2002, pp. 126-30
“The State after State Socialism,” IWM Working Papers, Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom
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Menschen, Vienna. Austria 2001
“Civil Society from Abroad: the Role of Foreign Assistance in the Democratization of Poland,” (coauthor
Jan Kubik), Working Paper Series, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University, No. 00-01, 2000
"Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Eastern Europe," Occasional Papers, East European
Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, No. 53, 1999
"Post-totalitarian Legacies, Civil Society and Democracy in Postcommunist Poland," (co-author Jan
Kubik), Working Paper Series, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, 1997
"Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, the former East Germany, Poland and
Slovakia," (co-author Jan Kubik), Program on Eastern and Central Europe Working Paper
Series, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, paper No. 41, 1997
"Instruction for Protest Event Analysis in Hungary and a Questionnaire for the Survey" (co-author
Jan Kubik), in: Uj Rendeszeti Tanulmanyok, Special Issue of Police Research Institute
Studies, edited by Peter Timoranszky, Budapest: Police Research Institute (1996) pp. 165-
186
"Collective Protest and Consolidation of Democracy in Poland, 1989-1993," (co-author Jan Kubik),
Pew Working Papers on Central and East European Reform, No. 3, 1996, Center of
International Studies, Princeton University
"Rebellious Poles: Cycles of Protest and Popular Mobilization Under State-Socialism, 1945-1989,"
Working Paper Series, Advanced Study Center, International Institute, University of
Michigan, 1995-96, No. 5
"Public Participation and Politics of Discontent in Post-Communist Poland, 1989-1992," Program on
Eastern and Central Europe Working Paper Series, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, paper No. 30, 1994
"Collective Identities and Collective Protest: Rebellions in the Soviet Concentration Camp System,"
Center for Research on Politics and Social Organization, Harvard University, Working Paper
Series, paper No. 0031, 1990
"Conditions of Political Obedience and Stability in State-Socialist Societies: The Inapplicability of
Weber's Concept of Legitimacy," Center for Research on Politics and Social Organization,
Harvard University, Working Papers Series, paper no. 0005, 1988
"Recent Elections in Poland and Hungary: The Coming Crisis of Ritualized Politics," Center for
Research on Politics and Social Organization, Harvard University, Working Papers Series,
paper no. 0014, 1988
Honors and Major Awards
2011 Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, conference grant
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2011 Harvard-Yenching Institute, conference grant
2011 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, research grant
2011 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
2010 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Visiting Fellow, Moncalieri, Italy
2009-2010 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
2007 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, conference grant
2007 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, faculty research grant
2007 Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, research grant for the project on the Logic of
Civil Society
2007 The 21 st Century COE Program Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan
2006 Faculty Research Support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University
2006 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
2005 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Taiwan, research grant for the project on the Logic
Civil Society (principal investigator)
2004 Korea Research Foundation, Seoul, Research grant for the project on the Logic of
Civil Society (co-principal investigator)
2004 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
2004 Faculty Research Support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University
2003 Korea Research Foundation, Seoul, Research grant for the project on civil society
(co-principal investigator)
2003 Faculty research grant, Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, Harvard
University
2002 Faculty research grant, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
2001 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Science Award for the book Rebellious Civil Society
awarded by the Polish Institute of Arts and Science of America.
2001-2002 Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute, Florence, Italy
2000 Faculty research support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University
2000 Orbis Book Prize for Rebellious Civil Society awarded by the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
2000 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
1997-1998 National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Research Grant
1997 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies,
Research Grant
1996 Biennial Prize for the Best Book in Polish Studies for the book The State Against
Society awarded by the Polish Studies Association
1995-1996 Sawyer Fellow, Advanced Study Center of the International Institute, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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1995-1996 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Grant.
1995 Opportunity Grant, Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for
European Studies, Harvard University
1994-1995 American Council of Learned Societies, Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1994-1996 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Research Grant
(Principal Investigator)
1994-1995 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, Research Grant (Principal Investigator)
1993-1994 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Grant
1993 Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, East European Program, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
1992-1993 Research Grant from the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center
for European Studies, Harvard University (Principal Investigator)
1988-1990 MacArthur Fellowship in International Security, Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University
1989 Krupp Foundation Fellowship in European Studies, Center for European Studies,
Harvard University
1984-1988 Graduate Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Research and Teaching Interests
Teaching and research fields: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Collective Action and
Social Movements, Democratic Transitions and Regime Change, Civil Society, Research Design and
Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences, Communist and Post-Communist Political Systems, East
European Politics and Society.
Current and recent courses:
Government 3006: Research Workshop in Comparative Politics, Government 2127: Contentious
Politics in Comparative Perspective (graduate seminar), Government 2148: Civil Society West
and East (graduate seminar), Government 1203: Capitalism and Democracy: Central and East
European Politics in Historical Perspective (undergraduate lecture course), Government 1115:
Collective Action, Protest Movements and Contentious Politics (undergraduate seminar),
Government 2213: Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism (graduate seminar), Government 98:
New Democracies in Comparative Perspective (undergraduate seminar), Government 20:
Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate lecture course), Government 2144: Issues in
Comparative Political Analysis (graduate seminar), Government 3006: Research Workshop on
Performance of Democracies (graduate seminar).
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Current research projects:
The logic of civil society in new democracies (Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan)
(collaborative with colleagues from US, Central Europe and East Asia). This collaborative
project is a rigorous empirical study of the civil society development and its impact on the
quality of democracy in newly democratized states. It focuses on civil society’s structure, its
activities and their evolution in four countries (Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan) and
covers over a twenty-year period, since the democratic breakthrough until 2010 in each case. A
uniform methodology is employed in all four countries to ensure maximum comparability of the
information collected. Event analysis, the project’s principal method, is explicitly designed to
capture the dynamism of civil society’s actions and their effects on other domains of the polity.
The influence of civil society’s actions on the quality of democracy is tested against competing
theories that emphasize the role of economic performance, political culture, and institutional
design. Our data show a striking diversity in patterns of civil society development and its
impact on democracy. Interestingly, these patterns do not conform to regional boundaries. Data
collection is completed for South Korea, Poland and Hungary and is almost done in Taiwan. The
first workshop of project participants took place at the Center for European Studies at Harvard
University in June 2008 and the second in 2009 in Taipei and the final one in Seoul in 2012.
Political geographies and political economies of postcommunist Europe (single author book
project). This project is designed to examine the patterns of postcommunist transformations and to
evaluate scholarly debates and theories explaining trajectories of transformations developed in
comparative politics and political sociology since 1989.
Selected Professional Papers and Presentations (most recent)
Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions and Politics (2012); Korea University,
Seoul, St. Korea (2012) East Asia Institute, Seoul, St. Korea (2012); Center for Comparative and
International, ETH Zurich (2011); Nieman Foundation, Cambridge, MA (2011); Hong Kong
University, Department of Politics, Hong Kong (2011) Beijing University, Department of Sociology,
Beijing (2011); Princeton University, Department of Politics (2010); Center for European Studies,
Harvard University (2010); APSA 2010, Washington, DC; Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (2010);
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2010); European University Institute, Florence
(2010), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (2010); Sciences Po, Paris (2010); Institute for
International and Regional Studies, Princeton University (2010); Department of Political Science,
University of Florida, Gainesville (2010); Slav; ic Research Center, Hokkaido University;
International Business School, Brandeis University; Department of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania; University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy, Duke University;
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Slavic
Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan; CINEFOGO Workshop on Social Capital and
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Democracy in Europe and the USA, Madrid Spain; US State Department, Washington DC,
Conference on Understanding the Appeals of Populism in Central and Eastern Europe (keynote
speaker); Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada;
Nuffield College, Oxford University; Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, Department of
Political Science, University of Michigan; Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, Germany; Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Political Science, Rutgers
University; International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago; Harvard in Europe, London; Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSD; Jackson School of International Studies, University of
Washington; Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Institute
Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland; University of Siena, Faculty of
Political Science, Italy; European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Carnegie Endowment For
International Peace and China Reform Forum, Beijing, China; Department of Political Science, Yale
University; Woodbridge Speaker Series, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Institute
for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Conference on What States Can do Now, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada; Workshop on “Contentious Politics in the Developing World,” Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Conference on What Can States Do Now,
University of Philadelphia; 12 th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago; Conference on
Democracy in Central Europe, Krakow, Poland; Central European University, Warsaw, Poland;
Conference on Comparing Different Routes to the European Union, European University Institute,
Florence, Italy; 11th International Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore; Department of Political
Science and Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University; Watson
Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Department of Government and Center for
German and European Studies, Georgetown University; Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA;
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; Conference on Cuba's Present
and Future in Comparative Perspective, Universidad Compultense, Madrid, Spain; Department of
Government, Dartmouth College.
Selected Academic and Administrative Services
2012 – Present Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2012 – Present External Examiner in Politics, Public Administration and Global Studies,
University of Hong Kong
2012 – Present Member of the Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs, Harvard University
2012 – Present Chair, Standing Committee on European Studies, Harvard University
2010 – Present Chair, Zaleski Memorial Lecture Committee
1999 - Present Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies
2002 - Present Member of the Advisory Committee, Club of Madrid, Spain
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1993 - Present Member of the Standing Committee on A.M. Degree in Regional Studies:
Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard University
2000 - Present Member, Standing Committee on Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University
1999 - Present Member, Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard
University
1996 - Present Member, Steering Committee, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University
2011 – Present Editor, Open Forum Papers, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2010 Acting Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
2001 - 2006 Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University
2000 - 2001 Acting Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University
2010 - Present Member of Advisory Committee, Project on Media and Democracy in Central and
Eastern Europe, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford
University
2003 - Present Senior Fellow, Gorbachev Foundation of North America
2009 Member of the visiting committee, CREES, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2008 – Present Member of reviewer board, Studia Sociologiczne, Poland
2002 - 2008 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Central Europe, London
2002 - Present Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Societal and Social Policy
1998 - 2009 Member, Editorial Committee, East European Politics and Societies
2005 Organizer, Conference on Democracy in the Postcommunist World: Unfinished
Business, Prague, Czech Republic
2001 Coordinator, Conference on Democratic Transitions and Consolidation, Madrid,
Spain
2000 - 2001 Member, Reflection Group on Diversity and Unity in the Enlarged European
Union, organized by Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute and the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission,
headed by Jacques Delors and Jean Luc Dehaene
1998 – 2005 Member, Board of Trustees, The National Council for East European and
Euroasian Research, Washington, DC
2003 - 2009 Member, Standing Committee on Education Abroad, Harvard University
1989 - 2005 Chairman, Workshop on East European Politics, Center for European Studies,
Harvard University
1993 - 2012 Member, Standing Committee on European Studies, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, Harvard University
1990 - 2011 Editor of the Working Paper Series, Program on Eastern and Central Europe,
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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1990 - 2005 Coordinator of the Program on Eastern and Central Europe, Center for
European Studies, Harvard University
Organized Conferences
“Training Program: Civil Society and Grassroots Politics in New Democracies, Seoul, South Korea,
January 5-13, 2012.
“A Liberal Challenge? Civil Society and Grassroots Politics in New Democracies, Authoritarian and
Hybrid Regimes, Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2012.
“The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies: East Asia and East Europe,” Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan, June 5-7, 2009.
“The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies: Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan”
Harvard University, May 2-3, 2008.
“Democracy in the Postcommunist World: Unfinished Business,” IV General Assembly and Annual
Conference of the Club of Madrid, Prague, November 9-12, 2005.
“Dilemmas of Europeanization: Politics and Society in Eastern and Central Europe after EU
Enlargement,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 5-6, 2003.
“Postcommunist Transitions a Decade Later: How Far East Can Western Europe Go?” Center For
European Studies, Harvard University, October 15-17, 1999.
"New Directions in the Study of East European State Socialism," Graduate Student Workshop,
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 7-9, 1997 (faculty co-organizer).
"Democracy, Markets and Civil Societies in Post-1989 East Central Europe," Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, May 17-19, 1996.
"Trials of Transition: Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland," Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, December 10-12, 1993.
"Transition from State-Socialist Regimes in East Central Europe," Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, March 15-17, 1991.
"The Return of the Repressed: Nationalities and Ethnicities in Eastern Europe," Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, December 6, 1991.
(Updated January 15, 2013)
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