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"Harvard's role in US aid to Russia"
The Boston Globe, March 25, 2006
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Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., Bethel College

Biography

Janine R. Wedel, a prize-winning anthropologist, is co-founder and co-convenor of the Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP). A four-time Fulbright fellow and recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and others, Wedel was the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (an honor typically given to scholars in political science) for her latest book, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe (second edition: Palgrave 2001).

She has testified before congressional committees, written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Los Angeles Times, and others, and given talks at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, and Oxford. Her work has been very favorably reviewed and quoted in such publications as Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. She has appeared on numerous television and radio networks and programs, including BBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS’s Frontline.

Areas of Expertise
Corruption and the State
Patterns of Governance and State-Private Mixes
Foreign Aid and International Development
Civil Society
Social Network Analysis
Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods
Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union