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Education
Ph.D-1985 University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology
M.A.-1980 Indiana University, Bloomington
Anthropology, East European Studies
B.A.-1978 Bethel College, N. Newton, KS
History and the Soc. Sciences, German
1976-1977 Philipps-Universitat, Marburg, FRG
Political Science, History, and German
Positions
2005-present
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
(Associate Professor: 2002-2005) Also affiliated: Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology; Center for Social Science Research; Center for Global Studies
1999-2002
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and Director of Research Development and Senior Research Associate, Ridgway Center (1999-2001)
2006-present
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C.
1999-2006
Fellow, National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C.
1994-1999
Associate Research Professor, Depts. of Anthropology & Sociology, & Research Associate, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1993-1998
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Public Policy Institute, The Georgetown Univ.
1994
Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
1992-1993
Assoc. Prof. Lecturer, International Affairs, The George Washington Univ.
1987-1994
International Trade Analyst, U.S. International Trade Commission
1991-92
Fulbright Professor, Warsaw University, Institute of Applied Social
Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
1989-90
Fulbright Professor, Catholic University of Lublin, Dept. of Social Sciences, Lublin, Poland
1987
International Economist (Consultant), U.S. International Trade Commission
1985-86 & 1982-84
Visiting Researcher (Fulbright & IREX fellowships), Warsaw University, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw, Poland
Honors and Awards
- Ford Foundation grant (2008-2010)
- New American Foundation fellowship (2006-2009)
- Ford Foundation grant (2005-2007) (with Lloyd J. Dumas)
- National Institute of Justice fellowship (2002-2006)
- Ford Foundation grant (2002-2005) (with Lloyd J. Dumas)
- 2001 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order ($200,000 cash prize)
- Eurasia Foundation research grant (2001-2002)
- National Council for Eurasian and East European Research award (1999-2001)
- 2000-2001 Annual Teaching Award for Outstanding Instruction (University of Pittsburgh)
- University Center for International Studies grant for workshop (2001)
- Earhart Foundation research grant (2000)
- United States Institute of Peace award (1997-1999)
- National Science Foundation award (1994-1999)
- National Science Foundation REU Supplement awards (summer 1996)
- National Science Foundation REU Supplement awards (summer 1995)
- MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (1994-1996)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (East European program) fellowship (1994)
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung fellowship (1994-1995)
- Kosciuszko Foundation award (1994)
- Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Warsaw University (1991 1992)
- Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Catholic University of Lublin (1989-1990)
- Young Alumnus Award, Bethel College (1992)
- German Marshall Fund grant (1990)
- National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1987 1989)
- International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) fellowship (1988)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars short-term grant (1988)
- Social Science Research Council funded workshop (1988)
- International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) fellowship (1985 1986)
- Fulbright fellowship, Warsaw University (1983 1984)
- Fulbright fellowship, Warsaw University (1982 1983)
- International Studies Fellowship, Berkeley (1984 1985)
- National Defense Foreign Language & Area Studies fellowship (1980-1981)
- National Defense Foreign Language & Area Studies fellowship (1979 1980)
- Kosciuszko Foundation fellowship (1983 1985)
- Kosciuszko Foundation fellowship (1979 1981)
Courses Taught
- Culture, Organization, and Technology
- Application and Development of Advanced Field Methods for Research in Policy
- Advanced Field Research for Policy: Theory and Method
- International Commerce and Culture
- Interview and Ethnographic Research Methods
- Political and Economic Anthropology
- Civil Society
- Western Aid Policies to Central & Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- Anthropology of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- “Mafias,” Institutional Change and the State in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- Capstone in International Affairs
- Capstone in International Development
- International Organizations and the Policy Process
Courses Prepared to Teach
- Anthropology of Globalization, Governance, and the State
- Issues in Governance: NGOs, Business, and the State
- Anthropology of Corruption
- Foreign Aid, Corruption, and Development
- Social Organization, Family, Nation-State, and Globalization
- Anthropology of Development
- Anthropology of Policy
Books
CONFRONTING CORRUPTION, BUILDING ACCOUNTABILITY: Lessons From the World of International Development Advising (with Lloyd J. Dumas and Greg Callman), Forthcoming, Palgrave, 2010.
SHADOW ELITE: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. Basic Books, December 2009.
PRYWATNA POLSKA (THE PRIVATE POLAND). With new introduction: “The Private Poland, A Quarter Century Later.” Warsaw, Poland: Wydawnictwo Trio, 2007.
COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe. 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.
COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998. 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998.
THE UNPLANNED SOCIETY: Poland During and After Communism. Edited, translated, annotated, and introductions. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1992.
THE PRIVATE POLAND: An Anthropologist's Look at Everyday Life. New York. N.Y.: Facts on File, 1986.
Monographs
Building Accountability into International Development Advising in an Age of Diffused Governance. Resource Handbook, Submitted to Ford Foundation, 2007.
Corruption and Organized Crime in Post-Communist States: New Ways of Manifesting Old Patterns. In Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 3-61 (released Fall 2003).
Local Government Reform, NGOs, and Training in Russia: A Tale of Three Cities (with Jonathan Harris and Yulia Bolotskikh). Washington, D.C.: Submitted to Eurasia Foundation, 2002.
Toward an Anti-Corruption Agenda. Report commissioned by the Social Development Team, World Bank, Washington, D.C.,1999.
Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: What We are Doing Right, What We are Doing Wrong, and How We Can Do It Better (with John Harper).East European Studies Occasional Paper: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, no. 41, September 1995.
The Effects of Regulation on the Home Improvement Industry. Manual commissioned and distributed by the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., 1982.
Articles in Refereed Journals and Chapters
“Le Developpement Pris en Otage: Comment L’Aide Americaine a la Russie a Ete Detournee Par Les ‘Transacteurs’” ("Hijacking Development: How Transactors Undermined U.S. Aid to Russia”). In Revue Tiers Monde, Laetitia Atlani-Duault, ed., no. 193, January-March 2008, pp. 13-36.
"The Shadow Army: Privatization." In Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung, eds. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008, pp. 116-123.
"What Russia Can Learn from China in Its Transition to a Market Economy" (with Michael D. Intriligator and Catherine H. Lee). In Clumsy Solutions in a Complex World: Governance, Politics, and Plural Perceptions, Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson, eds. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 105-131.
"Why Collision and Collusion? Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Central European Political Science Review, vol. 7, no. 26, Winter 2006,
http://www.sisza.hu/cepsr/26n/26n.html.
“Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy” (with Cris Shore, Greg Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop). In The Use and Usefulness of the Social Sciences: Achievement, Disappointments, and Promise, Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman, eds. Philadelphia: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, vol. 600, July 2005, pp. 30-51.
“Why an Anthropology of Public Policy?” In Anthropology Today, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-2.
“U.S. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing it Right.” In International Studies Perspectives, vol. 6, issue 1, February 2005, pp. 35-50.
“Flex Organizing and the Clan-State: Perspectives on Crime and Corruption in the New Russia.” In Ruling Russia: Crime, Law, and Justice in a Changing Society, William Pridemore, ed. New York, N.Y.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, pp. 101-116.
“Blurring the State-Private Divide: Flex Organisations and the Decline of Accountability.” Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical Development Reader, Max Spoor, ed. Dordrecht (Netherlands) and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 217-235.
“Courtage International et Institutions Floues” (with Siddarth Chandra). In ACTES de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, no. 151-152, March 2004, pp. 114-125.
“’Studying Through’ a Globalizing World: Building Method Through Aidnographies.” In Ethnographies of Aid: Exploring Development Texts and Encounters, Jeremy Gould and Henrik Secher Marcussen, eds., Roskilde University Centre (Denmark): International Development Studies, 2004, Occasional Paper 24, pp.149-173.
"Transactions in the U.S. Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency, and Russia's Decline." In The Legacy of the Soviet Union, Andrew Wilson and Wendy Slater, eds., London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 103-121.
"Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe." In Crime’s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime, Philip C. Parnell and Stephanie C. Kane, eds., New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 221-244.
"Accountability in International Development Advising: When Individual Conscience Is Not Enough." In Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 84-89. (Reprinted in Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Barry Morris and Rohan Batin, eds., New York, N.Y.: Berghan Books, 2004, pp.12-21.)
“Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.” In Journal of International Development, vol. 15, 2003, pp. 427-440.
“Dirty Togetherness: Institutional Nomads, Networks, and the State-Private Interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.” In Polish Sociological Review, vol. 2, no. 142, 2003, pp. 139-159.
“Homo Sovieticus, The Naive American and 11.09." In Anthropology Today, vol. 18, no. 6, December 2002, p. 22.
"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 2000, pp. 393-417.
"Rigging the U.S.-Russia Relationship: Harvard, Chubais, and the Transidentity Game.” In Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 469-500.
"Central and Eastern Europe in Transition: A Mixed Record” (with Richard F. Kaufman). In Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium. Martha Honey and Tom Barry, eds., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 185-204.
"Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond." In The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 4-13.
"Western Assistance: Changing Mindsets and Relations, 1989-96." In Transition to Democracy in Poland (second edition), Richard F. Staar, ed. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1998, pp. 243-259.
"Second Thoughts from the Second World: Interpreting Aid in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (with Gerald Creed). In Human Organization, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 253-264.
"Clique-Run Organizations and U.S. Economic Aid: An Institutional Analysis." InDemokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 571-602."
A Venture into the 'Second World.'" In Foreign Aid Toward the Millennium. Steven W. Hook, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1996, pp. 141-156.
"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe, 1990-1994: An Analysis of Aid Models and Responses." In East-Central European Economies in Transition, John P. Hardt and Richard F. Kaufman, eds., for the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States, 1995, New York, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 299-335.
"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: Results and Recommendations." In Problems of Post-Communism, New York, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 42, no. 3, May-June 1995, pp. 45-50.
"Nauki Plynace z Pomocy Stanow Zjednoczonych dla Europy Srodkowej i Wschodniej (1990-1994)." In A Mialo Byc Tak Pieknie: Polska Scena Publiczna Lat Dziewiecdziesiatych. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1994, pp. 293-303.
"The Demise of Solidarity and the Prospects for Democracy." In Eastern Europe--Transformation and Revolution, 1945-1991: Documents and Essays. Lyman H. Legters, ed. Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath and Company, 1992, pp. 321-333.
"The Unintended Consequences of Western Aid to Post-Communist Europe." In Telos, no. 92, Summer 1992, pp. 131-138.
"The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Societies." In
The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1991.
"Polish Society: Ties of Legitimacy." In Polish Paradoxes, Anthony Polonsky and Stanislaw Gomulka, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 237-260.
"The Organization of Informal Social and Economic Systems in Centrally Planned Societies." In Culture and Society. Warsaw, Poland, December 1988.
"Struktury Nieformalne w Polsce." In Polityka Spoleczna (Social Policy), Warsaw, Poland, no. 5/6, 1986, pp. 27-30.
Analytic and Policy Articles
"Ethical Research Across Power Divides.” In Anthropology Newsletter, September 2009, p. 18.
"The Shadow Army.” In The Boston Globe, September 30, 2007, p. D9.
"Harvard’s Role in U.S. Aid to Russia.” In The Boston Globe, March 25, 2006, p. A15.
"The Role of Sovereign Cliques in the Derailing of Democracy.” In Anthropology News, vol. 46, no. 8, November 2005, pp. 28-30.
"Flex Power: A Capital Way to Gain Clout, Inside and Out.” The Washington Post, Sunday, December 12, 2004; p. B04. (Also on Web site: washingtonpost.com, titled “Flex Power: An Influential Band of Policy Brothers.”
"Neocon ‘Flex Players’ Await Bush’s Second Term.”Pacific News Service, November 3, 2004.
"Danger of Private Agendas in Foreign Policy." In Financial Times, August 11, 2004, p. 11.
"Too Tightknit to be Accountable: The outsourcing of crucial government functions to private individuals and companies is an alarming trend.” In Salon, August 12, 2004.
"Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia’s Ruin." In The National Interest, no. 59, Spring 2000, pp. 23-34.
"Tainted Transactions: An Exchange. Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Janine Wedel." In The National Interest, no. 60, Summer 2000, pp. 107-110.
"Wedel Replies." In The National Interest, no. 61, Fall 2000, pp. 120-121.
"U.S. Economic Aid to Russia: A Case Study in Subcontracting Governance?" In Civil Society, NGOs and Global Governance, Bob Deacon, ed. Helsinki, Finland: GASPP Occasional Papers, no. 7/2000, July 2000, pp. 33-43.
"U.S. Economic Aid to Eastern Europe: A Case Study in Transactorship.” In “Legal Reform, Investment Markets and International Assistance: The Russian Market Transition in 2000,” The Harriman Economic and Business Review, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 16-25.
"Reaching through the Opened Door: A Comparison of American and European Approaches to Assisting Central and Eastern Europe." In American and German Cultural Policies in Eastern Europe: Assessing Developments in the 1990s, Frank Trommler, ed., Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, October 1999, pp. 41-60.
"Harvard’s Best and Brightest’ Aided Russia’s Economic Ruin.” In Extra: The Magazine of FAIR -- The Media Watch Group, vol. 13, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 19-20.
"How the Chubais Clan, Harvard Fed Corruption." In Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1999, p. M1.
"U.S. Aid to Kosovo: Lessons from Past Experience." Testimony (written and oral) before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, August 4, 1999.
"Baiting the Bear." In The Washington Times, June 23, 1999, p. A17.
"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.: CATO Institute, no. 338, March 22, 1999.
"From Triumphalism to Reality." In Foreign Service Journal, June 1999, vol. 76, no.6, pp. 40-46.
"Who Taught Crony Capitalism to Russia?” In The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001.
"Aid to Russia." In Foreign Policy in Focus, vol. 3, no. 25, September 1998.
"U.S. Aid Added to Russia's Woes." In San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 1998, p. A27.
"The Harvard Boys Do Russia: How the Best and Brightest Helped Destroy the Russian Economy." In The Nation, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-16 (cover story).
"How AID 'Reformed' Russia." In Foreign Service Journal, vol. 75, no. 5, May 1998, pp. 26-33.
"Cliques and Clans and Aid to Russia: How the U.S. Buoyed the 'St. Petersburg Clan.” In Transitions, vol. 4, no. 2, July 1997, pp. 66-71.
"Abuse of Trust: U.S., Russia, and Harvard." In The Boston Globe, Thursday, May 29, 1997, p. A15.
"Lessons of Western Technical Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Transition, vol. 5, no. 6, World Bank, Washington, D.C. July-August 1994, pp. 14-17.
"Aid Conference in Washington: Greater Recipients Involvement Advised." In Transition. vol. 6, no. 4, World Bank, Washington, D.C. April. 1995, p. 10.
"Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Anthropology Newsletter, December 1995, vol. 36, no. 9, p. 11.
"In Russia, Don't Tie US Aid to Privatization." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 1995, p. 18.
"Studying Up: Amending the First Principle of Anthropological Ethics." (with David A. Kideckel). In Anthropology Newsletter, October 1994, vol. 35, no. 7, p. 37.
"Central and Eastern Europe: Unfinished Revolutions."Policy Paper published by the Atlantic Council of the United States, Jan. 1993. Author, Additional Views; Member, Working Group.
"Ethnic Minorities and Potential Conflict in Poland." In State of the Peoples: A Human-Rights Report on Societies in Danger. Cultural Survival, 1993, p.199.
Testimony (written and oral) on "U.S. Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. April 7, 1992.
"Getting it Right in Aid to Russia." In The New York Times (FORUM, Sunday Business Section). April 5, 1992.
"Beware Western Governments Bearing Gifts." In The Wall Street Journal Europe, January 14, 1992.
"Polish Officials Sour on U.S. Aid Approach." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 1992.
"The Economist Heard around the World." In World Monitor, October 1990 (cover story).
Series of four op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Winter, 1990:
- "German Reunification, Polish Vulnerability" (March 29, 1990)
- "Poles Try to Catch up with Capitalism" (March 12, 1990)
- "After Poland's Euphoria" (January 5, 1990)
- "Solidarity's Caution" (December 28, 1989)
"Lech's Labors Lost?" In World Monitor. November 1989 (cover story).
Series of six op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Fall 1989:
- "Polish Survivors of the Gulag" (October 31, 1989)
- "Poland: Still Socialist" (October 19, 1989)
- "The Grass-Roots Revolution in Poland" (September 28, 1989)
- "Solidarity in Decline" (September 21, 1989)
- "Poland's Fledgling Parties" (September 14, 1989)
- "Solidarity's Quandary, Now it's Responsible" (September 7, 1989)
"Why Solidarity Appears Unable to Make Progress: Poland’s ‘Inner Circle’ Struggling." In San Francisco Chronicle. November 8, 1989.
"The Polish Revolution Turns Economic." In The Christian Science Monitor. February 13, 1989.
Reviews of Books
How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices that Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business. Alena V. Ledeneva. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006. In International Affairs, Chatham House, vol. 84, no. 3, May 2008, pp. 591-592.
The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania. Katherine Verdery. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. In American Ethnologist, vol. 32, no. 4, November 2005.
Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power. Cris Shore and Susan Wright, eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. In American Anthropologist, vol. 101, no. 3, September 1999, pp. 43-44.
Surviving Post-Socialism: Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Sue Bridger and Frances Pine, eds. London: Routledge, 1998. In Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 50, no. 7, November 1998, p. 1277.
The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary. Martha Lampland. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. In American Anthropologist, vol. 99, no. 2, June 1997, p. 435.
The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland. Jan Kubik. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. In American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 1076-1077.
The Skeleton at the Feast. C.M. Hann. University of Kent at Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, 1995. In The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, no. 3, vol. 4, September 1998, pp. 585-586.
A Homeland for Strangers: An Introduction to Mennonites in Poland and Prussia. Peter J. Klassen. Fresno, CA: Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, 1989. In Mennonite Life, March 1991, pp. 23-24.
Scholarly Presentations
2009
Oct. 15
Conference on “Anthropology of Europe” sponsored by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Featured address: “Learning from the ‘Alien’: How the Study of Transitional Central and Eastern Europe Helps Illuminate Governance in the United States Today.”
July 2
Warsaw University, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, talk on “Shadow Elite.”
June 18
The U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs,” Panel on “Embedding the Rule of Law in Russian Society.”
May 11
Princeton University, Program on European Politics and Society, Conference on “The Post-Communist Era: Challenges and Opportunities.” Talk on “Lessons Learned from the 1989 Revolution in Central Europe.”
Apr. 6
Georgetown University, Talk on “Shadow Elite in America.” Course on “Class, Culture and Power in America.”
Mar. 10
New America Foundation panel on Halliburton's Army: What Next for Private Military Contractors? Panelist.
2008
Nov. 23
American Anthropological Association, Panel on "An Empire of Governance? The Anti-Corruption Industry." Discussant.
Nov. 19
American Anthropological Association, Session on “International Development Assistance in the Post-Soviet Space.” Paper on “Transactorship in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Postsocialist Privatization to War in Iraq.”
Nov. 17
New America Foundation, Expert Group Meeting on “Non-State Actors and the Future of U.S. Democracy Promotion,” Discussant.
Sept. 26
Social Science Research Council, Workshop for International Working Group on “Think Tanks and the Crisis of Public Knowledge,” Remarks on “New World Organization and the New Think Tanks.”
Aug. 28
American Political Science Association, Panel on “Democratization
and Democracy Promotion Revisited,” Paper on Transactorship in
U.S. Foreign Policy: From Privatization in Russia to War in Iraq.”
June 19
Conference on “The Ends of Development: Market, Morality, Religion, and Political Theology?” An International EIDOS (European Inter-University Development Opportunities Study-group) conference, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Paper on “Branding Conviction: Ideology and the New Breed of Influencers.”
June 18
Wageningen University, Amsterdam. Paper on “Shadow Ellite: The New Agents of Power and Influence.”
May 25
Commencement address, Bethel College: “Serious Fun.”
Jan. 24
Conference on Anthropology of Elites, Methodological and Theoretical Challenges; Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Paper on “From Privatization in Russia to War in Iraq: The Role of Global Elites in U.S. Foreign Policy.”
2007
Dec. 8
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Conference on ”International Development Assistance in the Post-Soviet Space.” Discussant.
Nov. 29
American Anthropological Association, Session on “The Insecure American.” Paper on “Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today.”
Nov. 28
American Anthropological Association, Session on “Private Interests and Public Policy: Research on the Frontiers of Privatization and Outsourcing.” Discussant.
June 14
Talk on “How an Anthropologist Studies Global Elites.” Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University.
June 6
Lecture on “Shadow Elite: The Privatization of Power.” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
June 4
Public lecture on “Shadow Elite: The Privatization of Power.” Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law - University of Zagreb, the Croatian Sociological Association, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Zagreb.
June 1-2
Workshop on “Transnational Governmentality in South East Europe: Translating Neo-Liberalism on the Sovereign Frontier,” Rabac, Croatia. Talk on “The World Made Fit for Flexians.” Co-sponsored by the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
May 17
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Talk on “The Problem of Corruption in Poland.”
Mar. 23
Workshop on “Ethnographies of Foreign Policy,” Watson Institute for
International Studies,” Brown University. Talk on “Transactorship in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Privatization in Russia to War in Iraq.”
Mar. 7
William and Mary College, International Relations and Global Studies Program, Lecture on “Shadow Elite: The Privatization of Power.”
2006:
Nov. 18
American Anthropological Association, Session on “’Studying Through:’ Ethical Challenges in the Anthropology of Public Policy.” Roundtable Discussant.
Sept. 29
The National Press Club, panel on “More than Just Iraq: New Thinking on Global Issues in 2007.” Talk on “Privatizing U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Sept. 20
European Association of Social Anthropologists 2006 Conference, Bristol, UK, Panel on “Policy Worlds.” Paper on “Beyond Accountability: The Role of Flex Groups in Derailing Democracy.”
July 19
New America Foundation, Washington, DC. Talk on “Shadow Elite: The Privatization of Power.”
July 3
Civil G-8 Conference, Moscow, Forum on “Forming Global Social and Economic Policies for Sustainable Development.” Talk on “Holding Governments and International Organizations Accountable.”
May 26
Workshop at MIT on “What’s Wrong with America,” Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, organizers. Paper on “Conflating State and
Private Power: What the Neocon Core Reveals About America Today.”
May 18
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Talk on
“Corruption in Poland.”
May 2
Workshop on “Links between Corruption and Conflict in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.” Centra Technology, Inc., Arlington, VA., Respondent.
Apr. 30
Keynote Speaker: Conference on “Multi-Level Governance: Emerging Transnational Governmentality in South East Europe: Intermediaries and Translation in Interstitial Spaces.” Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia.
Apr. 11
Association for Social Anthropology 2006 Conference, Panel on “Cosmopolitanism and Development.” Paper on “Cosmopolitan Coziness: Transactorship and the U.S.-Russia Aid Relationship.” Keele University,UK.
Feb. 24
World Bank, Friday Morning Group. Talk on “Building Accountability into International Development Advising.”
2005:
Dec. 3
American Anthropological Association, Panel on “Evaluating U.S. Democracy Promotion: A Case for Engaged Ethnography?” Discussant.
Dec. 2
American Anthropological Association, Session on “Anthropology of Policy: A Catalyst for Theoretical and Methodological Innovation.” Paper on “How an Anthropology of Policy Can Illuminate New Forms of Governing and Power.”
Oct. 21
University of Toronto, Workshop on “International Aid to Ukraine: A Critical Assessment.” Paper on “From Triumphalism to Disillusionment: The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid to Ukraine.”
Oct. 15
Princeton University, Mini-conference on “Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism.” Paper on “Beyond Accountability: The Role of Sovereign Cliques in Derailing Democracy.”
Feb. 10
Princeton University, Mini-conference on “Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism.” Paper on “Beyond the Revolving Door: The Role of Flex Groups in Shaping the State-Private Relationship.”
Jan. 7
American Economics Association/Allied Social Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Panel on “The Abuse of Power.” Paper on “Beyond the Revolving Door: Conflating State and Private in Eastern Europe and the United States.”
2004:
Sept. 10
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Conference on “Neo-liberalism After Three Decades: The End of an Epoch?” Paper on “Fog at the Boundaries: The Changing State-Private Interface in Russia and America.”
July 10
Communitarian Summit, Washington, D.C., Panel On the Abuse of Power: Working Toward a Criminology of Economics. Paper on “How Privatization in Russia Led to the War in Iraq.”
June 12
London Business School, Conference on Comparative Transitions. Paper on “Transactorship in Transition: The Shifting World of Aid and Advice in the U.S.-Russia Relationship.”
Feb. 13
Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Symposium on “Crime, Law, and Justice in Post-Soviet Russia.” Paper on “Flex Organizations and the Clan-State: Perspectives on Crime and Corruption in the New Russia.”
Jan. 5
American Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Diego. Discussant/Paper on “How Really Existing Socialism Led to Really Existing Transition.”
2003:
Nov. 20
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. Paper on AStudying Through Transnational Policy Processes: The Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe.
Sept. 22
International Ford Foundation-Funded Workshop, Pultusk, Poland. Paper on AAccountability in International Development Advising: When Individual Conscience Is Not Enough.
June 6
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh. Paper on
ARethinking Corruption and Governance: Private-Public Ambiguities in Post-Communist States.
May 1
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Talk/Discussion on ACorruption and Culture: Differing Perspectives Between the United States and the Former Soviet Union.
April 8
Foreign Service Institute. Talk on ACritical Issues in Development:
Governance, Corruption and the Role of Networks: Between "Mafias" and Civil Societies in Post Communist Countries."
April 5
Oxford University (SAID Business School) conference on AClumsy
Solutions for a Complex World. Paper on AShadow Governance: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe.
Mar. 6
National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Talk on AWho Do You Represent? Accountability and Ambiguity in Governance.
Mar. 3
George Mason University, Provost's Lecture Series. Discussion on Economic Globalization, Corruption, and Crime Conceptual Frameworks.
2002:
Oct. 8
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands: ISS 50th Anniversary Conference on Globalization, Conflict, and Poverty. Talk on ABlurring the Boundaries of the State-Private Divide: Flex Organizations and the Decline of Accountability.
Aug. 16
European Association for Social Anthropology (EASA) Conference,
Copenhagen, Denmark. Talk on ABlurring the Boundaries of the State-Private Divide: Implications for Corruption.
June 14
World Bank, Friday Morning Group. Talk on AThe Situational State and Its Implications for Corruption.
May 14
Foreign Service Institute: ACritical Issues in Development: Governance, Corruption, and the Crucial Role of Networks: Distinguishing between Mafia and Civil Society in Post-Communist Societies.
May 13
Goshen College: “Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing it Right.”
Apr. 13
UC Berkeley Dept. of Anthropology Centennial Conference, Panel on Decades of Excellence: Distinguished Alumni. Talk on “Transactorship and Flex Organizations: Exploring the Policy Dimensions of Anthropology.”
Mar. 6
Foreign Service Institute: AU.S. Aid to East Central Europe.
Feb. 23
Ford Foundation's Meeting on Philanthropy, Civil Society, and Community Development. Talk on ABlurring the Boundaries: Governance in a Globalizing World (with Dan Guttman).
Feb. 1
University of Maryland, Development Circle. Talk on ACritical Issues in Development: Corruption, Governance, and Civil Society.
Jan. 15
University of Chicago, Russian Studies Workshop. "Serving Multiple
Masters: Transactorship and the State-Private Interface."
2001:
Dec. 1
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award Committee, 2001 Grawemeyer Award Roundtable: Politics of Foreign Aid: An Anthropological Perspective. American Anthropological Association annual meeting.
Nov. 12
Training Workshop for Ph.D. students on Ethnographies of Aid B Narratives, Ethics and Power, Jyllinge, Denmark: Ethnography Across Levels and Processes.
Nov. 9
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, Conference on Ten Years Since the Soviet Union: Transactions in the U.S. Russia Relationship: Representational Fraud, Shifting Agency, and Russia's Decline.
Oct. 15
U.S. Department of State, the Secretary's Open Forum: Discussant on Russian Organized Crime: Implications for the United States and the International Community.
Sept. 19
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC: Talk on "Corruption as a Systemic Disease: An Anthropologist's View of U.S. Aid to Russia.Brookings Anti-Corruption Forum.
Sept. 1
American Political Science Association conference, San Francisco:
Paper on "Transactorship and the Principal-Agent Model: Shifting Agency and Representational Fraud in U.S. Policy Toward Russia (with S. Chandra).
July 6
Joint Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Research
Committee on Sociology of Law, Central European University, Budapest: Paper on "Transactorship in U.S.-Russian Relations: Representational Fraud and Personality-Based Law (with S. Chandra).
Apr. 13
Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado. Plenary:
Turning Opportunities into Obstacles: Econolobbyists, Transactors, and
Western Aid to Russia and Eastern Europe.
Apr. 9-13
Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado. Panelist on:
- Russia 2010: The Putin Legacy
- How to Oust a Dictator: The Student Resistance in Serbia
- Prescription for Development: Is Democracy the Best Medicine?
Apr. 9
Colgate University: Center for Ethics and World Societies. Panel on
"Capitalism, Criminality, and Corruption in Russia: Local Reality
and Global Responsibility."
Apr. 3
University of Louisville, Department of Anthropology. Political Anthropology.
Apr. 2
Grawemeyer Award lecture, University of Louisville. AForeign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing it Right.
Feb. 13
National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. NIJ Forum:
AReplacing the Evil Empire with the Mafia State: Perspectives on Eastern European Crime and Corruption.
Jan. 30
National Institute of Justice, Occasional Research Seminar. Talk on:
ACorruption in Eastern Europe and Russia: The Role of Informal Groups.
2000:
Dec. 8
Workshop on The Social Organization of the State: A Theory-Building Workshop organized by Janine Wedel and Phil Williams. Presentations on:
- The Clan State
- Transactorship and the Principal-Agent Model: Shifting Agency and Representational Fraud in U.S. Policy Toward Russia (with S. Chandra).
Oct. 31
Ten Years Freedom: Transition and the Consolidation of Democracy
The Case of Central Europe (1990-2000), Budapest, Hungary. Paper on Why Collision and Collusion: Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe.
Oct. 21
United Nations University/WIDER conference on Why Some Countries Avoid Conflict While Others Fail. Helsinki, Finland. Paper on Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Sept. 19
U.S. Aid to Russia. The Harvard Club of Washington, D.C.
July 18 Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Transition and Organized Crime in Eastern Europe. Washington, D.C.: Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation.
April 26
INMM/Carnegie Endowment Special Seminar on Russian Nuclear Security Programs and Prospects. Talk on Visions of Future Knowledge Proliferation Programs.
Apr. 10-14
Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado: Panelist on:
Seinfeld in Singapore: How Americans Look from Abroad; Women's Way of Business; What Does the Future Hold for Russia?; Lingering Russian Imperialism in Eastern Europe; Global Dimensions of Corporate Power: A Threat to Democracy?
1999:
Dec. 13
GASPP Seminar on Global Social Policy: International NGOs, Consulting Companies and Global Social Policy, Helsinki, Finland. Paper on U.S. Economic Aid to Russia: A Case Study in Subcontracting Governance.
Dec. 9
School of Advanced and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Fouad Ajami seminar: "Transactors in the U.S.-Russia Relationship: A Case Study in Subverting Foreign Policy Goals."
Nov. 18
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference, St. Louis, Panel on Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformation: Global and Comparative Approaches. Paper on The Forces at Play in U.S. Aid to Russia: A Theory of Transactorship.
Nov. 16
The American-Russian Investment Forum, The Harriman Institute at
Columbia University. Paper on Assistance to Legal Reform in Russia."
Nov. 11
U.S.-Ukraine Working Group on Organized Crime conference, Kiev, Ukraine: Talk on AIssues in Research Across Cultures.
Nov. 3
West Virginia University, Benedum Lecture: "Why Collision and Collusion? The Forces at Play in Western Aid to Eastern Europe" (available on line).
Oct. 12
Zbigniew Brzezinski's SAIS seminar. Paper on "Transactors in the U.S.-Russia Relationship: A Case Study in Subverting Foreign Policy Goals."
Sept. 29
Harvard University, Davis Center. Paper on "Rigging the U.S.-Russia Relationship: Harvard, Chubais, and the Transidentity Game."
Sept. 27 U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Workshop on Crime and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union. Talk on "Crime and Corruption and Foreign Relations."
Aug. 4 Testimony before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives. "U.S. Aid to Kosovo: Lessons from Past Experience."
May 7
Columbia University, Harriman Institute. "How Can Russia Recover?"
Sixth Annual 1999 Associated Press/Harriman Institute Conference.
May 4 Kennan Institute, Washington, D.C. Talk on "Why Collision and Collusion? The Forces at Play in Western Aid to Eastern Europe."
April 20
University of Maryland, Fulbright International Center. Talk on "United
States Assistance to Post-Communist Russia: Are Good Intentions Enough?"
April 1
George Mason University, Institute for Public Policy. Talk on "Building
Market Economies: An Anthropological Analysis of the Pitfalls and Promises of Western Aid to Eastern Europe."
Apr. 5-9
Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado: Panelist on six panels: Whatever Happened to Post-Cold War Optimism; Russia: Rubble or Ruble?; European Union under Leftward Stewardship; The Legacy of Communism: Do Old Habits Die Hard?; Democracy in Eastern Europe: Too Much Too Soon?; When Did Private Lives Become Public?
March 29
George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Resolution and Analysis. Talk on "Colliding Worlds: The Implementation of Western Aid to Eastern Europe and Russia."
March 18
Foreign Service Institute. Talk on "How Polish Society Really Works: An Anthropological Perspective."
March 9
Columbia University, Harriman Institute. Paper on "Collison and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998."
Feb. 23
MIT, Ford Methodology Workshop. Paper on "Anatomy of Policy: The Contribution of Anthropological Method to Policy Studies."
Feb. 4
Johns Hopkins University, Program on Social Change and Development. Paper on "Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998."
1998:
Dec. 4
American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia. Organized panel (with Nancy Ries) on "Mafia in Postsocialist Societies:
Actual Mobsters and Mythical Bandits." Paper on "Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond."
Nov. 19
American Friends of Wilton Park. Talk on "Where is Russia Going?"
Nov. 19
Georgetown University: Center for Eurasian, Russian, and European Studies. Talk on "Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe."
Nov. 2
Yale School of Management. "The Russian Malaise and the Polish Success." Panelist with Nobel laureate James Tobin.
Oct. 29
Stetson University. Talk on "U.S. Aid to Russia: Where It All Went Wrong."
Sept. 27
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Florida:
Paper on "The Privatization of U.S.-Russia Relations: Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Economic Aid."
Sept. 25
Johns Hopkins University, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Conference on "Reaching Out to Eastern Europe in the 1990's: Assessing American and German Cultural Policies. Paper on "Reaching through the Opened Door: A Comparison of American and European Approaches to Assisting Central and Eastern Europe."
Sept. 17
Testimony before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives. "U.S. Aid to Russia: Where It All Went Wrong." June USIA Speaker's Tour in Germany and France: Talks at Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Osteuropa-Institut of the University of Munich, Institute for Security Policy and Peace Research of the University of Hamburg, Osteuropa-Zentrum of the University of Kiel, University of Nurnberg, and Parliament's International Affairs Committee of the State of Hesse.
May 4
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences workshop on "Science and Democracy," Prague. Paper on "Observations on Transition to a Market Economy: Institutional Change in Post-Communist Europe."
Apr. 20
World Bank, social development group. Paper on "Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond."
Feb. 27
Council for European Studies conference, Baltimore. Paper on "Toward the Millennium: What Anthropology can Contribute to the Study of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union."
1997:
Dec. 3
George Washington University Seminar on Central and Eastern Europe. Paper on "Clans, Cliques, and Unruly Coalitions? How Informal Relations Shape Markets and Institutions in Eastern Europe."
Nov. 20
American Anthropology Association annual meeting. Organized panel on "Networking with a Vengeance: Clans and Mafia in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." Paper on "Clans, Cliques, and Unruly Coalitions? How Informal Networks Shape Markets and Institutions in Eastern Europe."
Feb. 24
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center. Paper: "'Mafia,' 'Clans,' and 'Unruly Coalitions'? How Informal Networks Shape Markets and Institutions in Eastern Europe."
1996:
Sept. 9-10
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
APreventing Deadly Conflict: Towards an International Development
Research Agenda." Presenter.
Apr. 18
International Studies Association, San Diego. Paper: "Recipient
Rivalries: Western Aid and Domestic Politics in Eastern Europe.
Apr. 17
United States Naval Academy. Foreign Affairs Conference on "A New
Multilateralism: American Relations with Emerging Powers." Panelist.
Apr. 12
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University. Paper:
"Uncovering the Workings of Foreign Aid: Anthropology and Investigative Reporting in Eastern Europe."
Apr. 11
Economic History Workshop, Indiana University. Paper:
"Between State and Private: 'Mafia, Household, and Informal Economic Relationships in Eastern Europe."
Apr. 4
Center for Family Research, George Washington University. Paper:
"Coping with Quicksand: Household, 'Mafia,' and Informal Economic
Relationships in Eastern Europe."
1995:
Sept. 7-8
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
Invited conference on "Economic Transformation - Households and
Health:" Participant and discussant.
Aug. 9
V World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw: Plenary Session. Commentator for four Polish post-Communist prime ministers.
Aug. 8
V World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw: Panel on "Foreign Aid as Politics and Ideology in Transitional Russia and East Europe:" Panel organizer and paper on "The Politics and Social Implications of Privatization Aid in East Europe."
Apr. 18
Woodrow Wilson Center conference on "Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: What We Are Doing Right, What We Are Doing Wrong, How We Can Do It Better." Initiator, Co-organizer, and Presenter.
Apr. 9
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference, Washington, DC: Panel on "Beyond the Rhetoric of 'Reformers' vs. >Non-reformers': State, Markets, and 'Mafia' in Eastern Europe and Russia:" Organizer and paper on "The 'Mafia' and the State in Central and Eastern Europe."
Mar. 30
George Washington University: Elliott School of International Affairs: "Remaking Eastern Europe through Western Aid?"
1994:
Nov. 18
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference, Philadelphia, panel on "Foreign Aid as Politics and Ideology in Transitional Russia." Panel organizer and paper on "The Politics and Social Implications of Privatization Aid in East Europe and Russia."
Sept. 1
American Political Science Association conference, New York:
Roundtable on "Foreign Assistance, Foreign Policy, and Regime Adaptation."
July 15-16
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference, Paris:
Co-organizer and moderator (or panelist), panels on "Shock Therapy in 'Third World' and 'Second World' Contexts," "Emerging Relationships among East and West: Lessons Being Learned and Future Directions for Policies and Programs," "The Complexities of Private and Public in Central and Eastern Europe: False Dichotomies and the Role of the State."
June 25
European Association of Social Anthropologists, Oslo: Panel on "Civil Society in Eastern Europe:" Discussant.
June 23
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Talk on "A Different Kind of Foreign Aid: Donor Ideology and Recipient Responses."
May 12
Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars joint conference, Washington, D.C.: "U.S. Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Examination."
1993:
Nov. 20
American Anthropological Association conference, Washington.
"The Social Organizational and Cultural Implications of Aid to
Transitional Eastern Europe."
Sept. 5
American Political Science Association conference, Washington: "Foreign Aid as Ideology and Culture: The Case of Transitional Eastern Europe."
Apr. 7-8
OECD restricted conference on "North American Institutions Involved in the Promotion of Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe," Washington, D.C. Discussant.
June 29-30
World Future Society, Washington, D.C. Supersessions on APost-
Communist Europe and Aid to Transitional Eastern Europe and Russia. Panelist.
Mar. 27-29
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics conference, New School of Social Research: Task Force on Post-Communist Europe (Co-Chair), and panels on "Joint Ventures and Western Influence in Central and Eastern Europe" (Discussant), and "Connecting Theory, Policy, and Practice: A Roundtable on Socio-Economic Policy Guidelines" (Panelist).
Mar. 8
George Washington University: Department of Anthropology and Elliott
School of International Affairs: "Aid and Development in Post-Communist Europe: Unintended Consequences of Foreign Assistance."
1992:
Oct.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference, "Building New Democracies: How Can U.S. Institutions Help?"
Sept.
The Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution: "Western Governmental Assistance to Post-Communist Europe: Lessons Learned."
Sept.
Prague invited conference on "Ethnic Conflict Resolution in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union" sponsored by the Center for International Security Studies, University of Maryland.
June
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung invited conference on "Europeanization--An
Assessment of Cultural and Political Trends in Europe and the United
States:" "Ethnicity and Political Culture: A Comparison."
Dec.
George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs:
"U.S. Aid Policies to Post-Communist Europe: Unintended Consequences."
Dec.
American Anthropological Association conference, San Francisco:
"Transition in Poland: Plans vs. Informal Markets."
July
Univ. of Maryland conference, "The Changing Business Environment in the Post-Communist World:" Paper on "Foreign Aid: What Should be Done"?
Apr.
Wichita Council on Foreign Relations: "Assistance to Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Republics."
Mar.
U.S. State Dept., Foreign Service Institute: "The Poles and their World."
1990-91:
Apr.
American University, Conference for Visiting East European Leaders:
"U.S. Policy toward Eastern Europe."
Apr.
Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado: Panelist on eight panels: Technology and the Persian Gulf War; American Culture and Popular Technology; Intelligence and the New Central Europe; The New Central Europe; The New Germany; and The Warsaw Pact and NATO.
Dec.
U.S. State Dept., Foreign Service Institute: "The Poles and their World."
Nov.
American University, Foreign Policy Semester: "State, Society and the Private Sphere in Post-Socialist Poland."
Nov.
Hampshire College, New Hampshire: "Eastern Europe Today."
Oct.
Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury, Connecticut: "Society and Economic Revolution in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union."
Oct.
German Marshall Fund conference in Zaborow, Poland: "The Organizational Foundations of Democracy and Pluralism in Poland."
Oct.
AAASS conference, Washington, D.C.: "Post-Communist Democracies in the Making: The Role of Intellectuals."
Apr. Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado: Panelist on five panels: Ethnic Conflict in Yugoslavia; United Nations; German Reunification; Eastern Europe after Revolution; Breakdown of Bureaucracy in East Europe.
1987-89:
June 1987
Harvard University, Russian Research Center: "Poland's Informal
Economy in Comparative Perspective."
July 1988
Social Science Research Council workshop on Soviet and East European Economies, Berkeley, California: "The Social Organizational Mechanisms of East European Informal Economies."
Apr. 1988
Economic Anthropology Association conference, Knoxville,
Tennessee: "Informal Economies in Centrally Planned Societies."
Nov. 1987
National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored lecture series:
"Poland and its Political Economy."
Mar. 1987
Emory University, Soviet and East European Studies Program:
"Polish Society: The Ties that Bind."
Oct. 1988
Warsaw University, Institute of Sociology: "The Emergence
of Voluntary Associations: An East European Revolution?"
Current and Recent Professional Activities
Projects and Conferences Organized:
- Director, Outsourcing of National Security Initiative, New America Foundation (Begun 2008) (Part of the American Strategy Program)
- Co-organizer and convener, New America Foundation workshop on Public-Private Interfaces (July 19, 2007)
- Co-founder and convener, Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP), American Anthropological Association
- Initiator and co-organizer, Ford-Foundation funded project on “Building Accountability Into International Development Advising in an Age of Diffused Governance”
- Co-organizer, international workshop on accountability in international development advising, funded by Ford Foundation and co-sponsored by Polish Academy of Sciences
- Initiator and co-organizer, Ridgway Center for International Security Studies conference on "The Social Organization of the State: A Theory-Building Workshop” (University of Pittsburgh)
- Initiator and co-director: Ford Foundation-funded research on political and economic development in E. Europe, with Center for Solidarity and Trade Union Studies, Warsaw
- Initiator and co-organizer: International conference sponsored by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on "Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: What we are doing Right, What we are doing Wrong, How we can do it Better"
- Initiator and co-organizer: International conference sponsored by German Marshall Fund on "The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Europe"
Appointed and Elected Committees and Task Forces:
- Associate Member, National Academy of Public Administration’s (NAPA) International Panel
- Social Science Reviewer, Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering Review Panel, National Research Council
- Member at Large, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association
- Member, U.S.-Ukrainian Working Group on Organized Crime
- Secretary and Chair of the Program Committee, American Friends of Wilton Park
Invited Testimony and Commentary:
- Testimony: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Appropriations, Atlantic Council, Joint Economic Committee
- USIA Speaker's Tour in Germany and France
- One of five invited North American participants: National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council workshop on "Science and Democracy," Prague
- Commentator: Frontline, CNN, BBC, NPR, NAS/NRC workshops, Foreign Service Institute
- Commentator with four former Polish prime ministers: Plenary session, V World Congress, Warsaw
Contributing Editor: Anthropology Newsletter, Column on Anthropology of Public Policy
University Lecture Circuit: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Oxford
Current and Recent Professional Activities - Continued
Consultancies:
- Centra Technology, Inc., Arlington, VA, Links between Corruption and Conflict in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. (Served as discussant on papers and presentations.)
- United Nations/WIDER, Conflict and why some countries avoid it while others fail to do so. (Conducted research and drafted and presented report.)
- World Bank, Social Development Team, The social organization of corruption in post-communist societies. (Commented on papers and presentations.)
- World Bank, Social Development Team, Trafficking in women in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. (Conducted research and drafted report.)
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Aid to Eastern Europe.
- Federal Trade Commission, Anthropological study of regulation on the home improvement industry. (Conducted research and wrote report.)
Reviewer of Manuscripts and Proposals
- Yale University Press (2009)
- Oxford University Press (2009)
- Cornell University Press (2002, 2003)
- Cambridge University Press (2004)
- St. Martin’s Press (1999, 2000)
- Woodrow Wilson Center Press (2002)
- University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, outside dissertation reviewer (2009)
- Central European University, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, external examiner (2007)
- Univ. of Leipzig, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, outside dissertation reviewer (2003)
- Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, examination panel (1995)
- National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1998, 1999, 2000)
- Welcome Trust, UK (2005)
- United States Institute of Peace (2003)
- National Institute of Justice (2002)
- National Science Foundation (1994, 1995)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthro. Research (1995)
- British Know-How Fund (1991, 1992)
- Academy for Educational Development, National Security Program (1995)
- Problems of Post-Communism (1997, 1998, 2009)
- American Ethnologist (1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005)
- East European Politics and Societies (2004)
- Anthropological Quarterly (2003)
- Man: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1998)
- American Anthropologist (1996, 1999)
- Europe-Asia Studies (1998)
Professional Associations
- American Anthropological Association (AAA) ! European Assoc. of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
Languages
- Polish - speaking and reading
- German - speaking and reading
- French - reading knowledge
- Russian - beginning level
Documentaries and On-Air Reporting
- Associate Producer, The Kwitny Report, Eastern European change, PBS (Jan. 1989).
- Associate Producer, "AIDS in Poland." Produced by WGBH, aired on PBS, (Nov. 1990).
- National Public Radio on-air features, E. European society and political economy (1990).
- Correspondent for CNN television and CBS radio (freelance) (1989 1990).
On-Air Interviews (Selected)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), including AWorld Today
- Public Broadcasting System (PBS), including Frontline
- Cable News Network (CNN), including "International News Hour," "World Day"
- National Public Radio (NPR), including "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "Public Interest" with Kojo Nnamdi, ATalk of the Nation with Ray Suarez,
The Connection, and Marketplace - Voice of America, including "Economic Roundtable" \
- Monitor Radio; American Public Radio: "Dialogue"
- Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "The Europeans"
- American Urban Radio Networks
- Talk America
- WBAI-FM, New York
Interviews, Reviews, and/or Citations in Print Media (Selected)
- The New York Times
- Newsweek
- Washington Post
- Wall Street Journal
- Financial Times
- Foreign Affairs
- Los Angeles Times
- Chicago Tribune
- Boston Globe
- The New Republic
- The Nation
- Washington Times
- National Interest
- The Nation
- Vanity Fair
- Christian Science Monitor
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- South China Morning Post