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Sharon L. Wolchik

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW Suite 412

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-7524
Fax: (202) 994-5436
E-mail: wolchik@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Expertise:

Central and East European politics and policy making, comparative politics of Central/Eastern Europe

Background:

Professor Wolchik received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. At GW, she teaches courses on the comparative governments and politics of Central and Eastern Europe and the international relations of the region. She is the author of Czechoslovakia in Transition: Politics, Economics, and Society, and co-editor of Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe; Domestic and Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s; Ukraine: In Search of a National Identity; The Social Legacies of Communism; and Women, State and Party in Eastern Europe. She is currently doing research on the role of women in the transition to post-communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on ethnic issues in post-communist societies, and the development of party systems and other aspects of politics in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Courses Taught:

PSc 131 Politics of Russia and Central/Eastern Europe
PSc 264 Comparative Governments and Politics of Eastern Europe
PSc 265 International Politics of Eastern Europes

Last update: 07.11.07