Faculty & Staff

Visiting Scholars Fall 2007

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Yasuko Kono (kono@gwu.edu) – Professor of Political Science and Japanese Political and Diplomatic History, Hosei University. An analysis of Okinawa's role during the Cold War. (4/1/07-3/31/09)

Jaroslav Koshiw (koshiw@gwu.edu) – former Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. An analysis of President Kuchma's tape recorded conversations, 1999-2000. (9/07-10/07)

Ingrid Lundestad (lundesta@gwu.edu) – M.A. candidate, history, University of Oslo. The national security strategies of the United States from the end of the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, and implications for NATO. (10/07)

Silvia Marcu (marcu@gwu.edu) – Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Economy and Geography in Madrid, Spain. The contemporary geopolitics of Eastern Europe, in particular the United States' influence in the region. (9/3/07-10/31/07)

Liu Mingzhou (mingzhou@gwu.edu) – Ph.D. candidate, history, Nanjing University, China. Dissertation: "Winston Churchill's Thoughts on International Order;" the process of British decolonization. (8/31/07-2/08)

Margaret Paxson (paxson@gwu.edu) – Senior Associate at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Researching social memory and social stability in Kabardino-Balkaria. (10/07 – 7/08)

Emma Peplow (e.j.peplow@lse.ac.uk) – Ph.D. candidate, history, London School of Economics. Dissertation on the Western Allies in Berlin, 1945-1948. (10/22/07 - 12/7/07)

Anatole Senkevitch (senkevit@gwu.edu) – Associate Professor of Architectural History/Theory and History of Art, College of Architecture + Urban Planning, The University of Michigan. Completing book for MIT Press on the formation of an avant-garde in Russian architecture and launching a research project on "The Recent Re-Construction of the Once-Constructed and Destructed Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow: Unpacking Contested Ideological Narratives in Russia's Current Struggle for National Identity."  (9/07-1/08)

Vit Smetana (smetana.vit@seznam.cz) – Fulbright Scholar and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. "A Comparison of U.S. and British Policy Toward Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1948." (late 10/07-6/08)

Zoltan Szoke (szoke@gwu.edu) – Senior Archivist at the National Archives of Hungary and a recipient of a grant from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund. Hungary's involvement in Vietnam. (8/07-5/08)

D. Nathan Vigil (dvigil@emory.edu) – Ph.D. candidate, history, Emory University. Dissertation on the history of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (10/07-12/07)

Visiting Scholars Spring 2008

László Borhi (lborhi@tti.hu) – Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Acacdemy of Sciences and a recipient of a grant from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship. Examining the United State's role in Hungary's regime change in 1989 and 1990 and the ensuing dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. (4/1/08-6/1/08)

Lyudmyla Chernyaha (lche@gwu.edu) – Assistant Professor at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine and a recipient of IERES' William and Helen Petrach Exchange Program. A comparative study of real estate markets in the United States and Ukraine. (1/21/08-4/23/08)

Matthew Frank (M.Frank@shu.ac.uk) – Research Fellow, department of history, Sheffield Hallam University. Examining the development of international plans for the compulsory resettlement of national minorities in twentieth-century Europe. (2/11/08-4/11/08)

Torgeir Fylkesnes (torgeir@gwu.edu) – Information Advisor and Press Secretary for Norway's Socialist Left (SV) Party and a recipient of the Ambassador Stuart Fellowship. Researching the role of the media in American politics. (1/21/08-6/30/08)

Yasuko Kono (kono@gwu.edu) – Professor of Political Science and Japanese Political and Diplomatic History, Hosei University. An analysis of Okinawa's role during the Cold War. (4/1/07-3/31/09)

Margaret Paxson (paxson@gwu.edu) – Senior Associate at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Researching social memory and social stability in Kabardino-Balkaria. (10/07 - 7/08)

Vit Smetana (smetana.vit@seznam.cz) – Fulbright Scholar and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. "A Comparison of U.S. and British Policy Toward Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1948." (late 10/07-6/08)

Zoltan Szoke (szoke@gwu.edu) – Senior Archivist at the National Archives of Hungary and a recipient of a grant from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund. Hungary's involvement in Vietnam. (8/07-5/08)

Roman Vovk (vovk@gwu.edu) – Associate Professor at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine and a recipient of IERES' William and Helen Petrach Exchange Program. Applying mathematical models to the study of international relations. (1/21/08-4/23/08)

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