JULIANA GERAN PILON [email protected] Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon is Research Professor of Politics and Culture and Earhart Fellow at the Institute of World Politics. For the previous two years, she taught in the Political Science Department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. From January 1991 to October 2002, she was first Director of Programs, Vice President for Programs, and finally Senior Advisor for Civil Society at the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), after three years at the National Forum Foundation, a non-profit institution that focused on foreign policy issues - now part of Freedom House - where she was first Executive Director and then Vice President. At NFF, she assisted in creating a network of several hundred young political activists in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. For the past thirteen years she has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, the Institute of World Politics, George Washington University, and the Institute of World Politics. From 1981 to 1988, she was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, writing on the United Nations, Soviet active measures, terrorism, East-West trade, and other international issues. In 1991, she received an Earhart Foundation fellowship for her second book, The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- Spotlight on Romania, published by Transaction, Rutgers University Press. Her autobiographical book Notes From the Other Side of Night was published by Regnery/Gateway, Inc. in 1979, and translated into Romanian in 1993, where it was published by Editura de Vest. A paperback edition appeared in the U.S. in May 1994, published by the University Press of America. Her anthology on civic education, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, entitled Ironic Points of Light, was published in Estonian and Russian in 1998. She has also written a textbook on civic education, which has been expanded by several education experts and is now being used in virtually every high school in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and throughout Tajikistan, endorsed by the Departments of Education in these countries. Uzbek editions are being smuggled into Uzbekistan by the hundreds. Other countries that have adapted the text include Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. While at IFES, Dr. Pilon has organized election assistance programs -- including election administration, election monitoring, voter education, poll worker training, and electoral systems analysis -- in Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Americas. She has both organized and participated in many conferences at both national and international level, including civic education programs, for leaders of non-governmental organizations and secondary school teachers, in Romania, Estonia, and Central Asia. A native of Romania who speaks French, Romanian and Hungarian, Dr. Pilon came to the U.S. after a seventeen-year attempt to emigrate. She studied philosophy at Princeton University and the University of Chicago where she received her Ph.D. in 1974. She has taught at Emory University, Indiana University, the University of Chicago, and Roosevelt University, then held post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and at the Institute of Humane Studies. She is the author of some 200 articles and reviews, and several monographs on East-West affairs. She has been interviewed extensively on television and radio -- CBS, ABC, CNN, CBN, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and NPR - has testified before Congress on many occasions, and has addressed many groups in the U.S. and abroad. Upon her departure from IFES, on Sept. 10, 2002, the Board of Directors passed a resolution in gratitude “for her many years of distinguished service and her tremendous contributions to [IFES’] cause,” commending her “for her efforts in demonstrating that freedom and democratic ideals matter and that they are the primary tools needed to achieve a more peaceful and democratic world.” EDUCATION University of Chicago: 1965-1969 B.A. 6/69, Philosophy. Princeton University: 1969-1970 History and Philosophy of Science University of Chicago: 1970-1974 M.A., 6/71; Ph.D. 6/74, Philosophy The Hoover Institution on War, Post-Doctoral Studies, 1979-1980, Revolution, and Peace/Stanford U International Affairs HONORS University of Chicago Scholarship Gift (1965-1969); Phi Beta Kappa (1965 and 1969); Nu Pi Sigma Honorary Society (1968); Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1969); Danforth Fellow (1969-1974). Also: Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, N.D.E.A. Title IV Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowship, Princeton University Fellowship, offered for graduate work, 1969. Emory University Research Grant, Summer 1978. Earhart Fellowships, 1979-1981 and 1991. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Member, Board of Directors, Oswiencim Institute, Auschwitz, Poland. Member, Board of Directors, Center for Assistance to NGOs, Bucharest, Romania. Member, Board of Directors, Center for Participatory Democracy, Chisinau, Moldova. Member, Advisory Board, Democracy at Large magazine, published by IFES. Former Member, Editorial board, AGORA, Foreign Policy Research Institute. Former Board member, Committee for a Peaceful Transition to Democracy. Evaluator, Radio Free Europe (on Romania), Board for International Broadcasting. Member, Working Group on Romania, Atlantic Council. Consultant on Eastern Europe, National Geographic Magazine. Former Member, International Advisory Board, B'nai B'rith. Former Member, Selection Committee, Bradley Visiting Scholars, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Member, Selection Committee, Contemporary Issues Fellowships for Eurasian Students, and Selection Committee, Individual Advanced Research Opportunities to Eurasia for U.S. Scholars, IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board). Member, Selection Panel, Center for the Study of the Presidency. Honorary Member, Association of Election Officials, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Languages: French (fluent), Romanian (fluent), Hungarian (good), Russian (some) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Current: Research Professor of Politics and Culture & Earhart Fellow Institute of World Politics, DC 2/03 – 5/05: Visiting Faculty – Political Science Department St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD Research Professor, Institute of World Politics, DC 8/02 – 2/03: Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Election Management, American University, DC 1992 – 8/02: Senior Advisor for Civil Society; Vice President for Programs; Director of Programs for Europe and Asia International Foundation for Election Systems, DC Visiting Professor, George Washington University, DC Adjunct Professor, American University, DC Adjunct Professor, Institute of World Politics - Boston University, DC Adjunct Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University, DC 1989 - 91: Earhart Fellow and Adjunct Professor Masters of Liberal Arts Program The Johns Hopkins University Executive Director;Vice President National Forum Foundation, DC 1988: Visiting Fellow Heritage Foundation, DC Consultant in International Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, DC 1981 - 1987: Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation, DC 1980 - 1981: Research Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies Menlo Park, CA 1979 - 1980: Visiting Scholar and Smith-Richardson Fellow Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Stanford University, CA 1977 - 1979: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1975 - 1976: Research Associate, Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, ILL PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES Books and Monographs Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice, (Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming). The Hole in the Heart, book in progress. Citizenship, Governance, and Participation: Your role in civil society of the XXI century (co-author; IFES, 2002, 2003, 2004, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan). Published in Kyrgyz, Kazak, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek. Adaptations and selections published in Romanian, Armenian, Azeri. Ironic Points of Light (Tallin, Estonia: Jaan Tonnisson Institute, 1998), edited by Juliana Geran Pilon. Published in Estonian and Russian. The Bloody Flag: Post Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Spotlight on Romania (Bowling Green Ohio: Social Philosophy and Policy Center, 1992). PLO Manipulation of the U.N. and United States Policy, Issues Report, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA, Vol.1, No.1), March 1990. The U.N.: Assessing Soviet Abuses, with Ralph K. Bennett, Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies, London, 1988. Notes From the Other Side of Night, (Regnery/Gateway, 1979). Published in Romanian as Dincolo De Cortina Noptii, by Editura de Vest, Timisoara, 1993. Reprinted in paperback by the University Press of America, May 1994. The Global Revolution and the Need for Civic Education in the Former Soviet Bloc (IFES, 1995). Published in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Monographs and Articles Published in Books “Synchronizing Rhetoric, Policy, and Action,” to be published in an anthology edited by Michael Waller, The Institute of World Politics, 2006. “The Indivisibility of Freedom,” published by the University of Missouri-St. Louis, May 15th, 1998. "Encounter, at the End," in Widziek Madrosc W Wolnosci (Warsaw, KTP Press, 1991). "The Problem of Antisemitism in Romania," in The New Eastern Europe: Politics, Human Rights, and Jews, (B'nai B'rith International, Washington, D.C., 1990). "Becoming Part of the Problem," in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in