Pre-eminent Political Science Scholars to Speak about Political and Economic Developments in Russia and Eastern Europe
Stephen E. Hanson, Ph.D. and Michael H. Bernhard, Ph.D. will take part in a forum on the legacy of 1989, and on political and economic developments in Eastern Europe and Russia over the past twenty years, on Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room, Seegers Union.Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:22 AM
Their talk, part of the College’s year-long series The Legacy of 1989: Twenty Years in the Post-Communist World is free and open to the public.
Hanson currently serves as Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Washington. He is also the Ellison Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, and has served as the Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
He is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), which received the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich book award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and a co-author (with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder) of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001). His numerous articles analyzing postcommunist Russia in comparative perspective have appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Post-Soviet Affairs, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and East European Politics and Societies. He is Assistant General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series of Cambridge University Press, and has served on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Demokratizatsiya.
Bernhard is the inaugural holder of the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His work centers on questions of democratization and development both globally and in the context of Europe. Among the issues that have figured prominently in his research agenda are the role of civil society in democratization, institutional choice in new democracies, the political economy of democratic survival, and the legacy of extreme forms of dictatorship. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on these topics, Bernhard is author of Institutions and the Fate of Democracy: Germany and Poland in the Twentieth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), and The Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals, and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980 (Columbia University Press, 1993).
Prior to coming to Florida, Bernhard was on the faculty of Penn State University for 20 years. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at Warsaw University and the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has delivered public lectures at a large number of public and private universities in the United States and Europe, and has conducted archival and field work in Poland, Germany, England, and Hungary.
