Education, Academic Employment and University Service

Education

• Ph.D. (1997), M.A. (1993) Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science Concentrations: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory.

• Free University of Berlin (1990-91) Graduate study in Political Science at the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy.

• B.A. (1988) University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1984-1988. Magna Cum Laude in Political Science. Minor in German Language and Literature.

Post-Doctoral Appointments, Fellowships and Visiting Positions

• Faculty Affiliate, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University, 2002-present.

• Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, 2001-2002.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 1999-2000.

• Young Scholar's Summer Institute 1999 and 2000 on "The Unification of Germany: Problems of Transition in Comparative Perspective," Social Science Research Council (2000), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1999).

• Visiting Scholar, the Harriman Institute, Columbia University 1998-99.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Mina de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Spring-Summer, 1998.

• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Germany, January-July, 1995.

• Graduate Teaching Fellowships, Syracuse University, 1991-95.

University Service

• Search Committee, Law and Society joint faculty position, The New School, 2005-2006

• Search Committee, Director of Graduate Studies for the Media Studies and Film Program, The New School, 2005-2006.

• Council on Global Initiatives, The New School, 2005-present.

• Faculty Senate, New School University, 2003-2005.

• Executive Committee, The New School, New School University, 2003-2005.

• Fulbright Committee, The New School, New School University, 2003.

• Web Committee, The New School, New School University, 2003-present.

• Search Committee, Comparative Politics/Political Theory faculty position, 2003.

• International Advisory Committee, Milano School, New School University, 2002-2004.

• Associate Dean Search Committee, The New School, New School University, 2002-03.

• Dissertation committee member, Hana Cervinkova, "We're not playing at being soldiers: An ethnographic study of the Czech military and its changing relationship with the state and society in the period of post-socialist transformation," Department of Anthropology, Graduate Faculty, New School University, 2002.

• Coordinator, Faculty Colloquium in Social and Historical Theory, Syracuse University, 1993-95. Graduate Studies Committee, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, 1993-94. Complete reform of comprehensive examination procedure.

• Search Committee, Sawyer Chair in Constitutional Law, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, 1993-94. President, Political Science Graduate Student Association, Syracuse University, 1992-93.

Teaching and Professional Experience

Teaching Experience

• Associate Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, 2005-present.

• Core Faculty, Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University, 2002-2005.

• Director, Syracuse University Geneva Internship Program. Graduate Practicum on International Organization. Summer 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.Spring 2000. Graduate seminar on "Technologies of Civil Society: NGOs and Information Technology in East Central Europe."

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of World Affairs, Social Sciences Department, State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology. Spring 1999 - Spring 2000. Taught "Introduction to World Affairs" and "Contemporary Western Europe."

• Instructor, Teaching Associate and Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Department of Political Science, 1991-1997. Courses: Introduction to International Relations; the Global Community; Introduction to Political Theory; Political Fiction; Philosophy of Law; Introduction to Comparative Politics; and Politics in England (summer seminar in London)

Professional Experience

• International Summer Program and Career Development Coordinator, Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University, 2002-2005.

• Fellowship Selection Committee, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2003-present.

• Board Member, International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education (IISCE), University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland, 2003-present.

• Co-Chair, Thematic Network on Contemporary European Cities, Council on European Studies, 2003-present.

• Content Specialist, International Institute of Education, Fulbright Program, Enrichment Seminar on Conflict Resolution for Fulbright Students, Spring 2003.

• Learning Consultant, Social Science Research Council Program on "Information Technology, Global Security and International Cooperation, 2001-2003.

• Research Associate, "New Emissaries and No Emissaries: The Representation of New Voices in Global Politics." Project at the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, 2001-2002.

• Director, Syracuse University Geneva Summer Internship Program--Practicum in International Organizations, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.

• Program Director, USAID Training Program "Becoming Citizens: A Training Program for the Latvian Naturalization Board," February 1999.

• Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, VA. Projects on German security policy and conventional arms control. 1990-91.

• Program Officer and Executive Assistant to the Director of Research. Institute for East-West Security Studies (currently the EastWest Institute), New York, New York. Administration of international fellowship program; Rapporteur; Research assistance. 1988-90.

• Consultant, United Nations, Disarmament Department. United Nations Study on Nuclear Weapons. Coordinated research and provided documentation from scientific and technical literature for the text of the study. Spring, 1990.

Publications

Books, Monographs and Translations

• Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989. St. Martin's Press and Lit Verlag, 1999.

• The Partnership and the Pendulum: The Foreign Policy Debate in the United States and Implications for European Security. Hamburg Monographs on Peace Research and Security Policy, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, 1995.

• Warfare Since the Second World War by Klaus-Jürgen Gantzel and Torsten Schwinghammer. Transaction Publishers, 2000. (Translated from the German.)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• "The Politics of Security: The View from New York Five Years After 9/11" S+F (Sicherheit und Frieden / Security and Peace) 2006. Forthcoming.

• "Global Civil Society" in Richard Langhorne, The Essentials of Global Politics, London: Hodder Arnold, 2006. (Forthcoming)

• "Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association" (with David Stark) in Saskia Sassen and Robert Latham, eds., Digital Formations, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

• "Vanishing Acts and Virtual Reconstructions: Technologies of Memory and the Afterlife of the GDR" in Silke Arnold-de Simine, ed., Memory traces: 1989 and the question of German cultural identity, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

• Komunismus jako zbozí? ("Communism as Commodity?") Fórum architektury a stavitelství (Forum of Architecture and Construction), Prague, Czech Republic, 4-5/2004.

• "Link, Search, Interact: the Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology" (with David Stark), Theory, Culture & Society, Vol.21(3): 101-117, 2004.

• Technology and Transformation: Facilitating Knowledge Networks in Eastern Europe (with David Stark), Geneva: United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, Technology, Business and Society Program Paper 10, November, 2003. Reprinted in Transnational Associations: The Review of the Union of International Associations 1/2004, pp.58-75.

• "The New Spirit of German Geopolitics" (with Susanne Peters) Geopolitics Vol.7, No.3, Winter 2002.

• "Innovative Ambiguities: NGOs' use of Interactive Technology in Eastern Europe" (with David Stark) Studies in Comparative and International Development Vol.37, No. 2, Summer 2002.

• "'The Taste Remains': Consumption, (N)ostalgia and the Production of East Germany" Public Culture Vol. 14, no. 3, Fall 2002.

• "Cultural Identity and the Legacy of the GDR: 'Eastproducts' and Television after Unification" [in German] (with Karin Wehn) in Wolfgang Schluchter and Peter Quint, eds., Der Vereinigungsschock [The Shock of Unification] Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, October 2001.

• "The Transatlantic Partnership in the Shadow of Globalization" in Tom Barry and Martha Honey, eds., U.S. Global Affairs 1999-2000, St. Martin's Press, 2000.

• "Globalization, Democracy and Modernity." in Cheryl Hughes and Hudson Yeager, eds., Cultural Integrity and World Community. Studies in Social and Political Theory No. 22, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

• "US-EU Trade Issues" Foreign Policy in Focus, Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies, December 1999.

• "Germany after Unification and Eastern Europe: New Perspectives, New Problems" Intermarium, December 1998.

• "Deploying Soldiers, Deploying Words" Peace Review, December 1998.

• "A Critique of Rawls' Hermeneutics as Translation" (with Jim Josefson), Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol.23, No.1, January 1997.

• "Die USA und den Kalten Krieg: Ende Gut, Alles Gut?" (The USA and the Cold War: All's Well that Ends Well?) Dialog (Austria) No. 19, Summer 1991.

Book and Manuscript Reviews

• Manuscript reviews for Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, Westview Press, Theory, Culture & Society, Qualitative Sociology, Geopolitics, Focus on German Studies, Global Society, Human Organization, Proposal review for the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).

• John Mosher, Unavoidable Germans: Art vs. Politics and the Consequences. German Studies Review, XXI:2, May 1998.

• Jens Hacker, Integration und Verantwortung. German Studies Review, XX:2, May 1997.

• Peter H. Merkl, German Unification in the European Context. German Studies Review, XVII:2, May, 1994.

Grants and Awards

• Faculty Development Grant, New School University, 2004-2005.

• National Science Foundation "Organizational Innovation and Interactive Technology among NGOs in Eastern Europe" ($316,000) (with David Stark)

• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), grant in support of "Charting the Web of Civil Society: NGOs' use of Interactive Technologies in Central and Eastern Europe." 2000-2001 ($44,000) (with David Stark).

• Aspen Institute Nonprofit Research Sector, grant in support of "Charting the Web of Civil Society: NGOs' use of Interactive Technologies in Central and Eastern Europe." 2000-2001 ($25,000) (with David Stark).

• Certificate in University Teaching, Pew Future Professoriate Program, Graduate School of Syracuse University 1997.

Professional Affilations and Languages

Membership in Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, German Studies Association, European Union Studies Association, Council on European Studies.

Languages

English (native), German (fluent), French (basic)