Europe Experts
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. King is the author or editor of six books, including Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (Norton, 2011), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford, 2008),...
Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Linda Kirschke (Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2010), works on armed conflict during periods of regime change. Her manuscript, Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence During Democratization, draws on a large-N study of 68 multiparty transitions and fieldwork in Serbia and Romania. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies and The Journal of Modern African Stu...
Director, Center for European and Eurasian Studies and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
ExpertisePolitical and cultural sociology; socialism and post-socialism; gender; Romania
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut
Member, Public Finance Council, Portugal;
Visiting professor, Central European University
George Kopits is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where his primary research interest is the Euro debt crisis. He is also a member of Portugal’s Public Finance Council and a member of the Commission on Strengthening the Macro-Fiscal Framework in Peru.From 2009 to 2011, Kopits served as the first chair of the Fiscal Council in Hungary—elected una...
Doctoral Candidate, Political Science Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
EducationM.A. in Economics at Central European UniversityPh.D. Candidate in Political Science at Central European UniversityHonorsOSI funded visiting fellowship at Kroc Institute, Notre Dame (August 2002 - December 2002)CEU scholarship for Ph.D. studies (September 1999-August 2002)CEU scholarship for MA studies(September 1998 - June 1999)ExpertiseDomestic effects of foreign influence - sanctions/i...
Honorary Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professory of History, Ball State University
Dr. John Koumoulides, was a professor of history and administrator of the Greeek Studies and lecture program, which he founded, at Ball State Univeristy in Muncie, Indiana from 1968-2002. Since Januar 2003 he serves as an emritus professor at Ball State and Senior Scholar at the Wooodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also serveson the Advisory Editorial Boards of The Cyprus Review a...
Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations, University of Jyvaskyla
Rinna Kullaa is an area studies expert for South Eastern Europe and an Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. She completed her postgraduate studies at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford and a doctorate University of Maryland. She works on modern Mediterranean history since the Sec...