Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
Education:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D. 1992-1999
Political Science Department
Dissertation: "Pursuing the Familiar Foreigner: The Resurgence of Antisemitism and Nationalism in Hungary Since 1989"
University Dissertation Prize Winner: Behavioral and Social Science Division
Northwestern University, August 1994-December 1994
Traveling Scholars Program
Special Philosophy Seminar with Dr. Jürgen Habermas
University of Wisconsin at Madison, B.A. 1985-December 1988
Major: Political Science with emphasis in Political Philosophy
Graduated with Distinction
University of Wisconsin/University of California EESP Program, August 1987- December 1987
Eastern Europe Studies Program
Budapest Economic Sciences University, Budapest, Hungary
Areas of Specialization:
Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Western Europe, Comparative Politics, Nationalisms and Ethnic
Politics, Extreme Rightist Parties and Social Movements, Critical Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory,
Marxism, Political Philosophy
Academic and Research Affiliations:
Assistant Professor, 2001-present
Political Science Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Associate Research Fellow, 2002-present
Human Clinical Sciences Department, University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot Campus) Paris, France
Guest Lecturer, May - June 2001
Volgograd Academy for State Service; Volgograd, Russia
Assistant Professor (Visiting), 2000-2001
Providence College; Providence, Rhode Island
Assistant Professor (Visiting), 1999-2000
Illinois Wesleyan University; Bloomington, Illinois
East European Junior Scholars' Training Seminar Fellow, August 1999
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Washington, D.C.
Lecturer, 1992-1997
University of Illinois at Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Researcher, 1996-1997
Central European University; Budapest, Hungary
Research Associate, June-July 1996
Russian and Eastern European Summer Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Publications:
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
"Mainstreaming Extremism: The Romanian PDSR in Comparative Perspective" in Communist
Successor Parties: Ten Years of Transformation, Bozóki, András and Ishiyama, John, eds., (M.E.
Sharpe, 2002), pp. 367-396.
"Abjection: Applying Julia Kristeva's Concept of Splitting to Collective Identity Formation" in
(Des)obeissance et droits humains, Kiss, Adam, ed., (L'Harmattan, 2002), pp 179-198.
“The Clash Within: Intrapsychically Created Enemies and Their Roles in Ethno-Nationalist Conflict”
in Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox, Worcester, Kent, Ungar, Mark, and Bermanzohn,
Sally eds., (Routledge, 2002), pp.209-225.
“Transparency and Obfuscation: Constructing Modernist Power and the Possibilities of
Transcendence” in Power in Russia: Theory, Traditions, Prospects, Anipkin, Mikhail, ed.,
(University of Volgograd Press, 2000), pp. 13-26.
“Challenging Expectations: A Comparative Study of the Communist Successor Parties of Hungary,
Bulgaria and Romania” in Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist Politics, Ishiyama, John
ed., (Nova Science Publishers, 1999), pp. 179-221.
“Employing the Past: The Resurrection of Nationalist and Antisemitic Rhetoric in the Search for a
New Hungarian Identity” in Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium,
Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor eds., (The University of Humanist Studies, 1998), pp. 215-227.
“The Role of Abjection, Loss and Mourning in the Formation of Collective Consciousness and
National Self in Hungary Since 1989” in Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the
Millennium, Brinkhuis and Talmor eds., (The University of Humanist Studies, 1998), pp. 380-392.
Articles and Review Essays:
“La terreur des opprimés – Un examen comparatiste des réponses au terrorisme” in Topique: Revue
Freudienne, 2003, Number 83, pp. 13-22 (Translated into French by Thamy Ayouch)
“Historical Contingency and the Political Economy of Nations” in International Politics, Volume 39,
Number 2, June 2002, pp. 235-244
Invited Lectures:
“Terrorism, Targets, and the State: An Exploration of the Use of Fear to Expand Power” Presented at
“The Future of Civil Society in the Face of Terrorist Threats: Russia and the US” Conference,
Volgograd, Russia, June 19-21, 2003
“The Terror of the Repressed: Examining Responses to Terrorism in a Comparative Perspective”
Presented for “Terrorism and Human Rights” Symposium at the University of Paris VII, Paris,
France; October 25, 2002.
“Historical Materialism and Constructions of the Dialectic: Reading Marx” Presented at the U.S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; September 26, 2002.
“Deconstructing the Rise of the European Radical Right: Gramsci, Hegemony and Conflicted
Political Space” Presented at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; April 5, 2002.
“Constructions of Modernist Power: Ten Lectures on Political Economy, the Disciplinary State and
Resistance” Presented at the Volgograd Academy for State Service, Volgograd, Russia; May 18-
June 9, 2001
“Transparency and Obfuscation: Comparative Reflections on Structural Domination and
Constructions of Power, East and West” Presented for Power in Russia: Theory, Tradition and
Perspectives at the Volgograd Academy for State Service, Volgograd, Russia; June 9, 2000.
“The Usual Suspects: New Anxieties and the Resurgence of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe”
Presented for the International Center for Political Communication and the Political Science
Association Lecture Series, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO; March 29, 2000.
“The State and Privatization: Conflicts and the Darker Side of Hungary’s Attempts for European
Union Integration” Presented for the International Education Center, Truman State University,
Kirksville, MO; March 29, 2000.
“Abjection: Applying Julia Kristeva’s Model of Splitting to Collective Identity Crises”
Presented at (Dis)obedience and Human Rights Conference at the Centre d’Etude et de Recherche
en Psychopathologie at the Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France; March 3, 2000.
“When Everything is on the Block: Central European Privatization Efforts Ten Years After”
Presented at the International Business Seminar, School of Business, Illinois Wesleyan University,
Bloomington, IL; February 29, 2000.
“Goldhagen’s Storm: Debating the Meaning and Causes of the Resurgence of Antisemitism in
Central and Eastern Europe” Presented for the Social Science Lecture Series at Illinois State
University, Normal, IL; November 11, 1999.
“Researching Hate: Methodological Concerns for Studying Antisemitism, Racism, and Ethnic
Conflict” Presented at New Faculty Colloquium, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL;
October 20, 1999.
“Ethnicity, Trauma and Nations: Collective Identity Formation and Nationalist Myth Making”
Presented at the University of Maryland, Schwäbische Gmünd Campus, Germany, for Central
European Politics Lecture Series, December 10, 1996.
Academic Services and Activities:
Short Term Election Observer, Republic of Georgia, November 2003
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
External Thesis Advisor, 2003
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
External Examiner, Honors Program 2002
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Member of the Standing Committee on Extremism and Democracy, 2000
European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
East European Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar Fellow, August 1999
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars & American Council of Learned Societies
Member of Study Group on Identity Crises (SGIC), 1996-1999
Multi-national Academic Working Group, Debno, Poland
Grants and Honors:
Eugene Lang Political Research Grant, 2003
Swarthmore College
Summer Academic Enrichment Grant, 2003
Swarthmore College
First Prize Winner, 2000
Annual Graduate Dissertation Prize – Behavioral and Social Science Division
University of Illinois at Chicago
Traveling Scholar, 1994
Northwestern University
Consortium for Institutional Cooperation.
Phi Kappa Phi, 1993
Academic Honor Society.
Vilas Memorial Scholar, 1986
Academic Scholarship
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Languages:
English, Hungarian and Spanish
Foreign Employment:
Consultant
Városkutatás(Metropolitan Research Institute); Budapest, Hungary
April 1999
Assistant Press Secretary for English Language
Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége (Alliance of Free Democrats): Budapest, Hungary
February 1990-May 1990