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Louise Shelley

Louise I. Shelley
Professor of Public Policy

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Sociology (1977)
Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University (1974-75)
Columbia University, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship used to study in the Sociology Department, Law School and the Russian Institute (1973-74)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Criminology (1973)
B.A., Cum Laude, Cornell University, Penology and Russian Literature (1972)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

The American University:

2004 – 2007 Professor, School of International Service (primary appointment)
Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs

1997-present Director, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

1986-2004 Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs
(primary appointment)
Professor, School of International Service

1989-1992 Chair, Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs
Professor, School of International Service

1982-1986 Associate Professor, School of Justice and School of International Service

1981-1982 Associate Professor, School of Justice

1977-1981 Assistant Professor, School of Justice

June 1978- IPA Social Science Program Specialist. Helped to formulate LEAA's correctional January1979 policy and review its funding in the area. Office of Planning and Management, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration

Visiting Professorships

Institute of Sociology, University of Oaxaca, Fall 1993, (lecturing in Spanish)
Law Faculty, University of Trento, Spring 1993 (lecturing in Italian)
Institute of Penal Sciences, Mexico City, Spring 1993 (lecturing in Spanish)

HONORS AND AWARDS (NOT UNIVERSITY)

U.S. Department of State, Speaker and Specialist Grant, Human trafficking, smuggling and border issues, Tajikistan, September 2006

U.S. Department of State, (ECA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Honduras, April 2001

U.S. Department of State, (USIA) Speaker and Specialist Grant, Anti-Corruption Program, Argentina, September 2000

USIA Academic Specialist Grants to work with Mahidol University, Thailand on Ph.D. in Criminology, 1992 and 1995, Established curriculum for PHD and served on advisory board of doctoral program

Fulbright Lecturing Fellowship to Mexico, 1993-1994

IREX U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1988-89

IREX Development Fellowship, 1987-88

IREX Short-Term USSR Academy of Sciences/ACLS Exchange, 1987-88

Kennan Institute Research Grant, Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1986

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1984

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to Poland and Bulgaria, Grant for Summer 1982 (withdrew because of Polish political situation)

American Sociological Association grant to present paper at World Congress of Sociology, 1978

Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, 1974-75, for Study at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, in France and at the Criminal Law Department, Moscow State University, USSR

IREX Graduate Student and Young Professors' Exchange to the USSR, 1974-75

Slavic Honor Society

American Criminology Society Student Writing Competition Award, 1975
International Fellows Program, Columbia University, 1973-74

IREX Preparatory Fellowship, 1973-74

Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-73


UNIVERSITY AWARDS

American University School of Public Affairs: Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Other Professional Contributions, 1999


The American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, 1991-92

American University Scholar of the Year Award, 1985

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

School of Justice Outstanding Scholar Award, 1985

University Summer Research Grant, 1984

School of Justice Outstanding Service Award, 1984

College of Public and International Affairs Outstanding Scholar Award, 1982

School of Justice Outstanding Scholar Award, 1982

CONTRACTS AND GRANTS

United States Department of Energy: The Threat to Russia’s Nuclear Materials: Case Study of Novosibirsk, $350,850 (12/07/05-12/31/06)

United States Department of State: Human Trafficking Awareness for Local Government Officials and Law Enforcement, 250,000 (9/01/05-2/28/07)

International Research and Exchange Board: Smuggling Links between Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in Eurasia, $30,000 (8/01/2005-7/30/2006)

Ploughshares Fund: Nuclear Smuggling Links between Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in Eurasia, $25,000 (10/17/05-10/17/06)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $65,285 (7/1/05-12/31/05)

United States Department of Energy: Organized Crime, Corruption and Nuclear Proliferation in Dagestan and Chelyabinsk, $260,000 (9/1/04-6/30/05)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Russian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $3,000,000 (ongoing 1997-2006)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Ukrainian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $1,000,000 (1997-2005)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Georgian Organized Crime Study Centers, approx. $1,000,000 (ongoing 2002-2006)

United States Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grants: Research on Money Laundering in Georgia, approx. $350,000 (ongoing 2002-2005)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $90,024 (5/1/04-12/31/04)

National Institute of Justice: Links Between Organized Crime and Terrorism, $235,810 (9/1/03-2/28/05)

Open World Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $160,338 (6/1/03-12/31/03)

IREX/Starr Family Foundation: Black Sea Grant, Corruption in Higher Education, 2002-2003

U.S. Library of Congress Open World Russian Leadership Program: Exploring Economic Reform and Development, $119,915 (7/1/02-11/30/02)

U.S. Border Patrol Academy (Vertex Solutions): Curriculum Design and Technical Implementation, $140,000 (10/1/02-12/31/04)

McCormick Tribune Foundation: Cantigny Conference on Transnational Organized Crime and
Peacekeeping; $10,000 (9/1/01-10/20/01)

World Bank: Russian Case Study of Project of Criminal and Civil Violence, $20,000

U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Grant: To Develop a Model Course Curricula for Use in Law Enforcement Training in the Prevention, Enforcement, and Prosecution of Human Trafficking Crimes, and Protection and Rehabilitation of Victims, $347,000 (1999-2000)

U.S. State Department (former USIA) Grant for Trafficking in Human Beings Research in Russia and Ukraine, approx. $120,000 (1999-2000)

U.S. Department of Justice, USAID and U.S. Department of State grant: Research on Money Laundering in Russia, $247,000 (1997-2002)

MacArthur Foundation: Organized Crime Study Centers in Russia, approx. $100,000 (1995-1997)

National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1992-93 (The Soviet Coup Trial), 1986-87 (Policing Soviet Society) and 1980-81 (Lawyers in Soviet Work Life)

American Bar Association Commission on Undergraduate Legal Studies: Grant to develop a General Education Course on Western Legal Tradition (7 out of 80 proposals funded), 1992


LANGUAGES

Fluent in French, Russian, and moderate fluency in Spanish and Italian


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS


Professional Societies:
American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, International Society of Criminology, Mexican Society of Criminology (Honorary Member).