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Janine R. Wedel Professor of Public Policy jwedel@gmu.edu 703-993-3567 703-993-8215 fax George Mason School of Public Policy 3401 Fairfax Drive– MS 3B1 Arlington, VA 22201 Additional
Information About: A four-time Fulbright fellow and recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, the German Marshall Fund, the Eurasia Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the New America Foundation, and others. Wedel has studied eastern Europe's evolving economic and social order for some 25 years and conducted 8 years of fieldwork in the region. Founded in empirical research, her work engages both theoretical and policy debates. Wedel was the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for her book, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe (second edition: Palgrave 2001). Previous winners include Mikhail Gorbachev and Samuel Huntington. As a policy-analyst anthropologist, Wedel has contributed congressional testimony and written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Nation, The National Interest, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe as well as scholarly and policy journals. Wedel has published dozens of articles, several monographs, and written four books. Her books include Shadow Elite: The New Agents of Power and Influence, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, The Unplanned Society, and The Private Poland: Ana Anthropologist Looks at Everyday Life. Her activities on the lecture circuit include Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, and Oxford. She is a frequent speaker at National Ressearch Council and National Academy of Sciences workshops and the Foreign Service Institute. Wedel has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, includeing BBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS's Frontline. Areas of Research
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