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GRZEGORZ EKIERT CURRICULUM VITAE

Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

email: ekiert@fas.harvard.edu - phone: (617) 495-4303 ext. 213 - fax: (617) 495-8509

web: http://scholar.harvard.edu/ekiert

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1991

M.A. Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1987

M.A. Jagiellonian University, Poland, Department of Sociology (Summa Cum Laude) 1980

ACADEMIC AND SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

2012 – Present Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard

University

1998 - Present Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard

University

1998 - Present Senior Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area

Studies, Harvard University

2000 - 2006 Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

1995 - Present Research Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,

Harvard University.

1991 - Present Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Euroasian Studies,

Harvard University

1990 - Present Resident Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard

University

1995 - 1998 Associate Professor of Government, Department of Government,

Harvard University

1991 - 1994 Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government,

Harvard University

1980 - 1984 Lecturer in Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University,

Krakow, Poland

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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS OF JOURNALS

Special issue of Taiwan Journal of Democracy, “A Liberal Challenge? Civil Society and Grass-

roots Politics in New Democracies, Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes,” Vol. 8, No. 2,

December 2012 (co-editor Sunhyuk Kim)

Special issue of East European Politics and Societies, “Democracy in Postcommunist World,”

Vol. 21: 1, 2007

Special issue of East European Politics and Societies, The Next Great Transformation: the EU

Eastward Enlargement, Vol. 17, No. 1 Winter 2003, (co-editor Jan Zielonka)

Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist

Rule, (co-editor Stephen Hanson), Cambridge University Press 2003. Romanian

translation of the book published by Polirom in Bucuresti in 2010

Rebellious Civil Society. Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, (co-author

Jan Kubik, Rutgers University) University of Michigan Press 1999

The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe,

Princeton University Press 1996

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland” (co-authors Jan Kubik

and Michal Wenzel) forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Special Issue on Civil Society

in an Era of Inequality.

“Three Generations of Research on Post-Communist Politics – A Sketch,” in: East European

Politics and Societies (May 2015) Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 323-337

“Myths and Realities of Civil Society,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Journal of Democracy (January

2014) Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 46-58

“Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 100 years On,” (co-author Daniel Ziblatt) in: East

European Politics and Societies (February 2013) Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 88-105

“The Illiberal Challenge in Post-Communist Europe: Surprises and Puzzles,” Taiwan Journal of

Democracy (December 2012) Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 63-77

“Prawidlowosci transformacji w Europie Wschodniej, Studia Sociologiczne (2011) No. 1 (200),

pp. 501-526 (in Polish)

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“Civil Society: From Myth to Reality,” (co-author Roberto Foa) in: Civil Szemle (Spring 2011)

No, 1-2, pp. 90-119 (in Hungarian)

“The End of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Last Middle Class Revolution?”

in: Political Power and Social Theory (2010) Vol. 21, pp. 99-123

“Dilemmas of Europeanization: Eastern and Central Europe after the EU Enlargement, Acta

Slavica Iaponica (2008) Vol. 25, pp. 1-28

“Democracy in Postcommunist World: An Unending Quest,” (co-authors Jan Kubik and Milada

Anna Vachudova), East European Politics and Societies (2007) Vol. 21, No 1, pp. 1-24

“Party Politics: The Weak Link in Polish Democratic Consolidation, Pouvoirs (2006) No. 118,

pp. 37-59 (in French)

“Introduction: Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing The EU’s Eastward

Enlargement,” (co-author Jan Zielonka) East European Politics and Societies (Winter

2003) Vol. 17, No. 1 pp. 3-19

"Europa orientale, il peso del passato: continuita' e cambiamento negli scenari regionali", in

Ventunesimo secolo (2002) No. 2, pp. 117-139 (in Italian)

“Response to Mark Kramer,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Communist and Post-Communist Studies

(2002), Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 220-228

“Models of Transformation in Eastern Europe,” in: Studia Sociologiczne (2000) No. 3, pp. 11-41

(in Polish)

"Ten Years After: An Optimistic View," East European Politics and Societies (1999) Vol. 13,

No. 2, pp. 278-284

"Protest Politics in Post-Communist Poland: A Research Report," (co-author Jan Kubik),

Communist and Post-communist Studies (July 1998) Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 91-117

"Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, the former East Germany, Poland and

Slovakia," (co-author Jan Kubik), World Politics (July 1998) Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 547-581

"Protest Politics in Postcommunist East Central Europe," (co-author Jan Kubik), in Studia

Sociologiczne (1997) No. 4, pp. 21-59 (in Polish)

"Paradigmas de la transicion post-comunista en Europe del Este," Encuentro (1997) No. 6/7, pp.

127-141 (in Spanish)

"Rebellious Poles: Political Crises and Popular Protest under State Socialism, 1945-1989," East

European Politics and Societies (1997) Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 299-338

"Rebellious Poles (1968-89)," Periphery (1996) Vol. 2, No. 1/2, pp. 32-37

"Collective Protest as the Mode of Political Participation in Post-Communist Poland, 1989-

1992," Studia Sociologiczne (1994) No. 2, pp. 5-31. (In Polish)

"Prospects and Dilemmas of the Transition to a Market Economy in East Central Europe," in:

Research on Democracy and Society (1993) Vol. 1, pp. 51-82.

"Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Analysis," in: Studia

Polityczne (1993) Vol. 5, No. 1-4, pp. 87-112. (In Polish)

"Peculiarities of Post-Communist Politics: The Case of Poland," in: Studies in Comparative

Communism (1992) Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 341-361

"The Return of the German Minority to Poland," in: German Politics and Society (Summer

1992) No. 26, pp. 90-108

"Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Reconsideration," in: British

Journal of Political Science (1991), Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 285-313. Re-printed in: The

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International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, edited by D. Arter,

Volume on Transitions to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives from Southern Europe,

Latin America and Eastern Europe edited by Geoffrey Pridham, Dartmouth Publishing

Company 1995

"Transitions from State-Socialism in East Central Europe," in: States and Social Structures

Newsletter (Winter 1990) No. 12, pp. 1-7

"The Poles at the Polls: Voting Attitudes and Behavior in Cracow during the Local Election in

1984," (co-authors: Janusz Mucha, Tadeusz Borkowski), in: East European Quarterly

(1986) Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 359-375

"Voting Behavior and Motivation of Inhabitants of Podgorze District in Cracow," (co-authors: J.

Mucha, T. Borkowski), in: Studia Sociologiczne (1985), No. 2, pp. 213-227. (In Polish)

"Collective Behavior and Social Change," in: Studia Sociologiczne (1983) No. 3, pp. 77-94 (In

Polish)

"Ruling Party in the Socialist Society," (co-author: Jacek Szmatka), in: Przeglad Sociologiczny

(1983). Accepted for publication by the editor but prohibited by the censorship.

Published in Solidarity's underground journal Documenty i Analizy (In Polish)

"Toward a New Framework for Analyzing Strikes," (co-author: Aleksander Marcinkowski), in:

Studia Sociologiczne (1983) No. 2, pp. 393-406 (In Polish)

"The Vision of Future Society in the Theoretical Structure of Marxism," in: Studia Sociologiczne

(1981) No. 2, pp. 5-22 (In Polish)

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Civil Society in Poland 25 Years after 1989,” forthcoming in: The Challenge of Collective

Action: New perspective on Civil Society and Social Activism in Contemporary Poland,

edited by Kerstin Jacobsson and Elzbieta Korolczuk.

“Civil Society as an Political Strategy and Analytical Approach to Social Transformation,” in:

Handbuch Transformations - Forschung edited by Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel

and Hans-Jurgen Wagner, Springer VS 2015, pp. 195-207 (in German).

“Social Movements and Transitions to Democracy in Communist and Post-Communist East

Central Europe: Protest, Institutionalization and Accommodation, in: Social Movements

in Times of Transition, edited by P.G. Klandermans and Cornelis Van Stralen, Temple

University Press 2015, pp. 281-301.

“Mity i rzeczywistosc spoleczenstwa obywatelskiego,” in: Kultura, tozsamosc i integracja

europejska, edited by Dariusz Niedzwiecki, Nomos 2014 (co-author Jan Kubik) pp. 326-

345 (in Polish).

“Civil Society: from Myth to Reality,” (co-author Roberto Foa) in: 1989 as a Political World

Event, edited by Jacques Rupnik, Routledge 2014, pp. 79-100.

“Poland“ in: Pathways to Freedom. Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic

Transitions, edited by Isobel Coleman and Terra Lawson-Remer, Council on Foreign

Relations, New York 2013, pp. 77-105 (co-author George Soroka)

“Dilemmas of Europeanisation: Eastern and Central Europe after the EU Enlargement,” in:

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Democracy, State and Society. European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe

edited by Magdalena Góra and Katarzyna Zielińska, Krakow: Jagiellonian University

Press, Krakow 2011, pp. 37-63.

“Protesty spoleczne w nowych demokracjach: Polska, Slowacja, Wegry i Niemcy Wschodnie,”

(co-author Jan Kubik) in: Wielka transformacja zmiany ustroju w Polsce po 1989, edited

by Ireneusz Krzeminski, Warszawa: Losgraf 2011

“Strengthening Pluralism and Public Participation in New Democracies,” (co-author Anna

Grzymala-Busse), in: The Construction of Democracy, edited by Anthony Jones and

Jorge Dominguez, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. 20-45

“EU membership, consolidation, and quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, ” in

Stawanie sie Spoleczenstwa, Andrzej Flis, ed. Krakow: Universitas, 2006, pp. 267-91 (in

Polish)

“Time, Space and Institutional Change in Central and Eastern Europe” (co-author Stephen

Hanson) in: Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by G.

Ekiert and S. Hanson, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 15-48

“Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe,” in: Capitalism and

Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by G. Ekiert and S. Hanson,

Cambridge University Press (2003) pp. 89-119

“The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective,” in: The Nation-State in

Question, edited by John Hall and John Ikenberry, Princeton University Press (2003) pp.

291-320

“Strengthening of Political and Social Pluralism and of Political Parties,” Conference on

Democratic Transition and Consolidation, Madrid: Siddharth Mehta Ediciones (2002) pp.

107-122

“Civil Society and Democratization in Poland. Forms of Organization and Types of Foreign

Assistance,” (co-author Jan Kubik), in: Democratic Consolidation. The International

Dimension, edited by Gerhard Mangott, Harald Waldrauch and Stephen Day, Baden-

Baden: Nomos (2000), pp. 257-92

"Political Parties and Party Systems," in: The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Wladyslaw

Kwasniewicz, Vol. 3, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa (2000), pp. 70 -76 (in Polish)

“Patterns of Postcommunist Transition in Eastern Europe,” in: Democracy in Central Europe,

edited by Justyna Miklaszewska, Krakow: Meritum (1999) pp. 13-40

"Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Democratic Consolidation" (co-author Jan Kubik) in:

Acts of Dissent. New Developments in the Study of Protest. edited by Dieter Rucht,

Ruud Koopmans and Friedhelm Neidhardt, Berlin: Sigma Press (1998) pp. 317-48. Also

published by Rowman and Littlefield in 1999

"Legacies of Struggle and Defeats" in: Transition to Democracy in Poland, edited by Richard F.

Staar, St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, (1998) pp. 15-47

"Poland," "Solidarity," "Liberum Veto," "Lech Walesa," in: The Encyclopedia of Democracy,

edited by Seymour M. Lipset, Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books (1996) pp.

947-53, 1158-60, 1340-46, and 1359-60

"Aussichten und Dilemma des Ubergangs zur Marktwirtschaft in Ostmitteleuropa," in: Herbert

Matis and Dieter Stiefel (eds.) Der Weg aus der Knechtschaft, Wien: Ueberreuter (1992)

pp. 77-121 (in German)

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"Kazimierz Kelles-Krauze; From Marxism to Sociology," in: Piotr Sztompka (ed.), Masters of

Polish Sociology, Cracow, Wroclaw & Warsaw: Ossolineum (1984) pp. 67-81

WORKING PAPERS, INTERVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Polski Harvard,” interview with Malgorzata Bonikowska, Gazeta, 9 July 2014.

“Dlaczego Polacy sie nie buntuja” interview with Adam Leszczynski, Gazeta Wyborcza, 2 May

2014

“Democratization and Paradoxes of History” interview with Zbigniew Truchlewski, Nouvelle

Europe, 17 June 2013

“The Weakness of Post-Communist Civil Society Reassessed,” (co-author Roberto Foa) Center

for European Studies, Open Forum Series, September 2012

“Eastern Europe’s Postcommunist Transformations,” World Politics Review, Special Report

(worldpoliticsreview.com) 20 March 2012

“Civil Society Weakness in Post-Communist Europe: A Preliminary Assessment,” (co-author

Roberto Foa), Carlo Alberto Notebooks, Working Paper No. 198, Moncalieri (Turin),

Italy, 2011

“Democracy in the Post Communist World: Unfinished Business.” Conference Report, the IV

General Assembly of the Club of Madrid (co-authors Jan Kubik and Milada Anna

Vachudova), 2006

“The Perils of Partnership,” (co-author Andrew Moravcsik), Newsweek, International Edition,

May 10, 2004

“Demokratyczny zgryz,” (co-author Jan Kubik) Newsweek Polska, 12/22/2002, pp. 126-30

“The State after State Socialism,” IWM Working Papers, Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom

Menschen, Vienna. Austria 2001

“Civil Society from Abroad: the Role of Foreign Assistance in the Democratization of Poland,”

(co-author Jan Kubik), Working Paper Series, Weatherhead Center for International

Affairs, Harvard University, No. 00-01, 2000

"Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Eastern Europe," Occasional Papers, East European

Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, No. 53,

1999

"Post-totalitarian Legacies, Civil Society and Democracy in Postcommunist Poland," (co-author

Jan Kubik), Working Paper Series, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University,

1997

"Contentious Politics in New Democracies: Hungary, the former East Germany, Poland and

Slovakia," (co-author Jan Kubik), Program on Eastern and Central Europe Working

Paper Series, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, paper No. 41, 1997

"Instruction for Protest Event Analysis in Hungary and a Questionnaire for the Survey" (co-

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author Jan Kubik), in: Uj Rendeszeti Tanulmanyok, Special Issue of Police Research

Institute Studies, edited by Peter Timoranszky, Budapest: Police Research Institute

(1996) pp. 165-186

"Collective Protest and Consolidation of Democracy in Poland, 1989-1993," (co-author Jan

Kubik), Pew Working Papers on Central and East European Reform, No. 3, 1996, Center

of International Studies, Princeton University

"Rebellious Poles: Cycles of Protest and Popular Mobilization Under State-Socialism, 1945-

1989," Working Paper Series, Advanced Study Center, International Institute, University

of Michigan, 1995-96, No. 5

"Public Participation and Politics of Discontent in Post-Communist Poland, 1989-1992,"

Program on Eastern and Central Europe Working Paper Series, Center for European

Studies, Harvard University, paper No. 30, 1994

"Collective Identities and Collective Protest: Rebellions in the Soviet Concentration Camp

System," Center for Research on Politics and Social Organization, Harvard University,

Working Paper Series, paper No. 0031, 1990

"Conditions of Political Obedience and Stability in State-Socialist Societies: The Inapplicability

of Weber's Concept of Legitimacy," Center for Research on Politics and Social

Organization, Harvard University, Working Papers Series, paper no. 0005, 1988

"Recent Elections in Poland and Hungary: The Coming Crisis of Ritualized Politics," Center for

Research on Politics and Social Organization, Harvard University, Working Papers

Series, paper no. 0014, 1988

HONORS AND MAJOR AWARDS

2015 Harvard Asia Center, conference grant

2015 Harvard – Yenching Institute, conference grant

2015 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, conference

grant

2015 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, conference grant

2014 Hong Kong University, conference and research grant

2014 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Visiting Fellow, Moncalieri, Italy

2011 Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, conference grant

2011 Harvard-Yenching Institute, conference grant

2011 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, research grant

2011 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

2010 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Visiting Fellow, Moncalieri, Italy

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2009-2010 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence

2007 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, conference

grant

2007 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, faculty research grant

2007 Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, research grant for the project on the Logic of

Civil Society

2007 The 21st Century COE Program Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan

2006 Faculty Research Support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University

2006 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

2005 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Taiwan, research grant for the project on the

Logic Civil Society (principal investigator)

2004 Korea Research Foundation, Seoul, Research grant for the project on the Logic of

Civil Society (co-principal investigator)

2004 Faculty research grant, Davies Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

2004 Faculty Research Support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University

2003 Korea Research Foundation, Seoul, Research grant for the project on civil society

(co-principal investigator)

2003 Faculty research grant, Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, Harvard

University

2002 Faculty research grant, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University

2001 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Science Award for the book Rebellious Civil

Society awarded by the Polish Institute of Arts and Science of America.

2001-2002 Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European

University Institute, Florence, Italy

2000 Faculty research support, The Clark Fund, Harvard University

2000 Orbis Book Prize for Rebellious Civil Society awarded by the American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

2000 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

1997-1998 National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Research Grant

1997 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies,

Research Grant

1996 Biennial Prize for the Best Book in Polish Studies for the book The State Against

Society awarded by the Polish Studies Association

1995-1996 Sawyer Fellow, Advanced Study Center of the International Institute, University

of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1995-1996 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Grant.

1995 Opportunity Grant, Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for

European Studies, Harvard University

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1994-1995 American Council of Learned Societies, Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1994-1996 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Research Grant

(Principal Investigator)

1994-1995 Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies,

Harvard University, Research Grant (Principal Investigator)

1993-1994 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Grant

1993 Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, East European Program, Woodrow Wilson

International Center for Scholars

1992-1993 Research Grant from the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center

for European Studies, Harvard University (Principal Investigator)

1988-1990 MacArthur Fellowship in International Security, Center for International Affairs,

Harvard University

1989 Krupp Foundation Fellowship in European Studies, Center for European Studies,

Harvard University

1984-1988 Graduate Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Teaching and research fields: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Collective Action and

Social Movements, Democratic Transitions and Regime Change, Civil Society, Research Design

and Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences, Communist and Post-Communist Political Systems,

East European Politics and Society.

CURRENT AND RECENT COURSES

Government 3006: Research Workshop in Comparative Politics, Government 2127: Contentious

Politics in Comparative Perspective (graduate seminar), Government 2148: Civil Society West

and East (graduate seminar), Government 1203: Capitalism and Democracy: Central and East

European Politics in Historical Perspective (undergraduate lecture course), Government 1115:

Collective Action, Protest Movements and Contentious Politics (undergraduate seminar),

Government 2213: Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism (graduate seminar), Government 98:

New Democracies in Comparative Perspective (undergraduate seminar), Government 20:

Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate lecture course), Government 2144: Issues in

Comparative Political Analysis (graduate seminar), Government 3006: Research Workshop on

Performance of Democracies (graduate seminar).

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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

The logic of civil society in new democracies - Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan

(Jan Kubik co-principal investigator in collaboration with Bela Greskovits, Sunhyuk Kim, Chin-

en Wu, Jason Wittenberg and Michal Wenzel).

This collaborative project is a rigorous empirical study of the civil society development and its

impact on the quality of democracy and governance in newly democratized states. It focuses on

civil society’s structure, its activities and their evolution in four countries (Hungary, Poland,

South Korea and Taiwan) and covers over a twenty-year period, since the democratic

breakthrough until 2011 in each case. A uniform methodology is employed in all four countries

to ensure maximum comparability of the information collected. Event analysis, the project’s

principal method, is explicitly designed to capture the dynamism of civil society’s actions and

their effects on other domains of the polity. The influence of civil society’s actions on the quality

of democracy is tested against competing theories that emphasize the role of economic

performance, political culture, and institutional design. Our data show a striking diversity in

patterns of civil society development and its impact on democracy. Interestingly, these patterns

do not conform to regional boundaries.

The project started in 2004 and data collection took the extended period of time. The first

workshop of project participants presenting the country studies took place at the Center for

European Studies at Harvard University in June 2008, the second in 2009 in Taipei, and the final

one in Seoul in 2012. In addition, to a number of papers some of which has been already

accepted for publication, we plan to publish a comparative book and a monograph on Poland.

There is also going to be a monograph on Korea and possible one on Taiwan. The project entered

its final stage. We expect to have the draft manuscript of the comparative volume by the end of

this calendar year.

Mobilized contention: the state-social movements nexus (co-organizers Elizabeth Perry and

Yan Xiaojun).

This project focuses on state sponsored social movements and government organized civil

society organizations in authoritarian and hybrid regimes and in particular on China and Russia.

Protest movements and civil society organizations do not operate exclusively or even

predominantly along the state-society divide. Not only do movements emerge to challenge other

movements (in a movement-counter movement dynamic) but modern states are also busily

organizing their citizens to promote specific state goals and interests. Increasingly, it seems,

major protest events and sustained movement activities around the world are state initiated, state

sponsored and state supported. States’ roles in initiating and sustaining social movements are

sometimes open and obvious, but very often they are not. Movements and civil society

organizations often masquerade as genuine expression of autonomous social interests, grievances

and emotions, while in fact they are being constructed and manipulated by states. The project is

designed to investigate these understudied and under-theorized relations between states and

protest movements and civil society organizations. The question of when, how and why the state

gets involved in generating and sponsoring movements and in supporting protest activities

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directed against other movements and political actors both domestically and abroad, and what

kinds of dilemmas these initiatives pose to both states and civil society actors are fascinating

issues.

Logistically, the project will include two conferences (Hong Kong University and Harvard

University) leading the edited volume by Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth Perry and Yan Xiaojun. The

first conference is scheduled to take place in June 2015.

Political geographies and political economies of postcommunist Europe and the problem of

long run historical continuities (single author book project)

This project is designed to examine the patterns of postcommunist transformations and to

evaluate scholarly debates and theories explaining trajectories of transformations developed in

comparative politics and political sociology since 1989. It focuses on the role of deep historical

legacies in shaping contemporary political outcomes and methodological challenges involved in

studying the role of historical legacies.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (MOST RECENT)

Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs (2015), School of Slavonic and East

European Studies, University College London (2015), Harvard Club of Turkey, Istanbul (2015),

American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington (2014); Hong Kong

University, Department of Politics and Public Administration (four presentations) (2014);

University of Florida, Gainesville (2014); Polish Academy of Sciences and Collegium Civitas,

Warsaw, Poland (2013); Warsaw University, Warsaw Poland (2013); International Conference

of Europeanists, Amsterdam (2013); Council on Foreign Relations, New York (2013);

International Business School, Brandeis University (2013); American Political Science

Association, Annual Meeting (2012); Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions

and Politics (2012); Korea University, Seoul, St. Korea (2012) East Asia Institute, Seoul, St.

Korea (2012); Center for Comparative and International, ETH Zurich (2011); Nieman

Foundation, Cambridge, MA (2011); Hong Kong University, Department of Politics, Hong Kong

(2011) Beijing University, Department of Sociology, Beijing (2011); Princeton University,

Department of Politics (2010); Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2010); APSA

2010, Washington, DC; Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (2010); Central European University,

Budapest, Hungary (2010); European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2010); Shuman

Centre, EUI Florence, Italy (2010) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (2010);

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Sciences Po, Paris (2010); Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University

(2010); Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville (2010);

SELECTED PAST PRESENTATIONS

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University; International Business School, Brandeis

University; Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; University Seminar on

Global Governance and Democracy, Duke University; Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan;

National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido

University, Japan; CINEFOGO Workshop on Social Capital and Democracy in Europe and the

USA, Madrid Spain; US State Department, Washington DC, Conference on Understanding the

Appeals of Populism in Central and Eastern Europe (keynote speaker); Department of Political

Science, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada; Nuffield College, Oxford

University; Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, Department of Political Science,

University of Michigan; Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin, Germany; Jackson School of International

Studies, University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Political Science, Rutgers University;

International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago; Harvard in Europe, London; Institute on

Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSD; Jackson School of International Studies, University of

Washington; Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;

Institute Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland; University of

Siena, Faculty of Political Science, Italy; European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Carnegie

Endowment For International Peace and China Reform Forum, Beijing, China; Department of

Political Science, Yale University; Woodbridge Speaker Series, Center for European Studies,

Harvard University; Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Conference on What States

Can do Now, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Workshop on “Contentious Politics in the

Developing World,” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University;

Conference on What Can States Do Now, University of Philadelphia; 12th

International

Conference of Europeanists, Chicago; Conference on Democracy in Central Europe, Krakow,

Poland; Central European University, Warsaw, Poland; Conference on Comparing Different

Routes to the European Union, European University Institute, Florence, Italy; 11th International

Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore; Department of Political Science and Center for Russian,

Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University; Watson Institute for International

Studies, Brown University; Department of Government and Center for German and European

Studies, Georgetown University; Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA; Woodrow Wilson

International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; Conference on Cuba's Present and Future in

Comparative Perspective, Universidad Compultense, Madrid, Spain; Department of Government,

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Dartmouth College.

SELECTED ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

2016 Member of the Advisory Board, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur

Sozialforschung, Germany

2012 – Present Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard

University

2012 – Present External Examiner in Politics, Public Administration and Global Studies,

University of Hong Kong

2012 – Present Member of the Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International

Affairs, Harvard University

2012 – Present Chair, Standing Committee on European Studies, Harvard University

2010 – Present Chair, Zaleski Memorial Lecture Committee

1998 - Present Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies

2002 - Present Member of the Advisory Committee, Club of Madrid, Spain

1993 - Present Member of the Standing Committee on A.M. Degree in Regional Studies:

Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,

Harvard University

2000 - Present Member of Standing Committee on Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University

1998 - Present Member of Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian Studies,

Harvard University

1996 - Present Member of Steering Committee, Center for European Studies, Harvard

University

2011 – Present Editor, Open Forum Papers, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2010 Acting Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2001 - 2006 Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

2000 - 2001 Acting Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

2010 - 2014 Member of Advisory Committee, Project on Media and Democracy in

Central and Eastern Europe, Department of Politics and International

Relations, Oxford University

2003 - Present Senior Fellow, Gorbachev Foundation of North America

2009 Member of the visiting committee, CREES, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

2008 – Present Member of Reviewer Board, Studia Sociologiczne, Poland

2012 – Present Member of the Editorial Board, Edukacja, Poland

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2002 - 2008 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Central Europe, London

2002 - Present Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Societal and Social Policy

2013- Present Member of Editorial Committee, East European Politics and Societies

1998 - 2009 Member of Editorial Committee, East European Politics and Societies

2001 Coordinator, Conference on Democratic Transitions and Consolidation,

Madrid, Spain

2000 - 2001 Member, Reflection Group on Diversity and Unity in the Enlarged European

Union, organized by Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European

University Institute and the Forward Studies Unit of the European

Commission, headed by Jacques Delors and Jean Luc Dehaene

1998 – 2005 Member, Board of Trustees, The National Council for East European and

Euroasian Research, Washington, DC

2003 - 2009 Member, Standing Committee on Education Abroad, Harvard University

1989 - 2005 Chairman, Workshop on East European Politics, Center for European Studies,

Harvard University

1993 - 2012 Member, Standing Committee on European Studies, Faculty of Arts and

Sciences, Harvard University

1990 - 2011 Editor of the Working Paper Series, Program on Eastern and Central Europe,

Center for European Studies, Harvard University

1990 - 2005 Coordinator of the Program on Eastern and Central Europe, Center for

European Studies, Harvard University

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES

Co-curator, “West Meets East – Exhibit of Barbara Klemm’s Photographs,” (with Jan

Kubasiewicz and Barbara Klemm) Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2015)

“Mobilized Contention: The State-Protest Movements Nexus,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced

Studies, Harvard University, September (2015) (with Elizabeth Perry and Xiaojune Yan)

Co-curator, “Landscapes of History – Photographs of Vivien Schmidt,” (with Jan Kubasiewicz)

Center for European Studies (2014)

Co-curator, “Politics on Paper” exhibit of Polish posters (with Jan Kubasiewicz) Center for

European Studies, Harvard University (2013)

Director’s Seminar: Trouble in the Eurozone, a series of four panel discussions exploring various

dimensions of the EU crisis from four disciplinary perspectives, academic year 2012-2013

“Training Program: Civil Society and Grassroots Politics in New Democracies, Seoul, South

Korea, January 5-13, 2012.

“A Liberal Challenge? Civil Society and Grassroots Politics in New Democracies, Authoritarian

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and Hybrid Regimes, Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2012.

“The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies: East Asia and East Europe,” Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan, June 5-7, 2009.

“The Logic of Civil Society in New Democracies: Hungary, Poland, South Korea and Taiwan”

Harvard University, May 2-3, 2008.

“Democracy in the Postcommunist World: Unfinished Business,” IV General Assembly and

Annual Conference of the Club of Madrid, Prague, November 9-12, 2005.

“Dilemmas of Europeanization: Politics and Society in Eastern and Central Europe after EU

Enlargement,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 5-6, 2003.

“Postcommunist Transitions a Decade Later: How Far East Can Western Europe Go?” Center

For European Studies, Harvard University, October 15-17, 1999.

"New Directions in the Study of East European State Socialism," Graduate Student Workshop,

Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 7-9, 1997 (faculty co-

organizer).

"Democracy, Markets and Civil Societies in Post-1989 East Central Europe," Center for

European Studies, Harvard University, May 17-19, 1996.

"Trials of Transition: Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland," Center for European

Studies, Harvard University, December 10-12, 1993.

"Transition from State-Socialist Regimes in East Central Europe," Center for European Studies,

Harvard University, March 15-17, 1991.

"The Return of the Repressed: Nationalities and Ethnicities in Eastern Europe," Center for

European Studies, Harvard University, December 6, 1991.

Updated November 30, 2015