Janine R. Wedel

Janine R. Wedel ( born October 9, 1957) is an American political scientist and anthropologist.

Life

Janine Wedel studied from 1976 to 1977 at the Philipps- University Marburg political science, history and German. In 1978 she received her B. A. in History and Social Sciences at Bethel College, N. Newton, KS. At Indiana University in Bloomington she then studied anthropology and East European Studies (MA 1980).

From 1982 to 1984 and 1985 to 1986 she was with Fulbright and IREX Fellowships Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. At the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 she earned a Ph.D. in anthropology.

1987 Wedel worked as a consultant for the International Trade Commission of the United States for which she worked as an International Trade Analyst until 1994.

1989/90 she was a Fulbright Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Lublin. 1991/92 had Wedel a Fulbright Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw. 1992/93 she was Lecturer in International Affairs at George Washington University; In 1993 she got there an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Public Policy Institute, where she taught until 1998, interrupted by a research fellowship in 1994 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. At the same time she had a research professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology and a research position at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.

From 1999 to 2002, had neither an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and was until 2001 also Director of Research Development and Senior Research Associate at the local Ridgway Center. In addition Neither since 1999 worked as a Fellow at the National Institute of Justice in Washington, DC, until she moved in 2006 as a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation.

In 2002, she was Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University; since 2005 she has been a full professor there.

Prizes and awards

  • 2008-2010: Ford Foundation grant
  • 2006-2009: New American Foundation fellowship
  • 2005-2007: Ford Foundation grant ( with Lloyd J. Dumas )
  • 2002-2006: National Institute of Justice Fellowship
  • 2002-2005: Ford Foundation grant ( with Lloyd J. Dumas )
  • 2001 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order ( $ 200,000 cash prize )
  • 2001-2002: Eurasia Foundation research grant
  • 1999-2001: National Council for Eurasian and East European Research award
  • 2000-2001: Annual Teaching Award for Outstanding Instruction ( University of Pittsburgh)
  • 2001: University Center for International Studies grant for workshop
  • 2000: Earhart Foundation research grant
  • 1997-1999: United States Institute of Peace award
  • 1994-1999: National Science Foundation award
  • Summer 1996: National Science Foundation REU Supplement awards
  • Summer 1995: National Science Foundation REU Supplement awards
  • 1994-1996: MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant
  • 1994: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ( East European program) fellowship
  • 1994-1995: Scholarship of the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiftung
  • 1994: Prize of the Kosciuszko Foundation
  • 1991-1992: Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Warsaw University
  • 1989-1990: Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Catholic University of Lublin
  • 1992 Young Alumnus Award, Bethel College
  • 1990: German Marshall Fund grant
  • 1987-1989: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
  • 1988: International Research & Exchanges Board ( IREX ) fellowship
  • 1988: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars short-term grant
  • 1988: Social Science Research Council funded workshop
  • 1985-1986: International Research & Exchanges Board ( IREX ) fellowship
  • 1983-1984: Fulbright fellowship, Warsaw
  • 1982-1983: Fulbright fellowship, Warsaw
  • 1984-1985: International Studies Fellowship, Berkeley
  • 1980-1981: National Defense Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship
  • 1979-1980: National Defense Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship
  • 1983-1985: Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship
  • 1979-1981: Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship
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