Janine R. Wedel

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

Life

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

From 1982 to 1984 and 1985 to 1986 she was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw with Fulbright and IREX scholarships . She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. in anthropology.

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

In 1989/90 she was Fulbright Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Lublin . In 1991/92 Wedel had a Fulbright professorship at the Institute for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. 1992/93 she was a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University ; In 1993 she received an adjunct professorship at the Graduate Public Policy Institute , where she taught until 1998, interrupted by a research stay in 1994 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. At the same time, she held a research professorship in the faculties 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, Weder held an adjunct professorship at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and was also Director of Research Development and Senior Research Associate at the Ridgway Center there until 2001 . Weder also worked as a Fellow at the National Institute of Justice in Washington, DC from 1999 until she joined the New America Foundation as a Senior Research Fellow in 2006 .

In 2002 she became an Associate Professor in 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 from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • 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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personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Janine R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1957