Professor Awarded Berlin Prize Fellowship
Georgetown University Professor of Government and Foreign Service Angela Stent was recently awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Berlin in Berlin, Germany. She will spend November - December 2008 at the Academy conducting research and writing for a forthcoming book entitled, “Dueling Narratives: How the United States, Europe and Russia Interpret the Collapse of the USSR and the Rise of Post-Soviet States in Eurasia.”
"I extend my congratulations to Professor Stent on receiving this prestigious research fellowship," said Robert L. Gallucci, dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. "The Berlin Prize Fellowships have set the gold standard for honoring important work on trans-Atlantic relations. Professor Stent's being numbered among this small group of international scholars speaks not only to her own vital research on the post-Soviet landscape, but also to the community of major international relations scholars resident in Georgetown's Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service."
The American Academy in Berlin awards residential fellowships to accomplished Americans in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy to help strengthen the transatlantic relationship by promoting intellectual and cultural exchange. Winners of the Berlin Prize spend a semester or full year at the Hans Arnhold Center pursuing projects in their respective areas of expertise.
While in residence, Fellows are encouraged to interact with universities, ministries, museums, libraries, orchestras, galleries, and other professional organizations in Berlin and Germany, fostering ties to the cultural and intellectual communities. A wide-ranging public program at the Hans Arnhold Center provides additional opportunities for edification, inspiration, and conversation with a broad range of Berliners and Germans.
"The Berlin Prize fellowship will provide me with an ideal environment to write about an issue that has engaged me for some time both as a scholar and government official: Why have Russia and the West developed such different narratives about what happened in the 1990s, about what Europe and the United States did to and for Russia, and of what Russia's rightful place in the wider world should be?," Stent says. "My book will explore the continuing challenge of dealing with Eurasia sixteen years after the Soviet collapse."
The American Academy in Berlin was established in September 1994 on the initiative of Richard C. Holbrooke, Thomas Farmer, Henry Kissinger, Richard von Weizsäcker, and a number of other distinguished Americans and Germans committed to a strong transatlantic relationship. The family of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold made the founding gift to the Academy in 1997, and in 1998 the first class of Fellows took up residence at the Hans Arnhold Center of the American Academy in Berlin. The Academy is funded virtually entirely by private donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations on both sides of the Atlantic.
Angela Stent is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. From 2004-2006 she served as the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U. S. Department of State, where she dealt with Russian and Central European affairs. She is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy, focusing on US-Russian relations, Russia's relations with Europe,and the Russian-German relationship. She has also published works on East-West technology transfer.
Professor Stent's numerous publications include Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse and the New Europe (Princeton University Press:1999); From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980 (Cambridge University Press:1981); Technology Transfer to the Soviet Union: A Challenge for the Cohesiveness of the Western Alliance; Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980's and Economic Relations with the Soviet Union: American and West German Perspectives; and many articles and book chapters on US-Russian relations, Russian-European relations, Ukraine, and East-West economic relations. She is on the boards of the US-Russia Business Forum and Supporters of Civil Society in Russia and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on the academic advisory board of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, and on the Advisory Board of Women in International Security. She is on the editorial boards of World Policy Journal, The Journal of Cold War Studies and Internationale Politik.
Source: Office of Communications
February 6, 2008
