We welcome the following new members to Balkan Academic News:

Maria Todorova. Professor of History at the University of Florida. My
research and teaching are focused mostly on the Balkans during the
modern period (18th-20th centuries). My publications have touched upon
different aspects of the social structure, demography, political and
intellectual history of Balkan societies. E-mail:
mtodorov@...

Daniela Kalkandjieva. I deal with the contemporary history of the
Orthodox Church, mainly the churches of the former socialist
countries. In 1997, I published a book The Bulgarian Orthodox Church
and the State : 1944-1953 (Albatross: Sofia, 1997). I have also
published several articles on the history of theOrthodox and Catholic
Church in Bulgaria during the nineteenth - twentieth centuries. My MA
thesis on the international activities of the Bulgarian Orthodox
Church after World War II was defended at the History Department at
the Central European University (Budapest) in 1998. Now, am a Ph.D.
student at the same university and my research is on the Soviet
foreign religious policy since World War II. E-mail:
hphkad01@...

Paul Roe, Asst. Professor in IRES at the CEU. I previously did my PhD
in the department of International Relations at the University of
Wales, Aberystwyth (1995-1999), at which time I was also a Guest
Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. My main
research interests are the security/identity relationship and its role
in the generation of ethnic violence. In particular, my next research
project will be to look at the concept of 'securitization'; where the
language of security is used to justify 'emergency measures', and its
role in exacerbating ethnic/national rivalries. Email: Roepaul@...

Isa Blumi, an ABD at New York University's Joint History and Middle
Eastern Studies Program. I am working on identity formation in the
Southern Balkans and the Arabian Peninsula 19 and 20th century. I
have published in East European Quarterly, 1997, 1999, Avraysya 1998,
East European Politics and Society 1998 and in a number of edited
volumes. I am also co-editor of the International Journal of
Albanian Studies. Email ngapeja@...

Alexander Lupis. I am working as a Special Assistant for South East
Europe at the Open Society Institute in New York focusing on the
Balkan Stability Pact. I worked previously as a consultant to Human
Rights Watch - Helsinki and as a Human Rights Officer with the OSCE
Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the towns of Capljina and Doboj.
I am currently conducting research, during my personal time, on
developing a war crimes and human rights field investigation manual
using case studies from the former S.F.R. Yugoslavia. Email:
alupis@...

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of International Law, Citizen of the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Counsel to Mothers of Srebrenica
Organization. Email: FBOYLE@...

Elke Hentschel. I'm a linguist at the German Department of the
university of Osnabrueck. I worked at the university of Belgrade as a
lecturer from 1986 to 1991, and as a visiting professor for several
shorter periods afterwards. I speak Serbian. Email:
jasam@...

Vanja Filipovic. I am originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I
finished my undergraduate studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania
(USA) and now doing Master's program in Security Policy Studies at the
Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington
University). I have been active in the Balkan issues through Community
of Bosnia Foundation (Board of Directors) and BosNet, INC. (News
Editor, and Board of Directors). Email: From: vanja@...


Mihailo Milinkovic. Born in 1954. in Belgrade, in a serbian orthodox
family. Today assistant professor of Medieval Archaeology I at the
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Belgrade. The focus of study is the late antique and early medieval
period od SE Europe. 1989-1993. active in serbian democratic
opposition parties, DS and DSS. Editor of the magazine "Belgrade
Perspectives/Beogradski Vidici", www.vidici.com. Email:
mmilinko@...

Nermin Mulalic, a practising advocate from Sarajevo currently resides
in London. At the moment I am an associate at the Bosnian Institute a
London based organisation with aim of providing education and
information on the history and culture of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a
special concern for the past and present development of its social,
economic, governmental, legal and cultural conditions, organizations
and institutions. Email: nermin@...

Patrick G. FitzPatrick. I am a graduate student in International
History and Conflict Studies at the University of New Brunswick,
Canada. While continuing to work part-time as the international news
editor of the local community paper, I am engaged full-time writing on
the "North Atlantic Security Community"'s response to Kosovo/a
1980-1999, as well the Community's understanding of the importance of
SAP Kosovo to the disintegration of the SFRY and to Southeast European
security generally. I will be travelling to a number of the countries
of Former Yugoslavia between Feb/March 2000 and Jan 2001 as a Celanese
Internationalist Fellow. I would be most interested in hearing from
and engaging in discussions with scholars, pratitioners, etc., working
on this and related questions. Email: e85j@...

Zarko Modric. Graduated Zagreb University Law School, journalist,
working in local newspapers in Zagreb 1957-1959, editor and anchor in
Croatian Radio 1959 - 1980, Tanjug New Agency correspondent in Tokyo,
Japan, 1980-1985, Senior Editor Tanjug 1985-1988, Assistant
Information Minister 1988-1990, Tanjug Bureau Chief in Zagreb
1990-1991, The Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese daily newspaper)
correspondent 1991-1999, covering Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Slovenia. Authored 10 books, mainly on Asian affairs, more than 600
articles for Croatian Encyclopaedia, translated 20 books. Email:
zarko.modric@...

Brad Abrams. I am an assistant professor of history at Columbia
University. Although primarily concerned with East Central Europe, I
am of course interested in the Balkans. I have become more interested
recently in the problems of Romania and Bulgaria in the interwar
period. My dissertation, which I am currently revising for
publication, was entitled "'The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation':
Czech Culture and Socialism, 1945-1948" (Stanford, 1997). My main
areas of research are twentieth-century East Central Europe, and
cultural and intellectual history. Email: bfa4@...

Marian Chiriac. Born in 1966. I have a MA in mass communication
(University of Bucharest) and from 1990 I work as a journalist. My
domain of interest is the Balkan area and I have reported many times
from Bosnia or Kosovo. Between 1996-1998 I was the editor of Foreign
Policy, the only Romanian quarterly devoted to international
relations. I have published articles in Transition, Uncaptive Minds
and many other Romanian journals. Email: maricu13@...

Krista Hegburg. I am a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Columbia. I
work on the Czech Republic, but I have a side interest in Bosnia and
spent time there in Sarajevo this summer doing some fieldwork (as much
as you can do in two weeks, that is). My topic in the Czech Repubic
will probably be on the contemporary debates about the Holocaust,
especially around the issue of reparations payments for forced labor
and the problems about commemoration and use-value facing sites that
were used as concentration camps in Bohemia. My interest in the
Balkans is the impact of violence on notions of public space, as well
as the particular types of violence that have been occurring in the
recent Yugoslav wars. Email: kmh55@...

Besnik Pula. MA Candidate, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East
European Studies. Georgetown University Washington, DC. My interests
are in the southern Balkans, especially political systems, political
movements, and national identity issues. Email:
pulab@...

Zala Volcic graduated from Journalism & Communications at the Faculty
for Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1995 and then I entered a
post-graduate study of communications in the same faculty, working as
a TA for Prof. dr. Splichal, department for Mass Communications. I
have finished my MA thesis (on the notion of PUBLIC SPHERE and civil
society in Slovenia and Eastern Europe) at University of Colorado at
Boulder in January 1997. The last two years, I have been very active
in developing a theoretical and practical framework for the Media
education project how to develop critical skills in order to
understand the media. This month, I have entered the Ph.D. program in
Boulder. I have been traveling extensivelly in the Balkans, living in
Sarajevo and Skopje. I have also organized a summer school in June
this year on the topic Media education-Public Opinion - Propaganda for
30 participants from former Yugoslavia. I am writing newspaper
articles fornational newspaper DELO and essays for National Review for
Social Sciences ; I have had various placements with Slovene
magazines; I am working locally, while lecturing on the media world. I
was leading the project of Media Education in Slovenia, employed by
the Faculty of Social Sciences and non-governmental organization ZPMS.
I am more than aware that the case for Media Education in politically
and economically transitional countries has never been more urgent.
The global spread of a few media empires and their ability to
influence the terms of public discourse have stymied the advancement
of the right to communicate. Email: From: fd_volcic@...

Iordanka Bibina. I am working at the Institute of Balkan Studies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, at the Department of Cultural
History of Balkan Nations. My Ph.D thesis was on "The Cultural Policy
of Post-War Turkey, 1945-1960". 1991/1992 I was a Fulbright scholar at
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. I am a member of Bulgarian
Fulbright Alumna Association and CLIO Association of Bulgarian
historians. My subject is Ottoman and Modern Turkish Literature,
Modern Turkish Culture, XX Th century Turkish Literature and Arts,
"Europeization" of Turkish Culture, the image of the Turks in
Bulgaria, cultural identities, etc. This year I tough the courses of
Ottoman Literature, New Turkish Literature and Literary Theory of
Turkish Literature at the "K. Preslavski" University of Shoumen,
North-East part of Bulgaria mostly populated by the Turks. I am also
interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies. e-mail:
amexim5@...

Stephen W. Davis. I am a practicing attorney of 25 years, and for
about fifteen years an amateur student of the Habsburg Monarchy,
Southeastern Europe, particularly Romania, and Russia and former
Soviet republics. I have enjoyed the information and sources I have
acquired by virtue of the Habsburg List, and look forward to Balkan
Academic News. Currently I am particularly interested in Romanian
military small arms procurement and manufacture during both the RPR
and RSR periods, and would look forward to discussing these matters
with other members or contacts who might be recommended. Email:
lupescu@...

Bernhard Bradatsch. I am a journalist from Munich, Germany, 34 years
old. I run a non profit political online magazine www.rotgruen.de,
which also has some informations about the Kosovo war
(www.rotgruen.de/krieg) these informatosn are old now and I need new
texts about the situation an the balkan to make a relaunch. My main
job is to write texts about IT. I am working for companies an
publishers in the IT sector. Email: Bernhard@...

Amy Jones. I am a student at Western Washington University (USA.) I'm
writing a paper about Kosovo for my class in War and Human Rights, and
am cnstantly searching for any and all new information. Email:
jonesa@...

Zoltan Kantor. I am from Timisoara/Romania where I graduated at the
Department of Sociology. I was in the last years student at the CEU
(Political Science Department, Nationalism Studies) and at the
Unversity of Edinburgh (Department of Sociology). My research topics
are: minority nationalism, political elites, Hungarians in Romania.
Currently I am writing my phd about Hungarian political elite in
Romania. Email: z.kantor@...

Gent Gogaj. I am a MA student in Political Science at the Central
European University, Budapest. I majored in International Relations at
the University of Padua with a degree thesis under the title: "The
Albanian minorities in Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece
between the two World Wars". My interests encompas the current
minority issues throughout the world and particularly those regarding
the Balkan region. Email: p99gog01@...

James Koo is a graduate student of history, and presently works as a
reference librarian in the New York area. Mr. Koo holds degrees from
the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the Palmer School of
Long Island University. Email: l740@...

Cheryl K. Moralez. I am a second year law student at DePaul University
College of Law and a Fellow at the International Human Rights Law
Institute at DePaul (President, M. Cherif Bassiouni). I am very
interested in Human Rights, particularly prosecution of war crimes,
genocide, and issues related to women and children. I completed a
double major in history and international relations in undergrad.
Email: cmoralez@...

Heather Ryan. I am the representative of the Coalition for
International Justice (CIJ) based in The Hague. CIJ is a NGO with the
principle mission of providing technical assistance and advocacy for
the ICTY and the ICTR. Prior to that I worked for a year on judicial
reform projects with ABA/CEELI. Email: HRyan10@...

Jason C. Vuic. I am a Ph.D. student in Balkan and East European
history at Indiana University. I am most interested in former
Yugoslavia and in Serbian political affairs. My advisor is Dr. Maria
Bucur. Email: jvuic@...

Laurent Mallet, I'm working for the French Institute of Anatolian
Studies (Istanbul) or Institut français d'Etudes Anatoliennes. I'm
finishing my PhD (an history and its representations: the Republic of
Turkey, the Turks and the Jews). I published some articles in french
and turkish languages about the Jews of Turkey and the Turkish-Israeli
relations. I did something too about the Tats. Email:
mallet@...

Lynne Taylor. I am an associate professor of Modern European History
at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I am particularly
interested in the history of WWII and its aftermath. Most of my
research, until recently, has focused on the war and its impact on
Western Europe, but I have become increasingly interested in the
history of the Balkans and Central Europe. Currently I am working on a
study of the post-WWII refugee crisis in Germany. Email:
ltaylor@...

Patrick Michels. I'm the editor (with Yves Tomic) of Balkanologie (a
french journal devoted to Balkans), and preparing a thesis on
"national reconstruction and post-communism, the montegrin case".
Email: Patrick.Michels@...

Hans Vermeulen. Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies, University
of Amsterdam. I have a lonstanding interest in the Balkans and
research experience in Greece (1964-1967, 1975-1976). Though I still
try to keep up with (some of) the literature, I am not actively
involved in research in the region at the moment. My research
interests are in ethnicity, nationalism, migration. I am working at
the moment mainly on immigration in the Netherlands and on the topic
of multiculturalism. Together with a colleague I am trying to set up a
research program on Filippino immigration in Europe, including Greece.
Email: vermeulen@...

Joël Malengreau. I am assistant-adviser at the Permanent refugee
appeals Commission in Brussels. My work consists to find information
about the political and human rights situation of different countries
including some of the Balkans. Email: Joel.Malengreau@...

Giovanni Armillotta, an Italian journalist, who in past and today
wrote and writes on Albania and Kosova foreign affairs and
international relations history. ga57@...

Bill Taylor. I am an amateur (amateur what? historian? social
scientist?; I don't seem to have a good label at the moment. Before
recently retiring , I practiced child and family psychiatry) -- as I
said, an amateur who got interested in fuzzy cognitive map scenarios
as a way of asking what-if questions about the Kosovo war as it
unfolded. I put up on my web site the results of these predictions in
real time. Now comes the task of pulling all of them together to see
if the effort produced anything worth reporting in book format. The
main agenda of the web site tests the usefulness of a model of
confusion dynamics in governments and other large organizations. The
other test case is the US expansion of the Vietnam War in 1965. Site
URL is http://users.neca.com/williamtaylor, Email:
williamtaylor@...

Rudy Carrera, and I have a deep interest in the Balkans, although I am
a layman. My area of interest is in music, as I deal quite a bit with
musicians from the Balkans. It is my plan shortly to visit the area
(last visit was 1992-3) and visit radio stations, seeking rights to
publish music from their vaults. http://come.to/falcatagalia, Email:
breogan@...

Jon Horsley. Regional Policy Officer, Oxfam Eastern Europe. Sarajevo.
Email: jon@...


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CEU
International Relations
and European Studies
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