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Education

Ph.D.	Yale University	1965
B.A.	Wellesley College	1960

Areas of Research

Mass Media, Democratization, and Former Soviet Union

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies, 1994 - present

Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 1994 - 2008

Professor, Department of Political Science, 1994 - present

Emory University

Alben W. Barkely Professor of Political Science, 1988-1993

Director, International Media and Communications Program, 1986-1993

Professor, Department of Political Science, 1985-1988

Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1980-1985

The Carter Center

Fellow, 1986 - present

Michigan State University

Academic Administrative Intern, Office of the Provost, 1976-1977

Professor, Department of Political Science, 1973-1980

Associate Professor (joint appointment), Computer Institute for Social Science Research, 1972-1973

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 1969-1973

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1967-1969

Yale University

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, 1965-1967

Visiting Positions

Lombard Professor, Harvard University, Fall 2001

Kathryn W. Davis Professor, Wellesley College, 1978

Associate, Harvard University Russian Research Center, 1978

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Biographical Listings
Murray Edelman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Political Communication (Career Award), American Political Science Association, 1997
Award for Outstanding Service to Promote Democratic Media in Russia (Yeltsin Administration), Union of Journalists of Russia, 1994
Electronic Media Book of the Year (Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union), National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association, 1988
Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, 1973-1974

Conferences Organized

Co-Chair, Annual meeting of the Commission on Radio and Television Policiy, 2006 - present

"Toward Tomorrow's Journalism" conference organized by DWC and Institute for Advancement in Journalism (Africa), December 2005

Co-Director with Erhard Busek, Workshop On Media and Ethnic Conflict, April 2003

Co-Chair, Commission on Radio and Television Policy, 1995

Professional Service

A&S Council

Served on Distinguished Professors’ Committee, 2004

Served on two different committees for recruitment and dossier preparation of Jenkins Chair candidate, 2004

University Committee

Member, ISIS Committee, February 1, 2003

Member and Temporary Acting Chair, Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, 1999-2001

Dept Committee

Member of the new Visiting Committee at Harvard, Harvard University: Committee to Visit International and Area Studies, January 05, 2006 - present

Chair, Futrell Award Committee for Excellence in Communications and Journalism from a graduate of Duke, 2005 - present

Chair, Melcher Award Committee for best journalism story by a Duke student., 2003 - present

Committee on Patterson Chair, November 2008

Committee on Knight Chair, November 2008

Dewit Wallace Center for Media and Democrary, Living History Visitors, Jan.-June 2008

Committee on Robert Korstad's promotion, November, 2008

Chair, Susan King Media Center, December 2005

Committee Member, For MPP student Amber Kuchar on campaign for human rights conditionality in World Bank offers, December 2005

Committee Member, For MPP student of Judith Kelley on decisions of election monitoring organizations to enter an election., December 2005

Committee on Judith Kelley's review, 2004

MPP Committee for Sara Vander Kappelle, 2003

Committee on Jay Hamilton's review, 2003

Univ Services

Member of Advisory Bd. Duke/UNC Federal Grant for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2006 - present

Special Projects

Member of the Board of Advisors, Rosalynn Carter Program in Mental Health Journalism, 1997 - present

Director, Milton Wolfe Seminars in Foreign Affairs and Media, project ended 2005.

United States Delegation, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Committee, November 2-5, 1993

Co-Director, Project on Arms Control and Soviet-American Relations, 1983-1985

Community Service

Member, Member. BASEES British Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 2015, 1 January 2015

Member, Member. Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee. American Political Science Association. 1999, 1 January 1999

Member, Member. Council on Foreign Relations. 1989, 1 January 1989

President, President. National Council of Area Studies Associations. 1988, 1 January 1988

Member, Member. Dante Society of America . 1975, 1 January 1975

Member, Member. ASEEES-Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Formerly, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies). 196, 1 January 1962

Editorial Board, Editorial Board. International Journal of Press/Politics. 1995 - 2010, 1995-2010

Editorial Board, Editorial Board. Political Communication. 1995 - 2008, 1995-2008

Member, Governing Board of Directors, Member, Governing Board of Directors. International Research and Exchanges Board. 2000 - 2005, 2000-05

Chair, Doris Graber Book Award Committee, Section on Political Communication, Chair, Doris Graber Book Award Committee, Section on Political Communication. American Political Science Association. 2002 - 2003, 2002-03

Member, International Advisory Board, Member, International Advisory Board. Encyclopedia of International Media and Communication. 1998 - 2002, 1998-2002

Member, Member. Nominations Committee. Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association. 1998 - 1999, 1998-99

Chair, Chair. Area Advisory Committee for Eastern Europe and the USSR (Senior Fulbright Awards). Council for International Exchange of Scholars . 1990 - 1994, 1990-94

Member, Member. Academic Advisory Council for the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. 1989 - 1993, 1989-93

President, President. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1987 - 1988, 1987-88

Other

Invited to be Assessor for docentship promotion, Helsinki University, 2008

Member, Harvard University Visiting Committee for International and Area Studies Centers, 2007 - present

Trustee, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2000 - present

Editorial Board, International Journal of Press/Politics, 1995 - present

Member, Governing Board of Directors, International Research and Exchanges Board, July 1, 2000 - 2005

Editorial Board, Political Communication, 1995-2008

Director and Commissioner, Commission on Radio and Television Policy, 1990 - present

Chair, Committee for Best Book in Comparative Democratization Section, 2009

United States Delegation, Conferrence on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Seminar on the Press, Warsaw, Poland, November 2-5, 1993

Member, Doris Graber Book Award Committee of the American Political Science Association, 2003-04

Chair, Doris Graber Book Award Committee, Section on Political Communication, American Political Science Association, 2002-03

Member, Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1999

Member, International Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, 1998-2002

Member, Nominations Committee, Political Communication Section, 1998-1999

Member, Board of Overseers, International Press Center, 1995-1996

Chair, Politics of Former Communist and Communists Systems Division, Program Committee, 1994

Member, Program Committee, International Research and Exchanges Board, 1991-1992

Chair, Area Advisory Committee for Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1990-1994

Member of the Board, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Senior Fulbright Awards), 1990-1994

Chair, Nominations Committee for Political Communications Section, American Political Science Association, 1990-1992

Member, Academic Advisory Council for the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1989-1993

President, National Council of Area Studies Associations, 1988

Member, Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988-1990

President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1987-1988

Member, Area Advisory Committee for Eastern Europe and the USSR, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Senior Fulbright Awards), 1987-1990

Advisor, Center for Communications Space Bridge, American Society of Newspaper Editors and Moscow, 1987

Vice-President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1986-1987

Member, Subcommission on Communications and Society, American Council of Learned Societies/Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1986-1990

Co-Director, Project on Arms Control and Soviet-American Relations (Co-Chaired by Presidents Carter and Ford), 1983 - 1985

Vice-Chairman, Visiting Committee, Harvard University Russian Research Center, 1985-1992

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 1985-1988

Member, Advisory Board, Roosevelt Center/UCSD Space Bridge (Satellite Link-up) with the Soviet Union, 1985-1986

Member, Program Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1985-1986

Member, Governing Council, Soviet/American Section, International Studies Association, 1984-1986

Member, Endowment Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1983-1986

Vice-President for North America, International Studies Association, 1983-1984

Member, Advisory Committee, Soviet Studies Competition, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1983

Member, Awards Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1982-1985

Member, Executive Council, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 1982-1985

Editor, Soviet Union, 1980-1991

Member, Visiting Committee, Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1978-1984

Member, Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1978-1981

Member, Program Committee, Midwest Slavic Conference, 1976-1977

Founder and first Chair, Board of Directors, Opera Guild of Greater Lansing, Inc., 1972-1974

Member, Executive Committee, Midwest Slavic Conference, 1968-1973

Lectures

Invited Lectures:

Lunch hosted by Ambassador Vershbow; Presentation "Television and Russian Viewers" at the Conference "Media Perspectives on Politics & Foreign Affairs" at the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow, Dec. 14, 2004

Digital Video Conference with USG alumni and journalists in Vladivostok, Lecture "Russian Television: Finding the Impact on Trust and Persuasion" at Sch. of Journalism, Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Dec. 15, 2004

Talk on policy implications of book on Television, Power, and the Public in Russia, Vienna, March 14, 2008

Future Perspectives on Journalism and the Political Economy of Journalism, Bonn, Germany, April 28, 2008

Conceptual Problems of Tradeoffs, Harvard, David Center, May 7, 2008

The Conundrum of Memory, International Symposium, University of Surrey, 2006

The Challenges of International Media Technologies and Policy, Ancient Olympia, Greece, July 3-10, 2006: lecture series

Visions, Myths, and Pragmatism, European Forum, Alpbach, Austria, 2006

Processing Televised Elections in Russia, Annual Meeting, of American Assoc for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, 2005, Nov., 28 December 2005

“The Challenges of the European Audience”, Alpbach European Conference Center, 2005

Conference, Toward Tomorrow's Journalism, South Africa, Dec. 28, 2005

Keynote speaker, Bled School of Management, Slovenia, June 2005

Summer seminar sponsored by University of Athens Patros Thessaloniki: International Challenges of Media and Technology: participants include mid-career journalists,, NGO officers, and dissertation-writers., Olympia, Greece, 2001-2006

Round table discussion "Relations between Media and the Government in the U.S." with students and faculty of Internews School of Journalism, Moscow, Dec. 13, 2004

Invited to give paper at ECPR, Turin, March 2002

University of Illinois, Urbana, April 2002

Paper giver at Symposium at Austrian Academy of Sciences, May 2002

Ellen Mickiewicz, Talk at Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, April 14, 2003

Keynote address, Conference on Latin America: Poltical Parties and Funding., The Carter Center, Atlanta, March 17, 2003

Invitation of Romanian Broadcasting to participate in a Conference on Democratic Ways to Reform Media, Bucharest,, Romania, Sept. 24, 2002

Speaker, Conference attended by media officials, government officials, press & experts. Talk dealt with differences between broadcaster intentions and message-recipients behavior., Moscow, Russia, Feb. 7, 2002

Lecture, Wellesley College, Nov. 27, 2001

Lecture, Joan Shorenstein Center, JFK School, Harvard, Oct. 22, 2001

Ellen Mickiewicz, Gave talk at Conference on Media and Development, Joan Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Oct. 5, 2001

Ellen Mickiewicz, Alpbach, Austria, Symposium on Media and Audiences, Aug. 22, 2001

Conference to Explore New Practices and Research for Democratic Broadcasting, called by Romanian National Radio. Talk concerned importance of learning how audiences approach information and process it., Bucharest, Romania, 2005

Democracy's Pluralist Conditions and the Television Public, sponsored by EU, Rome, Italy, April 27-May 2, 2006

Meetings:

Commission on Radio and Television Policy, Nov. 15-17, 2008

Mental Health Program, Carter Center, May 13, 2008

Participant, Institute for Political Psychology, director Jon Krosnick, Stanford University, July 13-August 2, 2008

Member, Advisory Board of Program on Mental Health Journalism, Carter Center, Sept. 22 & 23, 2008

Meeting of Board of Trustees of Wenner-Gren Foundation, Oct. 31, 2008

Head Awards Committee for best book in Comparative Democratization for American Political Science Association, Princeton, November, 2008

Invited participant and paper giver in working conference, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Bielefeld on "Communication and Globalization", May 2002

Publications (listed separately)

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