Curriculum Vitae

Ellen Mickiewicz

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Education

PhD	Yale University	1965
B.A.	Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts	1960

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, American Political Science Association, 1997
Award for Outstanding Service to Promote Democratic Media in Russia, Union of Journalists of Russia, 1994
Electronic Media Book of the Year, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association Award, 1988
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1973-1974

Professional Service: Trustee, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2000 - present; Member, Advisory Board, Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism, 2000 - present; Member, Editorial Board, Political Communication, 1995 - present; Member, Editorial Board, The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 1995 - present; Director and Commissioner, Commission on Radio and Television Policy, 1990 - present; Member, Professional Memberships
Council on Foreign Relations, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, American Political Science Association, International Communication Association, Dante Society of America; Chair, Doris Graber Book Award Committee, Section on Political Communication, 2002-2003; Member, Governing Board of Directors, International Research and Exchanges Board, 2000-2005; Member, Harold D. Lasswell Award Committee, 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, Moscow, 1995-1996; Chair, Politics of Former Communist and Communists Systems Division, Program Committee, 1994; Member, United States Delegation, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Seminar on Press, November 2-5, 1993; Member, Program Committee, International Research and Exchanges Board, 1991-1992; Chair, Area Advisory Committee for Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1990-1994; Member, Board, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Senior Fulbright Awards), 1990-1994; Chair, Nominations Committee for Political Communications Section, 1990-1992; Member, Academic Advisory Council for the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1989-1993; President, National Council of Area Studies Association, 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; 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; Co-Director, Project on Arms Control and Soviet-American Relations, The Carter Center, 1983-1985
(co-chaired by Presidents Carter and Ford); 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

Selected Recent Invited Talks: The Conundrum of Memory, International Symposium, University of Surrey, 2006; The Challenges of International Media Technologies and Policy, Ancient Olympia, Greece, July 3-10: lecture series, half given b; 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; Toward Tomorrow's Journalism, South Africa, 28 December 2005; “THE CHALLENGES OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIENCE”, Alpbach European Conference Center, 2005; Keynote speaker, Bled School of Management, Slovenia, June 2005; International Challenges of Media and Technology: participants include mid-career journalists,, NGO officers, and dissertation-writers., Olympia, Greece, July 2005; various, see below under comments, Moscow, 2004; Invited to give paper at ECPR, Turin, March 2002; Symposium at Austrian Academy of Sciences, May 2002; University of Illinois, Urbana, April 2002; Ellen Mickiewicz, Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, 14 April 2003; Keynote address, Conference on Latin America: Poltical Parties and Funding., THE CARTER CENTER, ATLANTA, 17 March 2003; Ellen Mickiewicz, Bucharest,, Romania, 24 September 2002; Ellen Mickiewicz, Moscow, Russia, 7 February 2002; Ellen Mickiewicz, Wellesley College, 27 November 2001; Ellen Mickiewicz, Joan Shorenstein Center, JFK School, Harvard, 22 October 2001; Ellen Mickiewicz, Conference on Media and Development, Joan Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, 5 October 2001; Ellen Mickiewicz, Alpbach, Austria, Symposium on Media and Audiences, 22 August 2001; DEMOCRACY’S PLURALIST CONDITIONS AND THE TELEVISION PUBLIC—Italy—4/27-May 2, Rome, 0000; Ellen Mickiewicz, Bucharest, Romaia, 0000

Publications

Books

E. Mickiewicz, Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union (1998), Oxford University Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia (1997), Oxford University Press (Revised and Expanded Paperback Edition: Duke University Press, 1999.).
International Security and Arms Control, edited by Ellen Mickiewicz and Roman Kolkowicz (1986), New York: Praeger.
The Soviet Calculus of Nuclear War, edited by Ellen Mickiewicz and Roman Kolkowicz (1986), Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath.
E. Mickiewicz, Media and the Russian Public (1981), New York: Praeger.
Handbook of Soviet Social Science Data, edited by E. Mickiewicz (1973), New York: Free Press (contributor.).
E. Mickiewicz, Soviet Political Schools (1967), New Haven: Yale University Press.

Monographs

E. Mickiewicz, Structural Diversity and Exposure Diversity, The Treadgold Papers (2001), University of Washington.

Chapters in Books

E. Mickiewicz, "The Media during the Soviet Era", in Dizionario del Comunismo, edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service (2006), Giulio Einaudi publishers (expected publication: 2006.).
E. Mickiewicz, Does 'Trust' Mean Attention, Comprehension and Acceptance? Paradoxes of Russian Viewers' News Processing, edited by Katrin Voltmer, Mass Media and New Democracies (forthcoming), Routledge.
E. Mickiewicz, “Dilemmas of Democracies,”, in Transatlantic Differences,, edited by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, (2004), Bohlau Wien Verlag,.
E. Mickiewicz, Institutional Incapacity, the Attentive Public, and Media Pluralism in Russia, in Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective, edited by Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan (2000), Cambridge University Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Institutional Incapacity, the Attentive Public, and Media Pluralism in Russia, in Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective, edited by Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan (2000), Cambridge University Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Transition and Democracy: The Role of Journalists in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, in The Politics of News, the News of Politics, edited by Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris (1998), Congressional Quarterly Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Media, Transition, and Democracy: Television and the Transformation of Russia, in A Communications Cornucopia, edited by Roger G. Noll and Monroe E. Price (1998), Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C..
E. Mickiewicz with Andrey Richter, Television, Campaigning, and Elections in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, in Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy, edited by David Swanson and Paolo Mancini (1996), Praeger.
E. Mickiewicz, The Political Economy of Media Democratization, in Russia in Transition, edited by David Lane (1995), Longman.
E. Mickiewicz, Television and Political Change, in Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Archie Brown (1994), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Images of America, in Beyond the Cold War: Soviet and American Media Images, edited by Everette E. Dennis, George Gerbner, and Yassen N. Zassoursky (1991), Sage Publications, Inc. (Translated as "Obrazy Ameriki," Okonchilas Li kholodnaya voina?, Moscow State University Press.).
E. Mickiewicz, Ethnic Differentiation and Political Communication, in Soviet Social Problems, edited by T. Anthony Jones, Walter Connor, and David Powell (1991), Boulder: Westview Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Understanding the World: The Cognitive Grid of Soviet Television News, in Politics and the Soviet System: Essays in Honor of Frederick C. Barghoorn, edited by Thomas Remington (1989), London: MacMillan.
E. Mickiewicz, Changes in the Soviet Media under Gorbachev, edited by Walter Joyce, Hillel Ticktin, and Stephen White, "Gorbachev and Gorbachevism," special issue of Journal of Communist Studies, vol. 4 no. 4 (December, 1988), London: Frank Cass (Reprinted in Gorbachev and Gorbachevism, ed. Walter Joyce, Hillel Ticktin, and Stephen White, London: Frank Cass, 1989.).
E. Mickiewicz, Making Media Work: Soviet Society and Communication, in Soviet Society Under Gorbachev, edited by Maurice Friedberg ad Heyward Isham (1987), M.E. Sharpe.
E. Mickiewicz, Mass Media in the Soviet Union, in The Soviet Union Today, 2d ed., edited by James Cracraft (1987), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Political Communication and the Soviet Media System, in Soviet Politics: Russia Since Brezhnev, edited by Jorge Nogee (1985), New York: Praeger.
E. Mickiewicz, Policy Issues in the Soviet Media System, in The Soviet Union in the 1980s, edited by Erik Hoffmann (1984), Academy of Political Science.
E. Mickiewicz, Mass Communication and Book Publishing, in Grolier's Encyclopedia Americana (1979), New York.
E. Mickiewicz with Frederick C. Barghoorn, American Views of Soviet-American Exchanges of Persons, in Communication in International Politics, edited by Richard Merritt (1972), Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
E. Mickiewicz, Mikhail Suslov, in Grolier's Encyclopedia International (1969).
E. Mickiewicz, U.S.S.R. (revised article), in Grolier's Encyclopedia International (1969).

Journal Articles

E. Mickiewicz, Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs vol. 22:3, (July-September 2005), 355-380., Political Communication, vol. 22 no. 3 (Fall, 2005), pp. 355-380.
E. Mickiewicz, “Novosti c ‘golubogo ekrana’: K probleme vliyania,” [Television News: the Problem of Influence] Moscow, Vol. 5 (41), May 2002., Sreda [Media], Moscow, vol. 5 no. 41 (2005) (May 2002.).
E. Mickiewicz, The Election News Story on Russian Television: A World Apart from Viewers, Slavic Review (forthcoming).
E. Mickiewicz, novostic 'golubogo ekrana': K probleme vliyania" [Television News: the Problem of Influence], Sreda, Moscow, vol. 5 no. 41 (May, 2002).
E. Mickiewicz, Piracy, Policy, and an Emerging Media Market, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (2001).
E. Mickiewicz, Russian Television News: Owners and the Public, Neiman Reports (Fall, 1999) (Translated as "Les journaux televiscs" Communication et Languages, Paris, 2000.).
E. Mickiewicz, The Commercialization of Scholarship in the Former Soviet Union, Slavic Review, vol. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 90-5.
E. Mickiewicz with Larissa Fedotova, Dva vzglyada na dva mira informatsii [Two Views of Two Worlds of Information], Seria Zhurnalistiki (1993), Moscow State University.
E. Mickiewicz with Ada W. Finifter, Redefining the Political System of the USSR: Mass Support for Political Change, American Political Science Review (December, 1992).
E. Mickiewicz, Rising Voices: Minorities and the Future of Soviet and American Television, Media Studies Journal (Fall, 1991).
E. Mickiewicz with Dawn P. Jamison, Ethnicity and Soviet Television News, Journal of Communication, vol. 41 no. 2 (Spring, 1991) (Reprinted in Mass Culture and Perestroika in the Soviet Union, ed. Marsha Siefert, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.).
E. Mickiewicz, Communication, Mobilization, and Reform, Sotsiologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Research), vol. 11 (1991), Moscow.
E. Mickiewicz, Public Opinion and Soviet Nationalities, Soviet Nationalities, vol. 1 no. 1 (1990).
E. Mickiewicz, La TV secondo Gorbaciov, Relazioni Internazionali (December, 1989).
E. Mickiewicz, Soviet Union: The Asymmetrical Mirror, Gannett Center Journal (Fall, 1989).
E. Mickiewicz, Mobilization and Reform: Political Communication under Gorbachev, P.S.: Political Science and Politics, vol. XXI no. 2 (June, 1989).
E. Mickiewicz with Gregory Haley, Nicholas Desoutter, Edward Hyken, Terry Krugman, and Marina Teplitsky, Soviet Television and America, Television Quarterly, vol. 23 no. 2 (1988).
E. Mickiewicz with Gregory Haley, Soviet and American Television News: Week of Intensive Interaction, Slavic Review, vol. 46 (1987).
E. Mickiewicz, Soviet and American Television: A Comparison of News Coverage, Nieman Reports, vol. XXXIX no. 4 (Winter, 1985).
E. Mickiewicz, The Functions of Communications Officials in the USSR: A Biographical Study, Slavic Review, vol. XLIII no. 4 (Winter, 1984).
E. Mickiewicz, Feedback, Surveys, and Soviet Communication Theory, Journal of Communication, vol. 33 (Spring, 1983).
E. Mickiewicz, Media and the Russian Public: Watching Television in Russia, Annual of the International Council of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981) (reprinted from Media and the Russian Public.).
E. Mickiewicz, Commentary on Marxism and the Work of Bertram Wolfe, Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 20 (December, 1979).
E. Mickiewicz, Regional Social Slass Recruitment in the CPSU: Indicators of Decentralization, Power, and Policy, Soviet Union, vol. 5 no. 1 (Summer, 1978).
E. Mickiewicz, Regional Variation in Female Recruitment and Advancement in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Slavic Review, vol. XXXVI no. 3 (September, 1977).
E. Mickiewicz, Evaluation Studies of Soviet Party Members, Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 1976-1977).
E. Mickiewicz, Soviet Education, edited by guest and contributing editor (October, 1972), Columbia University.
E. Mickiewicz, Policy Applications of Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union, Public Opinion Quarterly (Winter 1972-1973).
E. Mickiewicz, The Modernization of Party Propaganda in the U.S.S.R., Slavic Review, vol. XXX no. 2 (June, 1971).
E. Mickiewicz, The Status of Soviet Women (review essay), Problems of Communism (September/October 1971).

Papers Published

E. Mickiewicz, “The Election News Story on Russian Television: A World Apart from Viewers”, Slavic Review, vol. Spring (2006), pp. pp. 1-23.

Other

E. Mickiewicz, Changing Channels: The Drama of Russian Television, Almanac: Annual of the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1999-2000).
E. Mickiewicz, From Russia--with warnings, Electronic Media International (October 5, 1998), pp. 8.
E. Mickiewicz with Dee Reid, Russian TV's Freedom Fighters, The New York Times (January 21, 1995), pp. 15.
E. Mickiewicz with Donald Browne and Charles Firestone, Television/Radio News and Minorities (1994), The Aspen Institute and The Carter Center of Emory University (translated into: Kazakh, Almaty, Kazakhstan: Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University Press, 1996; Ukrainian, Kyiv, Ukraine: Vseuvyto Publishing Company, 1996; Belarusan, Minsk, Belarus: Belarusan Association of Non-State Television, 1995; Russian, Moscow, Russia: Internews, 1994; Lithuanian, VU Zurnalistikos institutas, 1998.).
E. Mickiewicz with Charles Firestone, Television and Elections (1992), The Aspen Institute and The Carter Center of Emory University (translated into: Bosnian, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina: USIA, 1996; Romanian, Bucharest, Romania: USIA, 1996; Arabic, Tel Aviv, Israel: USIA, 1995; Frnech, Paris, France: Nouveaux Horizons, 1995; Lithuanian, Trakai-Vilnius, Lithuania: Vortua, 1995; Ukrainian, Kyiv, Ukraine: Vik, 1994; Hungarian, Budapest, Hungary: A Pilot Film and Television Productions Ltd. Kiadasa, 1994; Belarusan, Minsk, Belarus: Belarusan Association of Non-State Television, 1994; Kazakh, Almaty, Kazakhstan: Al-Garabi Kazakh State National University Press, 1994; Armenian, Yerevan, Armenia: 1994; Russian, Moscow, Russia: Moscow State University Press, 1993; 1999; Bulgarian, USIA, 1999; Spanish, The Carter Center, 2001.).
E. Mickiewicz with Ada W. Finifter, Russia's Future Clouded by Resettlement Problems, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, Section H, "Perspective" (November 22, 1990), pp. 12.
E. Mickiewicz, How Soviet TV Focuses Its Cameras on Eastern Europe, The New York Times (December 31, 1989).
E. Mickiewicz, Openness on Soviet TV is Not Without Static, The New York Times, Section H (August 21, 1988), pp. 27, 32.
E. Mickiewicz, Soviet Viewers are Seeing More, Including News of the U.S., The New York Times, Section H (Sunday, February 22, 1987), pp. 29, 34.
E. Mickiewicz, L'anno zero della TV sovietica (Year Zero in Soviet Television), Corriere della Sera (Milan) (December 31, 1986), pp. 7.
E. Mickiewicz, La Mappa della Terra ridisegnata in TV (The Map of the World Redrawn on Television), Corriere della Sera (Milan) (May 29, 1985), pp. 3.
E. Mickiewicz, La TV in URSS, finestra sull'Occidente (Television in the USSR: Window on the West), Corriere della Sera (Milan) (December 13, 1984), pp. 3.
E. Mickiewicz, Watching the Soviets Watch Television, The New York Times, Section 2 (Sunday, July 9, 1978), pp. 1, 23.
E. Mickiewicz, The De-Stalinization of Stalingrad, The New Leader (November 1971).

Book Chapter

E. Mickiewicz, Icon-Anchors and Russian Television Viewers, in The News of Politics, the Politics of News, 2nd, edited by Doris Graber, Pippa Norris, Denis McQuail (2007), Congressional Quarterly Press (There was a first book of which the editors and the press decided to make a second edition. Some, not all, of the previous contributors were asked to contribute to the new version. My chapter is wholly new, using the dataset from my current research project, but otherwise completely new. I expect that will be true of most of the chapters..).
E. Mickiewicz, Does 'Trust' Mean Attention, Comprehension and Acceptance? Paradoxes of Russian Viewers' News Processing,” , 2006., in Mass Media and New Democracies,, edited by ed. Katrin Voltmer, (2006), Routledge.

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