Paula Pickering
Associate Professor
Office: Morton 29Office Hours: T 12:30-1:30, W 10-11, Th 12:30-1, and by appt
Email: [[pmpick]]
Office Phone: 757-221-3038
Webpage: {{http://pmpick.people.wm.edu}}
Research Interests
Ethnic politics, particularly in the Balkans; post-conflict reconstruction; democratization in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet Central Asia; and refugee politics.
Background
She has worked as an analyst on Eastern Europe and as a political officer in Turkmenistan for the State Department. She has also served a human rights officer for the Organization for Security in Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2001; B.A. in International Relations, Stanford University, 1989.
Courses
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Freshman Seminar: Nationalism in the Balkans
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Politics of Eastern Europe
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Introduction to Comparative Politcs
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Russian/Post-Soviet Politics
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Sources of and Remidies for Conflict in Eurasia
Publications
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Her book, Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor, was published by Cornell University Press in December 2007, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4768
Recent publications include:
“Back from the Brink: Explaining political moderation after inter-ethnic violence in the Balkans,” Europe-Asia Studies. June 2009, volume 61, issue 4.
“What is to Be Done? Succession from the League of Communists of Croatia,” with Mark Baskin in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Special Issue on Comparative Perspectives on Communist Party Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe, 41/2, September/December 2008, pp. 1-20.
"Former Yugoslavia and Its Successors," with Mark Baskin in Sharon Wolchik and Jane Curry, eds., Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy, 2008;
"Generating Bridging Social Capital in the Balkans," in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 29/1 January 2006;
as well as chapters in Feldman, Martha, Jeannine Bell, and Michele Berger, eds., Gaining Access: The Inside Story, 2003; and in Keridis, Dimitris, ed., New Approaches to Balkan Studies 2003.
Several works in progress include: "The Impact of Lessons Learned about Western Intervention for Political Moderation in the Balkans" and "Into the Weeds: Obstacles to Good Governance in the Balkans," with Mark Baskin.
Fellowships and Grants
Recent fellowships include: