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John Micgiel
International Affairs Building, Room 1227
Director, East Central European Center; Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Europe; Associate Director, Harriman Institute
Phone: 212-854-4008
jsm6@columbia.edu
Biography:
John Micgiel is an adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs. He is an associate director of Harriman Institute. He is also the director of East Central European Center and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Europe.
Professor Micgiel's teaching and research interests include modern history of East Central Europe (ECE), contemporary politics in ECE, and Western Europe. He has authored Coercion and the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1944–1947 (forthcoming); In the Shadow of the Second Republic; Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence; and Frenzy and Ferocity: The Stalinist Judicial System in Poland, 1944–1947, and the Search for Redress (The Carl Beck Papers). He has been the editor for Wilsonian East Central Europe, Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions After Communism, State and Nation Building in East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives, and coeditor for Poles and Jews: Myth and Reality in the Historical Context.
Micgiel holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1975). He received an MIA and a Certificate of the Institute on East Central Europe from Columbia (1977), followed by a PhD in 1992.