Juliana Geran Pilon
Director, Center for Culture and Security; Professor of Politics and Culture
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon is Director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. She also teaches at the National Defense University and the Air University’s Air Force Culture and Language Center. Her most recent anthology, entitled Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace, was published by IWP Press in September 2009.
Her previous book, Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice was published in 2007, as was Every Vote Counts: The Role of Elections in Building Democracy, which she co-edited with Richard Soudriette. Her book The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- Spotlight on Romania was published by Rutgers University Press in 1991, and her autobiographical book Notes From the Other Side of Night was published in the U.S. in 1979 (republished in 1994) then translated into Romanian in 1993.
Her anthology on civic education, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Ironic Points of Light, was published in Estonian and Russian in 1998. She has also written and edited a textbook on civic education, which is being used, in country-specific versions, throughout Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, endorsed by the Departments of Education in these countries. She has published over two hundred articles and reviews on international affairs, human rights, literature, and philosophy, and has made frequent appearances on radio and television.
During the 1990s, she was first the Director and later the Vice President for Programs at IFES, where she designed, conducted, and managed projects related to a wide variety of democratization projects. Born in Romania, she emigrated with her family and arrived in the U.S. as a teenager. After receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, she held post-doctoral fellowships in international relations at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and at the Institute of Humane Studies. She has also taught at Roosevelt University, Indiana University, Emory University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, American University, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, and Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and has served on the board of advisors of the Auschwitz-based human rights organization Oswiencim Institute for Human Rights and the International Advisory Board of B‘nai Brith.
Upon her departure from IFES, on Sept. 10, 2002, the Board of Directors passed a resolution in gratitude “for her many years of distinguished service and her tremendous contributions to [IFES’] cause,” commending her “for her efforts in demonstrating that freedom and democratic ideals matter and that they are the primary tools needed to achieve a more peaceful and democratic world.”
To view all of Dr. Pilon's publications, please visit her website: http://julianageranpilon.yolasite.com/.
Professional Experience
- Formerly Vice President, International Foundation for Election Systems;
- Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation; and
- Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, and St. Mary's College (MD).
- Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Pilon is the author of The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe (Transaction, 1992); Notes from the Other Side of Night (University Press of America, 1994); and Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Pilon ResumeEducation
- B.A., 1969, University of Chicago
- M.A., 1971, University of Chicago
- Ph.D., 1974, University of Chicago
Contact: jpilon@iwp.edu
Courses
Cultural Implications for Strategy and Analysis Democratization, Nation Building, and U.S. Foreign Policy Nationalism and IslamismPublications
Dr. Pilon reviews "The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses" The Russian ‘Spies’: Information vs. Influence Prof. Pilon reviews Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology[List All]
Books
Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace Why America is Such a Hard Sell[List All]
