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FACULTY WORKSHOP OCTOBER 2, 1999 The Surrey |
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GUEST SPEAKER BARBARA JANCAR-WEBSTER |
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Dr. Barbara Jancar-Webster is Director of the SUNY Russian Center at Albany. She is Distinguished Professor emeritus of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the State University of New York at Brockport. A Ph.D, graduate of the Harriman Institute (then called the Russian Institute), Columbia University, she has spent her career studying the political economy of the former Soviet Union and Central and East European States with particular emphasis on the status of women and environmental policy and management. She twice participated in the SUNY/MGU academic exchange program, once as a senior fellow in the Faculty of Law, the second time as senior fellow in the Faculty of Economics, Department of Resources and Environmental Protection. She has served as consultant, among other things, to the US Departments of Education and Defense, to the National Science Foundation and the Central European University. She has published several monographs, and over, 50 articles in books and periodicals. In 1990, her book, Environmental Management in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia: Structure and Regulation in Federal Communist States ( Durham, NC: Duke University, Press, 1987) won the Sprout Award given by the International Studies Association for the best book on international environmental issues. Recent publications include Environmental Action in Eastern Europe: Responses to Crisis (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993); co-author with Vassily I. Sokolov (Institute USA and Canada, Moscow), "Environmental Security: Challenges for the United States and Russia", Sharyl Cross, Igor A. Zevelev, Victor A. Kremenyuk and Vagan Gevorgian, eds. Global Security Beyond the Millennium: American and Russian Perspectives: New York: Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 131-152; "Environmental Movements and Social Change in Reforming Economies," Petr Jehlicka and Susan Baker, eds., Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Economic Development and Democracy in East Central Europe, 1998, pp. 69-90; "Environmental Degradation and Environmental Politics in the Former Communist Countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union," Ron Nielson, ed., Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective, (Westview, 1996). |
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SATURDAY - OCTOBER 2, 1999 Surrey
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