Based in Washington, D.C.
Bernstein-Offit 524
Former faculty member at Hamilton College and vice president for Academic Affairs at Longwood University; guest professor at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik; was staff director of the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior foreign policy adviser to U.S. Vice President (then-Senator) Joseph Biden; was chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress; served as director of West European studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and deputy director of Aspen Institute Berlin; headed the U.S. delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) 2009 Human Rights Conference in Warsaw, the 2010 OSCE Copenhagen Conference and the 2010 OSCE Vienna Review Conference; was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe's 1990 Copenhagen conference and a member of the U.S. government delegation to the 2004 inauguration of the president of Serbia; served as OSCE monitor for the first post-war elections in Bosnia; recipient of state decorations from Austria, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Sweden; Ph.D., history, Harvard University
Library of Congress European Collections: An Illustrated Guide, editor (1994); The Global Ramifications of the French Revolution, co-editor (1994); Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation, co-editor (1993); Liberty/Liberté: The American and French Experiences, co-editor (1991); Portugal: Ancient Country, Young Democracy, co-editor (1990); Between the Blocs: Problems and Prospects for Europe’s Neutral and Nonaligned States, co-editor (1989); Spain in the 1980s: The Democratic Transition and a New International Role, co-editor (1987); Finnish-American Academic and Professional Exchanges: Analyses and Reminiscences, co-editor (1983); Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855–1914, co-author (1981); Der Abbau der deutschen ständischen Selbstverwaltung in den Ostseeprovinzen Russlands 1855–1905 (1977)
