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A. JAMES MCADAMS
William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs Concurrent
Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631‐7119
(office) (574) 273‐2555 (home) [email protected]
www.nd.edu/~amcadams
Education
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley, 1983. Dissertation: “Surviving Détente: East
German Political Character After the Wall”
M.A., Department of Political Science, University of California,
Berkeley, 1977.
Thesis: “Georg Lukács and the Critique of Kant”
B.A., Department of Political Science, Earlham College,
Richmond, Indiana, 1976.
Professional Positions
2002 ‐ 2018, Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies,
University of Notre Dame (two renewed five‐year appointments, 2007
and 2012)
2001 ‐ , William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs,
University of Notre Dame 1997‐
2002, Professor and Department Chair, Government and
International Studies (renamed Department of Political Science in
2002), University of Notre Dame
1992‐1997, Associate Professor, Government and International
Studies, University of Notre
Dame
1985‐1992, Assistant Professor of Politics and Robert K. Root
Preceptor, Princeton University
1989‐1990, Acting Director, Program in Russian Studies,
Princeton University
mailto:[email protected]://www.nd.edu/%7Eamcadams
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1983‐1985, Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
Hamilton College
Spring 1980, 1981, 1983, Visiting Lecturer, University of
California, Davis
Research Appointments
September 1990‐June 1991, Fellow, Center for Russian and East
European Studies and Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ.
June 1989, Visiting Scholar, Academy for Social Sciences, East
Berlin, GDR
April‐June, 1999, Visiting Scholar, Academy of Sciences, East
Berlin, GDR
September 1987‐March 1988, visiting Scholar, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Bonn, FRG
June‐August 1984, Visiting Scholar, Center for International
Affairs, Harvard University
1981‐82, Dissertation Research, Osteuropa Institut, Free Univ.,
West Berlin
Grants and Fellowships
2012‐2013, Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study,
University of Konstanz. Konstanz, Germany
1996‐1997 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Writing
Fellowship in International Security
1991 American Council of Learned Societies Senior Research
Fellowship
1991‐1993 National Council for Soviet and East European
Research
1990‐1991 William C. Bark National Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University
1989 International Research and Exchanges (IREX) Grant for
Short‐term Independent Research (to German Democratic Republic)
1988 International Research and Exchanges Fellowship (to German
Democratic Republic)
1987‐1988 Fulbright‐Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant (Federal
Republic of Germany)
1987‐1988 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (Federal
Republic of Germany)
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1984 American Council of Learned Societies Senior Research
Fellowship
1982‐1983 University Regents Fellowship, U.C., Berkeley
1981‐1982 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship (to
West Berlin)
1976‐1977 Richard Weaver Graduate Fellowship (U.C.,
Berkeley)
Distinctions, Honors, Awards
2019 Doctorate honoris causa, John Paul II Catholic University
of Lublin, Poland
2018 Doctorate honoris causa, Catholic University of Ukraine
2018 Named Endowment for Excellence (given by the Nanovic Institute
Advisory Board) 2018 A. James McAdams Endowment, Nanovic Institute
for European Studies (gift from donors of $1 million) 2018 Rev.
Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching (Notre Dame) 2018 Outstanding Mentor Award, Kellogg
Institute International Scholars Program 2018 Partnership of
Catholic Universities “What are you fighting for?” video on NBC
(7,091 million viewers during the Notre Dame‐Michigan Football
game)
2010 Senior Class Speaker (The “Last Lecture” Lecture).
2009 Senior Speaker, Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society, Department of
Political Science
2007 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching (Notre Dame)
2006 Faculty Fellow, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning (by
invitation)
2001 Thomas J. Madden Teaching Award (highest university award
for teaching First‐Year
students, Notre Dame)
2001 John A. Kaneb Teaching Award (Notre Dame)
2000 President’s Award (award for university administration,
Notre Dame)
1997 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies
(top national award in
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German studies; first national recipient in “Political Science
and Foreign Policy”)
1995 The Charles E. Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching
(highest teaching award in the College of Arts and Letters, Notre
Dame)
1989‐1992 Robert K. Root Preceptorship, Princeton University,
university‐wide
award for scholarship and teaching
1976 Phi Beta Kappa
1976 College Honors (Earlham College)
1975 Department Honors, Political Science
1975 Clifford Crump Phi Beta Kappa Prize (top‐ranked junior
student, Earlham College) 1974 Clifford Crump Phi Beta Kappa Prize
(top‐ranked sophomore student, Earlham College)
Grants and Sponsored Programs Co‐Principal Investigator, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada “Rise of the
Radical Right: A Podcast Series,” University of Toronto: January to
December 2020
Principal Fundraiser, Nanovic Institute for European Studies,
more than $18 million, 2002‐2018
Co‐Principal Investigator, Grant for Nanovic Institute
Conference on “The Year of the Euro,” December 6‐8, from the
European Union Delegation to the U.S.
Grant writer, Undergraduate Research Initiatives, from the
Strake Foundation, several successful applications from
1997‐2001.
Organizer and fund‐raiser, Notre Dame Symposium on Political
Justice and the Transition to Democracy, April 28, 1995; an
international conference cosponsored by the Helen Kellogg Institute
and the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Principal Investigator and author of successful institutional
grant proposal to National Council for Soviet and East European
Research, “An Oral History of the GDR,” 1991–1993; also, raised
grants from John Foster Dulles Fund, Princeton University and the
Library Archives of the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University.
Organizer, Hamilton College Conference on Modern German
Politics, April 26–28, 1985; a three‐day meeting attended by over
30 American and European experts on Germany, partially funded by
the Council for European Studies, Columbia University.
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Publications (* denotes refereed publication)
Monographs:
*Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist
Party (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). 600
pages. Publisher Ranking in Political Science: #2.
Named one of the best books of 2018 by Foreign Affairs Paperback
edition, 2019 Italian translation, L'avanguardia della rivoluzione.
L'idea globale del Partito Comunista (Rome: Mondadori, Le Monnier,
2019)
* Judging the Past in Unified Germany (New York and Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). 244 pages. Cloth and Paper. Publisher
Ranking in Political Science: #1. Also accepted by Princeton
University Press, Publisher Ranking: #2.
* Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification (Princeton:
Princeton Univ. Press, 1993),
266 pages. Publisher Ranking in Political Science: #2.
Named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1993 by Choice Magazine.
Numerous printings. Expanded paperback edition, July 1994.
* East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1985). Publisher Ranking in Political Science: #1
Second printing, 1987.
Paperback edition, 2007.
Edited Volumes and Collections:
* The Revolutionary Sixties: ‘1968’ in Europe and Latin America
(with Anthony P. Monta), ed., (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, forthcoming). * The Crisis of Modern Times: Perspectives
from The Review of Politics, 1939‐1962 (Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press, 2007), 444 pp.
Chinese Edition Xiandai weiji:zhengzhixue pinglun 1939‐1962
(Shanghai, China: 2013).
Hungarian Edition A modernitás válsága (Budapest: Szabadság,
2014).
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The Review of Politics Series, co‐editor with Catherine H.
Zuckert, four volumes (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
forthcoming 2007‐2012).
Introduction to Comparative Government, Co‐author, with Michael
Curtis, et al. (New York: Longman, 2002), fourth edition.
Fifth edition, 2005.
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies,
Editor (Notre Dame:
Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Cloth and Paper.
Second printing, 2003.
*Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II. Co‐author,
with Cyril Black, et al. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992).
Second edition, 1999.
The Past as Arsenal: Debating German Unification. Co‐editor,
with John Torpey, A special issue
of German Politics and Society, no. 30 (Fall 1993). GDR Oral
History Archive. Principal Investigator, Archives of the Hoover
Institution for War,
Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1990‐1994.
Named one of the top 100 most viewed oral history archives in
the English language, ranking #54 out of approximately 3,350
collections, by In the First Person, 2006,
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.top.100.aspx
Refereed (*) Journal Articles:
*“Transitional Justice: The Issue that Won’t Go Away,”
International Journal of Transitional Justice, v. 5, n. 2, (2011),
pp. 304‐312.
“Der letzte Ostdeutscher,” Deutschland Archiv, v. 44, n. 1,
2011. “The Last East German and the Memory of the GDR,” German
Politics and Society, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2010).
Also in, Jeffrey Anderson and Eric Langenbacher, eds., From the
Bonn to the Berlin Republic (New York: Berghan Books, 2010), pp.
51‐62.
*“Spying on Terrorists: Germany in Comparative Perspective,”
German Politics and Society,
http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.top.100.aspx
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Winter 2008, pp. 70‐88.
* "Surveillance of the Internet after 9/11: Is the U.S. Becoming
Great Britain?” Comparative Politics, v. 37, n. 4 (July 2005), pp.
479‐498
“Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung nach 1989: Ein deutscher Sonderweg?”
Deutschland Archiv, n. 5, vol.36 (2003), pp. 851‐860.
An English‐language version of this article appeared as
“Transitional Justice after 1989” in the Bulletin of the German
Historical Institute, n. 33, Fall 2003, pp. 53‐64.
* “What Remains? The Political Culture of an Unlucky Birth,”
German Politics and Society, v. 20, n. 2 (Summer 2002), pp.
26‐42.
* "Reappraising the Conditions of Transitional Justice in
Unified Germany," East European Constitutional Review, v. 10, n. 1
(Winter 2001), pp. 53‐60.
A Russian‐language version appeared as the lead article in a
Russian law journal, “Korrektsionoe iustitsia v ob’edinenii
Germania,” Konstitutionaia pravo: vostochnoevropeiskoi obozrenia
[“Corrective Justice in Unified Germany,” Constitutional Law: East
European Review], n. 2, vol. 35, 2001, pp. 2‐9
* “Germany After Unification: Normal at Last?” World Politics,
49, n. 2 (January 1997), pp. 282– 308.
* “The Honecker Trial: The East German Past and the German
Future,” Review of Politics, v. 58,
n.1 (Winter 1996), pp. 53–80.
Also printed as a Working Paper no. 216, Helen Kellogg Institute
for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (1996), pp.
1–20.
“Epilogue” in Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 229–43.
* “Inter‐German Relations in Historical Perspective: The Risks
of Biased Hindsight,” German
Politics, v. 3, n. 2 (August 1994), pp. 193–205.
Also reprinted as Occasional Paper 6: OP: 3, Joan B. Kroc
Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
(1994), pp. 1–27.
* “Revisiting the Ostpolitik in the 1990s,” German Politics and
Society, no. 30 (Fall 1993), pp.
49–60.
*“The Political Arsenal of the German Past,” with John Torpey,
German Politics and Society, no. 30 (Fall 1993), pp. 1–6.
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* “Towards a New Germany? Problems of Unification,” Government
and Opposition (Summer 1990), pp. 304–16.
* “Explaining Inter‐German Cooperation in the 1980s,” German
Studies Review (Summer 1990),
pp. 99–114.
“An Obituary for the Berlin Wall,” World Policy Journal, v. vii,
n. 2 (Spring 1990), pp. 357–76.
“The GDR at 40: The Perils of Success,” German Politics and
Society, June 1989, pp. 14–26.
“The New Logic of Soviet‐East German Disputes,” Problems of
Communism, September‐ October, 1988, pp. 47–60.
* “Crisis in the Soviet Empire: Three Ambiguities in Search of a
Prediction,” Comparative
Politics, v. 20, n. 1, October 1987, pp. 107–118.
“Inter‐German Detente: A New Balance?” Foreign Affairs, Fall
1986, pp. 136–53 “The East German‐Soviet Dispute in Retrospect,”
Addendum, n. 42, U.S. Information Agency,
October 18, 1985, pp. 22–28
* “Surviving the Missiles: The GDR and the Future of
Inter‐German Relations,” Orbis, Summer 1983, pp. 343–70.
Book Chapters (*refereed):
* “Revolutionary 1968: Contending Approaches to an Elusive
Concept,” in The Revolutionary Sixties: ‘1968’ in Europe and Latin
America (with Anthony P. Monta), ed., (Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press, forthcoming). “Populism, Democracy, and the Role
of the Catholic University,” in Volodymyr Trchynovskyy, Responding
to the Challenges of Post‐Truth (Lviv, Ukraine: Ukrainian Catholic
Univ. Press, 2019), pp. 22‐29.
“Which Europe, What Union? Pacem in Terris and the Future of
European Unification,” in Acta 18, Mary Anne Glendon and R.
Hittinger, eds. (Vatican City, Italy: Pontifical Academy of the
Social Sciences, 2013).
“Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in
post‐1989 Europe,” in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., The End and the
Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History
(Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012).
“Yves Simon: A Preface” The Invasion of Ethiopia and French
Political Thought (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
2009).
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* "The Issue That Won't Go Away," in Berndt Fischer, Essays in
Transitional Justice (New York, Cambridge University Press,
2008).
* “The Origins of the Review of Politics,” in The Crisis of
Modern Times: Perspectives from The Review of Politics, 1939‐1962
(Notre Dame Press, 2007), pp. 1‐28.
* “The Double Demands of Reconciliation: The Case of Unified
Germany,” in Daniel Philpott, The Politics of Past Evil (Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 127‐150.
“¿Por qué no podemos llevarnos bien? Una perspective Americana”
(Originally: “Why Can’t We Get Along? An American Perspective on
Relations between the U.S. and Europe”), in Europa, Sé tú Misma, v.
1 (Madrid, Spain: Fundación Universitaria San Pablo, 2005), pp.
1171‐1181.
“The Government of Germany,” chapters on “Political
Development,” “Political Processes and Institutions,” and “Public
Policy,” in Introduction to Comparative Government, Co‐author, with
Michael Curtis, et al. (New York: Longman, 2002), pp. 185‐242.
"German Officials as Historians: Revisiting the Debates over the
Stasi Files," in Wolfgang Schluchter and Peter Quint, eds., Der
Vereinigungsschock ‐‐ Zehn Jahre danach: Eine vergleichende
Betrachtung (Velbrueck Wissenschaft, 2001).
“Preface,” in A. James McAdams, ed., Transitional Justice and
The Rule of Law in New Democracies (Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1997), pp. ix–xviii
“Communism on Trial: The East German Past and The German
Future,” in A. James McAdams, ed., Transitional Justice and the
Rule of Law in New Democracies. (Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1997).
* “The New Diplomacy of the West German Ostpolitik,” in Gordon
A. Craig and Francis
Loewenheim, eds., The Diplomats: 1939–1979 (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994), pp. 537–63.
“German Ostpolitik in the 1990s: Anticipating the Post–Soviet
Disorder,” in Peter Merkl, ed.,
The Federal Republic of Germany at 45 (London and New York:
Macmillan and New York University Press, 1995), pp. 407‐23.
“Explaining Inter‐German Cooperation in the 1980s,” in Michael
Huelshoff, Andrei Markovits,
and Simon Reich, eds., From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 191–206.
“Inter‐German Relations in Historical Perspective,” in Gustav
Schmidt, ed., Ost‐West Beziehungen: Konfrontation und Détente
(Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1993), pp. 369–80. (Version of article
above).
“The German Question Revisited,” in George Breslauer, ed.,
Dilemmas of Transition in the
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Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Berkeley: Institute of
International Studies, 1991), pp. 129– 40.
“Political Myths and Germany’s Future,” in G. Geipel, ed., The
Future of Germany (Indianapolis:
Hudson Institute, 1990), pp. 30–36.
“From the East German Volkskammer election to a new Germany,” in
G. Geipel, ed., The Future of Germany (Indianapolis: Hudson
Institute, 1990), pp. 18–29.
“West German Perspectives on Inter‐German Relations,” in Gordon
Smith, William Paterson,
and Peter Merkl, eds., Developments in German Politics (London:
Macmillan, 1989), pp. 229–46.
“Inter‐German Détente: A New Balance?” (version of the Foreign
Affairs article above), in
Steven Larrabee, ed., The Two German States and European
Security (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press,
1988), pp. 53–72.
“Gorbachev’s Gamble: A New Deal For Eastern Europe,” The Nation,
June 3, 1987. (This
special issue of The Nation received the Olive Branch Award.
Numerous reprints of this article elsewhere.
The ‘German Question’ Reopened,” in Thomas Baylis, ed., East
Germany, West Germany, and the Soviet Union: Perspectives on a
Changing Relationship (Ithaca: Cornell University Center for
International Studies, 1986), pp. 37–42.
Popular Articles (numerous publications)
Reviews:
In the American Political Science Review; Political Science
Quarterly; German Politics and Society; Slavic Review; New York
Times; Soviet Union/Union Sovietique; and many others.
Professional Activities
National and International Conferences, Papers and Other:
Organizer and Paper Presenter, “Taking New Right Thinkers
Seriously: Perspectives from Europe, Russia, and the United
States,” Selected as a Theme Panel, American Political Science
Association, Annual Meeting, August 29‐September 1, 2019; Paper:
“Vanguards of the European New Right: From de Benoist to Friberg
and Kubitschek” Presenter, “Education and the Surveillance State
under Communism,” Conference on “Toward Freedom: Celebrating
Central and Eastern European Independence,” Victims
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of Communism Memorial Foundation, Chicago, May 3, 2019
Participant, Conference Roundtable, International Conference for
the Study of Political Thought, Yale University, May 10, 2019 Panel
Chair and Discussant, Panel on Authoritarian Regimes, American
Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, September 5,
2015.
Panel Chair, “St. John Paul II and the Catholic University,”
Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, September 26, 2015.
Paper: “Which Europe, What Union? Pacem in Terris and the Future
of European Unification,” Pontifical Academy of the Social
Sciences, Vatican City, Italy. April 29, 2012.
Paper, “Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in
post‐1989 Europe, Conference on The End and the Beginning: The
Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History, University of
Maryland, November 9, 2009.
Paper, “Franco‐German Reconciliation,” Conference on
“Reconciliation or Resentment in Germany and Japan,” American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, May 1, 2009.
Paper, “Transitional Justice: The Issue that won’t go away,”
Conference on “Twenty Years After: Dealing with the Heritage of
Communism,” Munk Center for International Relations, University of
Toronto, Canada, March 20, 2009.
Paper, “Why Can’t We Get Along? An American Perspective on
Relations between the U.S. and Europe,” Congress on Catholics and
Public Life at Fundación Universitaria San Pablo‐CEU, Madrid,
Spain, Nov. 19‐21, 2004
Paper (Keynote address), “Transitional Justice after 1989: Is
Germany so different?” Conference on “Historical Justice in
International Perspective” German Historical Institute and Woodrow
Wilson Center, Washington D.C., March 27‐29, 2003.
Presenter and Chair, Roundtable on the German response to
Terrorism, Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association,
October, 2002.
Paper, "German Officials as Historians: The Debates over the
Stasi Files," Annual meeting of the German Studies Assoc., Salt
Lake City, UT, Oct. 9‐11, 1998.
Chair and discussant, panel on democratization in the new German
States, Annual meeting of the German Studies Assoc., Salt Lake
City, UT, Oct. 9‐11, 1998.
Paper, "Beyond Nuremberg: German Justice and East German Law in
the 1990s," International Nuremberg Symposium, Univ. of
Connecticut, Oct. 17, 1996.
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Paper, “The German Enquete‐Kommission and the Making of the New
Germany,” Meeting of the Eastern German Studies Assoc., Stanford
Univ., Nov. 18, 1995.
Chair and Discussant, panels on the Foreign Policy of United
Germany and the Stages of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Annual Meeting
of the German Studies Association, Chicago, IL., Sept. 22,
1995.
Discussant, Panel on Historical Memory and German Foreign
Policy, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Assoc.,
Chicago, IL., Sept. 2, 1995.
Paper, “Prosecuting East Germany’s Former Dictators,” Notre Dame
Symposium on Political Justice and the Transition to Democracy,
Apr. 28, 1995.
Chair and discussant, Panel on the U. S., the Soviet Union, and
East Germany, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
Waltham, MA., June 24, 1994.
Chair and discussant, Panel on National Identity and Citizenship
in Eastern Europe, Ninth International Conference of Europeanists,
Chicago, IL., Apr. 1, 1994.
Paper, “Mythologies of the Inter‐German Relationship,” Annual
Meeting of the German Studies Assoc., Washington, DC, Oct. 8,
1993.
Paper, “The Risks of Biased Hindsight,” Conference on East‐West
Relations, Ruhr Univ., Bochum, Germany, Sept. 22–25, 1993.
Paper, “Constructing an Oral History of the GDR," GDR Studies
Assoc., Washington, DC, Nov. 13, 1992.
Paper, “The East German Volkskammer Election: Toward a New
Germany,” Hudson Institute Conference on Germany, June 18–19,
1990.
Rapporteur, Ditchley Conference on the Future of Germany,
Oxfordshire, England, December 1–3, 1989.
Paper, “Two Germanies,” 1989 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Assoc., Panel on the Politics of Divided
Nations
Paper, “Explaining Inter‐German Cooperation in the 1980s,” DAAD
conference on “German Studies and Political Science,” August 29,
1989.
Paper, “Conflict and Consensus in Soviet‐East German Relations,”
Aspen Institute Conference on German Politics, West Berlin, May 30,
1987.
Discussant, Conference on Soviet‐Latin American Relations,
Center of International Studies, Princeton Univ., 1986
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Paper, “Conceptualizing Change in Soviet‐East European
Relations,” 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Assoc., Washington, D.C.
Paper, “The Origins of a New Inter‐German Relationship,”
Hamilton College Conference on Modern German Politics, 1985.
Discussant, 1984 Annual Meeting of the International Studies
Assoc., Panel on Problems of Socialist Politics and Economics,
Atlanta, GA.
Paper, “Weighing Detente’s Future: The Case of the GDR,” 1982
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Assoc., Denver
CO
Invited Lectures (listed by location and year):
2010s
USA: National History Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
(2019)Georgetown University (2010, 2017); Miami University (2012),
Chicago Seminary Co‐Op (2017); Library of Congress (2017)
International: Catholic University of Lublin (2010); College of
Pinsk, Belarus (2010); Institut Catholique de Paris (2010);
Institute for Advanced Study, Konstanz, Germany (2012); Catholic
University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia (2013); Pazmany Peter
University, Budapest, Hungary (2013), University College, Dublin
(2018); Catholic University of Ukraine (2018); John Paul II
Catholic University, Lublin, Poland (2019); Lingnan University,
Hong Kong (2019); Hong Kong Baptist University (2019)
2000s
USA: University of California, Berkeley (2001); German
Historical Institute (2001); German Historical Institute (2003);
Wayne State University (2005); University of Maine (2006); American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC (2008);
University of Maryland (2009).
International: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (2001); Ditchley,
Oxfordshire (2002); University of Warsaw (2002); Universitat Abat
Oliba CEU (2004); Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest
(2005); Catholic University of Lublin (2006); International
University of Shanghai, China (2007); International Center for
Transitional Justice, Amman, Jordan (2007); Ukrainian Catholic
University, Lviv, Ukraine (2008); Sogang University, Seoul, South
Korea (2008); Seraficum, Rome (2009); Vietnam National University,
Hanoi, Vietnam (2009); U.S. Embassy, Hanoi Vietnam (2009)
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1990s
USA: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (1992);
Columbia University (1992); Connecticut (1994); Harvard University
(1993); Houston Seminar (1990); International Research and
Exchanges Board (1992); Princeton University (1991); Stanford
University (1990a, 1990b, 1991, 1998); University of California,
Berkeley (1990, 1998); University of Connecticut (1996); Wayne
State University (2005).
International: Academy of Sciences, Berlin, German Democratic
Republic (1990); Potsdam,
Germany (1991); University of Bochum, Germany (1993); Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary (1994).
1980s
USA: American Council on Germany (1989); American Institute for
Contemporary German Studies (1988, 1989); Columbia University
(1986, 1987, 1989); Cornell University (1984); Council on Foreign
Relations (1989); Harvard University (1986a, 1986b, 1989a, 1989b);
Institute for East‐West Security Studies (1986); International
Research and Exchanges Board (1986, 1987); U.S. Congress (1987);
University of California, Berkeley (1983).
International: Academy of Sciences, East Berlin, German
Democratic Republic (1988); Aspen
Institute, West Berlin (1988); German Society for Foreign
Policy, Federal Republic of Germany (1988); Free University, West
Berlin (1985); Humboldt University, East Berlin, German Democratic
Republic (1988); Institute of International Relations, East Berlin,
German Democratic Republic (1988, 1989); Jagiellonian University,
Krakow, Poland (1986); University of Bonn (1988a, 1988b)
Academic Placements (former graduate and undergraduate
students)
Thomas Banchoff (Princeton, PhD), Professor, Department of
Government and Institute Director; Vice‐President for Global
Affairs, Georgetown University
Andrew Bramsen (Notre Dame, PhD), Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
Kathleen Collins (Notre Dame), Associate Professor, Department
of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Alexander Dukalskis, (Notre Dame, PhD), Lecturer, School of
Politics and International Studies,
University College, Dublin, Ireland
Robert English (Princeton, PhD), Associate Professor, School of
International Affairs, University of Southern California
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Anna Grzymala‐Busse (Princeton), Chaired Professor, Department
of Political Science, Stanford University
Mark Jubulis (Notre Dame, PhD), Associate Professor, Department
of Political Science, Gannon
University
Kevin Krause (Notre Dame, PhD), Associate Professor, Department
of Political Science, Wayne State University
James McCann (Princeton, PhD), Rector, Pontifical Oriental
Institute, Rome, Italy
Dirk Moses (Notre Dame, MA), Senior Lecturer, Department of
History, University of Sydney,
Australia John Scherpereel (Notre Dame), Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science, James
Madison University
Claire Smith (Notre Dame, PhD), Department of Political Science,
University of Oldenburg
Mitchell Smith (Princeton, PhD), Associate Professor, Department
of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Other Professional Activities
National and International Fellowship and Grant Panels: American
Council of Learned Societies (3 times); German Academic Exchange
Service (5 times); International Research and Exchanges Board
Academic Consulting and Refereeing:
American Academy—Berlin; U. S. Institute of Peace, Council on
International Educational Exchange, American Council of Learned
Societies, Ford Foundation, International Research and Exchanges
Board, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Wilson
Center of the Smithsonian Institution, German Marshall Fund; radio
and television commentary (National Public Radio, McNeil‐Lehrer
News Hour, Nightline with Ted Koppel; National Geographic) and many
others.
Consulting:
U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress, the White House,
National Security Council, many others
Scholarly Referee:
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Publishers: Princeton Univ. Press, Harvard Univ. Press, Cornell
Univ. Press, Cambridge Univ. Press, Univ. of California Press,
Oxford Univ. Press, Univ. of North Carolina Press, Penn State Univ.
Press, Univ. of Notre Dame Press, etc.
Journals: American Political Science Review, Political Science
Quarterly; Review of Politics; World Politics; American Journal of
Political Science; Journal of Politics; Review of Politics;
Comparative Politics; Law and Society Review; Journal of
Transitional Justice; etc.
Foundations and Institutes: National Science Foundation,
American Council of Learned Societies, U. S. Institute of Peace,
MacArthur Foundation, Research Council of Canada, Social Science
Research Council, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), American
Academy—Berlin, among others
Member, Indiana Advisory Board, US Commission on Civil Rights,
1995–1999.
November 21, 1989: Congressional Testimony, U.S. Congress, House
Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East
In February 1989, I was offered (and declined) the position of
Director of Central and Southern European Affairs at the National
Security Council, The White House.
1986‐1991: Member, Continuing seminar on German Politics, Aspen
Institute‐Berlin
January 12‐29, 1985: Lecturer, U.S. Information Agency (in
German) in East Germany, West Germany, and Czechoslovakia; and in
Poland, 1986
1985‐1987, 1988‐1990: Associate Editor, World Politics
1976‐‐present: Contributing Editor, New Oxford Review
2001 ‐‐ 2008, Member, Academic Advisory Board, American
Institute for Contemporary German
Studies
2001 ‐‐ ? , Who’s Who in America
2002 – 2010. Editorial Board, Comparative Politics Newsletter,
American Political Science Association
2004 – present, Associate Editor, Review of Politics
2004‐ 2009, Research Associate, Center for the Study of American
Civic Literacy, Wilmington Delaware
2003 and 2006, Member, National Selection Committee, DAAD Prize
in German Politics and International Affairs
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2006‐2007, Chair, Selection Committee for the Best Book in
German History or Politics, German Studies Association
2008, 2009, 2010 National Selection Committees, Graduate and
Faculty Research Grants, DAAD
2008‐ present, Senior Non‐resident Fellow, American Institute
for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC 2018 ‐ present,
Member, Academic Advisory Council, Memorial Foundation for the
“Victims of Communism” Princeton University Activities
(abbreviated)
1989‐90 Acting Director, interdisciplinary undergraduate and
graduate program in Russian
Studies Founder, interdisciplinary major in German and Politics,
Dept. of Germanic Languages and
Literatures and Dept. of Politics Sponsor, numerous lectures and
colloquia on European politics, US foreign policy, and
international security Member, Dept. of Politics Undergraduate
Committee Member, Dept. of Politics Graduate Committee Chair and/or
member of dissertation and masters committees; supervisor numerous
junior and
senior theses 1986‐90 Faculty Fellow, Forbes College
Courses: Undergraduate: Soviet Foreign Policy; East European
Politics; German Politics Graduate: The German Question;
Comparative Communist Politics
Notre Dame Activities
Department of Government and International Studies (renamed
Department of Political Science in 2002)
Member, Comparative Politics Search Committees, 1993 (Chair);
1994 (Chair); 2004‐2005; 2008 (Chair)
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1995‐1996
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003‐2004; 2006‐2007
Chair, Comparative Politics Committee, 1993‐1995l; 2004‐2005;
2014‐15
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Member, Undergraduate Policy Committee, 2006‐2007
Member, International Relations Search Committee, 2007‐2008;
2010‐2011
Elected member, Appointments and Promotions Committee,
1994/1995; 1995/1996; 1996/1997; 2009‐2010; 2011‐2012; renamed
Executive Committee, 2015/2016; 2017/18
Chair, Department of Government and International Studies,
1997‐2002 (reappointment, 2000):
In this capacity, I was responsible for the management of a
large academic program (41 faculty, 4 staff) with a multi‐million
dollar budget. I was charged with oversight of scholarly research
in four professional sub‐fields (Comparative Politics,
International Relations, Political Theory, and American Politics)
and undergraduate (570+ students) and graduate (80+ students)
teaching programs. Related activities: Hiring (directly involved in
the recruitment and hiring of 18 full‐time faculty), Curriculum,
Program development, Fund‐raising (raised approx. $1.5 million in
external gifts for department programs). In 2000, I organized and
chaired a successful external review of department.
Courses
Undergraduate: Seminar in Comparative Communism; The Rise and
Fall of Communism; German Politics; Ten Images of Hell in the
Twentieth Century; Democracy in the Age of the Web;
Private/Public/Internet; Introduction to Comparative Politics;
Sophomore Core Course (Humanities); East European Politics; Dream
of Communism (Junior Seminar); Ten Images of Hell in the
Twenty‐First Century; Introduction to World Politics
Graduate: Comparative Communism; Philosophy and Dictatorship
Thesis supervision:
Undergraduate Honors Theses
1992‐93: Kathleen Collins (Honors Program)—best thesis prize
1993‐94: Doug Dewitt; Daniel DiPaola; Dan Fulkerson; Michael
McGarry; Christopher Kanis (Honors Program); Timothy Mooney (Honors
Program); Rita Parhad (Honors program)—two best thesis prizes
1994‐95: Kimberly Gooley; Stephen Smith; Elizabeth Caruso
(Honors Program); Brad Hunter; Michelle McQuillan
1995‐96: Larissa Herzeg; Eric Johnson; Kathleen Murphy (Honors
Program)
1997‐98: Matthew Wingerter
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2000‐01: Quinn Vandenberg; Eric Bodony
2003‐04: Brianna Todd
2004‐05: Kim Anderson; Petra Dankova
2005‐06: Mark Szuka; Patrick Seul; Brittany Bacon 2006‐07:
Victoria Danielsky
2007‐08: Caitlin Landuyt; Brian Klein; Amanda Deckelman
2008‐
09: Sebastian Lederer
2009‐10: Kristine Nugent
2010‐11: Sean Philbin; Brittany Schmier; Timothy Beemer
2011‐12: Stephen Payne
2013‐14: Samantha Heggum
2016‐17: April Dan Feng; Kayla Mullen
M.A. Theses:
Kevin Krause Stalbek Mishakov Brendan Gaffney Nikolay Valkov
Dirk Moses (Dept. of History) Alejandro Salines (Law School)
Jonathan Richardson Oleksii Kovalenko (Keough School) Kevin
Richardson (Keough School), in progress
Ph.D. Theses:
Ana Petrova, Political Science (Committee member, in progress)
Emma Rosenberg (Committee member, in progress) Mary Shiraef
(Committee member, in progress)
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Alejandro Castrillon (committee member, in progress) Shaojin
Chai, Political Science (committee member, successfully defended,
July 2014) Andrew Bramsen, Political Science (Chair, successfully
defended, 2013) Maria Rogacheva (History, committee member,
successfully defended 2013) Alex Duklaskis, Political Science and
Peace Studies (Chair, successfully defended 2012) Sean Brennan,
Dept. of History (committee member; successfully defended, March
2009) Claire Smith (Chair, successfully defended, April 2005) James
Thompson (Committee Member) Peter Baker (Committee Member,
successfully defended, May 2007) Stalbek Mishakov (Chair) Kevin
Krause (Chair, successfully defended, April 2000) Mark Thomas
(Chair, 1993‐95) Mark Jubulis (Committee Member, 1994‐97;
successfully defended, 1997) Carol Stuart (Comm. Member, 1996‐98;
successfully defended, 1998) Steven Brady (History, Comm. Member,
1995‐98; successfully defended, 1998)
College of Arts and Letters
Director, Fulbright Fellowship Competition, all Notre Dame
undergraduates, 1993‐95 23 National winners
Director, National Security Education Program fellowship
competition, 1993‐95
3 National grants
Member, Search Committee for Chair of Department of
Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1994‐1995 (appointment
of Mark Roche)
Member, Senior Search Committee, 1997‐98, (appointment of Robert
Norton)
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Member, Award
Committee, 1996
Member, Committee on Internet and e‐Learning
Member, Sheedy Award Selection Committee, numerous times since
1996
Director, Interdisciplinary Minor in European Studies,
2002‐2018.
Member, numerous Endowed Chair committees, 2002‐present
Member, Search Committees for Chair of Department of
Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2004‐2005.
Keough School of Global Affairs
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Member, Leadership Council, 2016‐2018 Committee on Appointments
and Promotions, 2016‐2018
University Institutes
Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, 2002‐2018.
As director, I was responsible for all aspects of the
administration of a large (170+ faculty fellows) teaching and
research institute in European Studies. Further information is
available at http://nanovic.nd.edu/.
Faculty Fellow, 1993‐present Elected Member, Steering Committee,
1994‐95 Appointed Member, Steering Committee, 1998‐2000
Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International
Studies, 1992‐present Member, Faculty Steering Committee, 1995 and
subsequently numerous times Organizer of European‐related
activities; principal author or co‐author of grant proposals
in comparative studies, early 1990s Organizer, symposium on the
crisis in Russia, October 1993 Organizer, international symposium
on transitional justice, April 28, 1995 Organizer, university‐wide
discussion group on the politics of the Internet, 2000‐2008
Supervisor, numerous Kellogg Undergraduate International Scholars,
2010 to present Organizer, Workshop on “Taking New Right Thinkers
Seriously: Reflections from Europe, Russia, and the United States,”
May 1, 2019
Faculty Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
1994‐present
Member, Research Committee, 1994‐96
Faculty Fellow, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Law School
Member, Advisory Council, 1992‐2000; 2014 Member, Strategic
Planning Committee, 1994‐96 Member, Director Search Committee,
1997‐98 (appointment of Juan E. Mendez) Member, Director Search
Committee, 2004‐2005 (appointment of Douglas Cassell)
University‐Wide Service
Office of the Provost
Member, University Committee on International Studies, 1995‐98,
2002‐2007 Member, University Committee on Program in Washington,
DC, 1995 Seminar leader, “Democratic Politics in the Age of the
Internet,” Faculty Intellectual
Retreat, Dearborn, MI, June 18‐June 21, 2001 Chair, Internal
Review Committee, Center for Sports and Culture, fall 2002.
http://nanovic.nd.edu/
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Office of Executive Vice‐President: Laetare Award–Notre Dame
Award Committee, 1995‐2004; Laetare, 2005‐2006; 2014‐20 Academic
Council, 2005‐2008 (presidential appointee) Chair, Internal Review
Committee, Mendelson Center for Sport and Character, 2002‐03
Internal Reviewer, External Review, Department of Sociology, 2006.
Member, Social Sciences Curriculum Review Committee, 2005‐present
Rome Center Planning Committee, 2006; 2014 Member, Search
Committee, Director of the Kellogg Institute of International
Studies (appointment of Scott Mainwaring) Member, Search Committee,
Dean of the Graduate School (appointment of Greg Sterling)
Notre Dame International
Member, International Programs, Steering Committee, 2013‐2016
Member, Liu Institute Director Search Committee, 2013‐14
Graduate School Graduate Council, 2006‐2007 Graduate Affairs
Committee, Academic Council, 2006‐2007
Notre Dame Board of Trustees
Elected Faculty Member, Academic Affairs Committee,
2004‐2007
Department of Athletics Member, Steering Committee for NCAA
Accreditation, 1995‐96 Chair, Academic Integrity Subcommittee,
1995‐96 (directed campus‐wide review of academic programs) Member
and Co‐Founder, Committee on Academic Mentoring, 1997‐2001
Faculty Board on Athletics
Elected Member, At‐large, 1996‐98 Appointed Member, 1998‐2001
Member, Subcommittee on Athletic Benchmarking, 1998‐present
Center for Social Concerns
Member, Education for Mission Task Team, Academic Programs,
1993‐94 Member, Board of Advisors, 1998‐present (only faculty
member named to the board)
Kaneb Teaching Center
Member, Committee on Carnegie Project on "The Scholarship of
Teaching," 1998‐2000 Presentation, to incoming teaching assistants,
“The first‐day of teaching,” August 2004 Presentation, to incoming
teaching assistants, “The psychology of teaching,” August 2005
Law School
Member, Endowed Chairs Committee, 2005; 2014 Member, Center for
Civil and Human Rights Director Review, 2011
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Office of Development: consulting, advising on donors,
fund‐raising, and international studies Lead presentation on
international studies at Notre Dame to International Advisory
Council, September 30, 1994 Presentations at Quarterly Meetings of
National and Regional Directors, 1997, 2002, 2013
First Year of Studies, Lead Speaker, Freshman Honors
Convocation, February 21, 1995
Thomas Madden Award Selection Committee, 2004; 2005; 2006
Office of Admissions Member, Global Issues Seminar Steering
Committee, 1998‐1999
Hall Fellow
Carroll Hall, 1993‐94 Walsh Hall, 1994‐96
A. JAMES MCADAMSEducationProfessional PositionsResearch
AppointmentsGrants and FellowshipsDistinctions, Honors,
AwardsGrants and Sponsored ProgramsMonographs:
Italian translation, L'avanguardia della rivoluzione. L'idea
globale del Partito Comunista (Rome: Mondadori, Le Monnier,
2019)Edited Volumes and Collections:Refereed (*) Journal
Articles:Book Chapters (*refereed):Reviews:
Professional ActivitiesNational and International Conferences,
Papers and Other:Organizer and Paper Presenter, “Taking New Right
Thinkers Seriously: Perspectives from Europe, Russia, and the
United States,” Selected as a Theme Panel, American Political
Science Association, Annual Meeting, August 29-September 1, 2019;
Paper: “Vang...Invited Lectures (listed by location and
year):2010s
Other Professional ActivitiesNotre Dame ActivitiesDepartment of
Government and International Studies (renamed Department of
Political Science in 2002)CoursesThesis supervision:M.A.
Theses:Ph.D. Theses:College of Arts and LettersKeough School of
Global AffairsUniversity InstitutesUniversity‐Wide Service