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Myra A. Waterbury
Department of Political Science
Bentley Annex, 2nd Floor
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701 – U.S.A.
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Current position
Associate Professor (with Tenure), Department of Political Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, January 2007.
New School for Social Research.
Masters of Arts in Political Science,May 1999
New School for Social Research
Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies,May 1994
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
BOOKS
Myra A. Waterbury, Between State and Nation: Diaspora Politics and Kin-State Nationalism in Hungary (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Journal articles
Myra A. Waterbury, “Uncertain Norms, Unintended Consequences: The Effects of EU Integration on Kin-State Politics in Eastern Europe,” Ethnopolitics vol. 7, no. 2-3 (2008): 215-236.
Myra A. Waterbury, “Internal Exclusion, External Inclusion: Diaspora Politics and Party-Building Strategy in Post-Communist Hungary,”East European Politics and Societies vol. 20, no. 3 (August 2006): 483-515.
Myra A. Waterbury, “Ideology, Organization, Opposition: How Domestic Political Strategy Shapes Hungary’s Ethnic Activism,” Regio: Minorities, Politics, Society vol. 9 (Budapest, Hungary: November 2006): 65-86.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Myra A. Waterbury, “Bridging the Divide: Towards a comparative framework for understanding external kin-state and migrant sending-state diaspora politics,” in Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist, eds. Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010): 131-148.
Myra A. Waterbury, “Assessing the Referendum: The Limits of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,”in John S. Micgiel, ed. The Transformations of 1989-1999: Triumph or Tragedy? (New York: Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, 1999): 193-206.
WORKING PAPERS
Myra A. Waterbury, “From Irredentism to Diaspora Politics: States and Transborder Ethnic Groups in Eastern Europe,”Global Migration and Transnational Politics Working Paper Series No. 6, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University (July 2009). cgs.gmu.edu/publications/wpgmtp.html#gmtpwp6
BOOK REVIEWS
Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement by Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff (Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Nationalities Papersvol. 39, no. 2 (2011): 307-309.
For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War by Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayers(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), in Nationalities Papersvol. 37, no. 6 (December 2009).
Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict by Marc Howard Ross(Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Political Science Quarterly vol. 123, no. 4 (Winter 2008-09).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Article manuscript: “Diaspora Engagement, Identity Projects, and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe”
Conference paper: “Emigration and Ethnic Demography in East Central Europe:How Nationalizing States Respond to the Challenges of Migration”
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Diaspora engagement policies and their impact on the political integration of minorities: Comparative lessons from Eastern Europe.”Talk given at roundtable on Deterritorialized State Authority in a Transnational World, organized by the University of Leiden, Netherlands and the Islam Research Programme commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 11, 2011.
Presentations on minority politics in Hungarian domesticand foreign policy, seminar for the Ambassador-designate to Hungary, organized by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Washington, D.C., December 15, 2009.
“Repatriation, Restoration, and Non-Resident:Ethnic Citizenship and Diaspora Politics in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.” Paper presented at a workshop on Explaining Diaspora Politics organized by Department of Politics and International Studies, University of London, October 30-31, 2009.
“Bridging the Divide: Towards a Comparative Framework for Understanding External Kin-state and Migrant Sending-state Diaspora Politics.” Paper presented at a workshop on Diaspora and Transnationalism organized by the IMISCOE network of excellence and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 10-11, 2008.
Conference presentations
“Ethnic Citizenship in Hungary: Explaining recent policy changes and their comparative implications,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 19-21, 2012.
“Engaging or Constraining Minorities? The Effects of Kin-State Policies on Minority Political Integration,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April14-16, 2011.
“Ethnic Citizenship and Diaspora Politics in Eastern Europe,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 15-17, 2010.
“Reshaping the Transborder Nation: Patronage Networks, Diaspora Politics, and Political Competition in Hungary,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 23-25 2009.
“From Dual Citizenship to Economic Development: The Shifting Terrain of Symbolic Politics and Diaspora Policy in Post-Communist Hungary,” presented at the International Studies Association conference, New York, New York, February 15-18, 2009.
“The Duality of Diaspora: The Expansion and Contraction of Policies to Incorporate Populations Abroad,” presented at the International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.
“Hungarian Diaspora Politics in Comparative Perspective,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-Septemer 2, 2007.
“What determines the success or failure of nationalism as a political Strategy? Political learning and elite discourse in post-communist Europe”, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 12-15, 2007.
“Democratization and Transborder Nationalism: Explaining Hungary’s Non-Irredentism in the Early 1990s”, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 15-17, 2006.
“Shaping Lives & Livelihood Abroad: The State as Ethnic Activist”, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004.
“How Hungary is like (and unlike) Mexico: A comparative framework for understanding the
diaspora policies of homeland states”, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 15-17, 2004.
“Beyond Irredentism: Domestic politics and diaspora policies in post-communist Hungary”, presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 11-13, 2004.
“National integration or a Europe of regions? Tracing elite responses to the Hungarian minority question”, presented at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Europa Institute weekly seminar, Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2003.
“Beyond State and Nation: External Minorities and the Death of Irredentism in Europe”, presented at Political Minorities and Political Boundaries Conference, Yale University, May 18, 2002.
“Assessing the Referendum: The Limits of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe”, presented at 1989-1999 Transformations: Triumph or Tragedy?, Harriman Institute and East Central Europe Center, Columbia University, February 26-27, 1999.
OTHER CONFERENCE APPEARANCES
Participant on book panel for Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayers, For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). Annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 23-25 2009.
Panel Organizer and Chair, “Constructing the ‘Global nation’: Diaspora Policies and the Politics of Transnationalism in Comparative Perspective”, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-Septemer 2, 2007.
Panel Discussant, “Kin-states and External Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe”, annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, NY, April 15-17, 2006.
Awards and fellowships
The Hannah Arendt Award in Politics, Dissertation and Commencement Award, New Schoolfor Social Research, conferred May 18, 2007.
Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, East European Studies Program, Wye River Conference Center, Maryland, August 12-15, 2005.
Dissertation fellowship, Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 2004.
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship, National Security Education Project (NSEP), for
advanced language study and research in Hungary, 2002-2003.
Europa Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary, 2003.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate Faculty,New School for Social Research, 2002.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, for German
language study and research, New School for Social Research, 2001.
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 2001.
Full-tuition University Fellowship, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1999.
Excellence and Equal Cost Tuition Scholarship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1990-1994.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
East European politics
Comparative politics
Diasporas, migration, and citizenship
Nationalism and minority politics
Language skills
Hungarian –intermediate-advanced verbal and reading proficiency
German – basic reading and verbal proficiency
Spanish – intermediate reading proficiency, basic verbal proficiency
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Program Committee Member, Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Conference, Central Europe section (September 2011 – Present).
Editorial Board Member, Ethnopolitics (January 2010 - Present).
Reviewer: Ethnopolitics;Ethnicities;Problems of Post-Communism; International Studies Association Compendium Project;Nations and Nationalism; Migration Studies; Russian and Eurasian Outbound Grant Programs, American Councils for International Education, ACTR/ACCELS; Pearson Longman Publishers.
professional affiliations
International Studies Association
Association for the Study of Nationalities
Other Professional Experience
Teaching: Eugene Lang College, Spring 2006; Western Connecticut State University, Fall 2005; Undergraduate Liberal Studies, Parsons School of Design, Spring 2001.
Grant and Office Coordinator (September 2003 – June 2006), International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship, New School For Social Research. Director: Aristide Zolberg.
Population Affairs Officer (Summer 2003), Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, New York.
Assistant Director, regional non-profit outreach office (June 1996-August 1997),
Connecticut Citizen Action Group.