PROJECTS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Organizer and Co-leader, four-year cross-national multidisciplinary team research project on "Kremlin Influence and the Destabilization of Sweden's Security and Democracy," funded by the Swedish Research Council, started January 2024.

Director, four-year cross-national multidisciplinary team (with partners in the UK, Bulgaria, and Romania) research Work Package on "Corruption and Undue Influence," funded by an EU Horizon Europe Project (BridgeGap), begun January 2024.

Organizer and Leader, Initiator and Director, cross-national multidisciplinary team research project, supported by Swedish Research Council, 2021-2025.

(Past) President and Founder, Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP), a new (2012) section of the American Anthropological Association

Convener and Co-organizer, Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP), affiliated with the American Anthropological Association (2004-2012)

Initiator and Director, Mapping Shadow Influence Project (with funding from the Park Foundation and private donors), which marries social anthropological analysis with the power of computational social sciences to mine large data bases (2011-Present)

Initiator and Director, Applying Social Network and Historical Analysis to the Study of Global Influence project (with a grant from the Center for Global Studies), which brings together a multidisciplinary team from across George Mason University (2012-2013)

Director, Outsourcing National Security Initiative, New America Foundation (2008-2011)

Director, Privatization of National Security Initiative, New America Foundation. (See on YouTube "Halliburton's Army," (March 2009)

Co-organizer and convener, Public-Private Interfaces workshop, New America Foundation (July 19, 2007)

Initiator and Co-organizer, Building Accountability Into International Development Advising in an Age of Diffused Governance project, funded by Ford-Foundation (2002-2007)

Initiator and co-organizer, "Accountability in Economic Development Advising" project, funded by Ford-Foundation (2002-2007)

Co-organizer, international workshop on accountability in international development advising, funded by Ford Foundation and co-sponsored by Polish Academy of Sciences (2003)

Initiator and co-organizer, "The Social Organization of the State: A Theory-Building Workshop," Ridgway Center for International Security Studies conference (University of Pittsburgh) (2001)

Initiator and co-director: research on political and economic development in Eastern Europe, funded by Ford Foundation with Center for Solidarity and Trade Union Studies, Warsaw (1990-1992)

Initiator and co-organizer: "Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: What we are doing Right, What we are doing Wrong, How we can do it Better," international conference sponsored by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1995).

Initiator and co-organizer, "The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Europe," international conference sponsored by German Marshall Fund (1990)

 

With researchers in Ukraine