Faculty
Stephen E. Hanson
Office: Gowen 146
(206) 543-9460
shanson@u.washington.edu
Boeing International Professor at the Department of Political Science
at the University of Washington, received his B.A. from Harvard University
and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Hanson is the
Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian
Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of
Washington. He has also served since 2001 as Academic Director of the Program
on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS). Hanson is the author of Time
and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of
North Carolina Press, 1997), which received the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich book
award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
and a co-author (with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder)
of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001).
He is also the co-editor (with Grzegorz Ekiert) of Capitalism and Democracy in
Eastern and Central Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge
University Press, 2003) and (with Willfried Spohn) of Can Europe Work?: Germany
and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies (University of Washington
Press, 1995). His numerous articles analyzing postcommunist Russia in comparative
perspective have appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies,
omparative Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Post-Soviet Affairs,
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and East European Politics and Societies.
Hanson has won the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and
has served on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, Comparative Political
Studies, and Demokratizatsiya.
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