Juliana Geran Pilon

Juliana Geran Pilon is a Romanian-born American political scientist and writer. She is a Research Professor of Politics and Culture and an Earhart Fellow at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C.

Biography

A native of Romania, she came to the United States after a seventeen-year attempt to emigrate. She received a B.A. (1969), an M.A. (1971) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (1974) from the University of Chicago.

After post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and at the Institute of Humane Studies, she taught at Emory University, Indiana University, the University of Chicago, and Roosevelt University. More recently, she has also taught at George Washington University, American University, and Johns Hopkins University, in addition to the Institute of World Politics. From 2003 to 2005, she taught in the Political Science Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

From 1981 to 1988, Geran Pilon was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, writing on the United Nations, Soviet active measures, terrorism, and East-West relations. From January 1991 to October 2002, she was first Director of Programs, Vice President for Programs, and finally Senior Advisor for Civil Society at the International Foundation for Election Systems. She was also member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Geran Pilon is the author of some 200 articles and reviews, and of several books on East-West affairs. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, National Review, The National Interest, Humanitas, and other publications. She has been interviewed extensively in the media (CBS, ABC, CNN, CBN, NPR, Radio Free Europe, and Voice of America), and has testified before the United States Congress on several occasions.

She is married to Roger Pilon.^[1]

Selected publications

Books

• Pilon, Juliana Geran (1992). The bloody flag: post-communist nationalism in eastern Europe: spotlight on Romania. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-062-7. 
• Pilon, Juliana Geran (1979). Notes from the other side of night. South Bend, IN: Regnery/Gateway. ISBN 0-89526-685-7. 
• Pilon, Juliana Geran (2007). Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-74255-149-0. 
• Soudriette, Richard; Pilon, Juliana Geran (2007). Every vote counts: the role of elections in building democracy. Lanham: University Press of America. ISBN 0-761836-764-0. 

Reviews

• "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief", review of book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, National Review, April 1, 1988
• "The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe", review of book by Vladimir Tismăneanu, National Review, April 7, 1989

References

External links

• Profile, at the Institute of World Politics
• Profile, at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies
• Short Bio, at the Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College
• Profile, at the National Defense University
• "Selling America to the World", interview with Washington Profile