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Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. She is the author of several books and many articles〔Archive of all articles by Janine Wedel on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janine-r-wedel〕 on some key systemic processes of the day. She is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, an honor typically reserved for political scientists (previous recipients include Samuel Huntington and Mikhail Gorbachev).〔Grawemeyer Award〕 == Biography == Wedel received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. She writes about governing, corruption, foreign aid, and influence elites through the unique lens of a social anthropologist. A university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, Professor Wedel has contributed many articles and opinion pieces to more than a dozen major outlets, including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Nation, The National Interest, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon, The Boston Globe, Washington Times and Politico. Professor Wedel has been a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics that are typically the terrain of political scientists, economists, or sociologists. After 25 years studying the role of informal systems in shaping communist and post-communist societies, Professor Wedel also turned her attention to the United States, and has identified some surprising parallels. Professor Wedel's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Hungarian, Danish, and Chinese. She has testified before Congressional committees and subcommittees and appeared on television and radio programs, including BBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS's Frontline, and associate-produced three PBS documentaries. Her stops on the university lecture circuit include Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, Princeton, Oxford, and Central European University, the Freie Universität (Berlin), and Central European University. Her non-university audiences include TEDx (Berlin), the Bruno Kreisky Institute (Vienna), the European Journalism Observatory (Lugano, Switzerland), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Press Club, and National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences workshops. Professor Wedel is co-founder and president of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy formerly known as the Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy.〔http://www.aaanet.org/sections/〕〔http://www.aaa-asap.org/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janine R. Wedel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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