Negotiating Radical Change

Contributors

László Bruszt is Associate Professor of Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. He participated in the Hungarian Round Table discussions as the permanent representative of the League of Independent Trade Unions. The coauthor of Pathways from State Socialism (1998), he has published widely on problems of interest representation and corporatism.

Mark Chesler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His specialties include action research; conflict resolution; racism, sexism and multicultural organizations; and psychological aspects of cancer. His recent publications include articles and edited journals on diversity and change in organizations and the coauthored volume Cancer and Self-Help: Bridging the Troubled Waters of Childhood Illness (1996). He actively consults with universities, corporations, public agencies, and community groups on problems of conflict and change.

Michael D. Kennedy is Vice Provost for International Affairs, Director of the International Institute, and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He has conducted extensive research on intellectuals, professions, civil society, and the nation in East Central Europe, particularly Poland. His books include Professionals, Power, and Solidarity in Poland: A Critical Sociology of Soviet-Type Society (1991), the edited volume Envisioning Eastern Europe: Postcommunist Cultural Studies (1994), and the coedited volumes Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (1999) Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power and the Transnational Public Sphere (2000). He is currently completing a book on postcommunism's cultural formations.

Heinz Klug is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A specialist in comparative constitutional law, international law, and property, he has published several articles on land reform and constitution-making in South Africa. He is the author of Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa's Political Reconstruction (2000), and is currently doing research on the impact of the AIDS crisis on the struggle over international patent protection.

Jan Kubik is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies at Rutgers University. His research interests include politics and culture, local level politics, protest and movement politics, and postcommunist transformations. He is the author of The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland (1994) and coauthor of Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 (1999). Currently he is doing research on the role of historical legacies in postcommunism.

Margarita Nafpaktitis is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is completing a thesis on the semantics of space in the literature of Russian modernism.

Stephanie Platz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Armenian history and culture, she has published several articles on problems of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. She is currently completing a book on the relationships among history, science, and Armenian national identity.

Donna Parmelee, a sociologist and Balkan specialist, is Manager of Sponsored Projects and Administrative Associate at the Center for Russian and East European Studies and International Institute at the University of Michigan.

Brian Porter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (2000). His work focuses on the intellectual history and political culture of East-Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Currently he is conducting research for a book about the emergence and development of Catholic patriotism in Poland.

Gay W. Seidman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include labor movements in developing countries, gender ideologies, racial stratification, and economic restructuring. The author of Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985 (1994), she is currently doing research on transnational labor activism.

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Negotiating Radical Change
Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish Round Table Talks
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