Jane Leftwich Curry

Jane Leftwich Curry – has been a scholar of communist and then post communist affairs for over 40 years. She has held 5 Fulbrights including the Inaugural Fulbright Chair in East European Studies, University of Warsaw, for which she taught at the Studium Europy Wschodniej UW. She has written or been editor of 5 books as well as being the co-editor of the standard American textbook on Central and Eastern European politics, now in its 4th edition. Her research has focused on the role of journalists and the media in Polish politics, censorship and dissent in the communist era as well as the left in Central and East Europe in the post communist era and the process of the transition. She has now completed a manuscript on the Colored Revolutions based on extensive interview research in Serbia, Ukraine, and Georgia.