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History Alumna Baar Wins ERC Consolidator Grant

April 1, 2015
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CEU alumna Monika Baar (HIST’ 95) won an consolidator grant from the European Research Council worth €2 million for her innovative research project Rethinking Disability: The Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective.

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IRES Alumna Ostrauskaite Hosts Security Lecture in Bishkek

March 19, 2015
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CEU alumna Dr.Rasa Ostrauskaite (IRES ’01 MA, ’07 PhD) hosted a lecture titled “The Role of the [Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe] in Conflict Prevention and Management: New Challenges?” at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on March 3.

Dr. Ostrauskaite is the Deputy Director of the OSCE’Conflict Prevention Centre of the OSCE in Vienna. Her talk in Bishkek focused on the current crisis in Ukraine, particularly as a turning point in the OSCE’s conflict management activities.

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POLS Alumnus Renwick Tapped for UCL Spot

March 19, 2015
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Dr. Alan Renwick (POLS ’97 MA, ’98 MPhil) will begin work in September as Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit of the University College of London’s Department of Political Science.

An expert in electoral systems and reforms, Dr. Renwick described his new appointment as “a match made in heaven.”

He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Reading, and has previously held numerous academic positions at the University of Oxford.

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CEU Mourns Loss of Alumnus Tamas Kubik

January 23, 2015
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CEU mourns the loss of alumnu Tamas Kubik (NATI '14), who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this week. He graduated in June 2014 with a master's degree in Nationalism Studies. 

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CEU alum to head Kenya's independent electoral commission

January 18, 2015
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CEU alumnus Ezra Chiloba Simiyu (DPP ’08) was named Commission Secretary and CEO of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on January 12.

He replaces James Oswago and his deputy Wilson Shollei, who were suspended for impropriety in Kenya’s March 2013 elections.

 A specialist in electoral governance and political management, Ezra is former deputy team leader at Drivers for Accountability, a senior fellow at the Policy House and a member of the Law Society of Kenya.

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