JULIET JOHNSON
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T7 Canada
[email protected]
http://www.julietjohnson.info
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
McGill University, Department of Political Science, Montreal, Quebec.
Full Professor, May 2015-present.
Associate Professor, July 2003-April 2015.
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Political Science, Chicago, Illinois.
Assistant Professor, August 1996-June 2003.
Dartmouth College, Department of Government, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Visiting Assistant Professor, September 1998-December 1999.
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Ph.D. in Politics, 1997.
Princeton University, M.A. in Politics, 1994.
Stanford University, A.B. in International Relations, 1990.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Juliet Johnson, Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
(Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2016). Part of the Cornell Studies in Money series.
Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, and Benjamin Forest, ed., Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:
The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Ashgate 2005). Part of the Post-Soviet Politics series.
Juliet Johnson, A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Cornell University
Press 2000).
Journal Articles
Juliet Johnson and Andrew Barnes, “Financial Nationalism and its International Enablers: The Hungarian
Experience,” Review of International Political Economy 22:3 (2015): 535-569.
Juliet Johnson, Daniel Mügge, Leonard Seabrooke, Cornelia Woll, Ilene Grabel, and Kevin P. Gallagher,
“The Future of International Political Economy: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue of RIPE,”
Review of International Political Economy 20:4 (2013): 1009-1023.
Benjamin Forest and Juliet Johnson, “Security and Atonement: Controlling Access to the World Trade
Center Memorial,” Cultural Geographies 20:3 (2013): 405-411.
Benjamin Forest and Juliet Johnson, “Monumental Politics: Regime Type and Public Memory in PostCommunist States,” Post-Soviet Affairs 27:3 (2011): 269-288.
Rachel Epstein and Juliet Johnson, “Uneven Integration: Economic and Monetary Union in Central and
Eastern Europe,” Journal of Common Market Studies 48:5 (2010): 1235-1258.
Juliet Johnson, “The Remains of Conditionality: The Faltering Enlargement of the Euro Zone,” Journal of
European Public Policy 15:6 (2008): 826-842.
Juliet Johnson, “Forbidden Fruit: Russia’s Uneasy Relationship with the Dollar,” Review of International
Political Economy 15:3 (2008): 377-396.
Juliet Johnson, “Two-Track Diffusion and Central Bank Embeddedness: The Politics of Euro Adoption in
Hungary and the Czech Republic,” Review of International Political Economy 13:3 (2006): 361-386.
Juliet Johnson, “Postcommunist Central Banks: A Democratic Deficit?” Journal of Democracy 17:1
(2006): 90-103.
Benjamin Forest, Juliet Johnson, and Karen Till. “Post-Totalitarian National Identity: Public Memory in
Germany and Russia,” Social and Cultural Geography 5:3 (2004): 357-380.
Benjamin Forest and Juliet Johnson, “Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and
Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow,” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers
92:3 (2002): 524-547.
Juliet Johnson, “Path Contingency in Postcommunist Transformations,” Comparative Politics 33:3
(2001): 253-274.
Juliet Johnson, “Russia’s Emerging Financial-Industrial Groups,” Post-Soviet Affairs 13:4 (1997): 333365.
Juliet Johnson, “Banking in Russia: Shadows of the Past,” Problems of Post-Communism 43:3 (1996):
49-59.
Juliet Johnson, “The Russian Banking System: Institutional Responses to the Market Transition,” EuropeAsia Studies 46:6 (1994): 971-995.
Juliet Johnson, “Should Russia Adopt the Chinese Model of Economic Reform?” Communist and PostCommunist Studies 27:1 (1994): 59-75.
Book Chapters, Working Papers, and Shorter Scholarly Articles
Juliet Johnson, “Europe’s Monetary Union in Crisis,” in Rohinton Medhora and Dane Rowlands, ed.,
Crisis and Reform: Canada and the International Financial System, Volume 28 of Canada among
Nations (Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2014), 177-192.
Juliet Johnson, “Russia: International Monetary Reform and Currency Internationalization,” Paper #4,
series on The BRICS and Asia, Currency Internationalization and International Monetary Reform,
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Asian Development Bank, and Hong Kong
Institute for Monetary Research, June 2013, 1-27.
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Rachel Epstein and Juliet Johnson, “The Czech Republic and Poland: The Limits of Europeanization,” in
Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen, ed., Central Banks in the Age of the Euro: Europeanization,
Convergence, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2009): 221-240.
Juliet Johnson, “Two-Track Diffusion and Central Bank Embeddedness,” in Mitchell Orenstein, Steve
Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom, ed., Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions
(University of Pittsburgh Press 2008). Reprint.
Juliet Johnson, “The Remains of Conditionality: The Faltering Enlargement of the Euro Zone,” in Rachel
Epstein and Uli Sedelmeier, ed., International Influence beyond Conditionality: Postcommunist
Europe after EU Enlargement (Routledge 2009; paperback 2013). Reprint.
Juliet Johnson, “Transplanting Institutions: Central Bank Independence in the Post-Communist World,”
Symposium on Transplanting Institutions, APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter 19:2 (2008): 11-14.
Juliet Johnson, “Freeing Finance: The U.S.-Russia WTO Agreement on Financial Services,” in “Russia
and the WTO: A Progress Report,” NBR Special Report 12 (March 2007): 19-23.
Juliet Johnson, “Pyrrhic Victories? The Implications of Success in Post-Communist Central Bank
Transformation,” in Hilary Appel, ed., Evaluating Success and Failure in Postcommunist Reform
(Keck Center Monograph Series, Claremont McKenna 2005): 1-20.
Juliet Johnson, “Religion after Communism: Belief, Identity, and the Soviet Legacy in Russia” in Juliet
Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, and Benjamin Forest, ed., Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The
Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Ashgate 2005): 1-25.
Juliet Johnson, “Modern Identities in Russia: A New Struggle for the Soul?” in Juliet Johnson, Marietta
Stepaniants, and Benjamin Forest, ed., Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of
Orthodoxy and Islam (Ashgate 2005): 135-143.
Juliet Johnson, “Past Dependency or Path Contingency? Institutional Design in Post-Communist
Financial Systems,” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen Hanson, ed., Capitalism and Democracy in
Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge University Press
2003): 289-316.
Juliet Johnson, “The Banking System,” in Jan Kalicki and Gene Lawson, ed., Russian-Eurasian
Renaissance (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press 2003): 335-370.
Juliet Johnson, “Agents of Transformation: The Role of the West in Post-Communist Central Bank
Development.”
• Working Paper, National Council on Eurasian and East European Research, October 2001.
• Studies in Public Policy #361, Center for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 2002.
Juliet Johnson, “In Pursuit of a Prosperous International System,” in Peter Schraeder, ed., Exporting
Democracy: Rhetoric vs. Reality (Lynne Rienner 2002): 31-51.
Juliet Johnson, “Misguided Autonomy: Central Bank Independence and the Russian Transition,” in
Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, and Marc Plattner, eds., The Self-Restraining State: Power and
Accountability in New Democracies (Lynne Rienner 1999): 293-311.
Juliet Johnson, “Path-Dependent Independence: The Central Bank of Russia in the 1990s,” Vienna
Institute for Advanced Studies, Political Science Series, Working Paper #47, September 1997.
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Juliet Johnson, “Carving Up the Bear: Banks and the Struggle for Power in Russia,” Post-Soviet
Prospects, Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 1997.
Project Website
The Post-Communist Monuments Project, postcommunistmonuments.ca (with Benjamin Forest)
Policy Articles and Op-Eds
Juliet Johnson, “Lessons (Half) Learned: The 1998 and 2014 Ruble Crises,” PONARS-Eurasia Policy
Memo, July 2015.
Juliet Johnson, “Why the West Should Help Putin Save the Ruble,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto,
December 17, 2014.
Juliet Johnson and Maria Popova, “Statement of Concerned Scholars Regarding the Conflict in Ukraine,”
March 2014, http://concernedscholars.blogspot.ca/.
Juliet Johnson, “The Ruble and the Yuan: Allies or Competitors?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #254,
June 2013. Reprinted in Russian in Ekho Moskvy, September 1, 2013.
Juliet Johnson, “Mission Impossible: Modernization in Putin's Russia," PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo
#196, in PONARS Eurasia, Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy, Policy
Perspectives, June 2012, 23-28.
Juliet Johnson, “A Helping Hand,” Central Banking, 19:1 (2008): 85-86.
Juliet Johnson, “Tightening His Grip – and Losing It,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 17,
2004.
Juliet Johnson, “Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Russia?” PONARS Policy Memo #349,
November 2004.
Juliet Johnson, “Putin’s Power Play,” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, October 28, 2003.
Juliet Johnson, “A Lesson in Diplomacy,” The Nation, March 31, 2003, web edition.
Juliet Johnson, “Putin’s Central Bank Coup,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, March 25,
2002. Reprinted in Asia Times, March 27, 2002.
Juliet Johnson, “Perspectives on Russia: Let Banks Just Twist in Wind,” Los Angeles Times, August 31,
1998. Reprinted in St. Petersburg Times (Russia).
Juliet Johnson, “Toward the Millennium,” Russian Petroleum Investor, March 1998.
Juliet Johnson, “The Uncertain Evolution of Russia's Financial-Industrial Groups,” Russia Business
Watch, Winter 1998.
Juliet Johnson, “High Noon for Russia’s Banks,” Russia Business Watch, Summer 1996.
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Book Reviews
Review of Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (by Peter Andreas), Review of
International Political Economy, 21:5 (2014).
Review of Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding
Systemic Failure (by Stefan Hedlund), Russian Review 73:1 (2014).
Review of The State after Communism: Governance in the New Russia (by Timothy J. Colton and
Stephen Holmes, eds.), Canadian Slavonic Papers 52:1/2 (2010).
“As Bad As Stalin?” (Review of Robert Service's Trotsky), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, January 23,
2010.
“The Bear Barrels Back” (Review of Marshall Goldman’s Petrostate), The Globe and Mail, Toronto,
June 28, 2008.
“The War after the Cold War” (Review of Mark MacKinnon’s The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged
Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May 5,
2007.
Review of Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (by Andrew Wilson), Political
Science Quarterly 121:2 (2006).
Review of The New Russian Business Leaders (by Manfred Kets de Vries, Stanislav Shekshnia,
Konstantin Korotov, and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy), Political Psychology 27:3 (2006).
“Putin: Stalinist in Democrat’s Clothing?” (Review of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s Kremlin Rising:
Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, August 20, 2005.
Review of Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism (by Yoshiko Herrera), Perspectives
on Politics 3:4 (2005).
Review of Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organizations
(by Sarah Henderson), Canadian Journal of Political Science 38:4 (2005).
“Vladimir Putin: Power at Play” (Review of Andrew Jack’s Inside Putin’s Russia), The Globe and Mail,
Toronto, December 18, 2004.
Review of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (by
Rawi Abdelal), Perspectives on Politics 1:1 (2003).
Review of Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform (by Ole Norgaard) and The Economy and
Political Culture in New Democracies (by Kristin Broderick), Canadian-American Slavic Studies 37:4
(2003).
Review of The Politics of Institutional Choice (by Steven Smith and Thomas Remington), Political
Science Quarterly 117:2 (2002).
Review of Capitalist Russia and the West (by Jeffrey Surovell), Slavic Review 60:4 (2001).
Review of Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism (by David Woodruff), American
Political Science Review 94:1 (2000).
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Encyclopedia Entries
Nine to ten entries on post-Soviet states annually for The World Book Yearbook (World Book, Inc. 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). Past entries have covered Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The World Book Yearbook is the annual volume
updating the World Book Encyclopedia.
“Ukraine and Russia,” Special Report, The 2015 World Book Yearbook: A Review of the Events of 2014
(World Book Inc. 2015): 376-384. Co-authored with Maria Popova.
“Russia in the Post-Soviet World,” Special Report, The 2006 World Book Yearbook: A Review of the
Events of 2005 (World Book Inc. 2006): 316-327.
Seven entries on political economy and on identity politics for Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen EvansRomaine, and Helena Goscilo, eds., The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (Routledge
2006). Single-authored entries: Boris Berezovsky, money, and oligarkh. Entries written with Benjamin
Forest: Yuri Luzhkov, Mamaev Kurgan, post-Soviet monuments, and Zurab Tsereteli.
Seven entries on Russian and Soviet finance for James Millar, ed., Encyclopedia of Russian History
(Macmillan 2003). Entries include Central Bank of Russia, chervonets, gold standard, Gosbank, ruble
zone, Sberbank, and Stroibank.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Major Grants ($25,000 and up)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Grant, 2015-20.
Principal investigator. Grant for the project “Central Banks and Public Confidence after the Global
Financial Crisis.” $120,167.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant, 2015-17.
Co-applicant (PI: Vincent Arel-Bundock, University of Montreal). Grant for the project “Reluctant
Masters: Central Bank Mandates and Discretionary Power.” $63,187.
European Commission, “Cooperation with Industrialised countries - Supplementing the network of EU
Centres in Canada and Korea.” Grant to support the European Union Centre of Excellence – Montreal,
2014-16. Euro 300,000, with an additional 300,000 in institutional matching funds.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, 2008-11.
Principal investigator (co-investigator Benjamin Forest). Grant for the project “The Power of Symbolic
Capital: Political Struggles over Monuments and Memorials in the Post-Communist World.” $104,718.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, 2004-07.
Principal investigator. Grant for the project “The Central Banking Revolution: Transnational Networks
and Post-Communist Transformation.” $130,750.
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, A. John Bittson National Fellow, 2001-02.
Residential fellowship to pursue the project “Financial Globalization and National Sovereignty: The
Creation of Independent Central Banks in Post-Communist States.” $50,000.
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Ford Foundation, Collaborative Research Network Grant, 2001-03.
Co-principal investigator. Grant to organize, administer and coordinate a network of Russian and
American scholars with research interests in national identity in the former Soviet Union. The Russia
group was part of a Collaborative Research Network (CRN) whose other teams worked in France,
Thailand, and China. Project title: Situating Russia: Imperial Spaces, National Boundaries. $161,820.
National Council on Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Individual National Research
Grant, 1999-2001.
Principal investigator. Grant for the project “Financial Globalization and National Sovereignty: The
Creation of Independent Central Banks in Post-Communist Democracies.” $47,200.
The Brookings Institution, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, 1995-1996.
Residential fellowship to write “A Fistful of Rubles: Institutional Change in the Russian Banking
System, 1987-1996.” $25,000.
Minor Grants (under $25,000)
McGill University, Internal SSHRC Grant, 2014-15. Grant to support the project “Central Banks and
Public Legitimacy after the Global Financial Crisis.”
Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), McGill University. Resident Fellow, 2009-11.
Fellowship to pursue research and teaching on the Institute’s inaugural theme Memory and Echo.
Association of American Geographers, Anne U. White Grant, 1999.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College, Regional Studies Grant, 1999.
Co-principal investigator with Benjamin Forest. Grants to support the project “Unraveling the Threads
of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow.”
Loyola University Chicago, Research Support Grant, 1997.
Principal investigator. Grants to support summer research in Russia and Eastern Europe.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Frustrated Leadership: Russia’s Economic Alternative to the West.” Co-authored with Seçkin Köstem.
• Workshop on Political Leadership and Economic Crisis, Yale University, February 2015.
• Workshop on Peripheries in Competition: The Politics and Political Economy of Convergence and
Divergence in the European Union, University of Denver, January 2015.
“Inflation Targeting in Russia.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies annual meeting,
November 2014.
“East European Central Bankers React to the Financial Crisis,” Workshop on European Central Banking
after the Global Financial Crisis, EUCE-Montreal, November 2014.
“Paradise Lost: Central Banking after the Financial Crisis.” PONARS-Eurasia conference on post-Soviet
political economy, Washington, DC, May 2014.
“Europe’s Monetary Union in Crisis.” Workshop for Canada among Nations: Canada and the Global
Financial Crisis, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario,
December 2013.
“Persuasion and Coercion in the Wake of the Financial Crash: The Experience of Hungary and the EU.”
American Political Science Association annual meeting, August 2013. Co-authored with Andrew Barnes.
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“Multipolar Learning in the Transnational Central Banking Community.” Multipolar Learning Workshop,
Copenhagen Business School, August 2013.
“Financial Nationalism as a Response to Crisis: The Hungarian Experience.” Workshop on the Political Economy
of the Sovereign Debt Crisis, University of Luxembourg, April 2013. Co-authored with Andrew Barnes.
“Russia: International Monetary Reform and Currency Internationalization.”
• Conference on The BRICS and Asia, Currency Internationalization, and International Monetary
Reform. Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Hong Kong, December 2012.
• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies annual meeting, November 2012.
“Priests of Prosperity: The Transnational Central Banking Community and Post-Communist
Transformation.” Second GR:EEN Annual Conference, University of Warwick, November 2012.
“The Price of Success: Central Bank Transplantation in Post-Communist States.” Association for Slavic,
East European, and Eurasian Studies annual meeting, November 2011.
“Monumental Politics: Regime Type and Public Memory in Post-Communist States.” Council for
European Studies annual meeting, June 2011. Co-authored with Benjamin Forest.
“From Monetary Independence to State Control: Central Banking in the Kyrgyz Republic, 1993-2010.”
PONARS-Eurasia academic conference, co-sponsored by the American University of Central Asia.
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, June 2011.
“The Politics of Public Space: What Can Political Science Contribute to the Study of Monuments?”
Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting, June 2010. Co-authored with Benjamin
Forest.
“Uneven Integration: Economic and Monetary Union in Central and Eastern Europe.” Conference From
Totalitarianism to Democracy: The Twisted and Unfinished Road? Sponsored by the Polish Academy
of Arts and Sciences and McGill University, October 2009. Co-authored with Rachel Epstein.
“The Power of Symbolic Capital: Political Struggles over Monuments and Memorials in the PostCommunist World.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 2009. Coauthored with Benjamin Forest.
“Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Crisis?” Roundtable participant, American Political Science
Association annual meeting, September 2009.
“The Remains of Conditionality: The Faltering Enlargement of the Euro Zone.” American Political
Science Association annual meeting, August-September 2008.
“Informed Consent or Inappropriate Bondage? Central Bank Independence and Democratic Governance
in the Post-Communist World.” Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting, June 2008.
“The Limits of Europeanization: The Czech Republic, Poland, and European Monetary Integration.”
Conference on The Changing Power and Politics of European Central Banking, London, November
2007. Co-author Rachel Epstein.
“The Remains of Conditionality: How Not to Enlarge the Euro Zone.” Workshop on Conditionality and
Beyond: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe after Enlargement, London, June 2007.
“Priests of Prosperity: The Transnational Central Banking Community and Post-Communist
Transformation.” European Union Studies Association biannual meeting, April 2007.
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“Priests of Prosperity: The Campaign to Transform Post-Communist Central Banks.” American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 2006.
“Forbidden Fruit: Russia’s Uneasy Relationship with the Dollar.” Paper presented at:
• PONARS Academic Conference, Georgetown University, December 2007.
• Workshop on the Future of the Dollar, Cornell University, November 2006.
“International Influences on Bureaucratic Development: The Campaign to Transform Post-Communist
Central Banking.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 2006.
“Two-Track Diffusion and Central Bank Embeddedness: The Politics of Euro Adoption in Hungary and
the Czech Republic.” Paper presented at:
• Association of American Geographers annual meeting, March 2006.
• Conference on “Post-Communist States and Societies: Transnational and National Politics,” Maxwell
School, Syracuse University, September 2005.
“A Dual ‘Democratic Deficit’? Internationalization and Accountability in Post-Communist Central
Banking.” Paper presented at:
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 2005.
• Conference on “Post-Soviet In/Securities: Theory & Practice,” Ohio State University, October 2005.
• American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 2005.
“Is EU Economic Convergence Sustainable? Central Bank Embeddedness in Hungary and the Czech
Republic.” Paper presented at:
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics annual conference, July 2005.
• International Studies Association annual meeting, March 2005.
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, December 2004.
• American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 2004.
“Post-Totalitarian National Identity: Public Memory in Germany and Russia.” Association of American
Geographers annual meeting, March 2003. Co-authors Karen Till and Benjamin Forest.
“Pyrrhic Victories? The Implications of Success in Post-Communist Central Bank Transformation.”
Conference on “Evaluating Success and Failure in Postcommunist Reform,” Claremont McKenna,
February 2003.
Co-coordinator and participant, conference series on “Imperial Spaces, National Boundaries: Situating
Russia, the USSR, and the Post-Soviet States,” sponsored by the Ford Foundation and ACLS.
• Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, May 2002.
• Kazan, Tatar State Humanities Institute, March 2002.
• Moscow, Geliopark Conference Center, June 2001.
• Moscow, Kliazma Conference Center, December 2000.
“Financial Globalization and National Sovereignty: Neoliberal Transformations in Post-Communist
Central Banks.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, August-September 2002.
“New Patterns of Economic Interdependence.” Presentation at the 28th Annual Teachers Outreach
Conference on “Reconfiguring East and West in the Bush-Putin Era,” UC Berkeley, April 2002.
“East European Central Banking.” Presentation at roundtable on “Evaluating Success and Failure in
Post-Communist Economic Reform.”
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 2001.
• American Political Science Association annual meeting, August 2001.
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“Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in
Moscow” (with Benjamin Forest). Paper presented at:
• Collaborative Research Network Workshop on “Official and Vernacular Identifications in the
Making of the Modern World,” Chiang Mai, Thailand, June 2001.
• Association of American Geographers annual conference, March 2001.
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 2000.
“The Central Bank of Russia: Development or Dysfunction?” Conference on “The Russian Banking
Sector: Evolution, Problems, and Prospects,” Cambridge University, April 2001.
“The Oligarchichal State: Russia.” Presentation at “The Social Organization of the State: A TheoryBuilding Workshop,” sponsored by the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, the
University of Pittsburgh, December 2000.
“Path Contingency in Post-Communist Transformations.” Conference on “Postcommunist Transitions a
Decade Later: How Far East Can Western Europe Go?” sponsored by the Minda de Gunzberg Center
for European Studies, Harvard University, October 1999.
“Basel or Bust! The ‘Westernization’ of Central Banks in Post-Communist Democracies.” American
Political Science Association annual meeting, September 1999.
“Revolutionary Institutional Change and Russia’s Banks.” International Studies Association conference,
February 1999.
“Regional Development of the Financial Sector in Russia.” American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 1997.
“Path-Dependent Independence: The Central Bank of Russia in the 1990s.” Paper presented at:
• American Political Science Association annual meeting, August 1997.
• Conference on “Institutionalizing Horizontal Accountability,” sponsored by the International Forum
for Democratic Studies and the Vienna Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna, June 1997.
“Institutional Change in the Central Bank of Russia.” Paper presented at:
• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual convention, November 1996.
• Southern Economics Association annual convention, November 1996.
“The Price of Power: Bankers and the State in Russia.” American Political Science Association annual
meeting, September 1996.
“Tracing the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Evolution of the Russian Banking System, 19871995.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, September 1995.
INVITED LECTURES AND POLICY BRIEFINGS
“Lessons (Half) Learned: The 1998 and 2014 Ruble Crises.”
• Keynote Address, Seventh Annual CRCEES Research Forum, University of Glasgow, June 2015.
• Speaker, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Conference, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, June 2015.
“The 1998 and 2014 Ruble Crises Compared,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, February 2015.
“What Is Happening in Ukraine and Why?” Roundtable speaker, McGill University, March 2014.
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“Financial Nationalism and the European Crisis: The Hungarian Experience.” Public lectures, University
of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder, European Union Centre of Excellence, FebruaryMarch 2014.
“The Four Flaws of the Euro Zone.” Speaker, PONARS Eurasia Policy Conference, Chisinau, Moldova,
December 2013.
“The Ruble and the Yuan: Allies or Competitors?” Speaker, PONARS Eurasia Policy Conference,
European University-St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2013.
“Mission Impossible: Modernization in Putin's Russia.” Speaker, PONARS Eurasia Policy Conference,
Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, May 2012.
“Economic Implications of the Russian Presidential Elections.” Speaker, Roundtable on the Russian
Presidential Elections, McGill University, March 2012.
“Russia and the Global Financial Crisis.” Public lecture, Claremont McKenna College, November 2011.
“The Trial of Nikolai Bukharin.” Speaker, IPLAI Great Trials Series, McGill University, March 2011.
“Priests of Prosperity: The Campaign to Transform Post-Communist Central Banks.”
• Speaker, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, September 2007.
• Workshop on Post-Communist Political Economy,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University, April 2007.
“The Central Banking Revolution: Transnational Networks and Post-Communist Transformations.”
• Political Science Speaker Series, Carleton University, February 2006.
• Public Lecture, Central European University, Budapest, January 2006.
• Montreal Post-Socialism Group, Concordia University, October 2005.
• McGill-Copenhagen Workshop on Political Economy, McGill University, October 2004.
“Russian Political Economy under Putin.” Speaker, Roundtable on Putin’s Russia, Centre for European,
Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto, October 2005.
“Central Bank Embeddedness in Post-Socialist Countries.” Speaker, Department of Economics,
Middlebury College, April 2005.
“Who Controls the Ruble? Vladimir Putin vs. the Central Bank of Russia.” Speaker, conference on Russia
Now: Implications for Canada, Carleton Institute of European and Russian Studies and the
Department of Foreign Affairs Canada, April 2005.
“Chechnya and Human Rights.” Speaker, Amnesty International, McGill University, March 2005.
“Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Russia?” Speaker, PONARS Policy Conference, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, February 2005.
“Financial Globalization and National Sovereignty: Post-Communist Central Bank Transformations”:
• East European Faculty Seminar, Northwestern University, January 2003.
• US and World Affairs Seminar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, February 2002.
“Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in
Moscow” (with Benjamin Forest):
• Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Middlebury College, April 2005.
• Czech Geographic Society, Charles University, Prague, May 2002.
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• Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University, November 2001.
• Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College, March 2001.
• Russian Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2001.
“Post-communist Central Bank Development” and “Financial-Industrial Groups.” Lectures, seminar on
the Politics of Finance, Central European University (Budapest), July 2001.
“Comparative Central Bank Development in Post-Communist States.” Lecture, Kyrgyz Financial
Academy (Bishkek), June 2001.
“Privatization in Post-Communist States.” Lecture, Department of Political Science, Central European
University (Budapest), March 2000.
“The Evolution of the Russian Banking System.” Speaker, Title VIII Seminar on Russian Economic
Developments, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US State Department, April 1999.
“Revolutionary Institutional Change and Russia’s Banks, 1987-1998.” Speaker, Government Department
Research Workshop, Dartmouth College, February 1999.
“Robber Barons or Petty Thieves? Understanding Russia's Bank-Led Financial-Industrial Groups.”
Speaker; Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA); University of WisconsinMadison; September 1998.
“The Political Role of Central Banks” and “Democracy and Economic Development.” Lectures in the
seminar Political Economy Today, Central European University (Budapest), July 1998.
“The Wars of the Oligarchs.” Briefing, Foreign Service Training Center, U.S. State Department, May 1998.
“Institutional Change, Shock Therapy, and the Central Bank of Russia.” Speaker, Department of Political
Science, Dartmouth College, March 1998.
“A Fistful of Rubles: Institutional Change in the Russian Banking System, 1987-1997.” Speaker,
Comparative Politics Colloquium, Northwestern University, November 1996.
“Russian Financial-Industrial Groups.” Speaker, U.S.-Russia Business Council annual meeting, San
Francisco, October 1997.
“Russian Financial Markets.” Briefing, International Financial Contingencies Group, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, August 1997.
“The Political Role of Banks in Russia.” Speaker, National Foreign Service Training Center, U.S. State
Department, February 1997.
“The Russian Banking System in 1996: Problems and Prospects.” Briefing, NIC/State Department
conference on “Prospects and Challenges for Russia,” November 1996.
“The Politics of Money: Institutional Change in the Russian Banking System, 1987-1995.”
• Kennan Institute noon discussion, May 1996.
• Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies; Georgetown University, April 1996.
“Organized Crime in Russian Banking.” Briefing, National Institute of Justice, April 1996.
“The Marketplace of Ideas: Think Tanks and Policy Institutes in the U.S.” Panelist, IREX/ACTR
Orientation for NIS Research Fellows, January 1996.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
McGill University, Department of Political Science.
Graduate Courses: Post-Communist Transformations, Seminar in Comparative Politics,
Interdisciplinary Seminar in European Politics.
Undergraduate Courses: Russian and Soviet Politics; Transitions from Communism; Undergraduate
Honours Seminar - Census, Map, Museum: Identity and the State; Memory, Place, and Power (cotaught with Benjamin Forest, Geography Department)
• McGill Political Science Students' Association undergraduate teaching award, 2004-05 and 2009-10.
• H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching in the McGill Faculty of Arts, 2006-07.
Post-doctoral supervision: Magdalena Dembinska (FQRSC, 2008-10), Kerem Oge (FRQ-SC 2014-16)
PhD students supervised: Spyridon Kotsovilis (PhD 2013), Adam Chalmers (PhD 2011), Ece Atikcan
(PhD 2010), Jessica Fortin (PhD 2008), Manal Jamal (PhD 2006). In progress - Vincent Post, Seçkin
Köstem, Virginie Lasnier.
MA students supervised: Megan Dietrich (MA 2011), Dorota Lech (MA 2009), Brittany Lambert (MA
2009), Ursula Krzyszton (MA 2008), Izabela Steflja (MA 2008), Simeon Mitropolitski (MA 2007), Jamie
Gibson (MA 2006), Donald Walker (MA 2006), Daniel Nerenberg (MA 2006), Jaclyn Jacobsen (MA
2005), Rebecca Sanders (MA 2005), Basia Kielska (MA 2004), Tiffany Laprise (MA 2004). In progress Paul Light.
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Political Science.
Graduate Courses: Seminar in Comparative Politics, Post-Communist Transformations, Russian and
Soviet Politics.
Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to International Politics, Introduction to Comparative Politics,
Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy, Russian and Soviet Politics, and Eastern European Politics.
PhD student supervised: Katy Crossley-Frolick (PhD 2002)
Dartmouth College, Department of Government.
Undergraduate Courses: Russian and Soviet Politics, Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy, Women in
Russia (co-taught with John Kopper, Slavic Department), and Eastern European Politics.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Political Science.
Undergraduate Course: Russian Politics.
Teaching-Related Publication
Andrew Barnes and Juliet Johnson, “The Russian Politics Course: Remembering Why We Got into this
Business in the First Place.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies NewsNet,
47:5 (2007): 13-17.
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MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
European Union Centre of Excellence – Montreal, McGill /University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.
McGill Director, June 2013-present (on leave 2015-16).
Board of Governors, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Elected Member from the Academic Staff, January 2013-15.
Finance Committee, 2013-15; Executive Committee, 2014-15.
Faculty of Arts, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), June 2010-May 2013.
Review of International Political Economy
Lead Editor, August 2011-April 2014; Co-Editor, June 2007-July 2011 and May-August 2014.
International Advisory Board member, September 2014-present.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Professional Associations and Journals
• PONARS-Eurasia, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Executive Committee member,
2013-15; Member, 2003-present.
• Tucker/Cohen Dissertation Prize Committee, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian
Studies, 2015-17.
• Program co-chair, European Community Studies Association-Canada biennial conference, May 2014.
• Selection Committee, Susan Strange Book Prize, British International Studies Association, 2014.
• Selection Committee, International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize, British
International Studies Association, 2012-14.
• Editorial Board member, Russian Politics and Law, November 2008-present.
• Treasurer, Comparative Democratization section, American Political Science Association, 2009-11.
• Advisory Council member, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington, DC, 2005-2009.
• Best Dissertation Award Committee, Comparative Democratization section, American Political
Science Association, 2007-08.
• Nominating Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006-2007.
McGill University
• Selection Committee, Associate VP for Research and International Relations, 2015
• Selection Committee, Chair of Political Science, 2015
• Faculty Club Council, 2014-15.
• Selection Committee, Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning, 2014.
• Selection Committee, McGill Collaborative Research Development Grants, 2013.
• Steering and Advisory Committees, Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas (IPLAI), 2011-13.
• Chair, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship selection committee, 2010-13.
• Chair, Arts Graduate Student Travel Grant award committee, 2010-13.
• RAC Advisory Subcommittee for AMURE labour negotiations, 2012.
• Selection Committee, Dean of Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies, 2011.
• McGill SSHRC Leader, 2010-12.
• Disclosure of Conflict of Interest working group, 2010-11.
• Chinese Politics search committee, 2009-10.
• Research Advisory Committee, 2010-2013.
• McGill Health Project Steering Committee, 2010-13.
• Chair, Digital Media working group, 2010-12.
• Chair, Digital Humanities search committee, 2010-11.
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• Chair, Faculty of Arts Committee on Research, 2010-13.
• Chair, Faculty of Arts Committee on Graduate Studies, 2010-13.
• Senate Nominating Committee, 2009-11.
• Elected member, McGill University Senate, 2009-12.
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2006-07, 2008, 2009-10.
• Faculty of Arts Committee on Teaching, 2008-12.
• Faculty of Arts Dissertation Award Committee, 2006-07.
• Faculty of Arts Nominating Committee, 2004-06.
• EU Speakers’ Series Coordinator, Fall 2006
• Dean’s representative, East European History Search Committee, Department of History, 2005-07.
• Comparative Politics Search Committees, Department of Political Science, 2003-06, 2008-10.
• Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2004-05.
• IPE Search Committee, Department of Political Science, 2004-05.
• Departmental Recruitment Tenure Committee, Department of Political Science, 2005.
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science, 2003-05, 2006-07, 2009-10.
Loyola University Chicago
• Graduate Program Director, Department of Political Science, 2003.
• Faculty Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha, 2000-01 and 2002-03. Best National Chapter Award, 2001.
• International Studies Advisory Committee, 2002-3.
• Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, 2002-03.
• University Summer Stipend Committee, 2002.
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, 1997-98 and 2000-01.
• Department Coordinator, Student Conference Programs, 1996-98.
Professional Review
• Journal reviewer for Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, Political
Science Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Problems of Post-Communism,
Nationalities Papers, Policy Studies Journal, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Organization Studies,
Journal of International Relations and Development, Canadian Journal of Law and Society,
International Migration, International Studies Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Political Science,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Demokratizatsiya, Journal of Common Market Studies, EuropeAsia Studies, Contexto Internacional, Business and Politics.
• Book manuscript reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Stanford
University Press, Palgrave Press, Springer Press, University of Pittsburgh Press.
• External grant or program reviewer for European and Russian Studies MA Program, Carleton
University; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; U.S. National Science
Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies; American Council of Teachers of Russian;
Kennan Institute; Grawemeyer Award for Improving World Order.
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