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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Linda Lucia Lubrano

Linda Lucia Lubrano
Professor
Comparative & Regional Studies

Phone
202-885-1654

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
lubrano@american.edu

Location
Clark, Room 214

Biography
Linda Lucia Lubrano has conducted extensive research in European and international affairs with specialization on Russia and Italy. The breadth of her scholarship includes the politics and sociology of science, the ethics of technique, the anthropology of medicine, and the history of Russian science policy. She brought the field of naukovedenie into US academic discourse, thereby bridging Soviet and American scholarship in the social studies of science. Her work on informal networks in the Russian scientific community documented the social roots of political change before Gorbachev came to power and paved the way for a reassessment of perestroika from below. Her current research is on Italian social cooperatives and the politics of social enterprise in Europe.

Professor Lubrano teaches a wide range of courses including advanced research seminars that bridge the humanities with the natural and social sciences. Her courses frequently draw upon art, film, and literature, for example, as well as the impact of technology on the human condition. She addresses issues of power and freedom resulting from new forms of governance, commodification, bioethics, and social exclusion. An underlying theme in her classes on Italy and Russia is the role of citizen initiatives in the promotion of social change. Her undergraduate course on International Relations provides an introduction to field research and the diversity of research methods that support various theoretical interpretations of international affairs.

Honored with awards for distinguished teaching and outstanding scholarship, Professor Lubrano has held prestigious grants and fellowships from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. She was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution.

She has been a keynote speaker or guest lecturer at leading academic institutions in the USA and abroad, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the International School for Sociology of Sciences and Technique in St. Petersburg, Russia, the former Institute of the History of Science and Technology, USSR Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, and the University of Trento in northern Italy.

Recipient of university awards for outstanding contributions to program development, Professor Lubrano served as the Director of the Division of Comparative and Regional Studies in the School of International Service from 1995 to 1999. She created and directed the Graduate Research Center on Europe in northern Italy, which brought AU students to Europe and University of Trento fellows to the United States for intensive field research and professional development from 2000 to 2004.

Education
PhD, Indiana University, 1969
MA, Russian Area Certificate, 1966
BA, cum laude, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1963

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