France
Historian and geographer; political analyst. Fellow, Royal Geographic Society. Comparatist: Eastern European, American and French geopolitics, particularly in extreme environments (coastal areas and high seas, Polar regions, Outer-Space). Faculty member: Sorbonne, Collège de France, U. of Southern California, Parson's School of Design, American Graduate School (Paris campus of Arcadia University), Paris 11 University, St. Sergius Theological Institute of Orthodox Theology (Paris) Family ties to many frontier regions of Russia and the Ukraine, trained by founders of French "New History"school 1st assignments: French space agency, US National Parks Service and scientific institutions in North Pacific Four years of immersion in an indigenous community in Alaska: - co-founded museum, - educator, - journalist, publisher of local magazine (36 page broadsheet monthly, 4000 readers); through coverage of regional maritime affairs: involved in the problems of multi-cultural societies, borderlands, environmental politics, and the discovery of how a remote area becomes a crossroads of global forces - More comparative research in Italy (acting director of the Gogol Library), then Central and Eastern Europe, France and the European Arctic regions, producing publications and teaching on international competition or cooperation in fields ranging from war, the environment, or outer-space, to human rights and identity. - Public service record : social work with refugees (Italy), served on board of a Parisian national monument + long experience in conceiving and managing outdoors educational programs (under supervision of ministries of sports and/or education of France and Belgium). - Numerous publications plus photography and documentary artwork. - Frequent guest speaker on French and Algerian national radio and TV with occasional appearances in Russian, Italian and US national media.
- created courses on Arctic studies, geopolitics of freshwater and marine environments, geopolitics & history of East Europe, geopolitics of France, geopolitics of culture, global warming and, migratory movements outer space exploration, Russian history, Ukrainian geopolitics. - taught North American history. - co-creator of programs in political geography & environmental studies;
- author of articles for Geostrategic Maritime Review - guest editor in chief of Geostrategic Maritime Review issue on Arctic Ocean
Full-time research assistant of Professor François-Xavier Coquin. Prepared manuscripts for publication, conducted scholarly investigations, edited texts; participated in the organization of the Adam Mickiewicz Bicentennial international conference.