Background
Kassof, Allen H. was born on December 17, 1930 in New York City. Son of Morris and Sophia B. Kassof.
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Allen H. Kassof
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Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1952. AM, Harvard University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1960.
Career
Assistant professor Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1957-1960, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1961-1965, associate professor, assistant dean college, 1965-1968. Founder, executive director International Research and Exchs. Board, New York City and Princeton, 1968-1992.
President Project on Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Carnegie Corporation New York, Princeton, 1991—2005, president emeritus and senior advisor, since 2005. Consultant conference security and cooperation Europe, Hamburg, Germany, Budapest, Hungary, 1980, 85, Warsaw, Poland, 1993. Member president committee foreign language, Washington, 1978-1979.
Member United States task force Romania, Bucharest, 1990-1992. Principal mediator between Government of Romania and Democratic Union Hungarians in Romania, since 1993. Member Council for Ethnic Accord, since 1992.
Chair roundtable talks between Slovak and Ethnic Hungarian parliamentary parties of Slovakia, 1995—2001, Serb-Albanian Roundtable on Future of Kosovo, New York City, 1997. Chairman Regional Roundtable of Political Leaders from Southeast Europe on Relations between Albanians and their Neighbors, Budapest and Athens, 2000, Lucerne, 2002, 04. Co-chairman Euro-Atlantic group on interethnic conflicts North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, 1998.
Chairman Roundtable for Macedonian Parliamentary Parties on Fulfillment of the Ohrid Agreement, Mavroro, Macedonia, 2003-2007.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Council Foreign Relations, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies.
Interests
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Avocation: photography. E-mail: [email protected].
Connections
Married Arianne Scholz, 1953. Children: Andrea, Arlen, Anita.
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American
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1952
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1954
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1960