Background

Paul J. D. D'Anieri was born on February 4, 1965 and grew up in a suburb of Niskayuna, Schenectady, New York. His father was an engineer at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and his mother was a mathematician until starting a family of five children. D’Anieri is the second youngest of four boys and a girl.

Education

Paul D'Anieri took German from 8th grade through his second year of college and spent a month in Bochum, Germany as an exchange student at age 16. When he enrolled as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, he was torn between majoring in the natural and mathematical sciences and the social sciences or humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from it in 1986. In 1987, he attended the Russian School of Norwich University. It was a prestigious summer intensive program that ran for 33 years, from 1968 to 2000. Paul also studied at Cornell University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1988 and later in 1991, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Career

Paul D'Anieri was hired as an associate professor of political science, Russian, and East European studies at the University of Kansas in 1991. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at L’viv State University (now Ivan Franko Lviv State University) in Ukraine. D’Anieri’s research has been centered on the international and domestic politics of the Soviet Union and, in addition to Germany and Ukraine, his studies have taken him to Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan. During the summer of 1998, he was a visiting associate professor at Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute.

From 1999 to 2003, Paul D'Anieri was an Associate Dean of international programs at the University of Kansas. Between 2003 and 2004, he held the post of Director of the Center for Russian and European Studies and from 2004 to 2008, he was Associate Dean of Humanities there. In 2008, he joined the University of Florida as its Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Paul D'Anieri received the position of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, as well as a professor at the University of California Riverside in June 2014. He left his position as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor in 2017 and went back to his research on Ukraine and Russia, and continued working with other universities. In the fall semester of 2017, he was the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at Harvard University.

In 1999, Paul D'Anieri published three separate studies focusing on the development of Ukraine. It was Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations, Politics and Society in Ukraine and State and Institution Building in Ukraine with Robert Kravchuk and Taras Kuzio. His most recent book, Ukraine and Russia: From Civilied Divorce to Uncivil War was written in 2019. He is also the author of articles in publications including International Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and European Security.

Achievements

• Paul D'Anieri is particularly known as a prolific author and educator. He received the MacArthur Foundation/Cornell peace studies fellowship in 1988-90, as well as William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in teaching in 1996-97. He won a Fulbright Scholarship to Ukraine, where he worked as a visiting scholar at L’viv State University.
  
  Paul is a recipi­ent of numerous grants including Fulbright Lecturing Grant in 1993-94, University of Kansas Research Grant in 1995, and University Affiliations Grant in 1998.

Works

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  • Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations

    (In the most detailed study to date of the emerging intern...)

    1999
  • Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design

    (Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter...)

    2006
  • Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

    (D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Uk...)

    2019
  • Politics And Society In Ukraine

    (With NATO expanding into central Europe, Ukraine has beco...)

    1999
  • Orange Revolution and Aftermath: Mobilization, Apathy, and the State in Ukraine

    (In 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukranian protestors mob...)

    2010
  • International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs

    (International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affai...)

    2009
  • State and Institution Building in the Ukraine

    (State and Institution Building in Ukraine represents the ...)

    1999
  • Aspects of the Orange Revolution I

    (Ukraine's 2004 presidential election was falsified, spurr...)

    2007

Membership

Paul D'Anieri has been a member-at-large of the executive committee of the American Association of Ukranian Studies.

Interests

• Outdoor activities

• Writers

  Milan Kundera

• Music & Bands

  The Clash

Connections

Paul is married to Laura. They have five children, Jacey, Courtney, Zachary, Joe, and Lily.

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Jacey D'Anieri

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Joe D'Anieri

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Lily D'Anieri

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Laura D'Anieri

Laura D'Anieri works in public relations and marketing.