Margarita M. Balmaceda, Ph.D.
Associate Professorbalmacma@shu.edu
McQuaid Hall 117
973-313-6202
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Margarita M. Balmaceda is an Associate Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. An expert in post-Soviet and Eastern European politics and energy policy, Dr. Balmaceda joined the Whitehead School of Diplomacy in 1999. She teaches courses on the politics of ethnic diversity and on post-Soviet and East European politics and foreign policies. Concurrent with her faculty position at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy, Dr. Balmaceda is an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.
Dr. Balmaceda received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (1996) and completed post-doctoral training in Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University (1996-1997).
Within her broad profile in Eastern European politics, Dr. Balmaceda is best known for her work on energy policy, Ukraine, and Belarus. Her publications include, as editor/co-editor, On the Edge: the Ukrainian-Central European-Russian Security Triangle (CEU Press, 2000) Independent Belarus (Harvard, 2002) and a special double issue on Energy in Eastern Europe of the journal Osteuropa (2004). She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research (Razumkov Center) in Kyiv (2004) and a Fulbright visiting lecturer at the Belarusan State University (Fall 1997 and Spring 1999). She is currently working on a book on “Understanding the Comparative Management of Energy Dependence in Central-East Europe: the cases of Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania.: She has received awards and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Under Humboldt auspices, Prof. Balmaceda spent two months doing research at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and has been working at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Giessen, Germany (Spring-Summer 2005, 2006, and 2007). Her book Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia’s Power, Oligarch’s Profits and Ukraine’s Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006 will be published this year by Routledge.
In addition to her academic research, Dr. Balmaceda is active as a consultant and review committee panelist for a number for grant-making institutions, including, in the past, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the International Research and Exchanges Board, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Council, and the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCEELS).
In addition to her native Spanish, and English, Dr. Balmaceda is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian and German.
