Stokes, Gale

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STOKES, Gale

STOKES, Gale. American, b. 1933. Genres: History, Politics/Government. Career: Rice University, Houston, TX, instructor to Mary Gibbs Janes Professor of History, 1968-, chair of department, 1980-82, 1997-2000, dean of humanities, 2000-03. Public lecturer on Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, 1990-. American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (joint committee on Eastern Europe), chair, 1986-89; Woodrow Wilson Center, fellow, 1990-91; George Washington University, fellow, 1991. Publications: Legitimacy through Liberalism: Vladimir Jovanovic and the Transformation of Serbian Politics, 1975; (ed.) Nationalism in the Balkans: An Annotated Bibliography, 1984; Politics as Development: The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia, 1990; From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe since 1945, 1991; The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1993; Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe, 1997; The West Transformed, 1999. Contributor to journals. Address: History Dept., MS42, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251-1892, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]