Barbara P. McCrea

Adjunct Professor

Barbara McCrea received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1992. She previously taught in Western Michigan's Department of Political Science and College of General Studies from 1971-81 and 1982-85. Her major research areas are politics and nationalism in Eastern Europe and, more recently, issues of peace and conflict management in the post-communist world. She was an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame 1991-93 and since 1994 has held appointment as a visiting scholar at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. Dr. McCrea has been a short-term research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1990), and is the recipient of two Fulbright professorships, at the University of Zagreb, Croatia (1993-94) and the University of Tartu, Estonia (1999). She has published several articles and has co-authored three books, the most recent being "Struggling with the Communist Legacy: Studies of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland" (Columbia University Press, East European Monograph Series, 1999). Her current research interests center on issues of development and democratization in post-communist states.