Dr. Gillian Gunn Clissold
EDUCATION
B.A., Philosophy of Law, Hampshire College,
Amherst, Massachusetts.
Ph.D., International Relations, London
School of Economics, May 2001.
EMPLOYMENT
February 2002 to Present: Associate Director
for the Caribbean, Programs in International Affairs, Trinity.
April 1996 to January 2002: Director, Caribbean
Project, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University.
September 1992 to January 2002: Adjunct
Professor, Georgetown University.
February 1992 to April 1996: Director,
Cuba Project, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University.
June 1994 to December 1995: Co-Director
of the Hopkins-Georgetown Haiti Project, Georgetown University.
September 1990 to May 1993: Lecturer, Washington
Semester Program, American University, Washington, D.C.
September 1989 to January 1992: Senior
Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington,
D.C. Title of Program: "Cuba After the Cold War."
April 1988 to July 1989: Fellow, African
Studies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Washington, D.C.
April 1986 to April 1988: Visiting Fellow,
African Studies Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Washington, D.C.
March 1984 to March 1986: Rockefeller Foundation
International Relations Fellow. Conducted research on Western
relations with Mozambique and Angola.
January 1981 to March 1984: Africa Editor,
Business International, London. Wrote and edited Business International
publications on Africa and supervised the firm's consulting work
on Africa.
October 1979 to January 1981: Assistant
Africa Editor, Business International, London.
October 1978 to October 1979: Senior Editor
for Africa and Latin America, World Times Magazine, London.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1992 to present: Have taught seven courses
at Georgetown University. Average student evaluation score: 4.68
out of 5. Courses have been at both graduate and undergraduate
level, and have covered Cuba and the wider Caribbean.
1992 to present: Supervised one to three
senior theses per year for Georgetown University's Latin America
Certificate Program.
1990 to 1993: Taught in American University's
Washington Semester Program.
PUBLICATIONS
"Can the Windward Islands Survive
Globalization?" Georgetown University Caribbean Briefing
Paper Series, March 2001.
"U.S. Policy Changes Won't Help Most
Cubans," in The San Jose Mercury News, January 12, 1999.
"Reaching Out To, But Not Touching, Cubans," in the
San Jose Mercury News,January 12,1999
"Reaching To, But Not Touching, Cubans,"
in the Los Angeles Times,January 8, 1999.
"Temas:Cultura, Ideologia, Sociedad."
Review of Temas, a Cuban quarterly, Foreign Policy, Fall 1998.
"Cuba's Employment Conundrum. Pushing
the Limits of Debate: January to July 1995. (Part Two of a Three-Part
Series)," Georgetown University Cuba Briefing Paper Series,Number
14, May 1997.
"Cuba-U.S. Relations and the Process
of Transition: Possible Consequences of Covert Agendas",
in Toward a New Cuba: Legacies of a Revolution,Miguel Angel Centeno
and Mauricio Font, eds, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1997.
"The Future of Cuba," published
proceedings of a conference held January 24, 1996, at St. Leo
College, Tampa, Florida. Francisco Fiallos, ed., with a presentation
by Gillian Gunn Clissold, pp. 32-39.
"Cuba-U.S. Relations and the Process
of Transition: Possible Consequences of Covert Agendas,"
in Toward a New Cuba: Legacies of a Revolution, Miguel Centeno
and Mauricio Font, eds., Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado,
1997.
"Cuba's Employment Conundrum: Cautious
Reform, 1991-1994, (Part One of a Three-Part Series), Georgetown
University Cuba Briefing Paper Series, Number 11, September 1996.
"What's Next in Cuba?" The Miami
Herald, March 10, 1996.
"Clinton and Castro: Pragmatism or
Paralysis?" in Cuba in the International System: Normalization
and Integration, Archibald Ritter and John Kirk, eds., MacMillan
Press Ltd., London, 1995.
"Over Troubled Waters," The Washington
Post, May 21, 1995.
"Cuba's New NGOs: Government Puppets
or Seeds of Civil Society?" Georgetown University Cuba Briefing
Paper Series, February 1995.
"Clinton y Castro: Pragmatismo o Parálasis?"
Estudios Internacionales, Revista del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales
de la Universidad de Chile, No. 107/8, December 1994, pp. 389-401.
"Are We Ready for a New Cuba?"
The Washington Post, August 21, 1994.
"Unterwanderung oder Rettungsaker
des Sozialismus? Die sozialen Folgen steigender Auslandsinvestionen,"
in Wirtschafts-Reformen in Kuba: Kubaikonturen Einer Debatte,
Bert Hoffmann, ed., Vervuet Verlag, Frankfurt, 1994.
"Towards a Modern Cuba Policy,"
in Cuba and the Future, Donald Schultz, ed., Greenwood Press,
April 1994.
"Balancing Economic Efficiency, Social
Concerns, and Political Control," Georgetown University Cuba
Briefing Paper Series, March 1994. Also reprinted in La Sociedad
Económica, 30 June 1994, London.
Cuba in Transition: Options for U.S. Policy,
Twentieth Century Fund, New York, 1993.
"Prospects for Change in Cuba: The
Perspectives of Cuba's Political Leadership," in Transition
in Cuba: New Challenges for U.S. Policy, Lisandro Perez, ed.,
Florida International University, 1993.
"The Sociological Impact of Rising
Foreign Investment," Georgetown University Cuba Briefing
Paper Series, January 1993.
"Avoiding the Intervention Trap,"
in Cuba: What's Next?, Research Institute for Cuban Studies, North-South
Center, University of Miami, April 1992.
"Cuba's Search for Alternatives,"
Current History, February 1992.
"The Legacy of Angola," in The
Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern
Africa and the Caribbean, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, 1992.
"Nobody's Man in Havana," The
Washington Post, December 15, 1991.
"Moscow-Havana Ties Will Stretch But
Not Break," The Miami Herald, August 25, 1991.
"Death in the Florida Straits,"
The Washington Post, July 14, 1991.
"The Trouble with Morality as a Yardstick
for Policy," The Baltimore Sun, June 30, 1991.
"Young Cubans' Impatience Tests Castro
Rule," The Oregonian, March 11, 1991.
"Cuba in Crisis," Current History,
March 1991.
"The Cuban Debate on Reform and the
Future of the Revolution," Harvard International Review,
Winter 1990/91.
"Will Castro Fall?" Foreign Policy,
No. 79, Summer 1990.
"Wrong Weapons for Cuba," The
Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 1990.
"An Internal Cuban Debate?" The
Miami Herald, June 17, 1990.
"Angola: Unfulfilled Expectations,"
Current History, Vol. 89, No. 547, May 1990.
"Why TV Marti Might Backfire,"
The Chicago Tribune, February 22, 1990.
"Cuba and Angola," Cuba: The
International Dimension, Georges Fauriol, ed., Transaction Books,
1990.
"Time to Test Cuba," The Christian
Science Monitor, December 29, 1989.
"Keeping Namibian Independence on
Track: The Cuban Factor," CSIS Africa Notes, Issue No. 90,
October 23, 1989.
"Angola and Mozambique: Reconciliation
and Reconstruction," The Southern Africa Policy Forum, The
Aspen Institute, August 1989.
"Cuba and Mozambique: A History of
Cordial Disagreement," in Cuban Internationalism in Sub-Saharan
Africa, Sergio Diaz- Briquets, ed., Duquesne University Press,
1989.
Various chapters in Angola, Mozambique,
and the West,, Helen Kitchen, ed., Praeger/CSIS, Washington, 1987.
"The Angolan Economy: A History of
Contradictions," in Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public
Policy, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, 1987.
"The Angolan Economy: A Status Report,"
CSIS Africa Notes, Issue No. 58, May 30, 1986.
"Mozambique After Machel," CSIS
Africa Notes, Issue No. 67, December 29, 1986.
"Post Nkomati Mozambique," CSIS
Africa Notes, Issue No. 38, January 8, 1985.
15 book-sized guides for businessmen operating
in Africa, Business International, 1979-1984.
LECTURES
Lectures on Cuba have been delivered
at the following institutions:
