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Professional History


Urban

1994 – present

1987 – 1994

1982 – 1987

1973 – 1982


1965 – 1973

Writer and editorial consultant, self-employed

Technical writer and editor, by contract

Independent writer and critic

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Washington.

Summer jobs and part-time work, including summer internships with the Peace Corps and the U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington, D.C.), policy analysis for U.S. Senator Quentin Burdick, and a teaching assistantship at Princeton for three semesters




Awards and Honors

Finalist, William Faulkner Awards, Novella category, for In the City of the Plague

Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Artists Grant, twice: once for fiction and once for critical writing

Finalist, Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Screenplay category, for Tosia, co-authored by Stefan Równy

Award of Merit, Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Novel category, for Fantasy on the Theme B-A-C-H

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Fulbright Fellowship, Hungary and Austria

National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, Princeton University

Other grants and fellowships from the International Research and Exchanges Board, American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and University of Washington Graduate School



Education

Broken pencils



Ph.D.

M.A.


B.A.




Princeton University, 1973 (Politics)

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1968 (International Studies)

Carleton College, 1966 (History)


Noncredit writing classes at the University of Washington (Seattle). Writing workshops with Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian in San Francisco, Diane Johnson and Mark Richard at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Lan Samantha Chang at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

Language and area studies at the University of Vienna, University of Colorado, Zagreb University, Charles University (Prague), and Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).



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