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Academicians

EUROPEAN ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

Jerome Krase

President

Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. After graduating from the elite Brooklyn Technical High School in 1960, he went on to study at Indiana University’s Bloomington Campus. There, after a three-year enlistment in the U.S. Army, he earned a BA in Sociology, with minors in History and Philosophy, in 1967. In 1973, he received a Ph.D. in Sociology at New York University in 1973. His Doctoral Dissertation “The Presentation of Community in Urban Society,” dealt with the undeserved stigmatization of a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, thereby questioning unwarranted negative racial stereotypes in general.

Eileen Barker

Academician

EUASU Academician. Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion. She is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics (LSE). In 1998, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed her as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 New Year’s Honours list. She is the Founder and Honorary Director of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (INFORM). Her research and publications have been primarily concerned with new religious movements and the so-called ‘cults’.

Harvey Wolf Kushner

Chairman

Chairman of the Presidium and academician of EUASU Academy, Chairman of the Criminal Justice Department and a Professor of Criminal Justice at LIU Post, Brookville, New York. Internationally recognized expert on terrorism. Kushner has authored numerous columns, editorials, and six books, five of which focus on the pervasive problems inherent in international and transnational terrorism. His best-seller Encyclopedia of Terrorism has won numerous awards.

Patrick Hutton

Academician

EUASU Academician, Professor of history emeritus at the University of Vermont, where he taught European intellectual history and historiography. His teaching experience: European intellectual history, the history of collective mentalities, the history of private life, cultural contexts of memory, historiography, philosophy of history, etc.

Oleg Maltsev

Presidium Member

Author, criminologist, security expert, psychologist, photographer, and investigative journalist. He is a member of the presidium and academic researcher at the European Academy of Sciences in Ukraine (EUASU) and a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He bears the title of Academician, indicating that he is a leading fellow in scholarly societies with substantial influence on his field. He is also the founder and director of the Memory Institute and head of the Expeditionary Corps which conducts regular field research around the world and has a unique library of thousands of film photographs, old treatises, and manuscripts. He is an author of numerous books in areas such as applied history, sociology, depth psychology, philosophy, criminalistics, and criminology. He is an editor of several interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.

Antonio Nicaso

Presidium Member

Italian Bestselling author, award-winning journalist, university professor, researcher, speaker. Research interests: Calabrian mafia (known as 'ndrangheta), organized crime. He is a regular consultant to governments and law-enforcement agencies around the world. Also he is a regular commentator on OMNI News, Toronto. He is originally from Caulonia, Calabria, Italy, now based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

James O. Finckenauer

Academician

Dr. James O. Finckenauer is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers. He has served as President of the NJ Council of Educational Institutions for Law Enforcement, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.

Geoffrey Brian West

Presidium Member

Theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of several books among which is Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. He is a visiting Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London, and an associate fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University.

Arthur Kroker

Academician

EUASU Academician, educator and researcher of political science, technology and culture. Professor of political science at the University of Victoria. Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC). He is an author and editor of numerous books.

Virginia Jewiss

Academician

EUASU Academician. Associate Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Before moving to Hopkins, she was a senior lecturer at Yale University and the Director of the Yale Humanities program in Rome. She is a noted translator of numerous works of Italian literature and film.

Stefano Vaccara

Academician

EUASU Academician. Author, journalist, editor, founder and chief-editor of La Voce di New York publication based at the United Nations. He has been a UN Correspondent and member of UNCA for ten years. He teaches at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College, CUNY.

Carol Shumate

Academician

EUASU Academician, PhD. She teaches psychological type at Pacifica Graduate Institute at the University of Colorado. Her book Projection and Personality Development via the Eight-Function Model (2021) synthesizes decades of research on the unconscious functions of Jungian typology. She launched the journal Personality Type in Depth in 2010, and in 2020 helped launch the Depth Typology Center, created to archive scholarly resources at the interface of depth psychology and psychological type.