Milada Polišenská

Milada Polišenská is Vice-President for Educational Development and Chair of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at the New Anglo-American College in Prague (www.aac.edu).  She earned her Ph.D. in History from Charles University in Prague in 1987 and her Docentship from Palacky University in Olomouc in 2006.  She was a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University in 1992 and in 1995 was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the Cold War International History Project in Washington, D.C. She has taught as a Visiting Professor in the United States (at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and at Texas Tech University) and at universities in Taiwan.

The author of a number of articles and monographs in diplomatic history and Central and Eastern European historical  issues, Polišenská's most recent book is on Czechoslovaks deported to the Gulag camps in the Soviet Union and  Czechoslovak diplomacy, 1945-1953.