IHS Staff

 

 

 

   Irena Gross, Executive Director
Irena Grudzinska Gross is Executive Director of the Institute for Human Sciences and Professor of Modern Foreign Languages at Boston University. A graduate of Columbia University (1982), she taught at Graduate Institute of Liberal Studies at Emory University and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her books include “Czes?aw Mi?osz and Joseph Brodsky” (forthcoming) and “The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic Imagination” (1991), which had several editions in four languages. She edited several books on literature and the transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe and is the author of over 40 book chapters and articles published on these subjects in the international press. Between 1998-2003, she was responsible for the East-Central European Program at the Ford Foundation.
     

  Elizabeth Amrien, Senior Program Coordinator
Elizabeth Amrien studied at Trinity College, CT and Fordham University. She received a Master of Divinity, magna cum laude, from Yale Divinity School in 1995, and is presently completing an MBA at Boston University's School of Management. Ms. Amrien coordinates and manages the institute's major programs.
     
  Natalia Kierul, Project Consultant
Natalia Kierul graduated from Jagiellonian University with a degree in Polish philology. She is currently a second year master’s student in the School of Education at Boston University. She is interested in social justice issues. Her focus is on the culturally and linguistically diverse children at risk from families with low socioeconomic status.
   
  Anna Nyiry, Project Consultant
Anna Nyiry has a master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on European and transatlantic relations. She also earned a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Law and in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Ms. Nyiry has recently been accepted to the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and also to the Doctorate Program in Law and Policy in Northeastern University. Anna was a World and European Championship finalist swimmer and represented Hungary in the 1996 Olympics.