Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics; International Relations; Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
Walter Connor (1942-2022) authored or co-authored/edited seven books — among them: The Accidental Proletariat (1991), The Polish Road from Socialism (1993), and Tattered Banners: Labor, Conflict and Corporatism in Post Communist Russia (1996). Professor Connor wrote a host of scholarly articles and book chapters on Russian and Eastern European politics and society. On the University of Michigan faculty 1968-76, he then served as Director of Soviet and East European Studies at the Foreign Service Institute at the US State Department from 1976 to 1984. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award, he also held appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of International Relations.