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Alexis K. Albion

CURRENT POSITION Historian, International Spy Museum, Washington DC (September 2002-present) Responsible for researching, developing, organizing and conducting public programs for the general public, scholars and professionals in the intelligence community; conducting research in support of temporary exhibitions; preparing print materials for Museum's various audiences.

EDUCATION Harvard University Doctoral candidate, International History; M.A. in History, 2000. Dissertation: "The Spy In All of Us": The Public Image of Intelligence in the 1960s. Investigates the public image of intelligence in Britain and the United States in the Sixties. Looks at the relationship between popular perceptions of intelligence and the abilities of intelligence agencies to function effectively in a democracy. Committee: Akira Iriye, Ernest May, James Kloppenberg. Princeton University A.B. summa cum lands, European History, 1992. Thelps Thesis Prize for best thesis in European History.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Tutor in History Department and Core Program. Led discussion sections, graded papers and exams for courses in: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 (Ernest May); The Cold War (Emest May); The International History of the Twentieth Century (Akira Iriye). Led guided research seminars, and created teaching materials and curricula for tutorials in historical writing and analysis, and International Relations. Worked with students individually on guided research and writing of junior papers and senior theses. (19982002) John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Research Assistant for Robert B. Zoellick (1999-2000). Course Assistant for graduate student and mid-career course in American Foreign Policy. (Robert Blackwell, Graham Allison). Devised and led study sessions, graded papers and exams. (1997) Washington State-China Relations Council (Seattle, WA) Program and Research Assistant. Organized speaker programs and workshops and conducted research for Council membership on U.S.-China policy, business and trade relations. (1994-1996)

Management School, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, PRC Foreign Teacher of English Language. Devised curricula, lectured, led discussion sessions, and examined undergraduate and graduate students in international business, management, accounting, marketing. (1992-1994)

PAPERS DELIVERED/PUBLICATIONS Albion, A., Miller, E., and Zakarin, B., eds., Global America: A Conference Volume for the 1st Annual Harvard Conference on International History, 2001 (forthcoming 2003) "Two Countries Separated by a Common Traitor: A Social and Cultural Analysis of the Philby Case in Britain and the United States." Paper to be presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), George Washington University, June 2003. Commentator: Mike Warner. "Kim Philby and the British Condition." Paper presented at the Summer Conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History, University of London, July 2002. Commentator: Richard Aldrich. . "Memorandum for the General Public: "Who was Oleg Penkovskiy?"" Paper presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), University of Georgia, Athens, June 2002. Commentator: Richard Pells. "The Spy Who Saved the World or a human being with a conscience? Rethinking Oleg Penkovsky's contribution to Cold War history." Paper presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, February 2002. "Playing Indian: TV Spies Cross the Atlantic, 1965-1969." Paper presented at the Contemporary History Workshop, Harvard University, April 2001. "A Real Life James Bond: The Kim Philby Story, 1963-1967." Paper presented to the Cold War International History Group, UC Santa Barbara, May 2000. Commentator: Fritz Fischer.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2000-2002 Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Summer 2001 Mac Arthur Summer Grant. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Clive Fellowship, Department of History, Westengard Fellowship, Harvard. Summer 1999 Summer Travel Grant, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and 2000 Clive Fellowship, Department of History, Harvard 1996-1998 History Department Fellowship, Harvard

LANGUAGES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES Reading and basic speaking competence in French. Translation competence in German, Italian, Latin. Basic speaking competence in Mandarin Chinese. Coordinator of .Annual Harvard Graduate Conference on International History (2001 and 2002).