9/11 Personal Privacy

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. (1998-
2002)
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).