Elizabeth A. "Lili" Cole
Program Officer, Jennings Randolph Fellowship
Program
Human Rights | Religion/Religious Conflict | Education | Rule of Law |
Post-Conflict Reconstruction | Conflict Management | Democratization | Asia: Northeast | Asia:
Southeast | Europe: East | Long-term Political Reconciliation | History, Historical Memory and
Transitional Justice | Post-Conflict Education Reform (especially History) | Human Rights,
Reconciliation and Literature
Phone: (202) 429-4746
E-mail: ecole@usip.org
Languages: Chinese, French,
Russian
Lili Cole is a program officer in the Jennings Randolph Fellowships program. For the past two
years, she was assistant director of the Teach Asia Program in the Asia Society’s Education
division, with responsibilities for curriculum creation and professional development. From
2000-2005, she was senior program officer in Studies and Education at the Carnegie Council for
Ethics in International Affairs. While there, she developed an international research program
called History and the Politics of Reconciliation, which studied how societies reckon with
difficult pasts. Prior to joining Carnegie Council, she was coordinator of the Religion, Human
Rights and Religious Freedom Program at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights;
director of the Internship Program at the National Forum Foundation (Washington, D.C.); and
assistant program officer for Asia, focusing on China, Cambodia, Indonesia and Central Asia, at the
National Endowment for Democracy.
Cole holds a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University and a B.A. in
English literature with a concentration in Asian studies from Swarthmore College. She has studied
in Poland, Russia and Germany and lived and worked in China, in both Wuhan and Beijing.
Publications:
- "Transitional Justice and the Reform of History Education," The International Journal of
Transitional Justice, (Spring, 2007).
- Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation (editor) (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2007).
- Common History-Contentious Memories. Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Soviet
Occupied Territories of Poland, September 1939 ? July 1941 (co-editor) (University of Leipzig
Press, 2007).
- Interweaving Cultures: Islam in Southeast Asia. A Guide for Teachers and Students (Asia
Society, 2007).
- "Unite or Divide? The Challenges of Teaching History
in Societies Emerging from Violent Conflict" (co-author) (USIP Special Report 163, June
2006).
- "After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, Eva Hoffman,"
Ethics and International Affairs (Vol. 18, # 2, 2004).
- Human Rights Dialogue (guest editor) (No. 10, Fall 2003 ? "Violence Against
Women").
- Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe, co-edited with
Peter Danchin (Columbia University Press, 2002).
- "Shop of Horrors," The New York Times, October 21, 2003.
- "'To Little Brightness, From Rainbow'-China's New Era," The Christian Science Monitor,
November 4, 1992.
- "Dissent Within the Great Wall," The Christian Science Monitoru, June 3, 1992.
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