Our Team
Andrzej W. Tymowski
Andrzej W. Tymowski is founding president of the New York-based EEPS Foundation, which sponsors the quarterly journal East European Politics and Societies and the Flying University for Ukrainian Students.
Tymowski recently retired from being Director of International Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies, where for over twenty-five years he administered support for humanities scholars in eastern Europe and in Africa, as well as in China studies and in Buddhist studies.
Immediately after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Tymowski co-founded the Flying University for Ukrainian Students. In February 2023, he taught a two-week writing course in Lviv, Ukraine at Ukrainian Catholic University. In academic year 2023-24, he moderated the weekly forum of the New-University-in-Exile Consortium for scholars fleeing authoritarian regimes. Currently, at the University of Warsaw, he teaches “Academic Writing in English: Ethics, Structure, and Style.”
Elisabeta (Lala) Pop
Elisabeta (Lala) Pop is a PhD candidate in Politics and Program Manager of the Transregional Center of Democratic Studies, at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is interested in issues of mobility and migration with a focus on Eastern Europe. Before coming to The New School, Lala worked for the American Council of Learned Societies for over seven years, managing international fellowship and grant competitions and related workshops, publications, and events in Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia.