Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, where she directs AHI's Washington Program on National Security. Her first book, Notes From the Other Side of Night: From Communism to a Fragile Freedom, was just published with a new introduction in September, 2026. Her previous books include An Idea Betrayed: Liberalism, Jews, and the American Left, The Utopian Conceit and the War on Freedom, The Art of Peace: Engaging a Complex World, and others.
Born in Romania, she emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager and received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, then taught at several universities including the National Defense University, George Washington University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the Institute of World Politics. During the 1990s she became Vice President of Programs at IFES (International Foundation for Election Systems) where she managed programs in democratization. She serves on the International Board of the Israel Council on Foreign Affairs and the board of the National Association of Scholars, Maryland Chapter.
