{"id":33827,"date":"2026-01-08T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/?page_id=33827"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:34:38","slug":"dan-whitman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/de\/dan-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33827\" class=\"elementor elementor-33827\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d827834 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d827834\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bcd2be\" data-id=\"1bcd2be\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49e7b1d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"49e7b1d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Dan Whitman<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1367822 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1367822\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4251242\" data-id=\"4251242\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a25b43c elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"a25b43c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"yulia-osmolovska\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6208a61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6208a61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-33830\" alt=\"Portrait of Dan Whitman\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109.png 361w, https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109-14x12.png 14w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d4ec0b0\" data-id=\"d4ec0b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-782646a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"782646a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Dan Whitman<\/strong> ist <strong>Gastwissenschaftler beim Transatlantic Dialogue Center<\/strong> und ehemaliger <strong> Foreign Service Officer der Vereinigten Staaten<\/strong>. Als Foreign Service Officer war Whitman in D\u00e4nemark, Spanien, S\u00fcdafrika, Haiti und Kamerun stationiert. Zudem war er kurzzeitig in Ghana, Guinea und Nigeria, S\u00fcdsudan, Mauritius, Gambia, \u00c4quatorialguinea und Kongo-Brazzaville t\u00e4tig.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">Als <strong>Assistant Professor an der American University<\/strong> lehrte er von 2009 bis 2020 Au\u00dfenpolitik, Forschungsmethoden, interkulturelle Kommunikation und Oral History. 2022 wirkte Dan am Biden <strong>White House Summit on Africa<\/strong> mit. Derzeit lehrt er an der <strong>George Washington University<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">Whitman began his public diplomacy work in 1969, when he was the assigned French interpreter for an African visitor under the International Visitors Program of the U.S. Information Agency.&nbsp; Since then he accompanied African and French visitors in the IV program for a thirteen year period, then planned programs for IVs at Delphi Research Associates.&nbsp; He was a Fulbright scholar in 1980-81 in Brazzaville, after earning his PhD at Brown University in 1979.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">Whitman ist <strong>Autor von acht B\u00fcchern<\/strong>, darunter <em>A Haiti Chronicle<\/em>, das die drei haitianischen Wahlen des Jahres 2000 dokumentiert. Seine Oral History \u00fcber den Bildungs- und Kulturaustausch zwischen dem Apartheid-S\u00fcdafrika und den Vereinigten Staaten wurde 2014 von der SUNY Press ver\u00f6ffentlicht.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Whitman Dan Whitman is a Visiting Fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center and a former United States Foreign Service Officer. As Foreign Service Officer, Whitman was posted in Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Haiti, Cameroon. He briefly served in Ghana, Guinea, and Nigeria, South Sudan, Mauritius, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo-Brazzaville. 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