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Jeffrey Krutz, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been selected as a Junior Fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. 

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the world's leading think tanks specializing in foreign affairs, conducts program of research, discussion, publication and education in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. The Junior Fellows program is designed to provide a substantive work experience for students who have a serious career interest in the area of international affairs.  Each year the Endowment holds a rigorous national competition to select 10 graduating seniors to serve as junior research fellows. They are matched with senior associates to work on a variety of international affairs issues.

Krutz will be working on the Democracy and Rule of Law Project, which analyzes the efforts of the United States and other international actors to promote democracy abroad and examines democratic transitions around the world. He will work with Thomas Carothers, vice president of studies and director of the Democracy Project. Carothers is the author of Aiding Democracy Abroad, Assessing Democracy Assistance and The Case of Romania.

Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for books, co-author journal articles and policy papers, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony or organize briefings attended by scholars, activists, journalists and government officials.

Krutz, a world politics and history major at Hamilton, is a Phi Beta Kappa and Dean's List student. He served an internship with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of European Affairs, Office of Political and Security Affairs in Washington in 2000, and at the U. S. Information Agency, European Bureau, Office of Research and Media Reaction in 1999.

At Hamilton, he is a senior interviewer with Hamilton's Admissions Office; a senior tutor, and a peer writing tutor for the Nesbitt-Johnson Writing Center; co-founder and co-president of Amnesty International; president of the Root-Jessup Public Affairs Council; co-captain of the Parliamentary Debate Team; president of the International Relations Group; budgetary chair of Model United Nations; winner of the McKinney Public Speaking Contest in 1999 and 2000; winner of the Warren E. W. Wright Public Speaking Contest in 2000; and recipient of the William M. Bristol, Jr. Scholarship at Hamilton, the highest award given to accepted students.

Krutz, the son of  Mr. and Mrs. David Krutz of High School Road in Little Falls, is a graduate of Little Falls Junior-Senior High School.

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