George T. Kosar has been teaching fundraising and philanthropy courses at Harvard Extension School since 2009. He has worked as assistant vice president of institutional partnerships at Georgetown University and previously as the director of foundation relations at Boston University (BU); associate director of corporate and foundation relations at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and major gifts officer for the Harvard Kennedy School, where he raised funds from corporate chief executive officers and other private sector leaders. His higher education work has included strategic marketing, distance learning management, and admissions.
Kosar's research focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917-1918 and the life of Thomas Whittemore, professor, archaeologist, humanitarian, and cultural preservationist. His publications include: -- “Thomas Whittemore, Fundraiser for Russian Refugees,” Rockefeller Archive Center Research Report, 2022 -- “Seeking Sobornost’ at the All-Russian Council of 1917–1918,” The Quarterly Journal of St. Philaret's Institute, Issue 35, Summer 2020 -- “В поисках соборности на Всероссийском поместном соборе 1917–1918 годов,” Вестник СВЯТО-ФИЛАРЕТОВСКОГО ИНСТИТУТА, ВЫПУСК 35 • ЛЕТО 2020 -- “The ‘Spiritual Proletariat’ and the Popular Legitimacy of the All-Russian Church Council of 1917–1918” [«Духовные пролетарии» и легитимность Всероссийского церковного собора 1917–1918 гг.], Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom 37(1-2): 127–152. [Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2019. №1-2. С. 127-152.]
Kosar was a graduate lecturer in Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies and has taught philanthropy and fundraising at the Fulbright International Summer Institute in Bulgaria and at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks. He has also taught at Bentley College, Tufts University, Brandeis University, and Emerson College. He has a B.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in Comparative History from Brandeis University.