Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

Ruth Tringham

Professor Emerita

Archaeology of Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Alexei Yurchak

Professor

Late socialist and post-Soviet culture

Architecture

Greg Castillo

Associate Professor of Architecture

Cold War influence on design discourses; postwar visions of urban reconstruction

Comparative Literature

Robert P. Hughes

Professor Emeritus (joint appointment with Slavic)

Russian modernism, Soviet and emigre literature, comparative literature

Roni Masel

Assistant Professor

Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in the context of modern Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe

Eric Naiman

Professor (joint appointment with Slavic)

19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and culture

Harsha Ram

Associate Professor (joint appointment with Slavic)

18th and 19th century Russian literature and imperial expansion, Russia and Eurasia, the Russian avant-garde

Demography

Eugene Hammel

Professor Emeritus

East European peasant society, demography

Economics

Yuriy Gorodnichenko Quantedge Presidential Professor Macroeconomics, econometrics, international economics, development economics

Gérard Roland

E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science

Soviet economic system, transition economics

English

Julia Bader

Professor Emerita

Nabokov, modern women writers, 20th-century American literature

Steven Lee

Associate Professor

Twentieth-century American literature and history; Cold War cultures

Film Studies

Anne Nesbet

Professor (joint appointment with Slavic)

Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film

Booth Wilson

Lecturer

Yakov Protazanov, film history and criticism in the Soviet context

French

Vesna Rodic

Lecturer and Coordinator of Second-Year Language Program

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language; South Slavic Literature, Folklore, and Culture

German

Lilla Balint

Assistant Professor of German

Contemporary German Literature and Media; Transnationalism and Translation; European Jewish Literatures

Geography

Melanie Feakins

Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate

Offshore outsourcing to Russia, IT & software globalisation, urban transformation in St. Petersburg

History

John Connelly

Professor and Director of ISEEES

Eastern and East Central Europe, 20th-century Europe

Dzovinar Derderian

Visiting Lecturer and Interim Executive Director of the Armenian Studies Program

19th-century socio-cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians on the Ottoman-Russian borderlands

Puck Engman

Assistant Professor

China in the postwar era; the history of socialism; Sino-Soviet relations

Victoria Frede

Associate Professor

Imperial Russian history

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Associate Professor

Late modern European history

Christine M. Philliou

Associate Professor

post-classical Ottoman History, 18th-20th c. Balkans and Middle East, Post-Ottoman World, Modern Greece and Turkey. politics and literature

Rebekah Ramsay

Assistant Professor

Soviet History, with a focus on Central Asia; the effects of the Soviet 'cultural revolution' in Kazakhstan, specifically Kazakh pastoralist communities

Yuri Slezkine

Professor Emeritus

Soviet and European history

Stacey Van Vleet

Assistant Professor

History of Tibet and Inner Asia; Sino-Tibetan relations; history of science, technology, and medicine; history of religion and secularism; race and ethnicity; institutions; popular culture; manuscripts and printing; borderlands and networks; governance under imperial and national formations

History of Art

Diliana Angelova

Associate Professor

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Aglaya Glebova

Assistant Professor

Modernism and socialist realism in the visual arts; Soviet avant-garde; photography

Boalt School of Law

Richard M. Buxbaum

The Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law (Emeritus)

International trade relations, socialist enterprise law

Linguistics

Gašper Beguš

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, Indo-European

Darya Kavitskaya

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Slavic, Turkic, Uralic; phonology and phonetics, historical phonology

Near Eastern Studies

Sanjyot Mehendale

Lecturer

Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, Central Asia, the Silk Road

Political Science

George W. Breslauer

Professor Emeritus; Professor of the Graduate School

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign policy

M. Steven Fish

Professor

Soviet and post-Soviet politics, comparative politics

Andrew C. Janos

Professor Emeritus

East European and comparative politics

Jason Wittenberg

Professor

Comparative politics of Eastern Europe, fascist and communist movements in interwar Eastern Europe

Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy

Michael Nacht

The Thomas and Alison Schneider Chair Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School

US national security policy, international affairs, management strategies for public organizations

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Ronelle Alexander

Distinguished Professor Emerita

South Slavic and Balkan Slavic language, linguistics, folklore, literature, and culture

Polina Barskova

Assistant Professor

Russian poetry

Myrna Douzjian

Continuing Lecturer

Armenian Language, Literature, and Culture; Russian literature

Nataliia Goshylyk

Lecturer

Ukrainian Language

Luba Golburt

Associate Professor

18th- and 19th-century Russian literature

Joan D. Grossman

Professor Emerita

19th-century Russian literature, Russian symbolism

Robert P. Hughes

Professor Emeritus (joint appointment with Comparative Literature)

Russian modernism, Soviet and émigré literature, comparative literature

Robyn Jensen

Assistant Teaching Professor

Russian Literature

Zachary Johnson

Lecturer

Russian Literature

Darya Kavitskaya

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Slavic and General Linguistics, Historical Slavic linguistics and morpho-phonology.

Olga Matich

Professor Emerita; Professor of the Graduate School

19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and culture

Eric Naiman

Professor (joint appointment with Comparative Literature)

19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and culture

Anne Nesbet

Professor (joint appointment with Film Studies) and Department Chair of Slavic

Russian modernism and early Soviet literature and culture, Soviet film

Johanna Nichols

Professor Emerita (Affiliate Professor Emerita of Linguistics) and Professor of the Graduate School

Slavic linguistics, languages of the former Soviet Union

Irina Paperno

Distinguished Professor Emerita; Professor of the Graduate School

19th- and 20th-century Russian literature; Russian intellectual and cultural history; History of experience

Djordje Popović

Assistant Professor

South Slavic literature and culture, comparative literature

Antje Postema

Continuing Lecturer

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language

Harsha Ram

Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor

18th and 19th century Russian literature and imperial expansion, Russia and Eurasia, the Russian avant-garde

Walter Schamschula

Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School

Czech language and literature, comparative Slavic linguistics

Éva Soós Szőke

Continuing Lecturer

Hungarian language

Alan Timberlake

Professor Emeritus

Slavic linguistics, Czech literature, Old Russian literature

Edward Tyerman

Associate Professor

20th- and 21st-century Russian literature; early Soviet culture; Russia and East Asia; literary theory

Maria Whittle

Lecturer

Russian literature

Oksana Willis

Lecturer and Russian Language Coordinator

Russian language and pedagogy

Katarzyna Zacha

Continuing Lecturer

Polish language

Sociology

Victoria E. Bonnell

Professor Emerita

Soviet and post-Soviet society and culture, revolution, labor history

Michael Burawoy

Professor Emeritus

Labor, methodology, capitalism on earth

Dylan Riley

Professor

Historical sociology, political sociology

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