Faculty
UNC CSEEES faculty is distinguished in it's research, teaching, service and professional activities. Students have the opportunity to engage with more than 50 core and affiliate faculty on campus; additionally they can take advantage of faculty and course offerings at our consortium, Duke University.
CSEEES faculty sorted by:
CORE FACULTY
Browning, Christopher | cbrownin@email.unc.edu | 919-962-2371
Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Field: Nazi Jewish policy; Holocaust history and postwar testimony; genocide
Bryant, Chad | bryantc@email.unc.edu | 919-843-3067
Associate Professor, Department of History
Field: Nazi rule and Czech nationalism; social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe; train travel as cultural contact
Conway, Patrick | patrick_conway@unc.edu | 919-966-5376
Professor, Department of Economics
Field: International economics and economic development; international aspects of transition
Dzumhur, Adnan | dzumhur@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: South Slavic languages; film
Harris, Dean M. | Dean_Harris@unc.edu | 919-966-7361
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Field: International law; patient safety; Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union
Jenkins, Robert M. | rjenkins@email.unc.edu | 919-962-4295
Director of UNC CSEEES, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science
Field: International organizations; states and nationalism; ethnic conflict; education
Johnson, Erica | ericaj@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0633
Director of Masters Studies, Lecturer, Department of Global Studies
Field: Comparative politics; political economy; focus in Post-Soviet state-society relations
Lapushin, Radislav | lapushin@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Russian literature and poetry
Magomedova, Eleonora | emagomed@unc.edu
Director and Lecturer in Russian Language and Conversation, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Russian language; Russian literature of the early 20th century
McNelis, David | mcnelis@unc.edu | 919-966-9923
Research Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development
Field: Conventional, alternative and nuclear energy systems and technology; nuclear fuel cycle; nuclear non proliferation and transmutation
McReynolds, Louise | louisem@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3968
Professor, Department of History
Field: Imperial Russia, popular culture and cultural studies; development of mass communications and leisure-time activities and how these helped to shape identities in the nineteenth century, leading up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; film history and theory
Moran, Barbara |moran@ils.unc.edu | 919-962-8067
Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science
Field: Academic librarianship; management of information; popular materials
Olich, Jacqueline M. | jmolich@email.unc.edu
Associate Director of UNC CSEEES, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History
Field: Children's history, literature and culture; globalization and childhood; leadership and mentoring
Peter, Klara | kpeter@unc.edu | 919-966-3669
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Field:Comparative economics; labor economics; Russian economy
Pichova, Hana | pichova@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Slavic Graduate Advisor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Twentieth century Czech and Russian prose
Pickles, John | jpickles@unc.edu | 919-962-1537
Phillips Distinguished Professor in International Studies, Chair, Department of Geography
Field: Globalization; economic geography; regional development; post-socialism; social and cultural theory; counter-cartographies
Putney, Christopher | crputney@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Russian, Director, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures; Interim Director, Program in Sexuality Studies
Field: Russian literature of the 19th century; Medieval Russian literature
Raleigh, Donald J. | djr@email.unc.edu | 919-962-8077
Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Field: 20th Century Russian History; Russian Revolution; Rituals of Power; Nature of Revolutionary Experience
Reese, Kevin | kreese@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: 20th-century Russian/Soviet literature; Soviet science fiction; science and mathematics in literature
Rivkin-Fish, Michele | mrfish@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3353
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Field: Reproductive politics; practices with transformations of state and citizenship; women's health in post-Soviet Russia
Robertson, Graeme | graeme@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0408
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Field: Russian politics; labor and contentious politics; development of interest representation
Rosefielde, Steven | stevenr@email.unc.edu | 919-966-5371
Professor, Department of Economics
Field: Comparative economic systems; economic systems and global security research with the American, Russian, Swedish and Japanese governments
Sherwood, Peter | peter_sherwood@unc.edu
László Birinyi Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Hungarian language, literature and culture in general; the Ob-Ugric languages and their oral literature; English-Hungarian/Hungarian-English lexicography; translation of Hungarian literature into English
Sorensen, Mark | msorensen@unc.edu | 919-962-3280
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Field: Biological anthropology; health and culture change; adaptability; energetics; nutrition; Russia; Siberia
Tolpygo, Kirill | ktolpygo@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3740
Interim, Librarian for Slavic & East European Resources and Curator of The André Savine Collection
Tomaskova, Silvia | tomas@unc.edu |919-962-3908
Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Department of Anthropology
Field: Archaeology; gender and science; archaeology and nationalism; science and politics; prehistoric art; shamanism; Eastern and Central Europe; Siberia; South Africa
Vachudova, Milada | vachudov@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0415
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Wampuszyc, Ewa | ewamp@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Polish, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Polish Language and Literature; 19th and 20th century Literature and Culture; Literature and Topography; Cultural and Economic Capital in Literature and Film
Weiler, Jonathan | jweiler@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0491
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Studies
Field: Comparative Politics; Human Rights; Russian and Eastern European Studies; American Political Behavior; Global Development
Department
Department of Anthropology
Rivkin-Fish, Michele | mrfish@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3353
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Field: Reproductive politics; practices with transformations of state and citizenship; women's health in post-Soviet Russia
Sorensen, Mark | msorensen@unc.edu | 919-962-3280
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Field: Biological anthropology; health and culture change; adaptability; energetics; nutrition; Russia; Siberia
Tomaskova, Silvia | tomas@unc.edu |919-962-3908
Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Department of Anthropology
Field: Archaeology; gender and science; archaeology and nationalism; science and politics; prehistoric art; shamanism; Eastern and Central Europe; Siberia; South Africa
Department of Economics
Conway, Patrick | patrick_conway@unc.edu | 919-966-5376
Professor, Department of Economics
Field: International economics and economic development; international aspects of transition
Peter, Klara | kpeter@unc.edu | 919-966-3669
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Field:Comparative economics; labor economics; Russian economy
Rosefielde, Steven | stevenr@email.unc.edu | 919-966-5371
Professor, Department of Economics
Field: Comparative economic systems; economic systems and global security research with the American, Russian, Swedish and Japanese governments
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and literatures
Dzumhur, Adnan | dzumhur@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: South Slavic languages; film
Lapushin, Radislav | lapushin@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Russian literature and poetry
Magomedova, Eleonora | emagomed@unc.edu
Director and Lecturer in Russian Language and Conversation, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Russian language; Russian literature of the early 20th century
Pichova, Hana | pichova@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Slavic Graduate Advisor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Twentieth century Czech and Russian prose
Putney, Christopher | crputney@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Russian, Director, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures; Interim Director, Program in Sexuality Studies
Field: Russian literature of the 19th century; Medieval Russian literature
Reese, Kevin | kreese@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: 20th-century Russian/Soviet literature; Soviet science fiction; science and mathematics in literature
Shvabrin, Stanislav
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Twentieth and twenty-first century Russian Literature and Culture
Sherwood, Peter | peter_sherwood@unc.edu
László Birinyi Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Hungarian language, literature and culture in general; the Ob-Ugric languages and their oral literature; English-Hungarian/Hungarian-English lexicography; translation of Hungarian literature into English
Wampuszyc, Ewa | ewamp@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Polish, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Field: Polish Language and Literature; 19th and 20th century Literature and Culture; Literature and Topography; Cultural and Economic Capital in Literature and Film
Department of Geography
Pickles, John | jpickles@unc.edu | 919-962-1537
Phillips Distinguished Professor in International Studies, Chair, Department of Geography
Field: Globalization; economic geography; regional development; post-socialism; social and cultural theory; counter-cartographies
Department of global studies
Johnson, Erica | ericaj@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0633
Director of Masters Studies, Lecturer, Department of Global Studies
Field: Comparative politics; political economy; focus in Post-Soviet state-society relations
Department of History
Browning, Christopher | cbrownin@email.unc.edu | 919-962-2371
Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Field: Nazi Jewish policy; Holocaust history and postwar testimony; genocide
Bryant, Chad | bryantc@email.unc.edu | 919-843-3067
Associate Professor, Department of History
Field: Nazi rule and Czech nationalism; social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe; train travel as cultural contact
McReynolds, Louise | louisem@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3968
Professor, Department of History
Field: Imperial Russia, popular culture and cultural studies; development of mass communications and leisure-time activities and how these helped to shape identities in the nineteenth century, leading up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; film history and theory
Olich, Jacqueline M. | jmolich@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0355
Associate Director of UNC CSEEES, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History
Field: Children's literature and culture; representation of Slavic world in the Harry Potter series, historiography of childhood
Raleigh, Donald J. | djr@email.unc.edu | 919-962-8077
Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Field: 20th Century Russian History; Russian Revolution; Rituals of Power; Nature of Revolutionary Experience
Tasar, Eren
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Field: Russian Central Asian/Eurasian history
Department of political science
Jenkins, Robert M. | rjenkins@email.unc.edu | 919-962-4295
Director of UNC CSEEES, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science
Field: International organizations; states and nationalism; ethnic conflict; education
Robertson, Graeme | graeme@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0408
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Field: Russian politics; labor and contentious politics; development of interest representation
Vachudova, Milada | vachudov@email.unc.edu | 919-962-0415
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Tomaskova, Silvia | tomas@unc.edu |919-962-3908
Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Department of Anthropology
Field: Archaeology; gender and science; archaeology and nationalism; science and politics; prehistoric art; shamanism; Eastern and Central Europe; Siberia; South Africa
institute for the Environment
McNelis, David | mcnelis@unc.edu | 919-966-9923
Research Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development
Field: Conventional, alternative and nuclear energy systems and technology; nuclear fuel cycle; nuclear non proliferation and transmutation
School of Information and Library Science
Moran, Barbara |moran@ils.unc.edu | 919-962-8067
Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science
Field: Academic librarianship; management of information; popular materials
School of Public health
Harris, Dean M. | Dean_Harris@unc.edu | 919-966-7361
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Field: International law; patient safety; Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union
Slavic & East European Resources
Tolpygo, Kirill | ktolpygo@email.unc.edu | 919-962-3740
Interim, Librarian for Slavic & East European Resources and Curator of The André Savine Collection