Faculty
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Rachok, Dafna • Assistant Professor
Field: Intersection of global health, gender, and sexuality studies, and examining how health, gender, and sociopolitical contexts shape lived experiences.
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Rivkin-Fish, Michele • Associate Professor
Field: Reproductive politics; practices with transformations of state and citizenship; women’s health in post-Soviet Russia
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Sorensen, Mark • Associate Professor
Field: Biological anthropology; health and culture change; adaptability; energetics; nutrition; Russia; Siberia
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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Babii, Andrii • Associate Professor
Field: Econometrics and statistical methodologies; causal inference, high-dimensional data, and machine learning in economics
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Peter, Klara • Associate Professor
Field: Demography; inter-generational longitudinal analysis; comparative economics; labor economics; Russian economy
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Rosefielde, Steven • Professor
Field: Comparative economic systems; economy and global security; Russia’s military-economic revitalization
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Field: Modernity, economic and cultural formations in Muslim cities and societies; gender, feminism, fashions; Istanbul
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Field: Development; child and youth geographies; care and caregiving (ethics, economics and politics)
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Pickles, John • Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor
Field: Globalization; economic geography; regional development; post-socialism; social and cultural theory; counter-cartographies
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DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Field: Yiddish; old Yiddish literature; folly literature; literature and culture of the late medieval-early modern period; disability studies
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Chernysheva, Natalia • Teaching Assistant Professor
Field: Russian language; 19th-century Russian literature; sensory studies; haptic studies; Czech literature
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Lapushin, Radislav • Associate Professor
Field: Chekhov; Russian literature; Soviet poetry; Russian Drama from Classicism to Modernism; Dostoevsky
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Magomedova, Eleonora • Teaching Associate Professor
Field: Russian language pedagogy; Russian literature of the early 20th century; Russian stylistics
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Majewską, Agnieszka • Visiting Professor
Field: Phonodidactics; acquisition of Polish as a heritage language; methodology of teaching Polish as a second language
McGary, Matthew • Teaching Assistant Professor
Field: Ethics and practice of rhetoric; 19th century Russian prose fiction; Odes of Mandel’stam, Pasternak, and Brodsky; Soviet Russian metahistorical romance
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Rose, Eliza • Assistant Professor
Field: Polish studies; East-Central European literature and visual culture; science fiction; science and technology studies; film and media studies
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Shvabrin, Stanislav • Associate Professor
Field: Comparative literary studies; literature and culture of Russian diasporas; Soviet “Internal Emigration”; translation studies
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CURRICULUM IN GLOBAL STUDIES
Johnson, Erica • Teaching Professor
Field: Comparative politics; political economy; civil society and NGOs; health care systems; Central Asian politics and history
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Weiler, Jonathan • Teaching Professor
Field: Comparative politics; human rights; Russian and Eastern European studies; American political behavior
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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Field: Modern Jewish history; East European Jewish history; Holocaust; Jewish integration; urban life
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Field: Intellectual and international history of Muslim societies; transnational racial and civilizational identities; the Ottoman Empire
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Field: Social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe 18th century to present; nationalism; urban experience
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Larres, Klaus • Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor
Field: Post-Cold War geopolitics; U.S. foreign policy, European integration; US-EU relations
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Lee, Wayne • Dowd Distinguished Professor
Field: Modern military history; military history in global perspective; survey archaeology and ethno-history in the Balkans
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Morgan, Michael • Associate Professor
Field: Modern international history and the history of human rights; Cold War history; diplomatic history; Helsinki Final Act
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Tasar, Eren • Associate Professor
Field: Central Asia; institutions; Islam; religion and politics; social history; the Soviet Union
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Field: Central European history, medieval studies, and Slav-German relations.
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DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Pertsova, Katya • Associate Professor
Field: Morphology; computational models of language acquisition; linguistic categorization; Russian syntax
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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Bohlman, Andrea • Associate Professor
Field: Music and sound in Eastern Europe; music and politics; political action and music in late 20th-century Poland
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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Crescenzi, Mark • Professor and Chair
Field: International relations and conflict; conflict intervention; reputation in world politics; global systems and war
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Field: International and civil conflict; military intervention; conflict management; game theory
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Hooghe, Liesbet • W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor
Field: Comparative politics; European Union; political parties and elites; public opinion; multilevel governance
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Jenkins, Robert M. • Teaching Professor
Field: Post-communist states and society; ethnic conflict; international intervention; education in Central Europe
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Marks, Gary • Burton Craige Distinguished Professor
Field: Comparative politics; European Union; IGO; political parties public opinion; measurement
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Robertson, Graeme • Professor; CSEEES Director
Field: Political economy of transitions from authoritarianism; labor and social movements; Russian and post-Soviet politics
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Field: Democratization of post-communist Europe; enlargement of the EU; impact of international actors on domestic politics
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SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT & SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Sullivan, Patricia • Associate Professor
Field: Foreign policy; military intervention; armed conflict; civil war; national security policy; use of military force and aid
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Szypszak, Charles • Albert Coates Distinguished Professor
Field: Law for public administration; real property law; rule of law; teaching law and public administration in Poland
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Whitaker, Erinn • Professor of the Practice
Field: Intelligence service; national security; Russian Far East; counterintelligence; German-Russian bilateral relations