Affiliated Graduate Students, 2006-2007
Neil Abrams
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Political economy, corruption, organized crime
Sener Akturk
Department: Political Science
Languages: Turkish, German, Russian
Fields of interest: Ethnicity, varieties of nationalism, ethno-federalism, political economy and ethnicity, supra-nationalist movements
Nina Renata Aron
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, French, Swedish
Fields of interest: Articulations of sexuality in post-Soviet
Russia and Ukraine; legacies of collectivity narratives; bodies in communal
space
Boris Barkanov
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, French, Japanese
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, international relations,
political economy, history of ideas, political theory, Soviet/post-Soviet/Russia
David Beecher
Department: History
Languages: Estonian, French, German, Russian
Fields of interest: Intellectual and cultural history of late modern Europe
Alexandre Beliaev
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Politics of history, the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, diaspora, continuity and change, religion.
Helaine Blumenthal
Department: History
Languages: French, German, Czech
Fields of interest: Czech and German nationalism, nationalism and state socialism, Central/East European Jewry
Margaret Boittin
Department: Political Science
Languages: French, Russian, Chinese
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, Russia, China
Stephen Brain
Department: History
Languages: Russian, German
Fields of interest: Environmental protection in the late Soviet Union
Ryan Calder
Department: Sociology
Fields of interest: Political sociology, economic sociology, political economy, Middle East, Central Asia, globalization
Robia Charles
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, Turkish, French, Amharic
Fields of interest: Nationalism, power-sharing institutions, "ethnic" conflicts
Vanja Danilovic
Department: Social Welfare
Languages: Croatian, French
Fields of interest: Social science, peace and conflict, women's issues
Michael Dean
Department: History
Languages: Czech, German, Polish
Fields of interest: Cultural history and social history of East Central Europe
Dace Dzenovska
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Latvian, Russian, Spanish
Fields of interest: Latvia, multiculturalism, liberalism, subject formation and difference, European integration and post-socialist transformations, governmentality, modernity and post-coloniality
Nicole Eaton
Department: History
Languages: German, Russian
Fields of interest: 20th-century Germany and Soviet Union, national identity, material culture
Christine Evans
Department: History
Languages: Russian, French, Uzbek
Fields of interest: History of mass communications
Nicholas Fleisher
Department: Linguistics
Languages: Russian, German, French
Fields of interest: Syntax, semantics, Slavic linguistics, historical linguistics
Jordan Gans-Morse
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, political economy
Sarah Garding
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, Italian
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, post-Soviet area studies
Theocharis Grigoriadis
Department: Political Science
Languages: French, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, political economy,
comparative economic systems, transitions to democracy, rule of law
Department: Sociology
Languages: German, Russian
Fields of Interest: Globalization, class, economic sociology, Russia, labor
John Holmes
Department: History
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Fields of interest: Russian-Soviet history, US history, European and Jewish comparative labor history, 20th century Jewish radicalism
Cindy T. Huang
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Uyghur/Uzbek, Mandarin, Spanish
Fields of interest: Gender, medical anthropology, development, globalization
Elif Kale Lostuvali
Department: Sociology
Languages: Turkish, French, Russian, Uzbek
Fields of interest: Comparative-historical sociology, sociology of culture, Central Asia
Mark A. Keck-Szajbel
Department: History
Languages: German, Polish, Czech, Russian, Japanese, Latin, Old Church Slavonic
Fields of interest: East Central Europe - travel, consumption, and black market economy
Anaita Khudonazar
Department: Near Eastern Studies
Languages: Sughnani, Russian, Tajik, Persian, Turkish
Fields of interest: Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, nationalism, literature
Leonid Kil
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, reading knowledge of southern slavic languages
Fields of interest: State sovereignty, nationalism, Russia's "nation-building," the problems of late development and state power
James Krapfl
Department: History
Languages: Czech, German, Slovak, Hungarian, French, Polish
Fields of interest: The cultural anthropology of revolutions, the cultural history of East Central Europe
Andrej Krickovic
Department: Political Science
Languages: Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Hungarian, French
Fields of interest: International relations, Russian foreign policy, anti-systemic ideologies and movements in Eurasia
Christine Kulke
Department: History
Languages: German, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish
Fields of interest: Russian/East European social/cultural history
Larisa Kurtovic
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Bosnian-Crotian-Serbian, French
Fields of interest: Socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology
Jody LaPorte
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, Uzbek
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, regimes, contentious politics
Danielle Lussier
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, Indonesian
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, political behavior, democratization
Sarah Macdonald
Department: Sociology
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Sexuality, sexual identity
Tatyana Mamut
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Socio-economic change; marketing, advertising, and consumption; value, rationality, economic behavior, and "human nature"; economic institutions; emergent capitalism; global organizations
Marcy McCullaugh
Department: Political Science
Languages: Russian, Portuguese, Spanish
Fields of interest: AIDS in Russia, public health and gender politics, civil society and NGOs
Elizabeth McGuire
Department: History
Languages: Russian, Chinese, French
Fields of interest: Sino-Soviet relations
Andrej Milivojevic
Department: History
Languages: Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Spanish
Fields of interest: Comparative history, legal history (public law), late modern Europe (Balaksn), revolt and dissent
Miriam Neirick
Department: History
Languages: Russian, Spanish
Fields of interest: Soviet history, post-Stalin Soviet history, Russian and Soviet art
Adelaide Papazoglou
Department: Anthropology
Languages: Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, French
Fields of interest: Medical anthropology, critical science studies, gender and sexuality, post-Socialist transition, economic anthropology, semiotics, film
Alexis Peri
Department: History
Languages: Russian, French
Fields of interest: Russian and Soviet history, the Leningrad Blockade and other sieges, personal documents, especially diaries, urban history, social psychology, creativity studies in minority influence
Alina Polyakova
Department: Sociology
Languages: Russian, German
Fields of interest: Post-Soviet transition economies, immigration, economic sociology, culture
William Quillen
Department: Music
Languages: Russian, German
Fields of interest: Russian and Soviet music, symphonic music,
Bach, music historiography, reception history
Kevin Rothrock
Department: History
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Ethno-nationalist conflict in former Soviet space, especially the Caucasus and Central Asia
Shawn Salmon
Department: History
Languages: Russian, German, Polish
Fields of interest: Soviet political history of World War II
Amita Satyal
Department: History
Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Persian
Fields of interest: Early modern empires and trade, medieval India and Central Asia
Michael Schihl
Department: Economics
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Industrial organization and comparative economic studies
Brian Scholl
Department: Economics
Languages: Serbo-Croatian
Fields of interest: Conflict, identity, household budgeting, health, sovereign debt
Eric R. Scott
Department: History
Languages: Russian, Georgian, Turkish
Fields of interest: Empire and ethnicity, crime and corruption, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Charles Shaw
Department: History
Languages: Russian, French, some Kazakh
Fields of Interest: Russia; Caucasus & Central Asia; empire
& religion
Victoria Smolkin
Department: History
Languages: Russian, Italian, German
Fields of interest: European and Soviet history, cultural history,
history of religion and secularization, Slavic languages and literatures
Cinzia Solari
Department: Sociology
Languages: Italian, Russian, Spanish
Fields of interest: Post-Soviet Ukrainian diaspora, gender, work, nationalism
Regine Spector
Department: Political Science
Languages: German, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek
Fields of interest: Comparative politics, international relations, political economy of development, identity politics
Filip Stabrowski
Department: Geography
Languages: Polish, Russian
Tonya Staros
Department: Sociology
Languages: Russian
Fields of interest: Soviet studies
Jarrod Tanny
Department: History
Languages: Russian, French, Hebrew, German, Yiddish
Fields of interest: Jewish culture, Soviet nationality issues, ethnicity, humor
Jennifer Utrata
Department: Sociology
Languages: Russian, French, Turkish, Uzbek
Fields of interest: Family, gender, culture, development, ethnography and comparative/historical methods
Zhivka Valiavicharska
Department: Rhetoric
Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian
Fields of interest: Modern political and social thought, nationalism and culture, postcolonial theory, Southeastern Europe
Elizabeth Wenger
Department: History
Languages: German, French, Polish
Fields of interest: Dissidence, Eastern Europe
Susanne Wengle
Department: Political Science
Languages: French, German, Russian
Fields of interest: Post-Soviet political economies
