Anthropology

Joëlle Bahloul, Professor, PhD, École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [Paris], 1981. Contemporary Jewish communities and Jewish collective memory. E-mail username: bahloul.

 

Frederika Kaestle, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of California, Davis. Ancient Boisman II Culture in Far-Eastern Russia and DNA Identification Techniques. E-mail username: kaestle.

 

Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in post-Soviet Ukraine. E-mail username: sadphill.

M. Nazif Shahrani, Professor, PhD, University of Washington, 1976. Soviet political culture and Muslim Central Asian societies. E-mail username: shahrani.

Beverly Stoeltje, Professor, PhD, University of Texas, 1979. Nationalism and Symbolic Forms. E-mail username: stoeltje.

Frances Trix, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Michigan, 1988. Gender, history & change, and identity in Kosovo, Albania, and Turkey. E-mail username: ftrix.

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Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region

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Central Eurasian Studies

Balázs Ablonczy, Visiting Professor, Chair of Hungarian Studies, PhD, ELTE Budapest, 2004. Hungarian history in the first half of the 20th century. E-mail username: babloncz.

Christopher Atwood, Associate Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1994. Mongolian history; Sino-Soviet relations and Mongolia. E-mail username: catwood.

Devin DeWeese, Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1985. Islam in Central Asia. E-mail username: deweese.

William Fierman, Professor, PhD, Harvard University, 1979. Language policy in Central Asia. E-mail username: wfierman.

Lynn Hooker, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Chicago. Modernism Meets Nationalism: Bela Bartok and the Musical Life of pre-World War I Budapest. E-mail username: lhooker.

Toivo Raun, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1969. Baltic and Finnish history. E-mail username: raunt.

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Communication and Culture

Joshua Malitsky, Assistant Professor, PhD, Northwestern University, 2005. Non-fiction film in post-revolution societies. E-mail username: jmalitsk.

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Criminal Justice

Phillip Parnell, Associate Professor, PhD, University of California, 1978. War crimes in the former Yugoslavia, dispute management, lethal behavior. E-mail username: parnell

William Pridemore, Professor, PhD, State University of New York, Albany, 2000. Social Structure and Homicide in post-Soviet Russia. E-mail username: wpridemo.

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Michael Alexeev, Professor, PhD, Duke University, 1984. Soviet-type economies in transition. E-mail username: malexeev.

Roy Gardner, Chancellor's Professor of Economics and Remak Professor of West European Studies, PhD, Cornell University, 1975. Economic and political integration processes in Europe. E-mail username: gardner.

Michael Kaganovich, Professor, PhD, Moscow State University, 1985. Models of economic transition. E-mail username: mkaganov.

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Terrence Mason, Professor, Director of the Center for Social Studies and International Education, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1986. Teacher education in Macedonia and the Baltic states. E-mail username: tmason.

Martha Nyikos, Associate Professor, PhD, Purdue University, 1987. Language Teacher Education, Hungarian. E-mail username: nyikos

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Fine Arts

Janet Kennedy, Professor, PhD, Columbia University, 1976. Russian art. E-mail username: kennedy.

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Folklore

Inta Carpenter, Associate Research Scholar, PhD, Indiana University, 1989. Latvian folklore. E-mail username: carpente.

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Geography

Roman Zlotin, Senior Lecturer, PhD, Academy of Sciences (Moscow), 1970. Soviet and Russian geography and the environment. E-mail username: rzlotin.

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History

Maria Bucur-Deckard, John W. Hill Chair of European History and Associate Professor, PhD, University of Illinois, 1996. East European/Romanian history; gender studies. E-mail username: mbucur.

Ben Eklof, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1977. History of Russian and Soviet education. E-mail username: eklof.

Padraic Kenney, Professor, PhD, University of Michigan, 1992. Polish and Eastern European history; political prisoners. E-mail username: pjkenney.

Hiroaki Kuromiya, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1985. Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history. E-mail username: hkuromiy.

Matthias Lehmann, Associate Professor, Associate Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program, PhD, Freie Universität Berlin, 2002. Ottoman History and Sephardic Studies. E-mail username: mlehmann.

David Ransel, Robert F. Byrnes Professor, PhD, Yale University, 1969. Modern Russia; family and social history. E-mail username: ransel.

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program, PhD, Georgetown University, 1998. Russian Cultural history and Jewish history. E-mail username: jveidlin.

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Dov-Ber Kerler, Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies, PhD, University of Oxford and Lincoln College, 1988. Yiddish language and literature. E-mail username: dkerler.

Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies, Director of the Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts, PhD, Brown University, 1967. Holocaust literature; American Jewish literature; Contemporary Antisemitism. E-mail username: rosenfel.

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Hans Ibold, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Missouri, 2008. Media and cultural convergence, identity and Internet usage in Central Asia, and the internationalization of journalism education. E-mail username: hibold.

Owen V. Johnson, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Michigan, 1978. Mass media in Russia and East Europe. E-mail username: johnsono.

Steven Raymer, Associate Professor, MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972. Photojournalism in Russia and Eastern Europe. E-mail username: sraymer.

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Janet Rabinowitch, Director, IU Press. E-mail username: jrabinow.

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Law

Timothy Waters, Associate Professor, JD, Harvard University, 1999. Public international law, transitional justice, international criminal law, ethnic conflict, human rights and comparative law. E-mail username: tiwaters.

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Michael Parrish, Business/SPEA Librarian and Head of Circulation, MLS, Indiana University, 1962. Soviet military history and state security. E-mail username: parrish1.

Wook-Jin Cheun, Slavic Bibliographer, MLS, Indiana University, 1993. MA, Russian History, Indiana University. MA, European History, Dankook University, Seoul Korea. E-mail username: wcheun.

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Halina Goldberg, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Musicology, CUNY Graduate Center, 1997. Chopin, music in Poland and Eastern Europe, performance practice, reception, and national constructs. E-mail username: goldberg.

Vincent Liotta, Professor, M.S., Indiana University, 1975. Opera Studies, Romania. E-mail username: vliotta.

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Çigdem Balim-Harding, Senior Lecturer, PhD, University of Washington, 1978. Near Eastern languages, linguistics, socio-linguistics, and immigration. E-mail username: cbalim.

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Jack Bielasiak, Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 1975. Post-Communist and East European politics. E-mail username: bielasia.

Aurelian Craiutu, Associate Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1999. History of political thought, democracy and its critics, transition to democracy. E-mail username: acraiutu.

Jeffrey Hart, Professor, PhD, University of California Berkeley, 1975. International Political Economy. E-mail username: hartj.

Jeffrey Isaac, Rudy Professor, PhD, Yale University, 1983. Study of democracy. E-mail username: isaac.

Jean Robinson, Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 1980. Gender issues in post-communist societies. E-mail username: robinso.

Beate Sissenich, Assistant Professor, PhD, Cornell University. State-Building by a Non-State: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary. E-mail username: bsisseni.

Regina Smyth, Associate Professor, PhD, Duke University. Interaction between parties and party systems in postcommunist legislatures. E-mail username: rsmyth.

Dina Spechler, Associate Professor, PhD, Harvard University, 1973. Gorbachev's policy towards Eastern Europe; major foreign policy change; Russian foreign policy. E-mail username: spechler.

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David Audretsch, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Director, Institute for Development Strategies, and Distinguished Professor, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1980. Globalization and development in Eastern Europe. E-mail username: daudrets.

Matthew Auer, Dean, Hutton Honors College, and Professor, PhD, Yale University, 1996. Environmental management and public policy in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. E-mail username: mauer.

Randall Baker, Professor, PhD University of East Africa (external degree from London University), 1968. Director of SPEA linkage program with Azerbaijan transition of civil service in former communist states. E-mail username: bakerr.

Vicky Meretsky, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Arizona, 1995. Environmental management in Russia and Central Asia. E-mail username: meretsky.

John L. Mikesell, Chancellor's Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Director of MPA Programs, PhD, University of Illinois, 1969. Public finance in post-communist government. E-mail username: mikesell.

Maureen Anne Pirog, Rudy Professor, Co-Director, Indiana University Institute for Family and Social Responsibility; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Poverty and income maintenance with emphasis on child support enforcement, welfare reform, and adolescent parenting. E-mail username: pirog.

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Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies Department

Bryan P. McCormick, Associate Professor, PhD, Clemson University, 1993. Recreation therapy and social integration of people with mental disabilities in Kosovo and Serbia. E-mail username: bmccormi.

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Justyna Beinek, Assistant Professor, PhD, Harvard University, 2001. Slavic languages and literature. E-mail username: jbeinek.

Olena Chernishenko, Lecturer, PhD, Princeton University, 2006. Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics. E-mail username: ochernis.

Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Professor, PhD, Columbia University, 1974. South Slavic languages and literature. E-mail username: cooper.

Andrew R. Durkin, Associate Professor, PhD, Columbia University, 1974. Russian literature. E-mail username: durkin.

Ronald Feldstein, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1973. Slavic linguistics. E-mail username: feldstei.

George Fowler, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Chicago, 1987. Slavic linguistics. E-mail username: gfowler.

Steven Franks, Chair of Slavics Department, Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 1985. Slavic linguistics. E-mail username: franks.

Jeffrey Holdeman, Slavic Language Coordinator and Lecturer, PhD, Ohio State University, 2002. Slavic linguistics. E-mail username: jeffhold.

Christina Zarifopol Illias, Associate Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1994. Romanian language and literature. E-mail username: ciliaoia.

Jerzy Kolodziej, Retired Associate Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1984. E-mail username: jkolodzi.

Sara Stefani, Visiting Assistant Professor, PhD, Yale, 2008. Russian language and literature. E-mail username: samastef.

Ariann Stern-Gottschalk, Visiting Lecturer, Director, Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages, PhD, UCLA. E-mail username: aristern.

Miriam Shrager, Lecturer, PhD, Indiana University. E-mail username: mshrage.

Bronislava Volkova, Professor, Director of the Czech Program, PhD, Charles University, 1970. Czech language and literature. E-mail username: volkova.

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Herbert A. Terry, Associate Professor, PhD University of Minnesota, 1976. Fulbright in Russia, 1998/9. E-mail username: terry.

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Bill Johnston, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and Comparative Literature, PhD, University of Hawaii, 1995. Translations of modern Polish literature. E-mail username: billj.

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Estonian: Piibi-Kai Kivik, Associate Instructor, MA, Tartu University (Estonia), 1997, English Language; M.Phil., Cambridge University (UK), 1997, English and Applied Linguistics. E-mail username: pkivik .

Hungarian: Valeria Varga, Visiting Lecturer, MA in Hungarian, Russian, and English, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. E-mail username: vvarga.

Polish: Iwona Dembowska-Wosik, Visiting Lecturer, MA, Lodz University. E-mail username: idembows.

Serbian and Croatian: Zorana Kristic, Visiting Lecturer, MA, Philosophical University, 2002. E-mail username: zkristic.

Uzbek: Malik Hodjaev, Visiting Lecturer, BA Samarkand State Pedagogical Institute, 1972; Cert. Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, 1980. Languages include Uzbek, Tajik, Russian and English. E-mail username: mhodjaev.

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Paul Kriese, Associate Professor of Political Science, PhD, Purdue University, 1977. Polish and East European political culture. E-mail username: pkriese.

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Bernd J. Fischer, Professor, Chair, Department of History, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982. Albanian and Southeastern European history. fischer@ipfw.edu

Ann X. Livschiz, Assistant Professor of History, PhD, Stanford University, 2005. Russian and Soviet History, Gender History. livschia@ipfw.edu

James Toole, Associate Professor of Political Science, PhD, Brandeis, 2000. Political parties and democratization in post-communist Central Europe. toolej@ipfw.edu

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Daniel Cole, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law, JSM, Stanford Law School, 1996. Environmental law in Poland. dancole@iupui.edu

John Parrish-Sprowl, Professor of Communications, PhD, Bowling Green State University, 1976. Organizational communication in Poland. johparri@iupui.edu

Sherry Ricchiardi-Folwell, Professor of Journalism, PhD, Iowa State University, 1986. Journalism in the former Yugoslavia. sriccia@iupui.edu

Martin Spechler, Professor of Economics, PhD, Harvard University, 1971. Soviet-type economies, economies in transition, and comparative economics. mspechle@iupui.edu

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Jack M. Bloom, Associate Professor of Sociology, PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1980. Poland, contemporary East European affairs, and sociology. jbloom@iun.edu

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Linda L. Blodgett, Associate Professor of International Business, PhD, University of Michigan, 1987; PhD, Indiana University, 1978; PhD, Charles University Prague, 1974. International business. lblodget@iusb.edu

Mike Keen, Professor, and Chair of the MLS program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, PhD, Notre Dame, 1985. History of Sociology. mkeen@iusb.edu

Dmitry Shlapentokh, Associate Professor of History, PhD, University of Chicago, 1988. Russian and Soviet history and culture. dshlapen@iusb.edu

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Brigitte Le Normand, Assistant Professor of History, PhD, UCLA, 2007; MA, University of Toronto, 2002. Social and cultural transformations in Yugoslavia after the Second World War. blenorma@ius.edu

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