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Graduate Fields of Study: Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Other faculty with expertise in Eastern Europe

  • Donna Buchanan (School of Music: Musical southeastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union (particularly Russia); nationalism in Russian and East European classical music; Mussorgsky; Shostakovich.)
  • Matti Bunzl (Department of Anthropology: Jewish and Austrian history; queer theory)
  • David Cooper (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Czech, Slovak, and Russian literatures)
  • Richard Esbenshade (Department of History: Hungarian history)
  • Jonathan Fineberg (Art History Program: modern and contemporary Russian art)
  • Michael Finke (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Russian literature; Chekhov; literature and medicine; literature and psychoanalysis; and aviation and popular culture)
  • George Gasyna (Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature: Polish literature and theater; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Polish and Russian émigré and exilic narratives; Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz)
  • Zsuzsa Gille (Department of Sociology: Environmental and economic sociology of Eastern Europe, especially Hungary; globalization; European Union)
  • Steven P. Hill (Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies: Slavic linguistics; Russian and East European cinema; Russian drama; literary and technical translation; statistical linguistics, testing, and evaluation)
  • Lilya Kaganovsky (Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature: Soviet literature and film)
  • Diane Koenker (Department of History: Soviet Union, comparative labor and gender)
  • Peter B. Maggs (Law School: Russian law)
  • Harriet Murav (Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature: Russian literature, cultural history, Jewish intellectual history)
  • John Randolph (Department of History: Imperial Russian intellectual and cultural history; pre-Petrine history)
  • Miranda Remnek (Head, Slavic & East European Library)
  • Carol Skalnik Leff (Political Science: East European politics, especially the Czech Republic; Soviet and post-Soviet politics; comparative politics; nationalism and democratization)
  • Valeria Sobol (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: 19th century Russian literature)
  • Mark Steinberg (Department of History: Russia, comparative labor, popular culture; editor, Slavic Review)
  • Mary Stuart (History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library: public library movements in Russia and the Soviet Union; comparative print culture)
  • Richard Tempest (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Russian intellectual history