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Russian and East European Institute
More than 30 Indiana University faculty members are native or fluent speakers of Russian and focus on Russia's history, politics, economics, geography, language, literature and culture as their areas of specialization. The following list includes those who focus their teaching and research primarily on Russia: Anthropology Sarah Phillips, assistant professor of anthropology (Ph.D., University of Illinois), was appointed in 2003. She teaches courses on the cultures and societies of Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and Russia. Her dissertation explores the roles women play in Ukraine’s new post-Soviet civil society. She has published articles on Chernobyl, Ukrainian folk medicine, and on the topic of gender roles, civil society, and NGOs in Ukraine. She produced a video on village folk healers in Ukraine (2004), and is currently researching and writing about the Ukrainian and Russian disability rights movements. Criminal Justice William Pridemore, assistant professor of criminal justice (PhD, State University of New York, Albany), was appointed in 2003. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research and spent a year as a Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main research interest is the impact of social structure, economic transition, and alcohol consumption on homicide and suicide in Russia. Dr. Pridemore's research is interdisciplinary and has been published in leading journals of several disciplines, including criminology, sociology, public health, and area studies. He also recently edited a volume on law, crime, and justice in transitional Russia, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Economics Michael Alexeev, professor of economics (PhD, Duke University), came to Indiana University in 1992. He teaches courses on Soviet-type economies, economic transitions, and other topics in economics. His research interests include the economies of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, consumer and enterprise behavior, privatization, inflation, income distribution and taxation policy. Roy Gardner, Chancellor's Professor of economics and
Remak Professor of West Europe Fine Arts Janet Kennedy, professor of fine arts (PhD, Columbia University), was appointed to IU in 1975. She teaches courses on Russian art, integrating Russian history into her subject matter. Janet Kennedy has written numerous articles, many of which are related to the Russian art of the Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) movement. Her recent work has focused on visual arts, theater, and music. Geography Roman Zlotin, senior lecturer of geography (PhD, Academy of Sciences in Moscow), first came to IU in 1992 as a visiting professor. He teaches courses on Soviet and Russian geography, environment and public health. He has published numerous articles and books on a wide range of topics related to Soviet and Eurasian ecosystems and the environment. History Ben Eklof, professor of history (PhD, Princeton University), has taught at Indiana University since 1977. He teaches courses on imperial and Soviet Russian history and the Gorbachev Revolution. Eklof has done extensive research on education in Russia in the late Imperial period and is director of the Institute for the Study of Russian Education. Hiroaki Kuromiya, professor of history (PhD, Princeton University), was appointed to IU in 1990. Kuromiya has taught courses on Ukrainian history, Russian history through film, and the Russian revolution and Soviet regime. His current research interests are 20th century Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and modern Russian history. Toivo Raun, professor of history (PhD, Princeton University), was appointed to IU in 1990. His courses include Finland in the 20th century, Uralic Peoples, Empire and Ethnicity in Modern Russian History, Estonian Culture and Civilization and The Baltic States Since 1918. His current research interests include a survey history of the Baltic peoples and states, agrarian reform and political parties in interwar Estonia, and literacy and its impact in Estonia. Jeffrey Veidlinger, is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, and Associate Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program. His first book, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, received a National Jewish Book Award, the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. He is currently working on a book entitled, Jewish Public Culture in Late Imperial Russia. The book examines the means by which Jewish voluntary associations, such as drama circles, literary clubs, historical societies, folk music societies and even fire brigades, helped define Jewish cultural identity within the Russian Empire. He is also co-directing the Indiana University Yiddish Ethnographic Project, which collects videotaped oral histories of Yiddish-speakers in Ukraine about Jewish life in the region before the Second World War. Professor Veidlinger teaches courses in Jewish History and Russian History. Political Science William Fierman, professor of Central Eurasian Studies
(PhD, Harvard University), was appointed to IU in 1991. He teaches courses
on Soviet and Post-Soviet Nationalities and Problems and Post-Soviet Transition
in Central Asia. His research interests include language policy in Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan, and political development and social problems in Central
Asia. He is director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. Dina Spechler, associate professor of political science
(PhD, Harvard University), has taught at IU since 1984. She teaches Russian
and Soviet Foreign Policy, International Relations, Cold War and After,
Model United Nations, Comparative Foreign Policy, and Force and Diplomacy
in the Nuclear Age. Her research interests include the decline of Soviet
and American military intervention in Third World conflicts, Soviet withdrawal
from Eastern Europe, and Russian and Soviet foreign policy. Russian Language and Literature Aaron Beaver, assistant professor of Slavic languages
and literatures (PhD, University of Chicago), was appointed to IU in 2004.
He recently completed a dissertation on time in the lyric poetry of Joseph
Brodsky. His research areas include Russian poetry; the intersection of
literature and philosophy; literary and critical theory. Andrew R. Durkin, associate professor of Slavic languages andliterature (PhD, Columbia University), has taught at IU since 1975. His courses include Russian Short Fiction, Introduction to Russian Culture, Proseminar in Russian Literature, War and Peace, and the Brothers Karamazov. He researches Anton Chekhov’s fiction and the works of Alexander Pushkin. Jeffrey Holdeman, Slavic Language Coordinator (PhD, Ohio State University), came to IU in 2002. He teaches Russian language and Methodology of Slavic Language Instruction. His research interests include the teaching of Russian and Czech, curriculum and material development for less commonly taught languages, phonetics and sociolinguistics, language maintenance and shift, technology and language instruction. Jerzy Kolodziej, associate professor of Slavic languages and literature (PhD, Indiana University), was appointed to IU in 1988. He is Director of the Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages. He teaches courses in Russian language and literature (in Russian). His current research interests include the literary works of Evgeny Zamiatin, the teaching of Russian, and the supervision of teaching assistants and summer institute faculty. He has also organized and participated in several workshops on teaching for proficiency at IU. Nina Perlina, Professor of Slavic languages and literature (PhD, Brown University), came to IU in 1986. Her courses include Advanced Russian Syntax and Stylistics, Soviet Women in World War II, Russian Literature: Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy to Dostoevsky, Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, Twentieth Century Russian Literature Grad courses), Dostoevsky seminar and a number of courses/seminars, such as "Jewish images in Russian literary Culture", "The city and a mythopoetic image" and a course "Bakhtin in context". She recently published Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), co-authored with Cynthia Simmons, and Olga Freidenberg's Works and Days (Slavica Publ, 2002). Her other publications are in the area of Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Pushkin studies. Many other REEI faculty members specializing in Russian studies serve as mentors for students doing research on Russia. Three specialists in Slavic linguistics provide instruction, mentoring and support to students.
Faculty whose research focus is Russia teach in the departments of economics, geography, anthropology, history, political science, criminal justice, Slavic languages and literatures, and in the Schools of Business, Fine Arts, Journalism, Library and Information Science, and Public and Environmental Affairs. Our department of history has a particularly strong concentration of Russian specialists, the largest group outside of Russia itself. Undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor's degree in virtually any discipline or professional school can include Russian studies in their course work and graduate with a minor from the Russian and East European Institute (REEI). REEI offers a master's degree in Russian and East European studies for students seeking professional careers in government, nonprofit organizations, or private business that require advanced knowledge of the language and culture of Russia. Students pursuing a Ph.D. in most disciplines and professional school graduate students (M.B.A., M.P.A., M.L.S.) can also pursue course work in Russian studies toward a dual M.A. degree, Graduate Area Certificate in Russian and East European Studies, or Ph.D. minor. Indiana University students who complete master’s, doctoral, or professional school programs with advanced competency in Russian studies go on to careers in government service, the military, nongovernmental organizations, international development, business, higher education administration, and tenure track university teaching positions. IU graduates have pursued a wide variety of interesting careers in which to use their knowledge of Russian language and area studies. Here is a sample: Government Andrew Berrier (M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 2000), U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer Hilary Brandt, (B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1991) Webmaster, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. State Department James Collins, (M.A. History, 1964), Senior Advisor, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington D.C., career foreign service officer and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001. Richard Miles, (M.A. Political Science, 1964), career foreign service officer has served as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Georgia, and also as Deputy Chief of mission in Belgrade. Stefan Osborne, (Ph.D. in Economics, Graduate Area Certificate in Russian and East European Studies in Russia Area Studies, May 1999). He worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, NIS/EE Section and at present is Senior Economist, Office of Agricultural Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Non-Governmental Eric Batsie (M.P.A. Public Affairs, 1997; B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures and REEI Certificate, 1994) Director of Moscow Office, Kidsave International (an organization that relocates children from orphanages into stable families). Eric Boyle (M.A./M.P.A. Russian and East European Studies and Public Affairs, 1999), worked as the Deputy Director of the Armenian/Caucasus Office of Catholic Relief Services in Yerevan, Armenia. He is now the Regional Director of the Eurasia Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine. Amy Caiazza (PhD, Political Science, 1999), Study Director, Democracy and Society Programs, Institute of Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C. Sara Feinstein (M.A./M.B.A., Russian and East European Studies and Business Administration, 1999) worked as the Information and Outreach Program Coordinator for the Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia, Baku, Azerbaijan. She is currently the Regional Program Manager for ZdravPlus/Abt Associates in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She oversees grant programs, information dissemination, and provides general project management for health care reform program in Central Asia. Calvin Harris, (J.D. Law 1995; M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 1992), Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI), Belarus. Andrew Kohlhepp, (M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 1998), Institute of International Education, Washington, D.C, (involved in USAID program called EcoLinks, which looks at industrial and urban environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia). Charles Mixon, (M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 1994), Vice President, AIG Capital Partners, (involved in emerging markets private equity, focusing on Central Europe and Russia and investor relations). Zachary Morford, (M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 1998), Development Staff, Development Alternatives, Inc. (an international consulting firm). Stephen Nedell, (M.A. and M.L.S., Russian and East European Studies and Library Science, 2000), Donohue Group, Inc., Cataloger, Project Manager and the Office Network Coordinator (called upon occasionally to catalog Russian and other Slavic materials). Academic Suzanne Ament (PhD, History, 1996) Assistant Professor of History, Radford University Sue Brown (PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1996), Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Stephen Dickey (PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1997), Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas Jared Ingersoll, (M.A., Russian and East European Studies, 1990 and M.A., History, 1991), Librarian for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Columbia University (manages library collections, acquisitions and reference, in all disciplines, from and about the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe). Michaela Pohl, (PhD, History, 1999), Associate Professor of History, Vassar College Several alumni from the 1990s, whose names are not listed for security reasons, work at the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Foreign Broadcast Information Service and Central Intelligence Agency; and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Indiana University has a summer intensive language program open to students from other universities, upper-level high school students, non-degree seeking students, and members of the community, as well as IU students. The Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) offers nine levels (1st through 6th year) of Russian language training in a single eight-week summer session, mid-June to mid-August each year. By special agreement with the Indiana state legislature, all summer intensive language students pay tuition at the in-state rate ($241.30 per credit hour in 2007). Fellowship awards for tuition and a stipend are available on a competitive basis. SWSEEL provides a rich and diverse cultural program. Students of Russian may sing in a choir, participate in poetry and drama clubs, and attend films and lectures in Russian. Study AbroadIndiana University offers undergraduate students the opportunity to earn IU credit while spending a semester abroad studying at St. Petersburg State University in historic, museum-filled St. Petersburg. Students can live with host families and are immersed in the Russian language, with the opportunity to take courses on grammar, phonetics, conversation, analytical readings, and lectures on Russian literature and contemporary Russian life. Indiana University's Russian collection ranks among the top research collections in the United States. The library has more than 210,000 volumes in Russian, the richest areas being Reference, History, Diplomacy, Philology, and General Culture. The collection contains the annotated index to Russia's largest social science library (INION), the Social Sciences-Humanities service for 50 major Russian journals, the Universal Database of Russian Newspapers/Serials, and a complete collection of 417 reels of film "Newspapers of the Russian Revolutionary Era.” The total Russian/Soviet collection is approximately 280,000 volumes. The IU Lilly Library houses a large collection of rare Slavic materials including a treasury of early Slavic Bibles, rare documents on the Russian revolution, many first editions of Slavic belles-lettres and personal papers of the writer Aleksandr V. Amfiteatrov (1862-1938). Visiting Scholars and Prominent Guests Guest lectures and special events are an important component of Indiana University's Russian studies offerings. IU has hosted many visits by Russian international scholars and government officials, as well as American specialists. Visitors have included Mikhail Gorbachev, Gennady Zyuganov, Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova, Veronika Dolina, Boris Kagarlitsky, Boris Mironov, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and the folk group Zolotoi Plyos. There is ample opportunity to explore extracurricular interests through
a large cultural program, including guest lectures, folk concerts, film
showings, a Russian Cultural Association and a weekly Russian language table. The
Russian and East European Institute (Ballantine 565) has a library of
films and language videos (instructional and feature films with subtitles)
that can be checked out. A Slavic Resource Room in Ballantine 506 is also
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, and politics of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Since the
early 1950s, Indiana University has administered one of the nation’s
largest programs in Russian Studies. In its Russian and East European
Institute (REEI) and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, IU
offers:
an Studies (PhD, Cornell University), was
appointed to IU in 1983. His courses include Soviet-Type economies in
transition, Ukrainian studies, and economics of Europe-East and West. Gardner also serves
as Academic Director of the Economic Education Research Consortium (EERC),
National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in Kyiv, Ukraine.
in Kiev, Ukraine . EERC is funded by a consortium including the Eurasia
Foundation, Open Society Institute, World Bank, and Swedish Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, and offers the only western-style MA in English to students
from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Caucusus. Among recent articles
he has recently published are "Dollarization in the CIS" (2005),
and “Corruption: Top Down or Bottom Up,” (2002). His new book
with Blackwell, The Economics of Europe, is due out in 2006.
David Ransel
Indiana
University's interdisciplinary program in Russian studies presents students
with several options for a course of study on Russia. Students can enroll
in up to six years of academic-year and summer Russian language instruction,
conducted with the latest methods of performance-based instruction and
a multimedia curriculum. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
are available for graduate students pursuing Russian-language study during
either the academic year or summer session.
