REEI Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

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

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

Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ukraine and Russia, postsocialist transformations, civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), development, gender studies, medical anthropology, disability studies, and post-Chernobyl health and healing. E-mail: sadphill@indiana.edu.

Anya Peterson Royce, Professor, PhD, University of California - Berkley, 1974. Local and global identities, anthropology of dance, anthropology of the arts, popular theater, ethnic identity, structural anthropology, anthropological writing, anthropology of food. E-mail: royce@indiana.edu

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

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

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

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Business

Bruce L. Jaffee, Professor Emeritus, PhD, John Hopkins University, 1971. Economic Impact Studies, Energy Policy, State and Local Taxation, Regulatory Impact, Industry Regulation, Microeconomic Public Policy, Energy Economics, Urban Economics, Economic Development. E-mail: jaffee@indiana.edu.

Scott J. Shackelford, Assistant Professor, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, 2012. Cyber security and Privacy, International Law and Relations, Property, and Environmental Law. E-mail: sjshacke@indiana.edu.

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Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region

William Fierman, interim Director.

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Central Eurasian Studies

Laszlo Borhi, Visiting Professor, Chair of Hungarian Studies, PhD, ELTE Budapest. Cold war history; Communism in Hungary; History of international relations in the 20th century. E-mail: lborhi@indiana.edu.

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

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

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

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

Edward Lazzerini, Academic Specialist, Central Eurasian Studies; Director, Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies; Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; Adjunct Professor, Department of History, PhD, University of Washington, 1973. Eurasian commentary traditions; intellectual developments within Turkic communities of Central Eurasiain the 18th-20th centuries; and comparative study of early modern empires (Russian, Chinese, Ottoman, and Spanish). E-mail: e

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

Ron Sela, Associate Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 2004. History and historiography of Islamic Central Asia. E-mail: rsela@indiana.edu.

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Communication and Culture

Joshua Malitsky, Assistant Professor of Communication & Culture (Ph.D. Northwestern) came to IU in 2005. His research concerns non-fiction film as a vehicle for communicating social and political transformation in post-revolutionary contexts. He focuses on newsreel and documentary projects in the early Soviet Union and in the former Yugoslavia following WWII. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film. He teaches courses on an array of non-fiction and Soviet related topics such as "Soviet Film and Art of the 1920s" and "Film and Revolution." E-mail: jmalitsk@indiana.edu.

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Comparative Literature

Bill Johnston, Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, PhD, University of Hawaii, 1995. Translations of modern Polish literature. E-mail: billj@indiana.edu.

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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: parnell@indiana.edu.

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

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Economics

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

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

Volodymyr Lugovsky, Assistant Professor, PhD, Purdue University. International Trade.
E-mail: vlugovsk@indiana.edu

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Education

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: tmason@indiana.edu.

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

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Fine Arts

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

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Folklore

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

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Geography

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

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History

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

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

Annika Frieberg, Visiting Lecturer, Phd, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 20th century European history, Central European history, international relations, transnationalism, cultural history. E-mail: afrieber@indiana.edu.

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History, and Director and Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair of 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. His second book, Jewish Public Culture in Late Imperial Russia, was published in 2009. He is currently co-directing the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories, which collects videotaped oral histories of Yiddish-speakers in Eastern Europe about Jewish life in the region before the Second World War. This will be the topic of his forthcoming book, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Veidlinger teaches courses in Jewish History and Russian History. E-mail: jveidlin@indiana.edu.

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IU Press

Janet Rabinowitch, Director, IU Press. E-mail: jrabinow@indiana.edu.

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Jewish Studies

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: dkerler@indiana.edu.

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: rosenfel@indiana.edu.

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Journalism

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: hibold@indiana.edu.

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

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

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Law

Dan Cole, Professor, JSD, Stanford Law School, 1996. Climate Law and Policy, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Land Use, Law and Economics and Natural Resource Law. E-mail: dancole@indiana.edu. 

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: tiwaters@indiana.edu.

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Library and Information Science

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

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Music

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: goldberg@indiana.edu.

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

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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

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

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Political Science

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

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

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

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

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

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: bsisseni@indiana.edu.

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

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

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Public and Environmental Affairs

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: daudrets@indiana.edu.

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:mauer@indiana.edu.

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: bakerr@indiana.edu.

Denvil R. Duncan, Assistant Professor, PhD, Georgia State University, 2010. Labor supply, tax evasion, income equality, flat taxes in Russia and Eastern Europe, tax policy in developing countries, public budgeting and cost benefit analysis. E-mail: duncande@indiana.edu

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

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

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: pirog@indiana.edu.

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Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies

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

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Religious Studies

Patrick Lally Michelson, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 2007. Russian Orthodoxy, History of Eastern Christianity, Modern Christian thought, Russian intellectual history, Modern Russian history.

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Slavic Languages and Literatures

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

Olena Chernishenko, Lecturer, MA, Princeton University, 2002. Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics. E-mail: ochernis@indiana.edu.

Jacob Emery, Assistant Professor, PhD, Harvard University, 2006. Eastern and Northern European literature, Rhetoric and figure, Science Fiction and the fantastic, Critical Theory and materialist aesthetics, metafiction and the question of genre.

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

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

Jeffrey Holdeman (PhD, Ohio State University), Slavic Language Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor, came to IU in 2002. Although he usually teaches Russian language and the methodology of Slavic language instruction, during his tenure as the director of the IU Global Village Living-Learning Center he is teaching courses on vampires (connected to his interest in Slavic folk culture) and on immigration and ethnic identity (connected to his research on Russian Old Believers in diaspora in the U.S., Poland, and Lithuania). His other interests include Slavic linguistics, the teaching of Russian and Czech, curriculum and material development for less commonly taught languages, sociolinguistics (especially language maintenance and shift), and the music of Eastern and Central Europe. E-mail: jeffhold@indiana.edu.

Christina Zarifopol Illias, Associate Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1994. Romanian language and literature. E-mail: cilioaia@indiana.edu.

Maria Shardakova, Director of Russian Language Instruction, PhD, Bryn Mawr College, 2005. Second Language Acquisition. Email: maalshar@indiana.edu.

Miriam Shrager, Lecturer, PhD, Indiana University, 2007. E-mail: mshrage@indiana.edu.

Sara Stefani, Assistant Professor, PhD, Yale, 2008. Russian language and literature. E-mail: samastef@indiana.edu.

Ariann Stern-Gottschalk, Lecturer and Director of SWSEEL: The Summer Language Workshop, PhD, UCLA, 2002. E-mail: aristern@indiana.edu.

Telecommunications

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

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West European Studies

Franklin Hess, Director of Modern Greek Program and Lecuturer in West European Studies, PhD University of Iowa, 1999. E-mail: flhess@indiana.edu.

Visiting Language Faculty

Czech: Craig Cravens, Visiting Senior Lecturer, PhD, Princeton University, 1998. Czech Language and Culture.

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: pkivik@indiana.edu.

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

Polish: Barbara Morcinek, Visiting Lecturer, (PhD, University of Silesia, 2005). Polish as a foreign language at all levels, as well as literature and culture courses.

Serbian and Croatian: Jagoda Malbasa, Visiting Lecturer. Email: jmalbasa@indiana.edu

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: mhodjaev@indiana.edu.

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Indiana University East

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

Natalia Rybas, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Phd, Bowling Green State University, 2008. Intercultural experience and critical cultural research on identity and migration. E-mail: natrybas@iue.edu

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Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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

Ann X. Livschiz, Assistant Professor of History, PhD, Stanford University, 2005. Russian and Soviet History, Gender History. E-mail: livsChia@ipfw.edu.

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

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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

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

Kristina Sheeler, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, PhD, Indiana University, 2000. Rhetorical theory and criticism, women’s public discourse, political communication, public address. E-mail: ksheeler@indiana.edu.

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

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Indiana University Northwest

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

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Indiana University South Bend

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

Bruce McDonald, Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science, PhD, Florida State University, 2011. Defense sector in Soviet Union and post-Soviet states, relationship between defense sector and economic performance. Email: brucemcd@iusb.edu.

K. Andrea Rusnock, Assistant Professor of Art History, PhD, University of Southern California, 2002. Stalinist art, Stalinist textiles and Women in Russian and Soviet art. E-mail:krusnock@ iusb.edu

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

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Indiana University Southeast

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. E-mail: blenorma@ius.edu

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