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AVRUTIN, EUGENE eavrutin@uiuc.edu

Assistant Professor, Modern European Jewish History. PhD, University of Michigan. Modern Russian and Jewish history; governance; assimilation; race/racism; empire/imperialism; autobiography; Russian-Jewish relations; history of anthropology; everyday life.

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BABADOOST, MOHAMMAD babadoos@uiuc.edu

Associate Professor, Plant Pathology, ACES Global Engagement Fellow. PhD, North Carolina State University. Plant disease management, plant disease epidemiology, diseases of vegetable and fruit crops; agricultural education in the Caucasus, especially Azerbaijan.

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BALCI, ERCAN ebalci@uiuc.edu

Lecturer, Turkish. PhD, Linguistics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language; phonology with special interest in Turkish consonants; morphology, second language acquisition.

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BENSON, NANCY  nbenson@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Journalism.  MA, Regis University.  Broadcast journalism, international reporting, journalistic training in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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BRUSTEIN, WILLIAM brustein@uiuc.edu

Associate Provost for International Affairs; Director, International Programs and Studies; Professor, Sociology, Political Science, and History; Alumni Professor, International Studies. PhD, University of Washington. Anti-semitism in Europe; social origins of Nazism; fascism; Romania; Bulgaria.

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BUCHANAN, DONNA  buchana1@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Musicology.  PhD, University of Texas.  Musical styles of Bulgaria, the peoples of southeastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union (particularly Russia); nationalism in Russian and East European classical music; Mussorgsky; Shostakovich.
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BUNZL, MATTI bunzl@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology; Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.  PhD, University of Chicago.  The Anthropology of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (especially historical memory, nation-ness, ethnicity, gender and sexuality); Jewish Culture and History.
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BUTLER, FRANCIS fbutler@uiuc.edu

Visiting Lecturer, Slavic languages and Literatures. PhD, Slavic, University of California, Berkeley. Medieval Slavic literature, history, and languages.

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CONDILL, KIT condill@uiuc.edu

Visiting Research Associate, Slavic Reference Service.   MLS, University of Illinois. Slavic bibliographic reference; reference service on the Caucasus.

COOPER, DAVID dlcoop@uiuc.edu
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures. PhD, Columbia University.  Czech, Slovak, and Russian literatures.
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ESBENSHADE, RICHARD esbensha@uiuc.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor, History. PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz. Hungarian history.

FINEBERG, JONATHAN D. fineberg@uiuc.edu
Professor, Art History.  PhD, Harvard University.  Modern art (history and criticism); Kandinsky; Christo.
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FINKE, MICHAEL mcfinke@uiuc.edu

Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures. PhD, Indiana University. Russian literature; Chekhov; literature and medicine; literature and psychoanalysis; and aviation and popular culture.
   

FORD, BARBARA bjford@uiuc.edu
Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and Mortenson Distinguished Professor. MLS, University of Illinois. International librarianship.
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FOUKE, BRUCE    fouke@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Geology.  PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Geology and environmental change in Russia and Ukraine. 
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FRITZSCHE, PETER, pfritzsc@uiuc.edu
Professor, History.  PhD, University of California at Berkeley. German History; modernism; memory. 

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GASYNA, GEORGE ggasyna@uiuc.edu

Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature. PhD, University of Toronto. Polish literature and theater; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Polish and Russian émigré and exilic narratives; Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz.

GILLE, ZSUZSA  gille@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology and Interim Head, European Union Center.  PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz. Environmental and economic sociology of Eastern Europe, especially Hungary; globalization; European Union.

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GOTTHEIL, FRED M. fgotthei@uiuc.edu
Professor, Economics.  PhD, Duke University.  Comparative economic systems, economic thought, Marxist economics.

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HELBIG, ADRIANA ahelbig@uiuc.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor, Musicology. PhD, Columbia University. Roma music and rights movement in Ukraine; music in post-socialist states; music and nationalism.

HILL, STEVEN P.  s-hill4@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies.  PhD, University of Michigan.  Slavic linguistics; Russian and East European cinema; Russian drama; literary and technical translation; statistical linguistics, testing, and evaluation.

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HITCHINS, KEITH  khitchin@uiuc.edu
Professor, History.  PhD, Harvard University.  East European history; Russia and the Danubian Basin; the growth of national movements in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918; modern Romanian history and literature; history and culture of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan.

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KAGANOVSKY, LILYA  lilya@uiuc.edu
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature. PhD, Soviet literature and film; film and critical theory; gender studies; 19th and 20th century novel (Russian, English, and French).

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KALINICHEV, ANDREY kalinich@uiuc.edu

Research Associate Professor, Geology. PhD, N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Molecular modeling of natural organic mater; environmental geochemistry and technologies of water purification and desalination; molecular computer simulations; history of Soviet/Russian science

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MOHAMMAD HASAN KHALIL khalil@uiuc.edu

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. PhD, University of Michigan. Islamic thought; Islamic ethics; Western analyses of Islamic theology; the intersection of Islamic historiography, exegesis, and law; and the significance of the veil in Egypt, Turkey, and Iran.

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KOENKER, DIANE P.  dkoenker@uiuc.edu
Professor of History and Editor of the Slavic Review.  PhD, University of Michigan.  History of modern Russia and the Soviet Union; 1917 revolution; Russian and Soviet working-class history; social history of the USSR, 1917--1930.

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KUCHINKE, K. PETER    kuchinke@uiuc.edu

Associate Professor, Human Resource Education.  PhD, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.  International human resource development; organizational and leadership development; Germany, Poland.

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LEFF, CAROL SKALNIK leffc@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science.  PhD, Harvard University.  East European politics, especially the Czech Republic; Soviet and post-Soviet politics; comparative politics; nationalism and democratization.

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LILA, MARY ANN  imagemal@uiuc.edu
Professor, Natural Resources, Plant Physiology; and Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences.  PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Ethnobotany in Central Asia, natural products chemistry, discovery and elucidation of natural bioactive phytomedicinal products, and in vitro productivity; infrastructure and capacity building in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

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LUPU, SHERBAN   slupu@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Music.  Bucharest Academy of Music; Guildhall School of Music (UK); Indiana University.  East European Music, George Enescu and other contemporary Romanian and East European composers.

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MAGGS, PETER B. p-maggs@uiuc.edu
Professor, Law, Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair. JD, Harvard Law School.  Soviet law; comparative studies of the legal regulation of economic activity in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and East Central and Southeastern Europe; law and technology.

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MILLER, LAURENCE H. larrymil@uiuc.edu
Professor, Library Administration and Senior Slavic Bibliographer.  MLS, Indiana University.  Slavic bibliography; history of Russian libraries and bibliography; technical services; reference work.

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MINCYTE, DIANA mincyte@uiuc.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor, Advertising. PhD, University of Illinois. Consumption, environment, and agriculture in East Europe; Baltic states; European Union.

MURAV, HARRIET  hlmurav@uiuc.edu
Professor and Head, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Professor, Comparative and World Literature. PhD, Stanford University.  19th and 20th century Russian and Jewish literature and culture.

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NEDOVIC-BUDIC, ZORICA   budic@uiuc.edu
Professor, Urban and Regional Planning.  PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Implementation of geographic information systems (GIS) technology in local government setting; comparative study of urbanization and planning practice in U.S. and Eastern/Central Europe.

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PAHRE, ROBERT  pahre@uiuc.edu
Professor, Political Science.  PhD, UCLA.  The European Union and the enlargement; international political economy; politics of trade.

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PARK, LYNDA Y.  lypark@uiuc.edu
Associate Director, European Union Center.  PhD candidate, University of Michigan.  Russian anthropology and history; history of Siberia; ethnic identity and relations; colonialism; nationalism; history of the human sciences.

PILCH, JANICE T. pilch@uiuc.edu
Acting Head, Slavic Acquisitions; Associate Professor, Library Administration, Librarian for South Slavic Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Slavic and East European Technical Services Librarian. PhD candidate, MA, University of Michigan.  Intellectual property, national bibliography, library technical services; Slavic languages and literatures, Dostoevsky, Russian philosophy.
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PINKERT, ANKE  pinkert@uiuc.edu

Professor, German. PhD, University of Chicago. German literature; East German dissidents; East German/European cinema.

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PINTAR, JUDITH jpintar@uiuc.edu

Lecturer, Sociology.  PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Southeast Europe, Croatia, gender.

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PRENDERGAST, CATHERINE    cprender@uiuc.edu

Professor, English. PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Literacy, English as second language, language acquisition in

Eastern Europe, Slovakia.

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PROCHASKA, DAVID     dprochas@uiuc.edu
Professor, History.  PhD, University of California at Berkeley.  Colonial studies.

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RANDOLPH, JOHN  jwr@uiuc.edu
Assistant Professor, History.  PhD, University of California at Berkeley.  Early modern Russian history; intellectual history; the Bakunin

family.

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REMNEK, MIRANDA BEAVEN mremnek@uiuc.edu
Head, Slavic & East European Library; Professor,  Library Administration.  PhD, University of California, Berkeley.  Russian/Central European bibliography, imperial Russian history (readership, popular culture), Slavic electronic publishing. Member of the Electronic Publishing Research Group.

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ROSS, JACQUELINE jeross1@law.uiuc.edu

Professor, Law. JD, University of Chicago. Criminal law and procedure evidence; comparative policing; organized crime and

undercover policing in Europe.

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SAUL, MAHIR m-saul@uiuc.edu

Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology.  PhD, Indiana University. Turkish culture.

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SCHRAD, MARK mlschrad@uiuc.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Alcohol policy in Russia, Sweden and the US; comparative politics; international law; environmental security in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

SINGER, CLIFF  csinger@uiuc.edu
Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering. PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Nuclear energy and security,  nuclear proliferation, missile defense, multilateral arms control, international relations.

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SOBOL, VALERIA  vsobol@uiuc.edu
Assistant Professor and Language Coordinator, Slavic Languages and Literatures.  PhD, Columbia University. 19th century Russian literature.

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SOFFER, OLGA o-soffer@uiuc.edu
Professo, Archaeology.  PhD, City University of New York.  Archaeology of the Old World (with emphasis on the prehistory of the former USSR and Eastern Europe); hunter-gatherer adaptations; anthropological and archaeological theory; paleoanthropology; Pleistocene ecology; archaeozoology.

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SROKA, MAREK msroka@uiuc.edu
Head, Slavic Cataloging; Associate Professor; Library Administration; and Librarian for Central European Studies.  MLS, University of Illinois.  Library science; Polish libraries, online catalogs, bibliographies.

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STEINBERG, MARK D.   steinb@uiuc.edu
Professor, History.  PhD, University of California at Berkeley.  Imperial Russian history, cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.

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STUART, MARY m-stuart@uiuc.edu
Professor, History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library.  PhD candidate, University of Illinois; MLS, University of Illinois.  Russian history, public library movements in Russia and the Soviet Union; comparative print culture; librarianship.

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SULLIVAN, HELEN F. hfsulliv@uiuc.edu
Manager, Slavic Reference Service.  MLS, University of Illinois.  Russian bibliography, reference, anthropology.

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SVOLIK, MILAN msvolik@uiuc.edu

Assistant Professor, Political Science. PhD, University of Chicago. Political economy; authoritarian regimes; politics of dictatorships; international organization, political institutions, formal political theory, political methodology.

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SWEET, ELIZABETH esweet1@uiuc.edu

Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning. PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago. Women and economic development in transitions; women's economic empowerment in Latin America and Russia.

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TEMPEST, RICHARD  rtempest@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Director, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center.  DPhil., Oxford University.  Nineteenth-century Russian literature, Chaadaev, Soviet youth, Bulgarian literature.

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THOMPSON, ROBERT rlt@uiuc.edu

Gardner Chair, Agricultural Policy. PhD, Purdue University. Agricultural trade policy and the WTO; trends in global agriculture; agricultural development in Ukraine.

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TIPEI, SEVER s-tipei@uiuc.edu

Professor, Composition-Theory. DMA (composition), University of Michigan. Composition; computer music and music formalization; Romanian music.

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TODOROVA, MARIA   mtodorov@uiuc.edu
Professor, History.  PhD, University of Sofia, Bulgaria.  19th and 20th century Balkan history; history of Bulgaria; nationalism; cultural images.

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WEECH, TERRY weech@uiuc.edu

Professor, Library and Information Science. PhD, University of Illinois. International and comparative librarianship; librarianship in East-Central Europe.

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YATES, RONALD  ryates@uiuc.edu

Professor, Journalism; Dean, College of Communications. Former foreign correspondent and senior writer/editor for the Chicago Tribune. International reporting. Journalism training in Eastern Europe.

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