Russia: Faculty
Sheila Fitzpatrick [detailed CV]
Ph.D. Oxford University, 1969. Bernadotte E. Schmitt DistinguishedService Professor in Modern Russian History. Areas: Soviet social, cultural, and political history, especially the Stalin period.
Richard Hellie [detailed CV]
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1965. Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of History.
Areas: Russian history; Muscovite social, economic, and legal history; the Russian novel.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Kagan Arik
Assistant Professor in Central Asian Languages, History, and Civilization.
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Research interests: Turkic languages and cultures (Uzbek, Kazak, Kirghiz, Tatar), Anthropology of Central Asia, Shamanism, Traditional medicine of Central Asian nomads, Turkic oral literature, Anthropology of consciousness/healing.
Howard I. Aronson
Professor Emeritus of Slavic and General Linguistics.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature.
Research interests: The Prague structuralist analysis of grammatical categories in the Slavic languages (in particular Bulgarian) and in the languages of the Balkan Sprachbund. Georgian and Yiddish linguistics.
Robert Bird
Assistant Professor of Russian Literature.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature.
Research interests: Russian modernist literature and thought (Viacheslav Ivanov, Konstantin Balmont, Pavel Florensky, Sergei Bulgakov, Aleksei Losev, et al.). Contemporary aesthetic theory and hermeneutics, Russian spiritual history, Russian cinema and cinema theory.
John W. Boyer
Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History.
Department of History.
Research interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Political and Cultural History, particularly in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; Religion and Politics in Modern European History.
Stephen Clancy
Senior Lecturer. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research interests: Czech, Comparative West Slavic Linguistics, Old Church Slavonic,
and History of Czech.
Anna Lisa Crone
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research interests: Russian literature & intellectual history.
Robert Dankoff
Professor of Turkish and Islamic Studies.
Department of Near Eastern Civilisations & Languages.
Research interests: linguistic and literary topics related to the Ottoman Turkish texts and the earliest Islamic Turkish texts in Central Asia.
Bill J. Darden
Professor, Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics.
Research interests: Development of Balto-Slavic from Proto-Indo-European
Milton Ehre
Professor of Russian Literature
Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics.
Research Interests: Russian Literature - Ivan Goncharov, Nikolay Gogol, Isaac Babel and Anton Chekhov.
Cornell Hugh Fleischer
Kanuni SF Cleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies.
Department of History.
Research Interests: Middle Eastern studies, Ottoman history, Islamic history.
Victor Friedman
Professor, Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. Research interests: the grammatical categories (particularly the verb), language contact, and sociolinguistics (especially problems of variation and standardization) in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Languages include Albanian, Azeri, Bulgarian, Georgian, Greek, Lak, Macedonian, Romani, Romanian, Russian, the former Serbo-Croatian, Tadjik, Turkish, Vlah (Arumanian & Megleno-Romanian).
Paul Friedrich
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought, and Associate in Slavics.
Research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European, and American poetry. His current work is divided between anthropology and literary studies and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics
Susan Gal
Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences.
Research interests: the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and gender, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary Eastern Europe and post socialism generally. Her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction.
Walter Kaegi
Professor of History.
Research Interests: Byzantine and Late Roman Political, Social, Military and Religious Structure; Historiography; European Military History and Strategy; Byzantino-Islamic History.
James Allen Leitzel
Senior Lecturer, Public Policy Committee and Department of Economics.
Research interests: economics of transition, policy reform, microeconomic theory, law and Economics
John Mearsheimer
Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Program on International Security Policy.
Research Interests: international relations and security.
Robert S. Nelson
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations.
Research interests: central and eastern Mediterranean culture during the Middle Ages. His most recent work in this area has concerned the semiotics of writing and ornament; politically symbolic visual narratives; and culturally constructed notions of vision.
John Perry
Professor of Persian, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations.
Research Interests: Persian linguistics and language history, cultural history of Iran and the Middle East.
Nada Petkovic-Djordjevic
Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research Interests: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian languages
Valentina Pichugina
Senior Lecturer in Russian Language, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Research interests: history of the Russian language, Old Church Slavonic, Word-formation, Etymology, Medieval Russian literature and music, Russian folklore, sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Russian cinema
Bohena Shallcross
Associate Professor of Polish Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and literatures.
Research interests; representation of objects in contemporary Polish literature, Polish women and their artistic production.
Adam Thomas Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Research interests: Archaeology, Bronze Age/Iron Age complex societies, politics, space and landscape, aesthetics; Transcaucasia, southwest Asia, Eurasia.
Malyanne Sternstein
Assistant Professor of Czech & Russian Literature.
Department of Slavic Languages and literatures.
Research Interests: Czech, Russian and Central European Studies; The European Avant-Garde; Semiotic Theory; Performance Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Aesthetic Theory (Kitsch); Narratology; History of Ideas
Yuri Tsivian
Professor in Art History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research interests: film history, theory and semiotics. Russian silent film and twentieth century Russian culture.
Robert W. Vishny
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business. Research interests: privatization and the role of government in the economy; behavior of institutional investors; behavior of stock prices; the economics of corruption and rent-seeking behavior.
John E. Woods
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Research interests: Islamic history, Iranian history, Central and South Asian history, Middle Eastern Studies.
Valery Yakubovich
Assistant Professor of Organizations & Strategy.
Graduate School of Business.
Research interests: Russian labor market, economic sociology, organizations and social stratification.
Tara Zahra
Assistant Professor of Eastern European History.
Department of History.
Research interests: Modern Europe; Eastern and Central Europe;
Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration.