Faculty

Faculty by Department

Anthropology

Michael H. Crawford
Professor of Anthropology (MA and PhD, University of Washington)
Russian anthropology, Siberian populations, gerontology
crawford@ku.edu

Ivana Radovanovic
Associate Professor of Anthropology (MA and PhD, University of Belgrade)
Archaeology of Southeastern Europe
ivana@ku.edu

Arienne M. Dwyer
Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology (Ph.D. in Altaic and Chinese Linguistics, U Washington, 1996)
Linguistic anthropology of China and Central Asia; Uyghur; language ideology and language contact
arienne@ku.edu

Architecture

Wojciech Lesnikowski
Hatch Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (M.Arch., University of Krakow)
Architecture of Central Europe
acdesign@ku.edu

Marie Alice L'Heureux
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (PhD, University of California-Berkeley)
malheur@ku.edu

Business

Douglas C. Houston
Professor of Business (MBA and PhD, Indiana University)
International business, East Europe
dhouston@ku.edu

Economics

Dietrich H. Earnhart
Associate Professor of Economics (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Russian and East European economies, environment of Russia and East Europe
earnhart@ku.edu

Mohamed El-Hodiri
Professor of Economics (MA and PhD, Minnesota)
Director, Transition Studies Program
Economies in transition, Russian economy, resource allocation, budgetary training
melhodir@ku.edu

Education

Barbara Phipps
Associate Professor of Teaching & Leadership (MS Southern Illinois University, PhD Kansas State University)
Director, Center for Economic Education
Economics curricula development in transitional economies, comparative educational systems
phipps@ku.edu

Environmental Studies

Cynthia Annett
Research Associate Professor at Kansas State and Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center (MA San José State University, PhD University of California-Berkeley)
Ethnic ecology, marine biology, Siberia
annett@wildblue.net

Geography

Alexander C. Diener
Assistant Professor of Geography (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Geography of Eurasia, Central Asia, migration, transnationalism, and cultural geography of Islam
diener@ku.edu

Leslie Dienes
Professor Emeritus of Geography (MA University of British Columbia, PhD University of Chicago)
Geography of Eurasia and East Europe, energy resources, Russian oil resources
dienes@ku.edu

Shannon O'Lear
Associate Professor of Geography (PhD, Syracuse University)
Political geography of environmental issues, environmental security and vulnerability, political construction of scale, political geography of former Soviet republics, human dimensions of global change, political geography of communication
olear@ku.edu

History

John T. Alexander
Professor Emeritus of History (MA and PhD, Indiana University)
Modern Russian history, 18th century Russian history, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great
jatalex@ku.edu

Anna M. Cienciala
Professor Emerita of History (PhD, Indiana, 1962)
East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Poland from the partitions to the present and history of Communist nations
hanka@ku.edu

John W. Dardess
Professor Emeritus of History (MA and PhD, Columbia University)
Russia under the Tatar yoke, Mongol invasions
jdardess@ku.edu

Rose Greaves
Professor Emerita of History (MA and PhD, University of Kansas)
Great Powers in the Middle East

Jacob W. Kipp
Adjunct Professor of History (MA and PhD, Pennsylvania State University)
20th century Russian and East European history, Soviet and Russian military history
JacobKipp@cs.com

Eve Levin
Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Professor of History (MA and PhD, Indiana University)
Editor, The Russian Review
Russia before 1750 and the Orthodox Slavs of the Balkans in the premodern period
evelevin@ku.edu

Bruce W. Menning
Adjunct Professor of History (MA and PhD, Duke University)
Russian and Soviet military history
bmenning@aol.com

Norman E. Saul
Professor Emeritus (MA and PhD, Columbia University)
Modern Russian history, Russian-American relations
normsaul@ku.edu

Erik R. Scott
Assistant Professor of History (PhD, UC Berkeley)
Migration, diaspora, and empire in the Soviet Union
scott@ku.edu

David Stone
CREES Fellow
Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University (PhD, Yale University)
Soviet/Russian military history
stone@ksu.edu

Theodore A. Wilson
Professor of History (MA and PhD, Indiana University)
History of World War II, Cold War
tawilson@ku.edu

Nathaniel Wood
Associate Professor (PhD 2004, Indiana University)
19th and 20th Cent. Eastern Europe, Poland, modern Europe, urban and cultural history, the popular press. ndwood@ku.edu

Journalism

Thomas W. Volek
Associate Professor of Journalism (PhD, University of Minnesota)
Print and broadcast journalism, advertising finance and management in post-Soviet media
twvolek@ku.edu

Law

David J. Gottlieb
Professor of Law (JD, Georgetown University Law Center)
Director of Clinical Programs
Criminal law, legal reform in Ukraine and East Europe
gottlieb@ku.edu

Libraries

Jon Giullian
MLS, Indiana University
Watson Library
Bibliographer and East Slavic Librarian
giullian@ku.edu

Sally Haines
Spencer Library
Associate Special Collections Librarian
shaines@ku.edu

Geoffrey Husic
Librarian II, KU Libraries (MA University of Kansas, MLS University of Illinois)
Cataloguer and South Slavic Bibliographer
husic@ku.edu

Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
Czech Republic and East-Central Europe
brianrosenblum@gmail.com

Malgorzata Stamm
Library Assistant, KU Libraries (MA University of Kansas, MA Univ. of Warsaw)
Polish Language and Literature
mstamm@ku.edu

Linguistics

Stephen M. Dickey
Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, Indiana University)
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language and linguistics, Slavic aspect, structure of Russian and other Slavic languages
smd@ku.edu

Marc L. Greenberg
Professor and Acting Associate Dean for the Humanities (MA University of Chicago, PhD UCLA)
Slavic historical linguistics, South Slavic linguistics
mlg@ku.edu

Philosophy

Richard T. DeGeorge
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy (MA and PhD, Yale University)
Marxism and East European philosophy
degeorge@ku.edu

Physics

Professor Dave Z. Besson
High Energy - Experiment
zedlam@ku.edu

Political Science

Ronald A. Francisco
Professor of Political Science (MA and PhD, University of Illinois)
Protest and regime transition in East Europe, international political economy of East Europe
ronfran@ku.edu

Erik S. Herron
Professor of Political Science (MA and PhD, Michigan State) Comparative Political Institutions and Behavior, Former Soviet Union, Central and East Europe
eherron@ku.edu

Mariya Omelicheva
Acting Director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies(PhD, Purdue). Security policy, state security and human rights, human rights law, non-governmental actors.
omeliche@ku.edu

J. A. Piekalkiewicz
Professor Emeritus of Political Science (PhD, Indiana)
Politics of East Central Europe, ideocratic political systems
jpiek@ku.edu

Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

Gerald E. Mikkelson
Professor of Russian Language, Literature and Culture (MA and PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Russian language and literature, Pushkin, 20th century, Siberia, St. Petersburg
gemikk@ku.edu

Alexander Tsiovkh
Associate Professor of Practice (PhD, L'viv National University)
Ukrainian history, minority relations, political culture
alexukr@ku.edu

Mukaddes Sahin
Lecturer, Turkish
m231s449@ku.edu

Razi Ahmad (PhD, University of Arizona)
Lecturer, Tajik/Farsi
r.ahmad@ku.edu

Slavic Languages & Literatures

Maria Carlson
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, Indiana University)
Courtesy Professor of History
Russian culture, intellectual history, Slavic folklore, the Russian Silver Age
mcarlson@ku.edu

William J. Comer
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, University of California-Berkeley)
Russian language pedagogy, teaching technology, culture, religion
wjcomer@ku.edu

Ani Kokobobo
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, Columbia University)
Nineteenth-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkinv
akokobobo@ku.edu

Stephen J. Parker
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, Cornell University)
Russian and comparative literature, 19th century, Nabokov
sjp@ku.edu

Jonathan Perkins
Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, special graduate faculty (MA and PhD, University of Kansas)
Russian, Russian Culture, Slavic folklore, instructional technology
jperkins@ku.edu

Renee Perelmutter
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (MA and PhD, UC Berkeley)
Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.
Yiddish and Slavic morphosyntax and pragmatics, general and Jewish folklore, Jewish culture
rperel@ku.edu

Marta Pirnat-Greenberg
Instructor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (BA, University of Ljubljana)
Specialist in language pedagogy, Slovene, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.
mpg@ku.edu

Irina Six
Instructor, Russian Language (PhD, Russian University of Friendship of Peoples)
irinasix@ku.edu

Yaroslava Tsiovkh
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (PhD, Kyiv State University)
Ukrainian language
tsiovkh@ku.edu

Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (PhD, Saint Kliment Ochridski University)
Polish and Czech language
svk@ku.edu

Sociology

Eric A. Hanley
Associate Professor of Sociology (MA and PhD, UCLA)
Societies and sociology of politics of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
hanley@ku.edu

Mehranghiz Najafizadeh
Associate Professor of Sociology (PhD, University of Kansas)
Social change in 3rd world and Eurasia
najafizadeh@ku.edu

Elif Andac
Assistant Professor of Sociology (PhD, Washington)
State building processes, nationalism, ethnic and religious politics in the Balkans and the Middle East
andac@ku.edu

Theatre & Film

Dennis Christilles
Associate Professor of Theatre and Film (MA, Southwest Texas State University, PhD, University of Kansas)
Scenography, Eastern European Theatre and Drama
dchrist@ku.edu

John Staniunas
Associate Professor and Chair (BA and MFA, University of Arizona)
Eastern European Theatre and Drama
stanj@ku.edu