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Faculty and Fellows in Slavic and East European Studies - 2011-2012

List of University of Toronto faculty and fellows associated with Slavic and East European studies.

DRAMA

Division of Humanities
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Tel. 416-287-7165
Research interests: Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe; biography of Czech writers and dramatists

ECONOMICS

Henryk Flakierski, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Economic reform and income distribution in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

ESTONIAN STUDIES

Juri Kivimäe, Chair of Estonian Studies
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2056
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Tel. 416-978-8471
e-mail: jkivimae@chass.utoronto.ca
Research interests: Baltic region, late medieval and modern periods

FILM STUDIES

Nikita Lary, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-736-2100, ext. 77113
Research interests: Comparative cultural studies, critical theory of the text and reception aesthetics, and theorization of literature-to-film adaptations

FINNISH STUDIES

Pia Paivio
Alumni Hall, Rm. 317
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300 x3603
e-mail: piamaria.paivio@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Finnish linguistics, literature, Finnish dialects, history of Finnish language and literature, bilingualism in Finland and bi(tri)lingual child language acquisition, Finnish folklore

GEOGRAPHY

James Bater, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Urban development in late imperial Russia; urban management in Russia in the 1990s; and economic development

HISTORY

Olga Andriewsky, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 705-748-1011, ext. 7835
Research interests: Russia as empire; national identity and imperial discourse; and Russian-Ukrainian relations
 
Robert Clegg Austin, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
e-mail: robert.austin@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Twentieth-century Albanian nationalism, interwar Albania, and media and transition in Albania and Kosovo

Wayne Dowler
Division of Humanities
University of Toronto at Scarborough 
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Tel. 416-287-7163
Research interests:  History of Russian conservatism in the 19th and early 20th centuries
 
Erich Haberer, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 519-884-0710, ext. 3594
Research interests: Germany, Third Reich, and Holocaust; Jewish, Russian and
Soviet history; fascism; communism
 
Robert Johnson
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8941
e-mail: johnson@chass.utoronto.ca
Research interests: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; social and economic questions
 
Thomas Lahusen
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8966
Research interests: 20th-century Russian cultural history, comparative literature, film studies
 
Paul Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Department of History
Medical Arts Building, Rm. 201
University of Toronto
170 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario
Tel. 416-978-3332
e-mail: ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
Research interests: East Central Europe; history of nationalism, particularly among ethnic groups living in border areas
 
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 905 525 9140, ext. 23905
Research interests: Post-Soviet Russian Far East
 
Andrew Rossos
Department of History
Northrop Frye Hall, Rm. 321
University of Toronto
73 Queen’s Park Crescent
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7
Tel. 416-585-4560
Research interests: Modern East Central Europe and Russia, nationalism, foreign relations; special emphasis on Macedonia
 
David Schimmelpenninck, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 905-688-5550 ext. 3507
e-mail: dschimme@brocku.ca
Research interests: 18th- and 19th-century Russian diplomatic, intellectual, cultural and military history

Alison K. Smith
Department of History
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2055
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Tel. 416-946-0968
e-mail: alison.smith@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Imperial Russia from the late 18th through the first half of the nineteenth century

Orest Subtelny, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-736-2100 ext. 77090
Research interests: Modern Ukrainian and Russian history
 
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
e-mail: f.sysyn@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Political thought and expressions of identity in early modern Ukrainian historiography
 
Lynne Viola
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-0976
Research interests: 20th-century Russia with a focus on political and social history

Piotr Wróbel
Department of History
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2088
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Tel. 416-946-0975
Research interests: Modern central Europe, Poland, national minorities

HUNGARIAN STUDIES

Robert Clegg Austin, Program Coordinator
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8942
e-mail: robert.austin@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Twentieth-century Albanian nationalism, interwar Albania, and media and transition in Albania and Kosovo

JEWISH STUDIES

Department of German
Odette Hall, Rm. 312
University of Toronto
50 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel: 416 926-2319
e-mail: anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; Jewish-Slavic cultural relations; Yiddish mass culture, theatre and music. 

LAW

Matthew Light
Centre for Criminology
University of Toronto
14 Queen's Park Crescent West
Toronto, Ontario  M5S 3K9
e-mail: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Migration control, individual rights, and policing in post-Soviet Russia

Yuri Luryi, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
email: yluryi@uwo.ca
Research interests: Russian constitutional law

MEDIAEVAL STUDIES

Martin Dimnik
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
University of Toronto
59 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C4
Tel. 416-926-7137
Research interests: History of Kievan Rus and the history of the Slavs in the Balkans during the Middle Ages

MUSIC

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Music and ideology in Russian culture of the 19th and 20th centuries

NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS 

Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
4 Bancroft Avenue
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1
Tel. 416-978-5190
Research interests: Turkish and Ottoman studies

Marie E. Subtelny
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
4 Bancroft Avenue
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1
Tel. 416-978-5245
e-mail: m.subtelny@utoronto.ca
Research interests: History of medieval Central Asia and Islam in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Union

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 905-828-3923
Research interests: International politics, particularly strategic studies; Russian and East European politics

Zsuzsa Csergo, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 613-533-6232
e-mail: csergo@queensu.ca
Research interests: Nationalism and the politics of ethnicity; Central and East European politics; majority-minority conflict and cooperation; the politics of language use; democracy and democratization; European integration.

Department of Political Science
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
Kaneff Centre - Room 229
Mississauga, OntarioL5L 1C6
Tel. 905-828-5203
Research interests: Marxism and political economy

Marta Dyczok, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 519 661-2111, ext. 84982
Research interests: International politics and history with focus on Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and specifically Ukraine; media migration; and post-communism

Barbara Falk, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel: 416-469-2686
Research interests: comparative public policy in post-communism (particularly social policy, gender, and history-as-policy, especially the Holocaust)

Sara Ginaite, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Social security reform in Lithuania and the economic dimension of the Holocaust in the Baltic States

Dejan Guzina, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 519-884-0710, ext.2225
Research interests: Nationalism and citizenship in the post-communist Balkans

Juliet Johnson, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Post-communist financial systems; Russian and Eastern European politics; democracy and the market; institutionalist theories; comparative politics; post-communist identity politics; and international political economy

Edith Klein, Program Advisor
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8962
Research interests: Politics of the Balkans, and more specifically on the successor states of ex-Yugoslavia; gender politics, community-based conflict resolution, and the impact of international presence in conflict zones

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8959
Research interests: Comparative politics; historical political economy; European politics

Sergei Plekhanov, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-736-2100 x46013
Research interests: Comparative ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet Union

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Research interests: Ukrainian Partisan Army and the Ukrainian underground

Department of Political Science
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
South Building - Room 3293
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Tel. 905-569-4260
Research interests: Social mobilization, identity politics, qualitative methods, former USSR, Central Asia
Department of Political Science
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 3048
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Tel. 416-978-1048
Research interests: Domestic politics in the Soviet Union and its successor states, especially nationality issues; comparative ethnic politics in industrialized states; ethnic politics in Canada, especially multiculturalism; ethnic self-identity and integration

Division of Political Science
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Tel. 416-208-4756
Research interests: European politics; the role of the European Union in continent-wide integration

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8943
Research interests: Judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia; courts, law and politics in authoritarian and transitional regimes; and the history of criminal justice in the USSR
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-287-7300
Research interests: Soviet politics and society, political and social theory, history and philosophy of social science

Division of Political Science
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Tel. 416-287-7321
Research interests: Regime change, hybrid regimes, weak states, fiscal and social reform, corruption, comparative politics of developing countries, and post-Communist politics

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 405
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3200
Research interests Czech literature, modern drama, semiotics of drama and theatre, literary theory, women writers, exile

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 425
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3146
Research interests: 20th-century Russian poetry (especially the work of Pasternak); Russian literary translation and modern language

Zahar Davydov, Visiting Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 406A
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3219 or 416-730-0169
Research interests: History of Russian literature and culture of the 18th to 20th centuries; history of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian literature

Kate Holland
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 419
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3484
e-mail: kate.holland@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Nineteenth century Russian literature and its historical, cultural and institutional contexts; history and theory of the novel; Russian and French literary and critical interactions; nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literary theory and criticism; the publication culture of the nineteenth century Russian periodicals; comparative theories of literature and folklore

Ann Komaromi
Centre for Comparative Literature
Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 1K9
Tel. 416-585-4525
e-mai: a.komaromi@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Late Soviet culture, Samizdat and Tamizdat, book history and print culture, theories of the author and the text

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 417
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3236
Research interests: Ukrainian and Russian literatures in the first half of the 19th century; national and cultural identity; modernism and avant-garde
 
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 415
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3221
e-mail: ce.kramer@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Slavic and Balkan synchronic linguistics, sociolinguistics, verbal categories, language and politics

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 407
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3143
Research interests: 19th and 20th-century Russian literature and culture, 19th- and 20th-century French literature and culture, literary and critical theory, comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies, Russian-Jewish cultural relations

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 413
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3217
Research interests: Language pedagogy, acquisition of Russian, language assessment tools, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, Slavic formal syntax, and history of the Russian language

Dragana Obradovic
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 427
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3354
e-mail: dragana.obradovic@utoronto.ca
Research interests:The literature of the former Yugoslavia; war literature and ethics; intellectual engagement; diaspora and exile; the essay

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 415
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3316
Research interests: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, 19th-century Russian fiction and thought

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 406B
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3392
Research interests: 20th-century Polish poetry; problems of modernity and postmodernity; Polish culture and counterculture; language methodology; translation theory and practice
 
Richard Pope, Fellow
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-736-5016
Research interests: Russian literature and culture; medieval Slavic literature and modern Russian literature
 
Joseph Schallert
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 409
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3246
Research interests: Balkan Slavic dialects, Slavic accentology

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 403
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3338
Research interests: the Ukrainian novel, Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi.

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 423
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3255
Research interests: 20th-century Polish literature; problems of modernity and postmodernity; discourse of identity; history and theory of drama and theatre; performance studies

SOCIOLOGY

Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, ON M5S 2J4
Tel. 416-978-3410
Fax 416-787-0795
Research interests: Ethnicity and race relations, macro-sociology, and political sociology

THEOLOGY

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
59 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 7291
Research interests: History, spirituality and theology of Eastern Christianity; monasticism; Russian theology
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