List of University of Toronto faculty and fellows associated with Slavic and East European studies by departmental or program affiliation.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Cassandra Hartblay
Department of Anthropology
19 Ursula Franklin Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2
e-mail: cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca
Research interests: cultural and medical anthropology, focusing on interdisciplinary intersections with disability studies, performance studies, critical design studies, and global postsocialism, with a regional focus on Russia and the Russian-speaking former Soviet Union.
ESTONIAN STUDIES
Andres Kasekamp, Elmar Tampold Chair of Estonian Studies
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
e-mail: andres,kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Europe (Baltic Sea Region); international relations; state, politics, and law.
FINNISH STUDIES
Anu Muhonen
Alumni Hall, Rm. 420B
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300 x3372
e-mail: anu.muhonen@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Multilingualism, language and identity, translanguaging, discourse, literacy, multilingual pedagogy, youth media, linguistic landscaping.
HISTORY
Robert Clegg Austin, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Room 128N
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: Traditional Justice in Albania; state and nation Building in the 19th- and 20th-century Balkans; Kosovo democratization.
Serhiy Bilenky, Sessional Lecturer
University of Toronto
e-mail: serh.bilenky@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Romantic nationalism in Eastern Europe; urban history, urban planning; history of intellectuals and education, especially in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland in the 19th century.
Paul Robert Magocsi, John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Department of History
Medical Arts Building, Rm. JH 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.
Alison K. Smith
Department of History
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2073
University of Toronto
100 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Tel. 416-978-2070
e-mail: alison.smith@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Imperial Russia from the late 18th through the first half of the nineteenth century.
Lilia Topouzova
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, CCT 3004
3359 Mississauga Rd. N
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
e-mail: lilia.topouzova@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Conflict, violence, and genocide.
Piotr Wróbel, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History
Department of History
Room MU 212N
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-0975
e-mail: piotr.wrobel@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Modern central Europe, Poland, national minorities.
HUNGARIAN STUDIES
Robert Clegg Austin, Program Coordinator
Room MU 128N
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
Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies
Sidney Smith Hall
2nd Floor, Rm 2068
Department of History
200 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Tel: 416-978-8483
e-mail: doris.bergen@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Europe; conflict, violence, and Genocide; gender, sex, and sexualities; religion and society.
Anna Shternshis
Jackman Humanities Building
2nd Floor, Rm 230F
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
170 St. George Street,
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Tel: 416-946-3210
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
Tel: 416-946-7419
e-mail: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Migration control, policing and criminal justice, and corruption, primarily in the post-Soviet region.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
T. Allan Smith
Tel. 416-926-7291
e-mail: allan.smith@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Early and medieval church history; Russian church history and theology; Eastern Orthodox spirituality; monasticism; 19th and 20th century Orthodox theology; Sergei Bulgakov; medieval Russian literature.
NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS
Victor Ostapchuk
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
4 Bancroft Avenue
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1
Tel. 416-978-5190
e-mail: v.ostapchuk@utoronto.ca
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 late antique and medieval Iran; classical Persian literature; Perso-Islamic mysticism; Arabic and Persian mirrors for princes; Persian manuscript studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aurel Braun
Room DV3275
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
e-mail: abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Research interests: International politics, particularly strategic studies; Russian and East European politics.
Richard B. Day
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
Kaneff Centre - Room 229
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Tel. 905-828-5203
e-mail: richardb.day@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Marxism and political economy.
Seva Gunitsky
Room SS 3052
Sydney Smith Hall
University of Toronto M5S 1J1
100 St George Street
Toronto, Ontatio M5S 1J1
Tel. 416-978-3346
e-mail: s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: External influences on democratization, democratic waves and diffusion, international relations theory.
Edward Schatz
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North
Room DV 3125A
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Tel. 905-828-5229
e-mail: ed.schatz@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Social mobilization, identity politics, qualitative methods, former USSR, Central Asia.
Lucan A. Way
Division of Political Science
Room MU 109N
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Pl.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7
Tel. 416-946-8945
e-mail: lucan.way@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Regime change, hybrid regimes, weak states, fiscal and social reform, corruption, comparative politics of developing countries, and post-Communist politics.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Jaroslav Skira
Regis College, Room 112
100 Wellesley St. W.
Toronto, ON M5S 2Z5
Tel. 416-922-5474
e-mail: jerry.skira@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Iconography, Eastern Orthodox theology, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communion ecclesiology.
Fr. Alexander Laschuk
Metropolitican Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto
81 St. Mary St.
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-7133
e-mail: alexander.laschuk@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Canonical tradition of the Christian East; introduction to the Eastern Churches.
Rev. Dr. Andrew Summerson
Metropolitican Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto
81 St. Mary St.
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-7133
e-mail: andrew.summerson@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Eastern Christian liturgical history and theology.
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Magdalena Cabaj
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 423
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
e-mail: magda.cabaj@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Polish studies in a comparative approach; relationships between contemporary philosophy and art; literary criticism; aesthetics; women, gender, and intersex studies.
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
Room Northrop Frye 234
Centre for Comparative Literature
Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 1K9
Tel. 416-585-4425
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.
Taras Koznarsky
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
e-mail: taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Ukrainian and Russian literatures in the first half of the 19th century; national and cultural identity; modernism and avant-garde.
Leonid Livak
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
e-mail: leo.livak@utoronto.ca
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.
Zdenko Mandusic
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 417
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
e-mail: zdenko.mandusic@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Russian and South Slavic film theory, national cinemas and film institutions; experimental film from Eastern Europe; cinematic authenticity and reality effects; the imaginary conceptualization of technology; East European art and culture after communism; the articulation of nationalism in literature and films; the influence of discourse on the production and reception of art.
Julia Mikhailova
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
e-mail: julia.mikhailova@utoronto.ca
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. 425
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.
Donna Orwin
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 421
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3316
e-mail: donna.orwin@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, 19th-century Russian fiction and thought.
Ana Petrov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alumni Hall, Rm. 419
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
e-mail: ana.petrov@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Languages in contact, language pedagogy, methodology of teaching foreign languages, discourse analysis, Slavic languages, literature and culture.
Tatiana Smoliarova
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. 3146
e-mail: tatiana.smolyarova@utoronto.ca
Research interests: Eighteenth- Early Nineteenth century Russian Literature and Culture (Literature and Art, Literature and Architecture, Literature and Performance); Poetry and Poetics; Comparative Literature; European Enlightenment and its Aftermath.
Maxim Tarnawsky
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
e-mail: tarn@chass.utoronto.ca
Research interests: the Ukrainian novel, Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi.
Tamara Trojanowska
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
e-mail: t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca
Research interests: 20th-century Polish literature; problems of modernity and postmodernity; discourse of identity; history and theory of drama and theatre; performance studies.
SOCIOLOGY
Robert Brym
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, ON M5S 2J4
Tel. 416-978-3410
Fax 416-787-0795
e-mail: rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca
Research interests: Ethnicity and race relations, macro-sociology, and political sociology.