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ANTHROPOLOGY

Bryan Hanks. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Old World Archeology, European Archeology
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittanth/faculty/hanks.html

Robert Hayden. Professor and REES Director
Ph.D., J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Political and Legal Anthropology, Ethnicity/Nationalism, Violence, Constitutionalism
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittanth/faculty/hayden.html

Gabriella Lukacs. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Mass Media, Media Globalization, Capitalism

BUSINESS

Lawrence Feick. Professor, Director, University Center for International Studies
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
International Marketing, Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior

Ravindranath Madhavan. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Corporate Strategy, Venture Capital, Dynamics of Globalization
http://www.pitt.edu/~ram115/
http://www.katz.pitt.edu/fac_pages/Madhavan.htm

Josephine Olson. Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
International Economics, Transition in Eastern Europe

Richard Wendell. Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Theory and Applications of Decision Technologies, International Business

ECONOMICS

Daniel Berkowitz. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Post-Socialist Transition Economies, Integration, Law and Development
http://www.pitt.edu/~dmberk/
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pbe136.htm

Svitlana Maksymenko. Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Temple University
Economies in Transition, Demographic Economics

EDUCATION

David Berman. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Comparative/International Education, Social Studies Education
http://www.education.pitt.edu/people/DavidBerman/

W. James Jacob
Acting Director, Institute for International Studies in Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Higher Education Management, International and Development Education

John Weidman. Professor and Director of Institute for International Studies in Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Comparative Education Policy, Program Evaluation, Higher Education and Employment
http://www.pitt.edu/~weidman/

ENGINEERING

Radisav Vidic. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Environmental Engineering, Former Yugoslavia
http://www.pitt.edu/~vidic/vidic.html
http://www.engr.pitt.edu/civil/about/faculty/vidic_radisav.html

GEOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES

William Harbert. Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Tectonics, Geology, Natural Resources, Russia, Eurasia
http://harbert.geology.pitt.edu/
http://www.pitt.edu/~harbert/U_grad_research/harbert.html

GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Amy Colin. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and European Literature
http://www.pitt.edu/~germanic/people/colin.html

HISTORY

William Chase. Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Soviet Political and Social History (Interwar Years), International Communist Movements, World Cities
http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/faculty/chase.html

Bob Donnorummo. Senior Research Associate and Associate Director, REES
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Russian and Polish History, Political/Economic Transition, Nationalism

Pinar Emiralioglu. Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
History of Islamic Civilization, Ottoman Empire

Orysia Karapinka. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Russian and West European History, Russian Social and Intellectual History
http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/faculty/karapinka.html

Arpad von Klimo
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Freie Universitat Berlin
Central European History, Nationalism

Irina Livezeanu. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Romania and Eastern Europe , Minorities and Nationalism, Intellectual and Cultural History
http://www.pitt.edu/~irinal/
http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/faculty/livezeanu.html

Natasha Margulis
Assistant Professor, Greensburg Campus
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
East European and Balkan History, the Habsburg Empire, the Holocaust, Contemporary Nationalism and National Identity

Anthony Novosel. Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Soviet and Russian History, Modern Northern Ireland, West European History
http://www.tnovosel.org/

HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Barbara McCloskey. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Twentieth Century German and European Art
http://www.haa.pitt.edu/faculty/mccloskey.html

LAW

Elena Baylis. Assistant Professor
J.D., Yale University
National Human Rights Institutions, International Post-Conflict Arbitration, Ethnic Conflict, Comparative Legal Process
http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/baylise.php

Ronald Brand. Professor and Director of Center for International Legal Education
J.D., Cornell Law School
International Business Transactions and Trade Law, Dispute Resolution, Transnational Litigation
http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/brandr.php

Anthony Infanti. Assistant Professor
LL.M., New York University; J.D., University of California
Federal Income Taxation, International Taxation
http://www.law.pitt.edu/infanti/
http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/infantia.php

Natalia Stepanova-Sipper. Adjunct Professor
LL.M., University of Pittsburgh
Comparative Analysis of Laws, Former Soviet Union

LINGUISTICS

Viktor Gotz. Instructor
M.S., University of Pittsburgh
Hungarian Language

Irene Strintzis. Instructor
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Modern Greek Language

MUSIC

Anna Nisnevich. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Historical Musicology, Russian Musical Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Music, Opera, Neoclassicism
http://www.music.pitt.edu/news/2006-nisnevich.html

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Jonathan Harris. Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Russian Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
http://www.pitt.edu/~politics/faculty/harris.html

Reinhard Heinisch. Associate Professor, Johnstown Campus
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Dd.Phil., University of Vienna
Labor Market Adaptation to European Integration, Organized Market Economies
http://www.pitt.edu/~heinisch/

Ronald Linden. Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Foreign Policy and Transition, Eastern Europe and Russia
http://www.pitt.edu/~politics/faculty/linden.html

Thomas McKechnie. Lecturer
M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Political Theory, European and U.S. Politics

Ilya Prizel. UCIS Research Professor of East European Studies
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Nationalism, European Union Expansion, Post-Soviet Politics

PSYCHOLOGY

Irene Hanson Frieze. Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Gender Studies, Women’s Employment, Work and Gender Roles in Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.pitt.edu/~frieze/

PUBLIC HEALTH

Richard Day. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Biostatistics, Public Health in Russia
http://www.biostat.pitt.edu/richday.htm

Linda Frank. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
HIV/AIDS Education for Health Professionals, HIV Clinical Capacity Building, Education Outcome Research
http://www.idm.pitt.edu/faculty/frank.html

PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Carolyn Ban. Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Human Resources and Administrative Reform in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Michael Brenner. Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
European Union Security and Reform, NATO, Euro-American Relations

Louise Comfort. Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Public Policy, Organizational Design and Theory, Disaster Management, Public Management

William Dunn. Professor and Director of Macedonia Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
International Relations and Government, Russia and Eastern Europe, Former Yugoslavia
http://www.pitt.edu/~dunn/

Donald Goldstein. Professor
Ph.D., University of Denver
Public Administration, Arms Control, National Security, Theory and Practice of International Affairs, Foreign Policy Process
http://www.pitt.edu/~goldy/

Stanley Kabala. Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
International Environmental Affairs, Culture and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

David Miller. Interim Dean and Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Political and Fiscal Decentralization, Political Culture, Regional Organizing of Local Governments

Simon Reich. Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Globalization Studies, Comparative Political Economy of Advanced Industrial States, Comparative Public Policy and Ideology, Global Norms

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Milica Bakic-Hayden. Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Orthodox Christianity, Female Monasticism, Mysticism, Sainthood, Serbian Language, Balkan Cultures, Indian Studies
http://www.pitt.edu/~relgst/faculty_mb.html

Alexander Orbach. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Russian and East European Jewry, History of Zionism and the State of Israel
http://www.pitt.edu/~relgst/faculty_ao.html

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Yuliya Basina. Lecturer
M.A., Columbia University
Small prose genres in 19th and early 20th century Russian literature, representation of visual arts in literary text, methodology of teaching Russian to Russian Heritage Learners.

David Birnbaum. Chair and Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Medieval Slavic Manuscript Studies, Slavic Linguistics, Humanities Computing
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.htm#birnbaum

Nancy Condee. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Contemporary Russian Culture, Cinema and Cultural Studies
http://www.pitt.edu/~filmst/faculty/condee.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.htm#condee

Kateryna Dowbenko. Instructor
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Ukrainian Language

Ljiljana Đurašković. Instructor
M.A., University of Montenegro
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) language instruction

Helena Goscilo. UCIS Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Cultural Studies: Gender, Material Culture, Art, Film, Literature, Music, Gesture

http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.htm#goscilo

Jane Gary Harris. Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture, Autobiography, Poetry, Journalism

Gerald McCausland. Lecturer, Russian Language Coordinator
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Russian Language, Literature, Culture and Film

Vladimir Padunov. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Russian and East European Cinema, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Politics of Culture
http://www.pitt.edu/~filmst/faculty/padunov.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.htm#padunov

Lenka Pankova. Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Comparative Slavic Literature, Myth and Mythology, The Devil and Occult Phenomena in Literature
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/pankova.doc

Oscar Swan. Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Polish Language, Linguistics, Computer-Aided Instruction
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.htm#swan

Martin Votruba. Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Comenius University
Slovak Language, Literature and Culture; West Slavic Linguistics
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/Votruba.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/faculty.html#votruba

SOCIOLOGY

John Markoff. Chair and Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
History of Democracy, Social Movements
http://www.pitt.edu/~jm2/
http://www.pitt.edu/~socdept/faculty/markoff.html

THEATRE ARTS

Bruce McConachie. Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
European and American theatre, Theatre Historiography
http://www.pitt.edu/~play/bruce.mcconachie.html

LIBRARY

Daniel Pennell. Bibliographer for Russian, East European, and Germanic Studies
M.L.S., M.A., Indiana University
Slavic and East European Collection Development, Balkan History

Brenda Carter. Slavic Cataloguer
M.L.S., University of Pittsburgh

Michael Lowery. Slavic Associate
B.A., University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

 

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