UCIS     University Center for International Studies

Bryan Hanks. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Old World Archeology, European Archeology

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

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

David W. Montgomery. Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Religion and Society

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

Josephine Olson. Professor and Director, International Business Center
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

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Olga Kuchinskaya. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Rhetoric of Science, Media Technologies, Media and Global Nature/Culture

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Daniel Berkowitz. Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Post-Socialist Transition Economies, Integration, Law and Development
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Svitlana Maksymenko.Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Temple University
Economies in Transition, Demographic Economics

Irina Murtazashvili. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Theoretical and Applied Econometrics

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David Berman. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Comparative/International Education, Social Studies Education

W. James Jacob
Assistant Professor and 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 Chair, Administrative and Policy Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Comparative Education Policy, Program Evaluation, Higher Education and Employment

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Radisav Vidic. Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Environmental Engineering, Former Yugoslavia

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William Harbert. Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Stanford University
Tectonics, Geology, Natural Resources, Russia, Eurasia

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Amy Colin. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies and European Literature

Alton Post. Instructor
Indo-European Folk Tales, Sci-Fi East and West

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William Chase. Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Soviet Political and Social History (Interwar Years), International Communist Movements, World Cities

Bob Donnorummo. Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Russian and Polish History, Political/Economic Transition, Nationalism

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

Sean Guillory. UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Russian / Soviet History, Youth Movements, Social and Cultural Theory

Charles Hier. Instructor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
History of Soviet Union, Russian Revolution

Irina Livezeanu. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Romania and Eastern Europe, Minorities and Nationalism, Intellectual and Cultural History

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

Gregor Thum. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., European University Viadrina
Modern German and Central European History, Polish-German Relations, Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, Forced Migration

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Christopher Drew Armstrong. Assistant Professor and Director, Architectural Studies
PhD, Columbia University
Modern Art and Architecture in Europe and North America

Barbara McCloskey. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Twentieth Century German and European Art

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Peter Brusilovsky. Associate Professor
Ph.D., Moscow State University
Human-Computer Interaction and Information Science

Martin Weiss. Professor and Associate Dean
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Telecommunication Policy, Cost Modeling, Spectrum Markets

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Elena Baylis. Associate Professor
J.D., Yale University
National Human Rights Institutions, International Post-Conflict Arbitration, Ethnic Conflict, Comparative Legal Process

Ronald Brand. Professor and Director, Center for International Legal Education
J.D., Cornell Law School
International Business Transactions and Trade Law, Dispute Resolution, Transnational Litigation

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

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Andrea Dankone-Barna. Instructor
M.A., Kossuth Lajos University
Hungarian Language

Ilknur Lider. Instructor
M.P.I.A., University of Pittsburgh
Turkish Language

Areti Papanastasiou. Instructor
ABD, University of Chicago, M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Modern Greek Language

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

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Adriana Helbig. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Ethnomusicology, Roma Music, Ukraine, Eastern Europe

Anna Nisnevich. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Historical Musicology, Russian Musical Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Music, Opera, Neoclassicism

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Jonathan Harris. Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Russian Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Andrew Konitzer. Adjunct Associate Professor and REES Associate Director
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Electoral Institutions, Party Politics, Voting Behavior, Gederalism in Post-Communist States

Ronald Linden. Professor and Director, European Studies Center / European
Union Center of Excellence
Ph.D., Princeton University
Foreign Policy and Transition, Eastern Europe and Russia

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

B. Guy Peters. Maurice Falk Professor of American Government
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Comparative Politics, Comparative Public Administration

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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

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Richard Day. Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Biostatistics, Public Health in Russia

Linda Frank. Associate Professor and Director, MPH-IDM
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
HIV/AIDS Education for Health Professionals, HIV Clinical Capacity Building, Education Outcome Research

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

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

William Dunn. Professor and Associate Dean
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
International Relations and Government, Russia and Eastern Europe, Former Yugoslavia

Muge Finkel. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Comparative Social Policy, Poverty and Global Economy

Ilia Murtazashvili. Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Comparative Political Economy, Property Rights, Policy Analysis, Public Law

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Public Management, International Development and Comparative Politics

Charles Skinner, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
European affairs, U.S. foreign policy, diplomacy

Phil Williams, Professor, Director of the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Ph.D., University of Southampton
Security Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism

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Milica Bakic-Hayden. Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Orthodox Christianity, Female Monasticism, Mysticism, Sainthood, Serbian Language, Balkan Cultures, Indian Studies

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Yuliya Basina. Lecturer
M.A., Columbia University
Russian Language and Literature

David Birnbaum. Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Harvard University
Medieval Slavic Manuscript Studies, Slavic Linguistics, Humanities Computing

Nancy Condee. Associate Professor and Director, Global Studies Program
Ph.D., Yale University
Contemporary Russian Culture, Cinema and Cultural Studies

Nataliya DiDomenico. Instructor
M.A., Temopil State Pedagogical University
Ukrainian Language

Ljiljana Đurašković. Instructor
M.A., University of Montenegro
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) Language, Slavic Linguistics

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

Vladimir Padunov. Associate Professor and Associate Director, Film Studies Program
Ph.D., Cornell University
Russian and East European Cinema, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Politics of Culture

Jonathan Brooks Platt. Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Pushkin, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Culture, Philosophy and Theory.

Oscar Swan. Professor and DIrector, Summer Language Institute
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Polish Language, Linguistics, Computer-Aided Instruction

Martin Votruba. Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Comenius University
Slovak Language, Literature and Culture; West Slavic Linguistics

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John Markoff. Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
History of Democracy, Social Movements

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Bruce McConachie. Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
European and American theatre, Theatre Historiography

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Daniel Pennell. Slavic Bibliographer
M.L.S., M.A. (History), 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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