Box 353420 ivetag@uw.edu https://scandinavian.washington.edu/people/iveta-grinberga

Foreign language competence: Czech, Latvian, Russian
Research Interests: Applied linguistics, Second language Acquisition, Teaching Latvian as a Second Language; Stylistics
Recent courses: Elementary Latvian, Latvian Literary and Cultural History, Latvian Literature, Second Year Latvian, Supervised Reading in Latvian
Recent publications:

• Latvian for Czech. Elementary Level. Publishing House of Carolina University (forthcoming).
• Come with Us! Intermediate (Latvian for Foreigners) Student's book, activity book, teacher's book, audiocassette. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2002.
• Come with Us! Pre-intermediate (Latvian for Foreigners) Student's book, activity book, teacher’s book, audiocassette. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2000.
• Come with Us! Elementary (Latvian for Foreigners) Student's book, activity book, teacher’s book, audiocassette. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1999.

Box 353530 206-543-0675 ingie@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/scand/faculty/ingebritsen.shtml

Foreign language competence: Danish, French, Norwegian, Swedish
Research Interests: Scandinavian Foreign Policy, EU, Political Economy, Security, Environment
Recent courses: Environmental Norms in International Politics, Europe Today, International Political Economy & Scandinavia, Scandinavia in World Affairs
Recent publications:

• Scandinavia in World Politics Lanham:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
• Small States in International Relations edited by Ingebritsen, Neumann, Gstohl and Beyer, Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 2006.
• Co-editor (with Sabrina Ramet), Coming in from the Cold War. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
• "When Do Culture and History Matter? A Response to Neumann and Tilikainen," Cooperation and Conflict (Spring, 2001): 431-435.
• "Europeanization and Cultural Identity: Two Worlds of Eco-Capitalism," Scandinavian Studies, 73:1 (Spring 2001): 63-76.

Box 353600 206 685 7562 stkerr@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/stkerr/vita.htm

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Education in Russia and Former USSR; New Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Recent courses: Russian Education & Society
Recent publications:

• "The experimental tradition in Russian education," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):102-128.
• "Demographic change and the fate of Russia's schools: The impact of population shifts on educational practice and policy," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):153-175.
• Canning, M., Bentley, M., Vasil'ev, K., Godfrey, M., Kerr, S., Creighton, J., Markov, A., Frumin, I., & Holtzer, D.  (2004).  Модернизация российского образования: Достижения и уроки.  (The modernization of Russian education: Achievements and lessons.)  Washington, DC:  The World Bank.
• "Old technologies in new contexts: Print media and Russian education," in A. DeVaney, S. Gance, & Y. Ma, eds., Technology and resistance: Decentralized communications and new coalitions around the world. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• "When the center cannot hold: The devolution and evolution of power, authority, and responsibility in Russian education," in T. S. Popkewitz, ed., Educational knowledge: Changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.
• Kerr, S. T., & Sahlberg, P.  (1994).  "Curriculum and curriculum change in the schools of the Russian Federation."  In S. Heyneman et al., Russian Education in the Transition -- Final Report.  Washington, DC: World Bank.

Box 353420 206-543-0643 akn@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/akn/

Foreign language competence: Danish, English, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish
Research Interests: Finnish Culture and Language, Scandinavian Cinema, Scandinavian Crime Novels, Scandinavian Popular Culture
Recent courses: Kalevala and the Epic Tradition, Scandinavian Cinema, Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Recent publications:

• Nestingen ed. and Elkington ed.; Grant, Barry Keith ed. "Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition," Contemporary Film and Television Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2005.
• Nestingen Andrew ed. "In Search of Aki Kaurismaki: Texts and Contexts," Journal of Finnish Studies 8.2 (2004).
• Rees, Ellen. "Timely Subjects: Leen Krohn Between Universal and Particular," Scandinavian Studies 76.3 (2004): 75-98.
• "Timely Subjects: Leena Krohn, Temporalities, and Gender". In Ellen Rees, Ed., Scandinavian Women’s Writing: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Forthcoming Camden House, 2002.

Box 353340 206-616-9377 pfaff@u.washington.edu http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=pfaff

Foreign language competence: German
Research Interests: Historical and Comparative Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements
Recent courses: Sociological Theory
Recent publications:

• Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2006).
• Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory, contributing editor. 2nd Edition, with Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, and Indermohan Virk.  (Cambridge: Blackwell’s Press, 2007).  (also 1st Edition, 2002).
• “The Religious Divide: Why Religion seems to be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe”, in J. Kopstein and S. Steinmo (Eds.), Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century,  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• “The Lives of Others: East Germany Revisited?” German Historical Institute Bulletin 41: (2007) 110-116.

Box 353420 206-616-5224 guntiss@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/scand/faculty/smidchens.shtml

Foreign language competence: Estonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian
Research Interests: Baltic Languages, History and Culture, Folklore and Nationalism
Recent courses: Baltic Cultures, Baltic History, Baltic States & Scandinavia, Folk Narrative, Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore, Introduction to Folklore Studies, New Directions in Baltic Studies, Special Topics in Scandinavian Literature, Special Topics: The Singing Revolution (Estonia)
Recent publications:

• The Baltic Singing Revolution, and the Cultural Roots of Nonviolent Political Action (in progress).  
• “Estonian Poetry” (1300 words) and “Latvian Poetry" (1400 words) for Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.  (forthcoming)
• “My Motorcycle,” 19 poems by Imants Ziedonis, translated into English by Guntis Šmidchens, Latvian Literature #7 (2008): 5-38.  
• "National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Non-Violent Political Action"  Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 66,3 (Fall 2007): 484-508.  
• “Notes on the Latvian National Epic Hero, Lāčplēsis”,  Journal of Folklore Research 43,3 (2006): 271-280.  
• "Folklorism Revisited," Journal of Folklore Research 36,1 (1999): 51-70.  Reprinted in Alan Dundes, ed., Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 1: From Definition to Discipline (New York: Routledge, 2005).  
• Executive Producer. "Baltic Studies Summer Institute." Videocassette. BALSSI Consortium, 2004.
• Translation from Latvian to English. "Latvian Bourdon Songs." Baltic Voices: Harmonia Mundi 1.907311 (2003).

Box 353420 206-685-1420 ausrav@uw.edu http://scandinavian.washington.edu/people/ausra-valanciauskiene

Foreign language competence: Lithuanian
Research Interests: February 2011 Course "Non-traditional Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Relaxopedia". Institute of Foreign Languages at Vilnius University, Lithuania 2006-2008 Course "Language Testing Theory and Practice". Institute of Foreign Languages at Vilnius University, Lithuania 2003-2008 Participating in ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) seminars and conferences about language teaching and testing. Conferences were organized twice per year in different countries: Portugal, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark and Lithuania

Box 353740 kepearce@uw.edu http://www.katypearce.net/

Foreign language competence: Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Recent publications:

Box 353130 206-543-1510 brandl@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/brandl/Site/..html

Foreign language competence: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Research Interests: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology & Pedagogy. German, Teacher Training, Computer Assisted Language Learning
Recent courses: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology
Recent publications:

• Communicative Language Teaching in Action, (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008).
• “Are You Ready to ‘MOODLE’?” Language Learning & Technology, 9.2 (2005): 16-23.
• “Integrating Internet-based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-centered Approaches.” Language Learning & Technology 6.3 (2002): 87-107.  

Box 353560 206-543-6924 eicampb@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=C-32

Foreign language competence: English, French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Imperial Russia, Historiography, History and Memory, Empire, Religion and Nationalism in late Imperial Russia
Recent courses: Imperial Russia:1700-1900, The Russian Empire and Nationalism
Recent publications:

• “The ‘Muslim Question’ in Late Imperial Russia,” in Geographies of Empire: Ruling Russia, 1700-1930, edited by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatoly Remnev, (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, forthcoming).
• “Ethno-confessional Problems, Identities, New Ideologies and Russian Nationalities Policy: The Second Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century”, «Волго-Уральский регион как внутренняя окраина», a curricular development project: Russian Imperial Borderlands, Sponsored by the Soros Foundation, Moscow, [in Russian], (forthcoming).
• “The Autocracy and the Muslim Clergy in the Russian Empire (1850s-1917)”, Russian Studies in History, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2005, pp. 8-30.
• “Russians or Tatars? The Imperial View on the Problem of Cultural Dominance in the Russian Eastern Borderlands: Second Half of the 19th Century - Beginning of the 20th century”, Страницы Российской истории. Проблемы, события, люди. Сборник статей в честь Б.В. Ананьича, Petersburg, 2003, pp. 85-94, [in Russian].

Box 353120 206-543-9963 icirt@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, German, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek
Research Interests: Comparative Turkic Studies, Turkic Languages & Literatures, Central Asian Languages
Recent courses: Central Asia Through the Eyes of Travelers, Central Asia through the Eyes of Western Travelers of the 19th/20th Centuries, Central Asian Country Profiles I: 20 Years of Independence - Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan, Folktales Along the Silk Road, Introduction to Central Asian Turkic Literature in Translation, Memoirs as Sources for the Recent History of Central Asia, ntroduction to Central Asian Turkic Literature in Translation, Oral Literature of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia I: the Heroic Epos, Role of the Elders in Central Asian Turkic Society, The Kyrgyz Writer Chingiz Aitmatov in Central Asian and Global Context, Turkic Peoples of Central Asia, Writers & Intellectuals of Central Asia Under Russian Colonialism, Writers and Intellectuals of Central Asia Under Soviet Colonialism
Recent publications:

• Uzbek Short Stories. (forthcoming)
• Concise Uzbek Grammar. (forthcoming)  

Box 353950 206-543-8512 markcaro@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/uwdrama/people/faculty_jenkins.shtml

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Stanislavski System for Actors, Acting and Directing Programs
Recent publications:

• All Powers Necessary and Convenient, a play about the 1948 Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Communism in Washington State, popularly known as the Canwell Committee.  UW Press, 2000.
• Directed Long Day’s Journey Into Night in Russian for Chamber Drama Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia.
• Presentation "Stanislavski’s influence in America tracing it from the Moscow Art Theatre’s 1923 visit to the U.S. through the Group Theatre’s work in the 1930’s," Vladivostok, Russia.

Box 353600 206 685 7562 stkerr@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/stkerr/vita.htm

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Education in Russia and Former USSR; New Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Recent courses: Russian Education & Society
Recent publications:

• "The experimental tradition in Russian education," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):102-128.
• "Demographic change and the fate of Russia's schools: The impact of population shifts on educational practice and policy," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):153-175.
• Canning, M., Bentley, M., Vasil'ev, K., Godfrey, M., Kerr, S., Creighton, J., Markov, A., Frumin, I., & Holtzer, D.  (2004).  Модернизация российского образования: Достижения и уроки.  (The modernization of Russian education: Achievements and lessons.)  Washington, DC:  The World Bank.
• "Old technologies in new contexts: Print media and Russian education," in A. DeVaney, S. Gance, & Y. Ma, eds., Technology and resistance: Decentralized communications and new coalitions around the world. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• "When the center cannot hold: The devolution and evolution of power, authority, and responsibility in Russian education," in T. S. Popkewitz, ed., Educational knowledge: Changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.
• Kerr, S. T., & Sahlberg, P.  (1994).  "Curriculum and curriculum change in the schools of the Russian Federation."  In S. Heyneman et al., Russian Education in the Transition -- Final Report.  Washington, DC: World Bank.

Box 352195 206-685-3809 bkolko@u.washington.edu http://www.hcde.washington.edu/kolko

Foreign language competence: Portuguese, Uzbek
Research Interests: Information and Communications Technologies for Development and Design; Central Asia
Recent publications:

• “Resistance to Globalization: Language and Internet Diffusion Patterns in Uzbekistan,” co-authored with Wei, C., The New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 11:2, 2005, pp. 205-220.
• “Localization of Digital Games: The Process of Blending for the Global Games Market”, co-authored with Thayer, A., Technical Communication 51:4, 2004, pp. 477-488.
•  "Internet Use in Uzbekistan: Developing a Methodology for Tracking Information Technology Implementation Success," co-author with C. Wei and J.H. Spyridakis.  Information Technologies and International Development, 1, 2 (2003): 1-19.
• Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age, editor and Introduction, (NY: Columbia University Press, 2003).
• International IT Implementation Projects: Policy and Cultural Considerations. Proceedings from the annual IEEE IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 2002.
• Race in Cyberspace, eds. Kolko, B.E., Nakamura, L., and Rodman, G. B., (Routledge: New York, 2000).

Box 353120 206-616-5616 tmawkan@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: Azeri, Chagahatai, Chinese, English, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvin, Uyghur, Uzbek
Research Interests: Central Asian Turkic Languages and Cultures, Language Pedagogy
Recent courses: \, Advanced Uighur, Advanced Uzbek, Comparative Muslim Societies in Central Eurasia, Elementary Kazakh, Elementary Uygur, Independent Study - Advanced Tajik, Intensive Elementary Uighur, Intermediate Kazak, Intermediate Uighur, Introduction to Central Eurasia, Introduction to Kazakh, Introduction to Shamanism, Introduction to Uygur, Islam and Muslims in China, Muslims in Central Asia, Peoples and Cultures of Central and Inner Asia, Special Studies in Turkic Languages, Supervised Study: Uighur, The Middle East and Central Asia, TKIC Intermediate Kazak
Recent publications:

• "Language Choice in a Kazak Community at Xinjiang University in Urumchi", in Journal of Turkic Languages, forthcoming.
• "Nineteenth Century Kazak Correspondence with Russian Authorities: Morphemic Analysis and Historical Contextualization", co-author (with Virginia Martin), Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 8 (1), 21-28, Spring 2009
• “Advanced Interactive Listening in Kazak”, Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
• “An Introductory Course in Uyghur” Book one and two, with CD-ROM, at the Center for Languages of Central Asian Regions, Indiana University, 2006
• "Resources for the teaching and learning of Kazak, Kirgiz, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek languages" (Preliminary Draft), Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
•  Jungar Tuvan Texts, Uralic and Altaic Series, Bloomington: Indiana University, 2005.
• Tujue bijiao yuyan xue (Comparative Turkic Linguistics), co-authored (Urumchi: Xinjiang People's Publishing House, 1997).
• Hazirqi zaman Uyghur tili grammatiksi (A Grammar of Modern Uyghur Language) co-authored (Urumchi: Xinjiang People's Publish House, 1996).

Box 353650 206-979-1814 scottlm1@comcast.net

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Global Demographic Change and the Future of Energy; Energy Development and Politics in Central Asia; Nuclear Power and Climate Change Post-Fukushima; Issues and realities related to English as a Global Language; Pre-modern science (Egypt, Babylonia, India, Greece, China, Islam) and its impact on the Scientific Revolution; role of political, economic, and scientific ideas in building the modern world; Translation and language in science; Democracy, evangelical religion, and science

Box 353200 616-3160 vitaly@uw.edu http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/facultyresearch/facultyprofiles/Lists/Faculty%20Contact%20Info/DispProfile.aspx?ID=99

Foreign language competence: English, Russian
Research Interests: Teambuilding, Cross-cultural Management, International Business Negotiation
Recent publications:

• Business education in Kyrgyzstan. Training & Management, December, 2002. p. 43.
• Strategic Management and Business Planning: Training materials, 2nd Edition, Bishkek, 2002.
• Management and Organization: Training Materials, Bishkek, 2002.
• The State-Business Relations: Kyrgyzstan 2000, ARD/Checci (USAID), Bishkek, 2001.
• Management of Education, School Management Financial Management, ADB-Fontys: Bishkek, 1999.
• Cognitive Approach to the Design of Management Training Program, The Nature of University Education and Research (Annual Conference Proceeding), Bishkek: AUK, 1999.
• Political System of Kyrgyz Republic, August 1999, UNDP, Bishkek, 1999.

Box 354900 206-616-2850 pearce@u.washington.edu http://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/diana-pearce

Foreign language competence: Turkish, Uzbek
Research Interests: Social Work, Poverty & Inequality, Social Work & Women's Studies - Gender & Inequality in the Global Context (with emphasis on Central Asia), Poverty Measurement
Recent courses: Gender Inequalities in the Global Context
Recent publications:

• “Biography of Molly Orshansky”, Encyclopedia of Gender, forthcoming.
• “Women’s Lives in Central Asia: Contemporary Issues”, AAUW, Redmond, WA (Feb, 2008).
• Introduction, Child Poverty in America Today,  Barbara A. Arrighi and David J. Maume, eds. (Praeger, 2007).
• “When Work is Not the Answer:  New Challenges for the Millennium”, Families in Society (Fall, 2007).
• Chair, Session “Gender Issues in Central Asia:  Empirical Studies in Uzbekistan,” Central Eurasian Studies Society, 5th Annual Conference, Indiana University (Bloomington) (October 2004).
• "Report to NOVIB-OXFAM on Activities and Situation of Women's NGOs in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan: Efforts and Effects on the Issue of Violence Against Women," co-authored with Nodira Azmimova, Sociology Center Sharhva Tavsiya and National University of Uzbekistan, 2002.

Box 353650 543-2467 srad@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/srad/

Foreign language competence: Russian, Uzbek
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Former Soviet Union, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Contentious Politics, Ethnic Identity and Conflict, Informal Networks, Democratization
Recent courses: Bibliography and Research Methods, Contemporary Central Asia Politics, Democracies and the Interantional Security System, Failed States, Making of the 21st Century, Post-Soviet Security, Readings in Intl Studies: Social Movements and Revolutions
Recent publications:

• “The Color of Money: Privatization, Economic Dispersion, and the Post-Soviet ‘Revolutions,’” Comparative Politics, forthcoming, January 2010.
• “Weighing the Political and Economic Motivations for Migration in Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Uzbekistan,” Europe-Asia Studies 58(5), July 2006 (lead article): 653-677.
• “Look Who’s Talking! Islamic Discourse in the Chechen Wars,” Nationalities Papers 34(2) May 2006: 237-256.
• “What Really Happened in Kyrgyzstan?” Journal of Democracy 17(2), April 2006: 132-146.
• “Networks, Localism, and Mobilization in Aksy, Kyrgyzstan,” Central Asian Survey 24(4), December 2005: 405-424.

Box 353330 206-543-7463 haideh@u.washington.edu http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/haideh/

Foreign language competence: Persian
Research Interests: Principles of Microeconomics; Principles of Macroeconomics; International Trade
Recent courses: International Trade
Recent publications:

• "A New Course in the Economics of Central Asia at the University of Washington", co-authored with George Wright, Central Eurasian Studies Review, 4.1 (2005): 68-70.
• "The Dilemma of Reforming Economics Education in the Post-Socialist Economy of Uzbekistan: Has Anything Changed?" with Judith Thornton, The Central Asian Survey, 1998, Volume 17, No. 2, pp. 253-265.

Box 353330 206-543-5784 thornj@u.washington.edu http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/detail.asp?uid=thornj

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Economics, Eonomics of Developing and Transition Economies, Comparative Economic Systems
Recent courses: Analysis of the Transforming Socialist Economies, Comparative Economic Systems, Economic Transformation of Russia and Eastern Europe
Recent publications:

• “Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China,” with Elliott Parker (December 2007) Comparative Economic Studies  Vol  49: 514-542.
• "Incentives and Performance of Russian Regional Government Officials" presented at Institutional Change in Russia and China RCIE, 2003.
• Editor of special issue Comparative Economics Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) “Economic Development of Pacific Russia”.
• “Sakhalin Energy: Problems and Prospects” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 9-32.
• “Institutional and Structural Change in Pacific Russia,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 1-8.
• Russia’s Far East; Region at Risk; (edited with Charles Ziegler) University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Surveying Foreign Assisted Businesses in the Russian Far East and Western US (with Nadezhda Mikheeva) Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation, September 1996.
• Effects of Soviet Political Fragmentation on the Energy Infrastructure, (with Richard Cohen, Gregory Gleason, Richard Staar) U.S. Dept of Energy, OFI, July 1992.

Box 353580 206-543-7580 jos23@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/alaniz/

Foreign language competence: Czech, Italian, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, Death & Dying Studies, Comics, Film, Modern and Post-Soviet Russian Literature & Culture, Eco-criticism
Recent courses: Andrei Tarkovsky (1932 - 1986), Disability in Russian Culture (Topics - Russian Lit., Cult. & Hist.), Modern Czech Literature in English, Post-Soviet Russian Cinema, Russian and East European Animation, Russian and East European Cinema, Russian Literature & Culture - 20th Century, Slavic Resources, The Birth of the Soviet Union
Recent publications:

• Komiks:  Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi) (forthcoming 2010).
• “Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov’s ‘Russian Ark’” in Sokurov anthology, ed. Birgit Beumers & Nancy Condee, forthcoming 2009.
• “Vision and Blindness in Alexander Sokurov’s ‘Father and Son’” in Fathers and Sons Onscreen, ed. Helena Goscilo & Yana Hashamova, accepted for publication, 2008, manuscript pages: 38.  
• “‘I Want’: Women in Post-Soviet Russian Comics” in Ulbandus, No. 10, November, 2008.
• “‘Nature’, Illusion and Excess in Sokurov’s ‘Mother & Son’” in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol. 2, No. 2, May, 2008.

Box 353580 206-543-5484 bigjim@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/augerot/

Foreign language competence: Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish
Research Interests: Slavic and Balkan linguistics; Second Language Learning; Language pedagogy; Computer-assisted Language Learning; History of Slavic Languages ; Structure of Russian Language
Recent courses: First Year Russian, History of the Slavic Languages, Independent Study - Bulgarian, Independent Study - Grammar (Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian), Independent Study - Language Culture/Preservation, Independent Study - Romanian, Structure of Russian / Synchronic Slavic Linguistics
Recent publications:

• Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Romanian Studies, co-editor with Paul Michelson and Kurt Treptow, 2006.
• The Romanian Language, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, London, 2005.
• A Morphological Database of the Russian Language (to be published on CD-ROM), Available on web: http://courses.u.washington.edu/rmdb/
• Limba Romana, a college course in Romanian. Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi, Romania, June 1999.
• Romanian-Limba Româna Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi, 1999, 360pp.
• Romanian Phonology: A Generative Phonological Sketch of the Core Vocabulary of Standard Romanian, Romanian Academy Press, 1974, 86pp.
• Romanian Grammar Pamphlets (Editor) Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973, 86pp.
• The Sounds of English and Romanian Bucharest University Press, 1984, 158pp (with Dumitru Chitoran and Hortensia Pârlog).
• Aspectele teoriei a sintaxei (Aspects of the Theory of Syntax), Academy of Sciences, Bucuresti, 1968, 287pp. (Translation with Paul Schweiger).

Box 353580 206-543-6009 bojan@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/belic/

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German, Greek, Latin, Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Slovenian
Research Interests: Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language, Russian Language, South Slavic Linguistics and Syntactic Theory.
Recent courses: Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, First Year Russian, History of the Slavic Languages, Independent Study - Slavic Languages, Second Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Slavic Language Pedagogy, Slavic Linguistics, Structure of Russian / Synchronic Slavic Linguistics
Recent publications:

• 1850-1950: A Century of Letters among the Bosniacs, Croats, Montenegrins, and Serbs. (forthcoming). Hamburg: Verlags Dr. Kovač.
• "AB OVO: When OVO and OVO are Different", (forthcoming). Balkanistica.
• book review of: Introduction to the Serbian and Croatian Language (Revised Edition), Thomas F. Magner, Balkanistica (forthcoming 2009).
• "Ovo vs. Ovo", in Bosnisch/Kroatisch/Serbisch als Fremdsprachen an den Universitäten der Welt, Raecke, Jochen and Biljana Golubović, eds., (München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2008).
• "Minor Paucal in Serbian", in Formal Description of Slavic Languages: The Fifth Conference, Leipzig 2003, Zybatow, Gerhild et al., eds. (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008), 258-269.
• "Infinitive Is Difficult to Lose: What Governs Variation of Complements in Unique Control in Serbian." 2005. Glossoss. 6:1-20.
• "Grammatical Number in Serbian: Singular – Paucal – Plural", OSU’s Working Papers in Slavic Studies, 2:(2003)1-22.  

Box 353580 206-543-5588 mbiggins@u.washington.edu http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/librarians/mbiggins.html

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish
Research Interests: Russian Language, Slovenian Language & Literature (20th century), Slavic and REECAS Research Sources and Methods.
Recent courses: Introductory Slovene Language, Second Year Slovene
Recent publications:

• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Mate Dolenc, Sea in Eclipse. (In progress; anticipated publication: Ljubljana: Litterae Slovenicae, 2010).
• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Tomaz Salamun, The Blue Tower. (Accepted for publication: New York: Houhgton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• Review of: The Digital Library of Slovenia (www.dLib.si), Slavic and East European Information Resources , vol. 9 (2008), no. 3: 294-298.
• “Implementing an Image Database for Complex Architectural Objects: the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection,” with James D. West, Eileen Llona, and Theodore Gerontakos,  Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 8 (2007): 65-78.
• “Post-1989 Publishing on Previously Suppressed Topics: Trends in Czech Contemporary History, With Reference to Poland”, Books, Bibliographies and Pugs: a Festschrift to Honor Murlin Croucher (Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers, 2006): p. 13-29.
• Translator into English (from Slovenian) and author of afterword: Vladimir Bartol, Alamut, (Seattle: Scala House Press, 2004). European edition: (Ljubljana: Sanje, 2005). Paperback edition: (San Francisco: North Atlantic Books, 2007).
• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Tomaz  Salamun, Balada za Metko Krasovec, [in English A ballad for Metka Krasovec], (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2001).
• "Publishing in the Yugoslav Successor States in the 1990s", co-editor with Janet Crayne, A special issue of Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 1/2-3 (Spring 2001).
• Library Assessment Project: Southeastern Europe. Washington, DC: International Research and Exchanges Board, 1995.

Box 353100 206-543-5393 bilaniuk@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb/people/faculty/LBilaniuk.php

Foreign language competence: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Research Interests: Linguistic Anthropology, Language Ideology, Language Politics, Nationalism, Popular Culture, Gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states
Recent courses: Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States, Language Politics and Cultural Identity, Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology
Recent publications:

• "Language in the Balance: The Politics of Non-Accommodation in Bilingual Ukrainian-Russian Television Shows", International Journal of the Sociology of Language (in press).
• "Cultural Politics on Ukrainian Television: Language Choice and Code Switching on 'Khoroshou'", Canadian American Slavic Studies, 44(2010).
• "Criticism, Confidence, and the Reshaping of the Linguistic Marketplace in Ukraine", in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, edited by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz, (M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
• "A Tense and Shifting balance: Bilingualism and Education in Ukraine", coauthored with Svitlana Melnyk, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11(3/4):(2008) 340-372.  Also published in Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries, Aneta Pavlenko, ed.  Pp.66-98. (Toronto: Multilingual Matters, 2008).
• "Linguistic Anthropology", International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William A. Darity, Jr., ed. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008).
• Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine, (Cornell University Press, 2006).
• "A Typology of Surzhyk: Mixed Ukrainian-Russian Language", International Journal of Bilingualism 8:4 (2005).

Box 353055 206 221-2851 zbigb@u.washington.edu http://evans.uw.edu/profile/bochniarz

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
Research Interests: Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics, Institutional Design and Policy, Transforming Economies
Recent courses: Comparative International Environmental Policy: Theory and Practice, Competing for Property: Exploring International and Domestic Cases, Degree Project Seminar: Building Capacity for Sustainable Development, Microeconomics of Competitiveness I: Basic Theory and Practice, Strategies for Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice
Recent publications:

• "Reforming Public Administration and Its Strategic Partnering for Sustainable Communities: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead" at the 17th NISPAcee Annual Conference 2009 on State and Administration in a Changing World website: http://www.nispa.sk. (lead-author)
• "Transition and Sustainability: Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Water Pollution in 25 Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States," Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2009 (co-author).
• "Globalization, Clustering and Innovation: Some Regional Aspects" in Herman A, & Szablewski (eds) Enterprise towards Global Challenges, SGH: Warsaw, 2008. Vol. 2, pp. 152-168 (co-author).
• "Strategic Issues of Financing Sustainable Development in Transforming Economies: The Case of Central Europe" in Jie Xiaowen & Jay Ebben (editors) Entrepreneurial Strategy Innovation and Sustainable Development, Sichuan University Press, Chengdu, China, 2007, pp. 1029-49.
• "Building Human Capital for Sustainable Transformation: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead," in Dan Candea & Simona Nicoara (editors) Intreprindera Sustenabila: Studi si Cercetari, 2006 Vol. 1, U.T. PRES, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pp. 57-70.
• "Odrzivost privreda u tranziciji u zemljama Visegradske Grupe – Komparativni Pregled" (in Serbian), in Svet rada, Vol.2, No 1/2005, pp.9-25 (co-author).
• "Liberalizm versus Solidarizm" (in Polish), in Polska Solidarna – Polska Liberlna: Falszywa, Alternatywa? Lewiatan Warsaw 2005, pp. 25-39.

Box 353130 206-543-1510 brandl@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/brandl/Site/..html

Foreign language competence: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Research Interests: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology & Pedagogy. German, Teacher Training, Computer Assisted Language Learning
Recent courses: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology
Recent publications:

• Communicative Language Teaching in Action, (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008).
• “Are You Ready to ‘MOODLE’?” Language Learning & Technology, 9.2 (2005): 16-23.
• “Integrating Internet-based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-centered Approaches.” Language Learning & Technology 6.3 (2002): 87-107.  

Box 353340 206-685-2412 chirot@u.washington.edu http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=chirot

Foreign language competence: French, Romanian
Research Interests: Ethnic and National Conflict, Dictatorship and Democracy, Terrorism, Civil Society, Genocide, Political Economy of Contemporary World Crisis
Recent courses: Topics in Ethnicity & Nationalism: Ethnoreligious Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Uses of Information and Research in American Foreign Policy
Recent publications:

• Contentious Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and Nationalist Conflicts in Today's World . (New York: Routeledge, 2011).
• "Does Democracy Work in Deeply Divided Societies?“ in Zoltan Barany and Robert Moser, eds., Is Democracy Exportable? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• "Traditional Methods of Avoiding Genocidal Mass Slaughter" in Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, (www.massviolence.org, enter ‘Chirot‘ in search box, 2008).
• "The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts," Ab Imperio 3/2008, 23-46.
• "Returning to a Sane Foreign Policy," Society 45:5 (September/October, 2008), 425-428.
• "That Enlightenment Question Again," Society 45:3 (May/June, 2008), 257-259.
• "Griztant i realybe," in Almantas Samalavicius, ed., Europos Kulturos Profiliai (Vilnius, Lithuania: Kulturos Barai, 2007), pp. 169-192.
• Why Not Kill All of Them? The Logic of Mass Political Murder and Finding Ways of Avoiding It, co-authored with Clark McCauley, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
• “What Provokes Ethnic Conflict? Two Balkan and One African Case.” Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Societies, Barany, Zoltan ed. and Robert Moser ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005).
• Visszatérés a valósághoz, 2000 Irodalmi és Társadalmi Havi Lap (Budapest), (October 2001), 24-33.
• Osteuropa zwischen Kultur und Modernisierung, Transit (Vienna), 21 (Summer 2001), 21-41.

Box 353650 206-528-1436 ac34@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, German, Polish
Research Interests: East European Politics and Government, European Union Politics, Post-Communist Politics, Germany since 1945, EU and Russia in the Black Sea Region, Revolutions of 1989
Recent courses: Eastern European Politics & Society, Europe Today, Europe's Muslim Populations: The Challenges of Integration from East to West, Nationalism & Ethnicity in Post-Communist Europe, Old Europe & New Europe: Challenge of Integration, Old Europe and New Europe, Old Europe and New Europe: Challenge of Integration, Securing Europe, The EU as Global Actor
Recent publications:

• “Introduction” to a special section on “Europeanization before and after Accession: Conditionality, Legacies and Compliance,” with Frank Schimmelfennig, ed., Europe-Asia Studies (forthcoming 2010).
• Review of Andrzej Paczkowski and Malcolm Byrne, eds., From Solidarity to Martial Law: The Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: A Documentary History,  Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2007.  In Slavic Review, vol. 67:(2008), no 2.
• “France,” in Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities and Institutions in a Changing Global Order, Jeffrey Kopstein and Mark Lichbach, Eds., (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  
• “Passions, Interests and Power: Evaluating EU Enlargement,” in East European Constitutional Review, vol. 12 (Spring-Summer). 2003.
• The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights, (London: Routledge, 1997).

Box 354340 206-543-6052 bcitko@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/bcitko/

Foreign language competence: English, Polish
Research Interests: Slavic Linguistics, Syntactic Theory, Syntax-Semantics
Recent publications:

• "An Argument against Assimilating Appositive Relatives to Coordinate Structures," Linguistic Inquiry 39: 633-655, 2008.
• "Missing Labels," Lingua 118: 907–944, 2008.   
• "Small Clauses: Not So Small and Not All Alike," Lingua 118:261-295.
• "Determiner Sharing from a Crosslinguistic Perspective," Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006:73–96, 2008, 2007.  
• "On the Interaction between Across-the-Board Wh-Movement and Left Branch Extraction," Syntax 9: 225-247, 2006.
• "On the Nature of Merge: External Merge, Internal Merge, and Parallel Merge," Linguistic Inquiry 36:475-497, 2005.

Box 353580 206-543-7641 crnkovic@uw.edu http://depts.washington.edu/complit/people/faculty/crnkovic/

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, French, Macedonian, Slovenian, Spanish
Research Interests: East European Film, Culture, and Literature, Post-World War II European Novel, Literature, Film and Culture of the Former Yugoslavia, the Balkans
Recent courses: Cinema of Roman Polanski, East European Literature, Eastern European Film, New Trends in Literary Theory, Post-World War II European Novel, Russian and East European Cinema, Second Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Studies in Slavic Literatures, The Theory of Literature III: Special Topics
Recent publications:

• “The Border Guard’s Focus and the Women’s Diversions:  Insights of the New Slovenian Film.”  In The Future of Intercultural Dialogue:  Views from the In-Between.  Edited by Ksenija Vidmar Horvat.   University of Ljubljana:  Ljubljana, 2008.
• “Non-Nationalist Culture, Under and Above the Ground.” In Croatia since Independence:  War, Politics, Society, Foreign Relations (eds. Sabrina P. Ramet, Konrad Clewing, Reneo Lukic).  R. Oldenbourg Verlag: Munchen, 2008. (pp. 233-250). Refereed.
• “The Battle for Croatia:  Three Films by Vinko Bresan.” Democratic Transition in Croatia:  Value Transformation, Education & Media.  Editors:  Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Matic.  Texas A & M University Press:  College Station, 2007.  (pp. 247-275) Refereed.
• "Zagreb Everywhere, an Unorthodox Lecture on the City of Zagreb." Video, 2001. Texts written and read by Gordana Crnkovic; Video work by Victor Ingrassia; Soundscape and Music by David Hahn. Premiered at the University of Washington, May 23, 2001.
• Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature. Northwestern University Press, 2000.

Box 353580 206-543-7691 dziwirek@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/dziwirek/

Foreign language competence: English, Polish, Russian
Research Interests: Polish language, Slavic and Cross-Cultural Linguistics, Lingustic Expression of Emotion
Recent courses: Bilingualism, First Year Polish, History of the Slavic Languages, Independent Study - Polish, Second Year Polish, Special Topics in Slavic Linguistics, Ways of Feeling: Expressions of Emotions Across Languages & Cultures, Ways of Meaning: Universal and Culture Specific Aspects of Language
Recent publications:

• Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study. 2010. (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk) Mouton de Gruyter, 181 pages
• (with Bożena Nowicka McLees) Polish in the U.S. 2010. In Language Diversity in the USA, Kim Potowski (ed.), Cambridge University Press. 238-254.
• Chief editor (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk) Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics. 2009. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
• Syntax and Semantics of Polish Emotion Verbs: A Corpus Study. 2009. In Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter, Donna Gerdts, John Moore, and Maria Polinsky, (eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 129-150.
• (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk) Love and Hate - Unique Transitive Emotions in Polish and English: A Corpus-Based Study. 2009. In Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics, Katarzyna Dziwirek and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, (eds). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 287-316.
•  "Polish in the U.S.," The Polyglot Boarding House: Languages in the United States, Kim Potowski, ed., (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• "Love and Hate - Unique Transitive Emotions in Polish and English: A Corpus-Based Study," Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics (2009), Katarzyna Dziwirek and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, (eds) Peter Lang.
• Polsko-angielska gramatyka kontrastywna konstrukcji zlozonych oparta na jezykowym materiale korpusowym – projekt badawczy, co-authored with Barbara-Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Anthony McEnery, 2004.
• Wroclawska Dyskusja o Jezyku Polskim Jako Obcym, (Wroclaw, Poland: Wydawnictwo Wroclawskie Towarzystwo Naukowe) pp. 221-228.
• “50 years of Polish at the University of Washington: Celebrating Polish-American Heritage Speaker series,” co-authored with Agnes Burdzy. Good News: The American Institute of Polish Culture, Inc. (2003): 83-85.  

Box 353560 206-543-5790 felak@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=F-36

Foreign language competence: Czech, French, German, Latin, Polish, Slovak
Research Interests: East Central Europe, 20th Century Christianity, Nationalism, Communism
Recent courses: Colloquium in Historiography, Colloquium in History: Europe: 1945 - 1989, East-Central Europe Since 1342, Eastern Europe Since 1918, History of Eastern Europe: 1939 to the Present, Introduction to East European Studies, Pope Pius XII, World War II, & The Holocaust (Historiography), The Catholic Church in Europe since 1918
Recent publications:

• After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia from the End of the Second World War to the February Coup of 1948, (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
• “Roman Catholic Responses to the New Slovakia, 1945-1948,” scheduled to appear in Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, edited by Bruce R. Berglund and Brian Porter-Szűcs, and published by Central European University Press—scheduled release date, September 2009.
• “Conflicts over the State Monopoly of Education in Slovakia, 1945-1948: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats,” Contemporary European History, XVII, No. 17 (November 2008), 505-522.
• “The Democratic Party and the Execution of Jozef Tiso,” Slovakia, XXXVIII, (2005), pp. 33-51.
• “The Slovak Question in the Interwar (1918-1938) and Post-War (1945-1948) Czechoslovak Republic, Slovakia, XXXVI, (2003), pp. 7-27.

Box 353950 206-543-8512 markcaro@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/uwdrama/people/faculty_jenkins.shtml

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Stanislavski System for Actors, Acting and Directing Programs
Recent publications:

• All Powers Necessary and Convenient, a play about the 1948 Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Communism in Washington State, popularly known as the Canwell Committee.  UW Press, 2000.
• Directed Long Day’s Journey Into Night in Russian for Chamber Drama Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia.
• Presentation "Stanislavski’s influence in America tracing it from the Moscow Art Theatre’s 1923 visit to the U.S. through the Group Theatre’s work in the 1930’s," Vladivostok, Russia.

Box 353650 206-543-9831 cdjones@u.washington.edu http://jsis.washington.edu/cv/faccv/f-j/jonesc.html

Foreign language competence: French, Russian
Research Interests: Non-Proliferation, Eurasian Security, Cold War History; NATO-European security
Recent courses: Democracies and the Interantional Security System, International Law and Arms Control, Moscow and European Security since 1991, NATO and European Security Affairs, Security Affairs of Russia & Eurasia, Task Force: NATO's New Strategic Concept
Recent publications:

• “Non-Proliferation Education at the University of Washington”, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, Vo. XXXIV No. 4, Summer, 2006.
• “The Axis of Non-Proliferation", Problems of Post-Communism, Spring, 2006.
• "Reflections on Mirror Images: Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact" in  Leslie Eliason and Emily Goldman, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas (Stanford University Press, 2004).
• "Soviet Doctrine as Strategic Deception," Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 16.3, September 2003.
• "Civil-Military Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: Ten Years After Communism," co-author with Natalie Mychajlyszyn, introductory article to a special issue of Armed Forces and Society, Spring/Summer, 2002.
• "Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact" in a volume edited by Emily Goldman. (Stanford University Press, 2002).

Box 355685 206-543-0115 vkaczyn@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/smea/users/vkaczyn

Foreign language competence: Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: Russian Ocean Policy, North Pacific Marine Business, Arctic Ocean Resources, Coastal Nations Policies
Recent publications:

• "Management of Arctic Resources: Economic, Environmental, Legal and Policy Considerations", with Brosnan, M.,  in: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Globalization, Energy and Environment, Warsaw School of Economics, May 29-30, 2008. (in press).  
• "US – Russian Bering Sea Marine Border Dispute: Conflict over Strategic Assets, Fisheries and Energy Resources", Russian Analytical Digest, No. 20, May 1, 2007, University of Bremen, Germany.
• "The Kuril Islands Dispute Between Russia and Japan: Perspectives of Three Ocean Powers", Russian Analytical Digest, No. 20, May 1, 2007, University of Bremen, Germany.
• "Ocean Policy Toward Russia and the Pacific Fisheries: The U.S. and Western Countries Perspective", Chapter VIII in: Harry N. Scheiber H. N., and Mengerink K.J., (Editors) The Law of the Sea Institute, (Berkeley: University of California, 2004).

Box 353600 206 685 7562 stkerr@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/stkerr/vita.htm

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Education in Russia and Former USSR; New Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Recent courses: Russian Education & Society
Recent publications:

• "The experimental tradition in Russian education," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):102-128.
• "Demographic change and the fate of Russia's schools: The impact of population shifts on educational practice and policy," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):153-175.
• Canning, M., Bentley, M., Vasil'ev, K., Godfrey, M., Kerr, S., Creighton, J., Markov, A., Frumin, I., & Holtzer, D.  (2004).  Модернизация российского образования: Достижения и уроки.  (The modernization of Russian education: Achievements and lessons.)  Washington, DC:  The World Bank.
• "Old technologies in new contexts: Print media and Russian education," in A. DeVaney, S. Gance, & Y. Ma, eds., Technology and resistance: Decentralized communications and new coalitions around the world. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• "When the center cannot hold: The devolution and evolution of power, authority, and responsibility in Russian education," in T. S. Popkewitz, ed., Educational knowledge: Changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.
• Kerr, S. T., & Sahlberg, P.  (1994).  "Curriculum and curriculum change in the schools of the Russian Federation."  In S. Heyneman et al., Russian Education in the Transition -- Final Report.  Washington, DC: World Bank.

Box 358530 425-352-5364 bkochis@u.washington.edu http://www.uwb.edu/IAS/faculty/bkochis.xhtml

Foreign language competence: Czech, German, Russian
Research Interests: International Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Policy Ethics, Czech Culture
Recent courses: Cultures of Resistance, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Political Institutions and Processes, Social Theory and Practice: Policy Ethics, Washington, D.C. Seminar on Human Rights
Recent publications:

• "Human Rights Discourse and Political Legitimacy in Yugoslavia," in Serbia after 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After,  ed. by Sabrina Ramet and Vjeran Pavlakovic, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).
• "On Lenses and Filters: The Role of Metaphor in Policy Theory," Administrative Theory and Praxis, March 2005.
• “An Obligations Approach to Human Rights,” International Global Studies Association Conference, Birmingham (September 2007).

206 685-0808 fmlewis@u.washington.edu http://www.son.washington.edu/faculty/faculty_bio.asp?id=66

Foreign language competence: Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: 1967 Honors at Entrance, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Loretto Heights College; Gates Foundation Scholar; Selected Who's Who in Students of American Colleges and Universities 1976-1977 Assistant Professor, Nursing, University of Maryland 1977-1978 Post-doctoral Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene & Public Health Chosen as National Heart, Lung & Blood Post-doctoral Fellow [NHLBI] 1977-1978 Associate Professor, Nursing, University of Maryland 1974-1977 Recipient, Predoctoral Nursing Fellowship, Division of Nursing, Public Health Service Current Reviewer, Consulting Editor, Review Board or Editorial Board, J Consult & Clin Psych, Health Psychology, Soc Sci Med, J Psychosocial Oncology, J Clinical Oncology, PsychoOncology 1978-1984 Associate Professor, Nursing, University of Washington 1984- Professor, School of Nursing, University of Washington 1998-2006 Elizabeth Sterling Soule Professor of Nursing and Health Promotion, University of Washington 2001- Affiliate Investigator, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res Center 2003- Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania 2006-2011 Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor, University of Washington, Seattle

Box 353650 (253) 383-3572 fmlorenz1@aol.com; lorenz@uw.edu

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: International Law and National Security in Eurasia and the Middle East, International Humanitarian Law, Water and Security
Recent courses: International Humanitarian Law
Recent publications:

• Strategic Water For Iraq, the End of Times? (pending with Routledge, UK)
• International Humanitarian Law and the Law of War: Text and Materials (pending)
• The Rule of law in Kosovo: Problems and Prospects, Criminal Law Forum, Nov. 2000

Box 353560 (206) 616-6202 denaar@uw.edu https://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=N-80

Foreign language competence: Greek
Research Interests: Participant in the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Summer Workshop on Sephardic Jewry & the Holocaust, Washington, DC, 16-25 June 2010. Co-organizer, with Professor Charlotte Fonrobert, of Symposium, “At Home in Diaspora/Diaspora at Home,” Stanford University, 25-26 April 2010. Contributor of source materials to Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) and Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt), The Sephardic Studies Reader (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). Participant, along with Dr. Zachary Baker, Judaica Librarian, of Stanford University at International Digital Access Outreach and Research Conference hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, Los Angeles, 3/2010. 5 Respondent to Heather Ferguson, “Genres of Power: The Circle of Justice as an Administrative Strategy in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire,” Islamic Studies Workshop, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, 3/2010.
Recent courses: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Modern Mediterranean, Modern European Jewish History
Recent publications:

Box 353340 206-616-9377 pfaff@u.washington.edu http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=pfaff

Foreign language competence: German
Research Interests: Historical and Comparative Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements
Recent courses: Sociological Theory
Recent publications:

• Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2006).
• Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory, contributing editor. 2nd Edition, with Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, and Indermohan Virk.  (Cambridge: Blackwell’s Press, 2007).  (also 1st Edition, 2002).
• “The Religious Divide: Why Religion seems to be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe”, in J. Kopstein and S. Steinmo (Eds.), Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century,  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• “The Lives of Others: East Germany Revisited?” German Historical Institute Bulletin 41: (2007) 110-116.

Box 354330 206-543-2483 popov@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/engl/people/profile.php?id=517

Foreign language competence: Bulgarian, French, German, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: East European and Russian Literature; Bulgarian Language; Modern Poetry and Fiction; Modern Anglo-Irish Literature
Recent publications:

• Translator. "Bukvalnoto i literaturnoto" ("The Literal and the Literary" by Fakel, Sophia). 2004.
• Co-Translated with Heather McHugh. "Gusev," (Chekhov P.) Southern Indiana Review 8.2 (2001).
• Translator. "Ten Poems" (by Paul Celan). Verse 17:2&3, 18.1 (2001).
• Translator (with Heather McHugh), Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England (for) Wesleyan University Press, 2000.

Box 353650 206-543-0293 kazpoz@u.washington.edu http://jsis.washington.edu/faculty/kazpoz.shtml

Foreign language competence: German, Polish, Russian
Research Interests: International Political Economy, Institutional Economics; Economics of Technological Change, Soviet and East European Economies, Economics of Development.
Recent courses: Comparative International Political Economy, Eastern Europe: Political Economy of the Region, Political Economy of International Trade and Finance
Recent publications:

• Negative Globalization: Capital Expropriation in Eastern Europe, (Beijing: China’s Academy of Social Sciences), 2004,  pp.204
• Blejer, M.I. ed., and M. Skreb ed. "Transition. The First Decade." Journal of Economic Literature, Cambridge, MA:  The MIT Press (2003).
• Kyogi, I. ed. "Failed Transition: Building Capitalism with Communist Tools." In: Evolutionary Analysis of PostSocialist Transition. Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 2003.
• The Confused Reforms: Poland’s Asset Sellout, (Warsaw: Publishing Cooperative), 2001, pp. 152. 
• The Failure of Poland’s Transition, (Warsaw: Publishing and Literary Association), 2000, pp. 165.
• Wielki Prezekret: Kleska Polskich Reform (The Great Scam: The Failure of Polish Reforms). Warsaw: Tow. Wydawnicze i. Literackie, 2000.
• Poland's Protracted Transition:  Institutional Change and Economic Growth in 1970-1994,   (The Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Series No. 98) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 379. 

Box 353020 616-8441 arama@u.washington.edu http://www.law.washington.edu/Directory/Profile.aspx?ID=102

Foreign language competence: French, Spanish
Research Interests: Commercial Law, International Commercial Law, Banking and Payment Systems, Business and Human Rights, Law and Development
Recent courses: Politics & Law of International Human Rights
Recent publications:

• "Commerce, Crime and Conflict: Legal Remedies for Private Sector Liability for Grave Breaches of International Law", with R. Thompson, FAFO Institute of Applied International Studies,  2006).
• "EBRD Legal Indicator Survey: Assessing Insolvency Laws after Ten Years of Transition", The European Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2002-2003. (White Page London, 2002) 311-328.
• "Legal Foundations for Sound Finance", with Sanders, Chapter Six of Transition Report 1998: Financial Sector in Transition (EBRD 1998) 105-116

Box 353580 206-543-4449 jsoldan@hotmail.com; jsoldano@uw.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/soldanova/

Foreign language competence: Czech, Esperanto, German, Latin, Russian, Slovak
Research Interests: Czech language, Literature, History and Culture
Recent courses: Elementary Czech, Independent Study, Independent Study - Czech, Independent Study - Czech Authors, Second Year Czech

Box 353330 206-543-5784 thornj@u.washington.edu http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/detail.asp?uid=thornj

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Economics, Eonomics of Developing and Transition Economies, Comparative Economic Systems
Recent courses: Analysis of the Transforming Socialist Economies, Comparative Economic Systems, Economic Transformation of Russia and Eastern Europe
Recent publications:

• “Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China,” with Elliott Parker (December 2007) Comparative Economic Studies  Vol  49: 514-542.
• "Incentives and Performance of Russian Regional Government Officials" presented at Institutional Change in Russia and China RCIE, 2003.
• Editor of special issue Comparative Economics Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) “Economic Development of Pacific Russia”.
• “Sakhalin Energy: Problems and Prospects” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 9-32.
• “Institutional and Structural Change in Pacific Russia,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 1-8.
• Russia’s Far East; Region at Risk; (edited with Charles Ziegler) University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Surveying Foreign Assisted Businesses in the Russian Far East and Western US (with Nadezhda Mikheeva) Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation, September 1996.
• Effects of Soviet Political Fragmentation on the Energy Infrastructure, (with Richard Cohen, Gregory Gleason, Richard Staar) U.S. Dept of Energy, OFI, July 1992.

Box 353580 206-543-4829 jdwest@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/west/

Foreign language competence: Buriat, Russia, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Latin, Russian
Research Interests: Russian Literature and Culture, Philosophy, Art, Translation Theory
Recent courses: Independent Study/Rsch., Advanced Russian, First Year Russian, Independent Study - Russian Landscape & Architectural History, Major Authors: Chekhov, Reading and Translation in Russian, Russian Art and Architecture, Russian Culture and Russian Identity, 1780-1917, Russian Literary Criticism, Russian Translation, Seminar in Russian Poetry, Study Abroad - Exploration Seminar in Georgia
Recent publications:

• Co-author (with Mary Jo White), In Living Memory: The Persistence of Traditional Images in Russian Visual Culture (In press).
• The Icon and the Word: Literature and Painting in Russian Culture. (In press).
• The Russian Idea: Philosophical Nationalism in Russia Since 1880. (book in progress).
• "Icons, Modernism and Socialist Realism: The Emblematic Idiom of Modern Russian Art." The Icon and Modernity held at Columbia University in October 2003.

Box 353650 206-685-8192 glennys@u.washington.edu https://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=Y-72

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: History of Russia and the Soviet Union (Especially Tsarist Period - 1991), History of Communism Around the World, European History (Especially 20th c.)
Recent courses: 20th Century Russia, Comparative Revolutions, History of Communism, Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After, Modern Revolutions Around the World, Modern Russian History
Recent publications:

• State Violence and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: The Legacy of Novocherkassk and “Mass Disturbances” of the Early 1960s.   Book manuscript in progress.
• The World the Refugees Made: Los Niños de la Guerra (Children of the Spanish Civil War) in the USSR and Beyond.  Book manuscript in preparation.
• Writing the Soviet Project: Concepts, Paradigms, and the Making of the Soviet Experience   Book manuscript completed May, 2009.
•  The Communist Subject Around the World: A Reader. Under contract with Oxford University Press, 2009.  
• “Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case,” Ab Imperio: Studies of New Histories and Nationalities in the Post-Soviet Space  (2/2007).
• “Fetishizing the Soviet Collapse: Historical Rupture and the Historiography of (Early) Soviet Socialism,”  Russian Review,  66 (January, 2007).

Box 353580 206-543-7580 jos23@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/alaniz/

Foreign language competence: Czech, Italian, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, Death & Dying Studies, Comics, Film, Modern and Post-Soviet Russian Literature & Culture, Eco-criticism
Recent courses: Andrei Tarkovsky (1932 - 1986), Disability in Russian Culture (Topics - Russian Lit., Cult. & Hist.), Modern Czech Literature in English, Post-Soviet Russian Cinema, Russian and East European Animation, Russian and East European Cinema, Russian Literature & Culture - 20th Century, Slavic Resources, The Birth of the Soviet Union
Recent publications:

• Komiks:  Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi) (forthcoming 2010).
• “Crowd Control: Anxiety of Effluence in Sokurov’s ‘Russian Ark’” in Sokurov anthology, ed. Birgit Beumers & Nancy Condee, forthcoming 2009.
• “Vision and Blindness in Alexander Sokurov’s ‘Father and Son’” in Fathers and Sons Onscreen, ed. Helena Goscilo & Yana Hashamova, accepted for publication, 2008, manuscript pages: 38.  
• “‘I Want’: Women in Post-Soviet Russian Comics” in Ulbandus, No. 10, November, 2008.
• “‘Nature’, Illusion and Excess in Sokurov’s ‘Mother & Son’” in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol. 2, No. 2, May, 2008.

Box 353580 206-543-5484 bigjim@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/augerot/

Foreign language competence: Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish
Research Interests: Slavic and Balkan linguistics; Second Language Learning; Language pedagogy; Computer-assisted Language Learning; History of Slavic Languages ; Structure of Russian Language
Recent courses: First Year Russian, History of the Slavic Languages, Independent Study - Bulgarian, Independent Study - Grammar (Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian), Independent Study - Language Culture/Preservation, Independent Study - Romanian, Structure of Russian / Synchronic Slavic Linguistics
Recent publications:

• Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Romanian Studies, co-editor with Paul Michelson and Kurt Treptow, 2006.
• The Romanian Language, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, London, 2005.
• A Morphological Database of the Russian Language (to be published on CD-ROM), Available on web: http://courses.u.washington.edu/rmdb/
• Limba Romana, a college course in Romanian. Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi, Romania, June 1999.
• Romanian-Limba Româna Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi, 1999, 360pp.
• Romanian Phonology: A Generative Phonological Sketch of the Core Vocabulary of Standard Romanian, Romanian Academy Press, 1974, 86pp.
• Romanian Grammar Pamphlets (Editor) Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973, 86pp.
• The Sounds of English and Romanian Bucharest University Press, 1984, 158pp (with Dumitru Chitoran and Hortensia Pârlog).
• Aspectele teoriei a sintaxei (Aspects of the Theory of Syntax), Academy of Sciences, Bucuresti, 1968, 287pp. (Translation with Paul Schweiger).

Box 353650 bandelin@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: Russian History, History of Eastern Europe, Comparative Intellectual History (United States and Russia)
Recent publications:

• Return to the NEP: The False Promise of Leninism and the Failure of Perestroika, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.
• Researcher: Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2006.
• Copyeditor/indexing: A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Box 353580 206-543-5588 mbiggins@u.washington.edu http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/librarians/mbiggins.html

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish
Research Interests: Russian Language, Slovenian Language & Literature (20th century), Slavic and REECAS Research Sources and Methods.
Recent courses: Introductory Slovene Language, Second Year Slovene
Recent publications:

• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Mate Dolenc, Sea in Eclipse. (In progress; anticipated publication: Ljubljana: Litterae Slovenicae, 2010).
• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Tomaz Salamun, The Blue Tower. (Accepted for publication: New York: Houhgton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• Review of: The Digital Library of Slovenia (www.dLib.si), Slavic and East European Information Resources , vol. 9 (2008), no. 3: 294-298.
• “Implementing an Image Database for Complex Architectural Objects: the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection,” with James D. West, Eileen Llona, and Theodore Gerontakos,  Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 8 (2007): 65-78.
• “Post-1989 Publishing on Previously Suppressed Topics: Trends in Czech Contemporary History, With Reference to Poland”, Books, Bibliographies and Pugs: a Festschrift to Honor Murlin Croucher (Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers, 2006): p. 13-29.
• Translator into English (from Slovenian) and author of afterword: Vladimir Bartol, Alamut, (Seattle: Scala House Press, 2004). European edition: (Ljubljana: Sanje, 2005). Paperback edition: (San Francisco: North Atlantic Books, 2007).
• Translator into English (from Slovenian): Tomaz  Salamun, Balada za Metko Krasovec, [in English A ballad for Metka Krasovec], (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2001).
• "Publishing in the Yugoslav Successor States in the 1990s", co-editor with Janet Crayne, A special issue of Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 1/2-3 (Spring 2001).
• Library Assessment Project: Southeastern Europe. Washington, DC: International Research and Exchanges Board, 1995.

Box 353130 206-543-1510 brandl@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/brandl/Site/..html

Foreign language competence: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Research Interests: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology & Pedagogy. German, Teacher Training, Computer Assisted Language Learning
Recent courses: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology
Recent publications:

• Communicative Language Teaching in Action, (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008).
• “Are You Ready to ‘MOODLE’?” Language Learning & Technology, 9.2 (2005): 16-23.
• “Integrating Internet-based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-centered Approaches.” Language Learning & Technology 6.3 (2002): 87-107.  

Box 355726 206-543-6063 ccamp1@u.washington.edu http://urbdp.be.washington.edu/people/faculty/departmental/profiles/campbell.html

Foreign language competence: French
Research Interests: Planning Theory and Culture, Community Processes and Structures, Place and Identity, Participatory and Community-based Education, Post-Soviet Russian Planning Practice and Policy
Recent publications:

• Making Los Angeles: Constructing a Sense of Place Out of Ordinary Urban Space (forthcoming ) Yale Cultural Series, Paradigm Publishers.
• "Bridging the Divide: Modeling the Material and Ideational Elements of Place," American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Montreal, Canada (August, 2006) .
• "Designing for the Profane: Reconsidering the Dark Side of Urban Life Urban Spaces," International Making Cities Livable Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May, 2006) .
• “Social Structure, Space, and Sentiment: Searching for Common Ground in Sociological Conceptions of Community," Research and Community Sociology, Vol. 10: 21-57 (2000).

Box 353560 206-543-6924 eicampb@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=C-32

Foreign language competence: English, French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Imperial Russia, Historiography, History and Memory, Empire, Religion and Nationalism in late Imperial Russia
Recent courses: Imperial Russia:1700-1900, The Russian Empire and Nationalism
Recent publications:

• “The ‘Muslim Question’ in Late Imperial Russia,” in Geographies of Empire: Ruling Russia, 1700-1930, edited by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatoly Remnev, (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, forthcoming).
• “Ethno-confessional Problems, Identities, New Ideologies and Russian Nationalities Policy: The Second Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century”, «Волго-Уральский регион как внутренняя окраина», a curricular development project: Russian Imperial Borderlands, Sponsored by the Soros Foundation, Moscow, [in Russian], (forthcoming).
• “The Autocracy and the Muslim Clergy in the Russian Empire (1850s-1917)”, Russian Studies in History, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2005, pp. 8-30.
• “Russians or Tatars? The Imperial View on the Problem of Cultural Dominance in the Russian Eastern Borderlands: Second Half of the 19th Century - Beginning of the 20th century”, Страницы Российской истории. Проблемы, события, люди. Сборник статей в честь Б.В. Ананьича, Petersburg, 2003, pp. 85-94, [in Russian].

Box 357236 206-616-9339 sdavis@fhcrc.org; scottd@uw.edu http://depts.washington.edu/epidem/fac/facBio.shtml?Davis_Scott

Research Interests: Epidemiology , Radiation Epidemiology
Recent publications:

• Tuttle RM, Lukes Y, Onstad L, Lushnikov E, Abrosimov A, Troshin V, Tsyb A, Davis S, Kopecky KJ, Francis G. RET/PTC "Activation Is Not Associated with Individual Radiation Dose Estimates in a Pilot Study of Neoplastic Thyroid Nodules Arising in Russian Children and Adults Exposed to Chernobyl Fallout." Thyroid 18(8):839-846, 2008.  
• Davis S, Day RW, Kopecky KJ, Mahoney MC, McCarthy PL, Michalek AM, Moysich KB, Onstad LE, Stepanenko VF, Voilleque´ PG, Chegerova T, Falkner K, Kulikov S,Maslova E, Ostapenko V, Rivkind N, Shevchuk V, Tsyb AF. "Childhood Leukemia in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine Following the Chernobyl Power Station Accident: Results From an International Collaborative Population-Based Case-Control Study". International Journal of  Epidemiology 35:386-396, 2006.
• Kopecky KJ, Stepanenko V, Rivkind N, Voilleque P, Onstad L, Shakhtarin V, Parshkov E, Kulikov S, Lushnikov E, Abrosimov A, Troshin V, Romanova G, Doroshenko V, Proshin A, Tsyb A, Davis S. "Childhood Thyroid Cancer, Radiation Dose from Chernobyl, and Dose Uncertainties in Bryansk Oblast, Russia:  A Population-Based Case-Control Study." Rad Res 166: 367-374, 2006.

Box 358436 253-692-5855 cd2@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Communication Studies, First Amendment Law, Gender, Race, and the Media; Communication History, Russian Media Studies, Writing for the Media
Recent publications:

• Modern Power and Free Speech: Contemporary Culture and Issues of Equality. Lexington Books, a division of Roman and Littlefield Publishing. (220 pages) (Release date: November 2008)
•  “Free Press in Russia: Towards Defining a Democratic Press.” Under Review: Democratic Communique. (Autumn 2006).
• “Free Speech after 9/11: Abridgements to Our First Amendment Rights.” Invited Commentary. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 1:1 (2005).
•  “Modern Speech and the First Amendment: Reassessing Hate Speech.” Refereed Article. Communication Law And Policy, 9:3 (2004) 273-316.
• “Feminist Scholarship and Activism: An Ongoing Debate.” Organizational Newsletter. International Communication Association Newsletter, 30:10 (2002) 6-8.

Box 353580 206-543-7344 galya@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/diment/

Foreign language competence: English, German, Russian
Research Interests: Russian Literature, Nabokov, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Early Russian and Soviet Film, Modernism, Jewish Studies, Comparative Literature
Recent courses: Early Russian & Soviet Film: Russian Jewish Film, Independent Studies, Independent Study - Russian Literature, Major Authors: Chekhov, Russian Crime Fiction (Topics - Russian Lit., Cultural & Hist.), Russian Jewish Film, Russian Literature & Culture - 20th Century, Russian Literature & Culture 1700 - 1840, Russian Literature & Culture 1840-1917
Recent publications:

• MLA Approaches to Teaching “Lolita,” co-edited with Zoran Kuzmanovich. New York: MLA, 2008. 200 pp.  
• A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: A Cultural Exploration. EDC, 2009.
• From Bauer’s Li to Nabokov’s Lo: Lolita and Early Russian Film, Cycnos, 2007.
• "Approaches to Teaching Lola," co-editor with Zoran Kuzmanovich; Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. MLA Series (forthcoming) 2006.
• "Nabokov and the Biographical Impulse", The Cambridge Companion to Naboko, ed. By Julian Connolly, (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• "Memoirs as Memorials: Remembrance of Things Vanished in Nabokov and Brodsky", The Russian Memoir: History and Literature, ed. Beth Holmgren, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003).

Box 353100 206-543-9604 fitzhugh@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb/people/faculty/BFitzhugh.php

Foreign language competence: Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Research Interests: Archaeology, Cultural Adaptation and Social Evolution, Historical Ecology, Technological Evolution, Circumpolar Arctic & North Pacific Rim, Alaska and Russian Far East
Recent courses: Archaeology of the North
Recent publications:

• “Case Study in Technological Evolution: Innovation and Experimentation in and with the Archaeological Record, by Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trussler. Prepared for volume Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, Stephen Shennan, editor, (in press).
• “Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago: Trends in Raw Material use and Lithic Technologies at the Tanginak Spring Site.” Arctic Anthropology 2004 41(1):14-40.

Box 353650 206 543-7168 yongha5@u.washington.edu http://jsis.washington.edu/faculty/yongha5.shtml

Foreign language competence: Japanese, Korean, Russian
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Soviet & Russian Politics, International Relations, Pubic Administration and Policy
Recent courses: Late Industrialization and International Relations
Recent publications:

• Russia’s Choice at the Crossroads, coauthored and principal writer, (Seoul National University Press, 2006).
• “From Neotraditionalism to Neofamilism: Responses to National Dependency in Newly Industrialized Countries,” in Tismaneanu, Howard and Sil (eds.), World Order After Leninism (University of Washington Press, 2006), pp. 172-188.
• “Late Industrialization and Soviet Bureaucracy: The Case of Voronezh Region(in Korean),” coauthored with Iksung Kyun,  Russian Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2004.
• “The Dynamic of Russian-South Korean Relations and Implications for the Russian Far East,” in Judith Thornton & Charles E. Ziegler, eds., Russia's Far East: a Region at Risk (Washington, D.C.: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002).
• Journey to Siberia, Edited (Seoul: Dong-A-Ilbo-Sa, 2001).
• "How to Engage Russia in Building the Peace and Security System in the Northeast Asia: A Korean Perspective," in Watanabe Koji, ed., Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific (Tokyo: Japan Center for Internatioanl Exchange, 1999).

Box 353580 206-543-7462 bjhenry@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/henry/

Foreign language competence: French, German, Latin, Russian, Yiddish
Research Interests: Russian Literature & Drama, Russian and Jewish Literary Contacts, Yiddish Literature & Drama (19th - 20th centuries)
Recent courses: Culture in Russia - Study Abroad, Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization, Masterpieces of Russian Literature: Babel, Masterpieces of Russian Literature: Bulgakov, Russian Comedy, Russian Drama, Russian Folk Literature, Russian Folk Literature in English, Russian Literature & Culture 1840-1917, Russian Literature and Culture: 1700-1900
Recent publications:

• Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama, forthcoming from University of Washington Press.
• The Global Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business, co-edited with Joel Berkowitz. Forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.
• "Gordin's Dialogue with Tolstoy," in Jewish Theatre: A Global View, ed. by Edna Nahshon, Institute for Jewish Studies: Studies in Judaica, Brill Academic Press, 2009, 25-48.
• Obituary for John D. Klier, Yiddish Theatre Forum, November 2007.
• "Tolstoy on the Lower East Side: Di Kreytser Sonata," Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XVI,  2005: 1-19. (peer reviewed)
•  “Yiddish Theatre in St Petersburg, 1905-1917,” in Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, ed. by Joel Berkowitz, Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, 2003, 61-75. (peer reviewed)

Box 353650 206-543-9831 cdjones@u.washington.edu http://jsis.washington.edu/cv/faccv/f-j/jonesc.html

Foreign language competence: French, Russian
Research Interests: Non-Proliferation, Eurasian Security, Cold War History; NATO-European security
Recent courses: Democracies and the Interantional Security System, International Law and Arms Control, Moscow and European Security since 1991, NATO and European Security Affairs, Security Affairs of Russia & Eurasia, Task Force: NATO's New Strategic Concept
Recent publications:

• “Non-Proliferation Education at the University of Washington”, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, Vo. XXXIV No. 4, Summer, 2006.
• “The Axis of Non-Proliferation", Problems of Post-Communism, Spring, 2006.
• "Reflections on Mirror Images: Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact" in  Leslie Eliason and Emily Goldman, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas (Stanford University Press, 2004).
• "Soviet Doctrine as Strategic Deception," Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 16.3, September 2003.
• "Civil-Military Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: Ten Years After Communism," co-author with Natalie Mychajlyszyn, introductory article to a special issue of Armed Forces and Society, Spring/Summer, 2002.
• "Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact" in a volume edited by Emily Goldman. (Stanford University Press, 2002).

Box 355685 206-543-0115 vkaczyn@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/smea/users/vkaczyn

Foreign language competence: Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: Russian Ocean Policy, North Pacific Marine Business, Arctic Ocean Resources, Coastal Nations Policies
Recent publications:

• "Management of Arctic Resources: Economic, Environmental, Legal and Policy Considerations", with Brosnan, M.,  in: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Globalization, Energy and Environment, Warsaw School of Economics, May 29-30, 2008. (in press).  
• "US – Russian Bering Sea Marine Border Dispute: Conflict over Strategic Assets, Fisheries and Energy Resources", Russian Analytical Digest, No. 20, May 1, 2007, University of Bremen, Germany.
• "The Kuril Islands Dispute Between Russia and Japan: Perspectives of Three Ocean Powers", Russian Analytical Digest, No. 20, May 1, 2007, University of Bremen, Germany.
• "Ocean Policy Toward Russia and the Pacific Fisheries: The U.S. and Western Countries Perspective", Chapter VIII in: Harry N. Scheiber H. N., and Mengerink K.J., (Editors) The Law of the Sea Institute, (Berkeley: University of California, 2004).

Box 353600 206 685 7562 stkerr@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/stkerr/vita.htm

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian
Research Interests: Education in Russia and Former USSR; New Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Recent courses: Russian Education & Society
Recent publications:

• "The experimental tradition in Russian education," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):102-128.
• "Demographic change and the fate of Russia's schools: The impact of population shifts on educational practice and policy," in B. Eklof, ed., Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects, London: Frank Cass (2005):153-175.
• Canning, M., Bentley, M., Vasil'ev, K., Godfrey, M., Kerr, S., Creighton, J., Markov, A., Frumin, I., & Holtzer, D.  (2004).  Модернизация российского образования: Достижения и уроки.  (The modernization of Russian education: Achievements and lessons.)  Washington, DC:  The World Bank.
• "Old technologies in new contexts: Print media and Russian education," in A. DeVaney, S. Gance, & Y. Ma, eds., Technology and resistance: Decentralized communications and new coalitions around the world. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• "When the center cannot hold: The devolution and evolution of power, authority, and responsibility in Russian education," in T. S. Popkewitz, ed., Educational knowledge: Changing relationships between the state, civil society, and the educational community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.
• Kerr, S. T., & Sahlberg, P.  (1994).  "Curriculum and curriculum change in the schools of the Russian Federation."  In S. Heyneman et al., Russian Education in the Transition -- Final Report.  Washington, DC: World Bank.

Box 353650 571-426-0839 kessljc@uw.edu

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Nuclear non-proliferation; Conventional arms trafficking and export controls

Box 358530 425-352-5364 bkochis@u.washington.edu http://www.uwb.edu/IAS/faculty/bkochis.xhtml

Foreign language competence: Czech, German, Russian
Research Interests: International Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Policy Ethics, Czech Culture
Recent courses: Cultures of Resistance, Human Rights and Sustainable Development, Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Political Institutions and Processes, Social Theory and Practice: Policy Ethics, Washington, D.C. Seminar on Human Rights
Recent publications:

• "Human Rights Discourse and Political Legitimacy in Yugoslavia," in Serbia after 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After,  ed. by Sabrina Ramet and Vjeran Pavlakovic, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).
• "On Lenses and Filters: The Role of Metaphor in Policy Theory," Administrative Theory and Praxis, March 2005.
• “An Obligations Approach to Human Rights,” International Global Studies Association Conference, Birmingham (September 2007).

Box 354338 206-543-9006 konick@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/complit/people/faculty/konick/

Foreign language competence: French, Russian
Research Interests: Russian Literature; 19th Century European Literature; Cinema Studies
Recent publications:

• "Categorical Dreams and Complaint Reality: the Role of the Narrator in The Tales of Belkin." In Modern Critical Interpretations: Alexander Pushkin, edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
• "Tolstoy's Underground Woman: A Study of Anna Karenina." In Modern Critical Interpretations: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Box 353120 206-616-5616 tmawkan@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: Azeri, Chagahatai, Chinese, English, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvin, Uyghur, Uzbek
Research Interests: Central Asian Turkic Languages and Cultures, Language Pedagogy
Recent courses: \, Advanced Uighur, Advanced Uzbek, Comparative Muslim Societies in Central Eurasia, Elementary Kazakh, Elementary Uygur, Independent Study - Advanced Tajik, Intensive Elementary Uighur, Intermediate Kazak, Intermediate Uighur, Introduction to Central Eurasia, Introduction to Kazakh, Introduction to Shamanism, Introduction to Uygur, Islam and Muslims in China, Muslims in Central Asia, Peoples and Cultures of Central and Inner Asia, Special Studies in Turkic Languages, Supervised Study: Uighur, The Middle East and Central Asia, TKIC Intermediate Kazak
Recent publications:

• "Language Choice in a Kazak Community at Xinjiang University in Urumchi", in Journal of Turkic Languages, forthcoming.
• "Nineteenth Century Kazak Correspondence with Russian Authorities: Morphemic Analysis and Historical Contextualization", co-author (with Virginia Martin), Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 8 (1), 21-28, Spring 2009
• “Advanced Interactive Listening in Kazak”, Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
• “An Introductory Course in Uyghur” Book one and two, with CD-ROM, at the Center for Languages of Central Asian Regions, Indiana University, 2006
• "Resources for the teaching and learning of Kazak, Kirgiz, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek languages" (Preliminary Draft), Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
•  Jungar Tuvan Texts, Uralic and Altaic Series, Bloomington: Indiana University, 2005.
• Tujue bijiao yuyan xue (Comparative Turkic Linguistics), co-authored (Urumchi: Xinjiang People's Publishing House, 1997).
• Hazirqi zaman Uyghur tili grammatiksi (A Grammar of Modern Uyghur Language) co-authored (Urumchi: Xinjiang People's Publish House, 1996).

Box 353530 206-543-7887 mercer@u.washington.edu http://www.polisci.washington.edu/directory/faculty/Faculty/faculty_mercer.html

Foreign language competence: French, Russian
Research Interests: International Relations Theory; International Security; Political Psychology.
Recent courses: International Conflict, International Relations Seminar: International Security, Introduction to International Relations, Political Psychology of Conflict & Cooperation (International Relations Topic)
Recent publications:

• “Emotional Beliefs,” International Organization (forthcoming).
• “Psychology and Security,” Handbook on Political Science. International Studies Compendium Project. Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming).
• "Human Nature and the First Image: Using Emotion in International Politics," Journal of International Relations and Development (2006).
• "Prospect Theory and Political Science," Annual Review of Political Science 8 (2005): 1-21.
• "Rationality and Psychology in International Politics," International Organization 59 (Winter 2005): 77-106.

Box 353200 616-3160 vitaly@uw.edu http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/facultyresearch/facultyprofiles/Lists/Faculty%20Contact%20Info/DispProfile.aspx?ID=99

Foreign language competence: English, Russian
Research Interests: Teambuilding, Cross-cultural Management, International Business Negotiation
Recent publications:

• Business education in Kyrgyzstan. Training & Management, December, 2002. p. 43.
• Strategic Management and Business Planning: Training materials, 2nd Edition, Bishkek, 2002.
• Management and Organization: Training Materials, Bishkek, 2002.
• The State-Business Relations: Kyrgyzstan 2000, ARD/Checci (USAID), Bishkek, 2001.
• Management of Education, School Management Financial Management, ADB-Fontys: Bishkek, 1999.
• Cognitive Approach to the Design of Management Training Program, The Nature of University Education and Research (Annual Conference Proceeding), Bishkek: AUK, 1999.
• Political System of Kyrgyz Republic, August 1999, UNDP, Bishkek, 1999.

Box 353330 206-543-5784 thornj@u.washington.edu http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/detail.asp?uid=thornj

Foreign language competence: Russian
Research Interests: Economics, Eonomics of Developing and Transition Economies, Comparative Economic Systems
Recent courses: Analysis of the Transforming Socialist Economies, Comparative Economic Systems, Economic Transformation of Russia and Eastern Europe
Recent publications:

• “Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China,” with Elliott Parker (December 2007) Comparative Economic Studies  Vol  49: 514-542.
• "Incentives and Performance of Russian Regional Government Officials" presented at Institutional Change in Russia and China RCIE, 2003.
• Editor of special issue Comparative Economics Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) “Economic Development of Pacific Russia”.
• “Sakhalin Energy: Problems and Prospects” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 9-32.
• “Institutional and Structural Change in Pacific Russia,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2002) 1-8.
• Russia’s Far East; Region at Risk; (edited with Charles Ziegler) University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Surveying Foreign Assisted Businesses in the Russian Far East and Western US (with Nadezhda Mikheeva) Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation, September 1996.
• Effects of Soviet Political Fragmentation on the Energy Infrastructure, (with Richard Cohen, Gregory Gleason, Richard Staar) U.S. Dept of Energy, OFI, July 1992.

Box 353560 206-616-3661 werrett@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: History of Science, c. 1550-1850, History of Science in Imperial Russia, History of Pyrotechnics, Art & Science
Recent courses: Exploration and Empire: Science, Art, and Power, 1300-1800
Recent publications:

• "The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia," Ab Imperio, no. 3 (November 2008): 47-70.
• "Transit and Transition: Astronomy, Topography and Politics in Russian Expeditions to View the Transit of Venus in 1874." (accepted for publication) Cahiers Francois Viete 7 (2006).
• "Spectacular Beginnings: Lectures, Fireworks and Court Demonstrations at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century" (submitted to Isis May 2005).
• "The Russian Academy of Sciences," in Arne Hessenbruch, ed., Reader's Guide to the History of Science, London, Dearborn, 2000.
• "Potemkin and the Panopticon: Samuel Bentham and the Architecture of Absolutism in Eighteenth-Century Russia," The Bentham Newsletter 2 (1999).

Box 353580 206-543-4829 jdwest@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/west/

Foreign language competence: Buriat, Russia, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Latin, Russian
Research Interests: Russian Literature and Culture, Philosophy, Art, Translation Theory
Recent courses: Independent Study/Rsch., Advanced Russian, First Year Russian, Independent Study - Russian Landscape & Architectural History, Major Authors: Chekhov, Reading and Translation in Russian, Russian Art and Architecture, Russian Culture and Russian Identity, 1780-1917, Russian Literary Criticism, Russian Translation, Seminar in Russian Poetry, Study Abroad - Exploration Seminar in Georgia
Recent publications:

• Co-author (with Mary Jo White), In Living Memory: The Persistence of Traditional Images in Russian Visual Culture (In press).
• The Icon and the Word: Literature and Painting in Russian Culture. (In press).
• The Russian Idea: Philosophical Nationalism in Russia Since 1880. (book in progress).
• "Icons, Modernism and Socialist Realism: The Emblematic Idiom of Modern Russian Art." The Icon and Modernity held at Columbia University in October 2003.

Box 353650 206-685-8192 glennys@u.washington.edu https://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=Y-72

Foreign language competence: French, German, Russian, Spanish
Research Interests: History of Russia and the Soviet Union (Especially Tsarist Period - 1991), History of Communism Around the World, European History (Especially 20th c.)
Recent courses: 20th Century Russia, Comparative Revolutions, History of Communism, Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After, Modern Revolutions Around the World, Modern Russian History
Recent publications:

• State Violence and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: The Legacy of Novocherkassk and “Mass Disturbances” of the Early 1960s.   Book manuscript in progress.
• The World the Refugees Made: Los Niños de la Guerra (Children of the Spanish Civil War) in the USSR and Beyond.  Book manuscript in preparation.
• Writing the Soviet Project: Concepts, Paradigms, and the Making of the Soviet Experience   Book manuscript completed May, 2009.
•  The Communist Subject Around the World: A Reader. Under contract with Oxford University Press, 2009.  
• “Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case,” Ab Imperio: Studies of New Histories and Nationalities in the Post-Soviet Space  (2/2007).
• “Fetishizing the Soviet Collapse: Historical Rupture and the Historiography of (Early) Soviet Socialism,”  Russian Review,  66 (January, 2007).

Box 353580 206-543-0268 vaz2@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/people/faculty-staff/zaitseva/

Foreign language competence: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, French, German, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Research Interests: Russian Language, Linguistics and Culture
Recent courses: First Year Russian, Intensive Second Year Russian, Second Year Russian, Study Abroad - Exploration Seminar in Sochi, Russia
Recent publications:

• "Gender and National Identity through Russian Language. Chapter 1," in: Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux, eds. Engendering the Nation: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture (Indiana University Press, 2006).
• The Speaker's Perspective in Grammar and Lexicon. The Case of Russian (Peter Lang: New York, Washington, D.C./Baltimore, San Francisco, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, 1995).

Box 353550 206-543-4915 craigzb@u.washington.edu http://depts.washington.edu/geog/people/zumbrunnen_index.htm

Foreign language competence: German, Russian
Research Interests: Physical and Environmental Geography, Urban Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Resource Analysis, Russian Urban and Environmental problems
Recent courses: Resource Use & Management in Russia & the NIS
Recent publications:

• “Organization and Institutionalization of Russia’s Political Parties in 1905-1917 and 1993-2007: Similarities and Differences from Two Occidentalist Periods,” co-authored by A. Perepechko, C. ZumBrunnen & V. Kolossov, Party Politics (accepted April 2009, on-line version forthcoming 2009).
• “Remeasuring and Rethinking Social Cleavages in Russia: Continuity and Changes in Electoral Geography 1917-1995,” with Perepechko, A., Kolossov, V. ,  Political Geography, 26: (2007) 179-208.
• “Transnational Corporations (TNCs), Globalization and Russian Environmental Policy,” Zeszyty Naukowe, Nr 18, Warszawa: Szkola Glówna Handlowa w Warszawie: Kolegium Gospodarki Swiatowej, 2005, pp. 187-211.
• “Spatial Database Development for Russian Urban Areas: A New Conceptual Framework’” co-authored by Alexander S. Perepechko, Jessica Graybill, Craig ZumBrunnen and Dmitry Sharkov, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Vol. 42, No. 2 (April-June 2005), pp. 144-170.
•  Urban Geography in the Soviet Union and the United States, Editor, Co-Translator, & contributor (Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1992). “Preface,” pp. xvii-xix, Il’ya Zaslavsky and Craig ZumBrunnen, “Soviet Urban Geography Since the Time of Perestroyka,” Chapter 8, pp. 203-211.

Box 353650 206-685-0668 dvaladze@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, Georgian, Russian, Turkish
Research Interests: 18 years of experience in REECA-related issues;10 years in nonprofit leadership and educational outreach and 2 years in news media
Recent publications:

• "Realizing Georgia's Transit Potential: Combating the Barriers to Georgia's Growth." AmCham News Issue 1 Spring 2004.
• “Deconstructing the future: Deinstitutionalizing Georgia's children." AmCham News Issue 2, 2003.
• "GTEP and Then What?" AmCham News Issue 2, 2003.
• "Rose Revolution Raises Expectations for Reform." AmCham News Issue 5, 2003.

Box 353650 206-685-0668 dvaladze@u.washington.edu

Foreign language competence: French, Georgian, Russian, Turkish
Research Interests: 18 years of experience in REECA-related issues;10 years in nonprofit leadership and educational outreach and 2 years in news media
Recent publications:

• "Realizing Georgia's Transit Potential: Combating the Barriers to Georgia's Growth." AmCham News Issue 1 Spring 2004.
• “Deconstructing the future: Deinstitutionalizing Georgia's children." AmCham News Issue 2, 2003.
• "GTEP and Then What?" AmCham News Issue 2, 2003.
• "Rose Revolution Raises Expectations for Reform." AmCham News Issue 5, 2003.