{"id":209,"date":"2016-02-25T03:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:36:32","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/people\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"tax-section-title\">Ellison Center Staff<\/h2>\n<div class=\"people-template external-people mb-30\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"post-2351\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scandinavian.washington.edu\/people\/guntis-smidchens\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Guntis \u0160midchens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/1909\/10\/gsmidchens.jpg\" class=\"attachment-people-thumb size-people-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t<span class=\"people-deet\"><span class=\"deet-name\">Guntis \u0160midchens<\/span>\n<p class=\"job-title\">Director, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies<\/p>\n<p>\t                <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-17354\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/people\/aliyah-vinikoor\/\" alt=\"Aliyah Vinikoor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/plugins\/jsis-custom\/images\/jsis-missing-image.png\" alt=\"Jackson School of International Studies\" \/>\t\t\t<span class=\"people-deet\"><span class=\"deet-name\">Aliyah Vinikoor<\/span>\n<p class=\"job-title\">Associate Director, Division 3<\/p>\n<p>\t                <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-17356\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/people\/gina-werdel\/\" alt=\"Gina Werdel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/plugins\/jsis-custom\/images\/jsis-missing-image.png\" alt=\"Jackson School of International Studies\" \/>\t\t\t<span class=\"people-deet\"><span class=\"deet-name\">Gina Werdel<\/span>\n<p class=\"job-title\">Program Operations Specialist, Division 3<\/p>\n<p>\t                <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-sep\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellison Center Staff<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/people\/gina-werdel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":17338,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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