Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson, Professor Emeritus, studies Imperial Russian and Soviet History, and has also taught a wide range of courses on other historical topics—in particular, the Cold War. His research concentrates on social and economic questions. He is the author of Peasant and Proletarian: Moscow’s Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1979), and co-author of The Seam Allowance: Industrial Homework in Canada’s Garment Industry (1982) and Regent Park...

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johnson@chass.utoronto.ca
Klaus Brummer

Klaus Brummer holds the chair of International Relations at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. He served as co-editor-in-chief of the journal “Foreign Policy Analysis” (2018-2020) and was president of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association (2015-2016). As guest lecturer/professor, he has taught at Duke University, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Helsinki, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His main...

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Cassandra Hartblay

Cassandra Hartblay is Assistant Professor of Health Humanities in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the inaugural director of the Centre for Global Disability Studies. Her research is focused on the moral and cultural dimensions of disability as social difference. Her book manuscript, Totally Normal, explores how the specific context of postsocialism in Russia produces particular configurations of disability as social...

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19 Russell Street

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Piotr J. Wrobel

Professor Piotr Wrobel holds the Konstanty Reynart Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment in 1994, he taught Polish, Modern European, German and Russian history at the University of Warsaw, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan State University at East Lansing and at the University of California at Davis. He obtained his PhD from the University of Warsaw and has been...

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piotr.wrobel@utoronto.ca
Andres Kasekamp

Before returning to U of T, Andres Kasekamp was Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu in Estonia and Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Humboldt University Berlin and a visiting researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His first book was The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia (Palgrave 2000). His second book, A History of the Baltic...

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Room 254S, 1 Devonshire Place

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andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Paola Salardi

Paola Salardi is an Assistant Professor in Economics and the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Her background is as an applied economist with a focus on economics of conflict, economic development, inequality and political economy. Paola’s research has focused on the short and long-term consequences of conflict on welfare, the...

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Room 259S, 1 Devonshire Place

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paola.salardi@utoronto.ca

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Lucan Ahmad Way

Way’s research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and the developing world. His most recent book (with Steven Levitsky), Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability in the Modern World (forthcoming Princeton University Press) provides a comparative historical explanation of the extraordinary durability of autocracies born of violent social revolution. Professor Way’s solo authored book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015), examines the sources of...

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Room 109N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Tamara Trojanowska

Research interests Intersections of drama and theatre with history, philosophy, religious thought and transgression Theories of drama, theatre and performance Polish culture and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries Discourses of identity education Ph. D.- University of Toronto, (1994) Ph. D – Research, Oxford University, England, (1987) M. A. – Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1983) Awards and Distinctions SSHRC Insight Development Grant — An Exploratory Research in the AI-mediated Arts (co-applicant with Pia Kleber – applicant, Antje Budde, Sven Dickinson, David Rokeby –...

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214 College Street

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T 416 978 7982

t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca

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Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy where he is affiliated with the Belt and Road in Global Perspective research initiative. Dr. Smith’s current project looks at the adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party as it undergoes a historic re-consolidation of authority over Chinese state and society. His research has been published in International Journal, Pacific Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis....

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Harald Bathelt

Harald Bathelt holds the Canada Research Chair in Innovation and Governance at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. He is also cross-appointed in the University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of industrial and economic geography, political economy and methodology, specifically in the analysis of industrial clustering, knowledge generation and innovation processes over distance, and the socio-economic impacts of...

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100 St. George Street

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harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca

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Lilia Topouzova

Lilia Topouzova is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology and the Department of History at the University of Toronto. She is a historian and a documentary filmmaker whose interdisciplinary work explores the relationship between remembering and forgetting. She studies and teaches the history and legacy of Eastern European communism, creative nonfiction, oral history, political violence, transitional justice, memory, and gender studies. Her academic research...

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Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History at Harvard and the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He approaches modern Jewish history from a transnational and global perspective. His work encompasses the history of the Jews in modern West and Central Europe, North America, and Palestine/Israel. He is particularly interested in the relationship between modern Israel and diaspora Jewish...

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dpenslar@fas.harvard.edu

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Katia Malyuzhinets

Katia joins the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies as a Program and Internship Coordinator. She is a Higher Education professional with 8 years of experience in student recruitment, coordination of education programs, communications, and event management. Prior to joining the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Katia worked as an Education Programs Coordinator at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine looking after the Undergraduate and...

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Paul Perron

Paul Perron is Director of the Centre des Études de la France et du Monde Francophone / Centre for the Study of France, former Chair of the Department of French and Principal of University College, University of Toronto. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris VII, Distinguished Visiting Professor at National Central University in Taiwan, he has lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia. Past President of...

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303N, 1 Devonshire Place

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p.perron@utoronto.ca

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Joseph Schallert

Prof. Joseph Schallert has been a member since 1993 of the faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Old Church Slavonic, Comparative Slavic Linguistics, the History of the Russian Language, and Slavic Folklore. His primary areas of research are Macedonian and Bulgarian dialectology, as well as the comparative accentuation of Slavic languages and dialects. His...

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joseph.schallert@utoronto.ca

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Lynne Viola

Professor Viola is a specialist in 20th century Russian history, focusing on policial and social history. Her research interests include gender, rurality, political culture, and violence in the era of Stalin. She is the author of some 30 articles; five books—The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization (1987); Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance (1996); The War Against the...

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Drew Fagan

Drew Fagan is a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He teaches policy implementation in the graduate degree program and leads other university initiatives. Professor Fagan is a senior advisor at McMillan Vantage Policy Group, a national public affairs firm affiliated with the law firm McMillan. As a public policy advisor, his clients have included departments, agencies and boards with all three orders of government, as...

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drew.fagan@utoronto.ca
Anna Shternshis

Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her doctoral degree (DPhil) from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Indiana UP, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP, 2017, paperback, 2021). Together...

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anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Seva Gunitsky

Seva Gunitsky is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His work examines how international forces like war and globalization shape democracy and domestic reforms. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press), selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of 2017. Some of his work has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as...

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s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca

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Themistoklis Aravossitas

Themistoklis Aravossitas teaches Modern Greek language and culture at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Athens, Greece, an MA and a PhD from the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is a SSHRC-Canada post doctoral fellow investigating...

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themis.aravossitas@utoronto.ca
Donna Orwin

Research Interests Russian psychological prose Russian writings on war 18th and 19th century Russian literature and intellectual history Education Ph.D., Harvard University 1979 M.A., Harvard University 1971 B.A., magna cum laude, Cornell University 1969 Awards and Distinctions Member, Royal Society of Canada. Inducted November 17, 2012 Recipient of the Pushkin Medal by Russian President Vladimir Putin, for contribution “to the rapprochement and mutual enrichment of different people’s cultures and the study and popularisation of Russian language and culture” 2008 Dean’s Award...

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donna.orwin@utoronto.ca

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Timothy Andrews Sayle

Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program. He is the author of Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order (Cornell, 2019). He has co-edited two volumes: with Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq (Cornell, 2019); and with Susan Colbourn, The Nuclear North: Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age (University...

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tim.sayle@utoronto.ca

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Ronald W Pruessen

Ronald W. Pruessen has served as the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy’s Director for International Partnerships & Research and as Chair of the Department of History. His primary research and teaching interests are in 20th century U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Early work focused on the Cold War (e.g., John Foster Dulles: To the Threshold, 1888-1952), but attention to both transatlantic relations and U.S.-China tensions led...

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pruessen@chass.utoronto.ca
Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses in political science and public policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and conducts research in the areas of immigration and citizenship policy in Europe and North America. Triadafilopoulos received his Ph.D. in Political Science for the New School for Social Research and is...

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Eva Tomory

Eva M. Tomory graduated from Nagy Lajos High School in Pécs, Hungary. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from York University. Eva Tomory earned her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Pécs, Hungary, in 2015. From 1984 to 2001, with occasional short breaks, she taught Hungarian at the Hungarian Chair of the University of Toronto. Since 2009 Eva Tomory teaches introductory,...

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John Noyes

Research: Globalization, culture and philosophy in late-Enlightenment Germany; Concepts of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa Recent Book: Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2015) Forthcoming Book: Herder’s “Essay on Being”: A Translation and Critical Approaches (Camden House) Recent Awards: Fellowship at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa) (2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: “The Legacy of Herder’s Theory of Cultural Difference and Universal Reason” (2016-17) SSHRC Insight Development Grant: “Globalization in the Age of...

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john.noyes@utoronto.ca
Robert Austin

Robert C Austin (PhD University of Toronto) is a specialist on East Central and Southeastern Europe in historic and contemporary perspective. In the past, Austin was a Tirana-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; a Slovak-based correspondent with The Economist Group of Publications; and a news writer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. Austin has written articles for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Southeast European Times, Orbis,...

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robert.austin@utoronto.ca
Alison Smith

Alison K. Smith is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on the history of social estates in tsarist Russia and on the history of food in Russia, culminating in Cabbage and Cuisine: A History of Food in Russia (Reaktion, 2021). Her current research uses a focus on one particular region — the imperial palace of Gatchina and its surrounding area — to examine the ways...

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alison.smith@utoronto.ca

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Eric Jennings

Eric Jennings is the distinguished professor of the history of France and the Francophone World at the University of Toronto (Victoria College). His books include Vichy in the Tropics (Stanford), Curing the Colonizers (Duke), Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (California), Free French Africa in World War II (Cambridge), Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar (Palgrave), and most recently Escape from Vichy: the Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Harvard). All of his books have also appeared in French...

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100 Saint George Street, room 2074

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T 416-585-4431

eric.jennings@utoronto.ca
John Zilcosky

John Zilcosky is Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He writes about modern European literature and culture, psychoanalysis, trauma, the art of travel, and the history and philosophy of sports. His books include Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, awarded biennially for the best book in German Studies), Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey, Uncanny Encounters: Literature,...

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Odette Hall 303 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

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T 416-926-2324

zilcosky@chass.utoronto.ca

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Filiz Kahraman

Filiz Kahraman is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates law and politics from international and comparative perspectives. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining why labor activists in Europe pursue human rights law as a new mobilization strategy and how international law has affected the lives of aggrieved workers on the ground. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was a...

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Kenzie Burchell

Kenzie Burchell is a media sociologist who for over a decade has been examining contemporary contexts of communication overload and how it relates to the production of uncertainty and the perceived scarcity of time. From the management of everyday interpersonal media practices to professional conventions of journalistic reporting on protest, humanitarian crisis, and war, Kenzie’s distinct research agendas across communication and journalism studies speak to his wider political economic engagement...

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Paul Robert Magocsi

Paul Robert Magocsi holds degrees from Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972) and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). Since 1980 he has been a professor history and political science at the University of Toronto, where he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He has published over 875 works, 41 of which are books, including: The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian...

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Department of Political Science University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3018 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada

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T 416-978-3332

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ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
James Retallack

After graduating from Trent University in 1978, I studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received my D.Phil. in 1983. I joined the University of Toronto in 1987 and served as Chair of the German Department from 1999 to 2002. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervise Ph.D. field preparations and dissertations, in German and European history from 1770 to 1945. My research has been assisted by grants...

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Room 2084, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.

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james.retallack@utoronto.ca

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Mark Manger

Mark Manger is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs at the Munk School, and Director of the Global Economic Policy Lab. His work investigates on the political economy of trade and exchange rate policy. He is the author of “Investing in Protection: The Politics Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South” (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World...

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Matthew Light

Matthew Light studies migration control, policing and criminal justice, and public and citizen security, primarily in the post-Soviet region. His book (Routledge 2016) and several related articles on Russian federal and regional migration policies in the aftermath of the breakup of the USSR analyze what forms of freedom of movement emerged in the new post-Soviet Russian state, and frames the Soviet and post-Soviet experience with migration management in comparative international perspective. Light’s...

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Centre for Criminology, 14 Queen’s Park Crescent West,

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T 416-946-7419

matthew.light@utoronto.ca
Alexander Reisenbichler

Alexander Reisenbichler is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and research coordinator of the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His work explores the politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with regional specializations in Western Europe and the United States. His book project investigates the political economy of housing capitalism in the United...

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128N, 1 Devonshire Place

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a.reisenbichler@utoronto.ca

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Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer L. Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and from the National Endowment...

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Stefan Soldovieri

Prof. Soldovieri’s current research and teaching interests are in environmental humanities and cultures of extraction and energy production in German contexts. He is a member of the Environmental Humanities Working Group in the Jackman Humanities Institute and graduate faculty member at the School of the Environment. Professor Soldovieri is cofounder of iPRAKTIKUM, an experiential learning and internationalization initiative that provides U of T students from all disciplines with impactful internships in...

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T 416 926 2341

F 416 926 2329

stefan.soldovieri@utoronto.ca

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Angelica Fenner

Angelica Fenner is cross-appointed Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and the current Graduate Coordinator in the Cinema Studies Institute. She is the author of Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2011), co-editor of The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film (Camden House, 2014), and currently completing a book project on first-person film-making in contemporary Germany. Her interests...

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angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca

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Edward Schatz

Edward Schatz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He recently published Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia with Stanford University Press. His previous books include Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009). Professor Schatz is currently working with Professor Rachel Silvey on a SSHRC-funded project about the downstream effects of...

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Room 323N, 1 Devonshire Place

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ed.schatz@utoronto.ca
Veronika Ambros

Born in Prague, Dr. Veronika Ambros obtained her PhD at the Free University of Berlin. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and at the Centre of Comparative Literature, at the University of Toronto. Her research includes the theories of the Prague linguistic circle, their precursors the Russian formalists and their successors, most prominently the Tartu School around Yuri Lotman. The conference Structuralism(s)...

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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 405

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T 416-926 1300 ext. 3200

F 416 926-2076

veronika.ambros@utoronto.ca

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Willi Goetschel

Background PhD 1989 in German, Harvard University Lic. phil (=M. Phil) 1982 in Philosophy, Universität Zürich President, Foundation Stiftung Dialogik www.dialogik.org General Editor, Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy www.bamidbar-journal.org Executive Editor, The Germanic Review Editorial Board, Weimarer Beiträge Editorial Board, Lessing Year Book teaching interests 18th to 20th century German Literature and Thought, Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture, Critical Theory. Current research interests I am currently working on a project that examines the emergence of how modern philosophy theorizes difference, otherness, and alterity. The project called “Difference...

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Odette Hall 313 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

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w.goetschel@utoronto.ca

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Paul Cohen

BIO A historian of early modern France, Paul Cohen pursues research interests in a range of distinct areas: the formation of nation-states; the social history of languages; the invention of linguistic nationalism; and early modern empire. He also publishes widely on issues of contemporary concern in France. He taught at the Université Paris-8 (Vincennes-St Denis) before joining the University of Toronto, where he directed the Centre for the Study of France...

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Markus Stock

Background Dr. phil. University of Göttingen, 2000 Markus Stock teaches German language, literature, and culture of the Middle Ages. His additional teaching interests include German poetry from its beginnings to the present day as well as literary and cultural theory. He is cross-appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies, where he teaches courses on medieval German romance and heroic epic, philological methodology, and Old Saxon. Markus Stock supervises MA and PhD students specializing...

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University of Toronto 15 King’s College Circle, Room H013 Toronto, ON M5S 3H7

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markus.stock@utoronto.ca
Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen is Director of the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Global Migration Lab. He is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration. He served as Interim Director of the Munk School from 2017 to 2020. Hansen works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of...

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Ksenya Kiebuzinski

Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, for the University of Toronto Libraries. She also co-directs (with Professor Lucan Way) the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinates the Ukraine Research Group, at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events,...

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Room 3008, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street

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T 416-978-1288 (M-W) 416-978-4826 (Th-F)

ksenya.kiebuzinski@utoronto.ca

pjrc.library.utoronto.ca
Rebecca Wittmann

Rebecca Wittmann (PhD University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto and incoming Chair of the Department of Historical Studies at UTM. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and postwar Germany, trials of Nazi perpetrators and terrorists, and German legal history. She has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the United States Holocaust Memorial...

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Dept. of Historical Studies Erindale Hall, 2nd floor, L5L 1C6

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T 905-828-3735

wittmann@chass.utoronto.ca
Julie MacArthur

Dr. Julie MacArthur is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include cartography and geographic imaginations, borders and local practices of space, anti-colonialism, memory and visual representation in constructions of community, power, and dissent in modern Africa. She is the author of Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya (Athens, 2016) and the editor of Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular...

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David Wilson

David A. Wilson, from Whitehead County Antrim, is the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor in the History Department and Celtic Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Prior to this he presented radio documentaries on matters historical and political for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Initially a colonial American historian, he began his publishing career with Paine and...

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Spyridon Kotsovilis

Spyridon Kotsovilis’ research interests include Greek politics, international relations, democratization, revolutions and mobilization dynamics, as well as advanced methods and complex systems in which he trained at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. His current book project examines contentious political action from a networks perspective. He has published and widely disseminated his work in major conferences and invited talks on international relations, comparative politics and advanced methodologies. He has...

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Joshua Arthurs

Joshua Arthurs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, specializing in the cultural, social, and intellectual history of modern Italy and Europe. His interests include fascism and the far right; the politics of memory, monuments and museums; ideologies of race, empire, and the classical tradition; and everyday life in wartime and dictatorship. He is the author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman...

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Taras Koznarsky

Research Interests: Ukrainian and Russian literatures in the first half of the nineteenth century; national and cultural identity; modernism and avant-garde. Current research project: “The text of Kyiv: constructions of the city in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish literary and cultural imaginations, 1800s-1930s.” Education: Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001 M.A., University of Alberta, 1994 B.A., Lviv University, 1991

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T 416-926-1300 ext. 3236

taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Koznarsky.shtml
Elizabeth Acorn

Elizabeth Acorn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. She specializes in international law and international relations, with a particular focus on international economic law, comparative regulation, anti-corruption, and the governance of global markets. Elizabeth completed her PhD in government at Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellowship in business ethics at Yale University. She holds a JD from the University of Toronto and is admitted to practice in New York and Ontario. Recent publications: “Behind...

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Ron Levi

Ron Levi serves as Associate Director, Academic at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. He is a Professor in the Munk School and the Department of Sociology, and a Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Trained in law and sociology, Ron focuses his research on the legal and political dimensions of how we respond to crime and violence, with a focus on political junctures and times...

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315 Bloor Street West, Room 213

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T 416-978-2486

ron.levi@utoronto.ca

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Darius Ornston

Darius Ornston is Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto where he specializes in the politics of cooperation and change. An expert in Nordic innovation policy, his first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps, illustrates how those communities use cooperation to enter new, high-technology markets. In Good Governance Gone Bad, he demonstrates how the same, tight-knit networks which accelerate...

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1 Devonshire Place, Room 359S

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darius.ornston@utoronto.ca

twitter.com/ornston
Anna Korteweg

Anna Korteweg (Phd 2004, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on the political debates regarding the integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and Canada. She analyzes the ways in which the perceived problems of immigrant integration are constructed in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin. Her research has focused on debates surrounding...

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T 905-828-5395

anna.korteweg@utoronto.ca

korteweg.wordpress.com
Maxim Tarnawsky

Research Interests: The Ukrainian novel, Ivan Franko. Education: Ph.D., 1986, Harvard University B.A., 1977, The University of Pennsylvania

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121 St Joseph Street

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T 416–978–8972

tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/net-cv.html

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Ivan Kalmar

Ivan Kalmar’s research has addressed a wide range of topics ranging from Inuit language and the mythology of the computer, to the image of Muslims and Jews in western Christian cultural history. He continues to be keenly interested in how Islamophobic and populist notions are generated and spread online. Currently his research focuses on populism in Europe, with a focus on relations between the post-communist members of the European Union...

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i.kalmar@utoronto.ca

kalmar.artsci.utoronto.ca

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Peter Solomon

Peter H. Solomon, Jr. (PhD Columbia University) is Professor of Political Science, Law and Criminology, University of Toronto. He specializes in post-Soviet politics and in the politics of law and courts in various countries, including Canada and the USA. Author of Soviet Criminologists and Criminal Policy (1978); Criminal Justice Policy: From Research to Reform (1983), Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (a Russian-language edition Sovetskaia iustitsiia...

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Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959

F 416-946-8939

peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Thomas Lahusen

Thomas Lahusen (PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland) is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History and Centre of Comparative Literature. His research interests focus on the experiences of “real socialism” and other forms of “totalitarian” culture during the twentieth century. His publications include How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (1997) and the following co-edited collections: Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (1993), Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s (1995), Socialist...

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Room 111N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Elizabeth Acorn

Affiliated Faculty, CERES

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Veronika Ambros

Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures;
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 405
Themistoklis Aravossitas

Lecturer in Hellenic Studies at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
303N, 1 Devonshire Place
Joshua Arthurs

Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC
Affiliated Faculty Member, CERES

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Robert Austin

Associate Director, CERES
Professor; Teaching Stream, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Graduate Student Coordinator

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Location:
Room 126N, 1 Devonshire Place
Harald Bathelt

Professor, Geography & Planning
Canada Research Chair in Innovation and Governance at the Department of Political Science;
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
100 St. George Street
Aurel Braun

Professor, International Relations Program
Affiliated Faculty, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 309N, 1 Devonshire Place
Klaus Brummer

2021-2022 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies

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Kenzie Burchell

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Paul Cohen

Associate Professor, Department of History,
CERES, Affiliated Faculty Member

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Harvey Dyck

Professor Emeritus; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Drew Fagan

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty Member, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Angelica Fenner

Associate Chair, Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies;
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Contact:

T 416-926-2326

F 416-926-2329

angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca

german.utoronto.ca/angelica-fenner
Willi Goetschel

Professor of German and Philosophy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Odette Hall 313 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
Seva Gunitsky

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, CERES

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Location:
124N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place
Randall Hansen

Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Director, Global Migration Lab
Professor, Political Science

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Cassandra Hartblay

Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Society, UTSC
Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Affiliated faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Director, Centre for Global Disability Studies

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Location:
19 Russell Street
Jennifer Jenkins

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Modern German History Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Eric Jennings

Professor; Department of History;
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
100 Saint George Street, room 2074
Robert Johnson

Professor Emeritus, History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place
Filiz Kahraman

Assistant Professor of Political Science, UTSC;
Affiliated Faculty Member, CERES

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Location:
room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ivan Kalmar

Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Andres Kasekamp

Professor, Department of History
Chair of Estonian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy;
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 254S, 1 Devonshire Place
Olga Kesarchuk

Business Officer, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Location:
Room 125N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ksenya Kiebuzinski

Slavic Resources Coordinator
Head, Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre
Co-Director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 3008, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street
Anna Korteweg

Professor of Sociology,
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Spyridon Kotsovilis

Sessional Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Program

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Taras Koznarsky

Associate Professor, Ukrainian Literature, Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 417
Thomas Lahusen

Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 111N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ron Levi

Associate Director, Academic
Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Sociology
Distinguished Professor of Global Justice
Director, Global Justice Lab

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Location:
315 Bloor Street West, Room 213
Matthew Light

Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies,
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Centre for Criminology, 14 Queen’s Park Crescent West,
Julie MacArthur

Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Paul Robert Magocsi

Professor, Department of History and Department of Political Science
Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Department of Political Science University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3018 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada
Katia Malyuzhinets

Program and Internship Coordinator, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Currently on leave. Please contact Steven Maddox (s.maddox@utoronto.ca)

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, room 127N
Mark Manger

Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs

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Milena Methodieva

Assistant Professor of Ottoman, Turkish, and Balkan History
Affiliated Faculty Member, CERES

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Location:
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave
John Noyes

Professor of German
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Odette Hall 304

Contact:

T 416-926-2344

john.noyes@utoronto.ca
Darius Ornston

Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, Room 359S
Donna Orwin

Professor of Russian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 415
Derek Penslar

Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History Emeritus
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Paul Perron

Director of the Centre des Études de la France et du Monde Francophone (CEFMF)
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Professor Emeritus, Department of French

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Location:
303N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ronald W Pruessen

Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS and Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Alexander Reisenbichler

Assistant Professor of Political Science, UTM
JIGES research coordinator
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
128N, 1 Devonshire Place
James Retallack

Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 2084, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.
Paola Salardi

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice

Office Hours by appointment only, sign up at https://calendly.com/paola-salardi

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Location:
Room 259S, 1 Devonshire Place
Timothy Andrews Sayle

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, CSUS
Bissell-Heyd Research Fellow 2017-18

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Location:
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St. Rm 3075, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Joseph Schallert

Associate Professor, Slavic Linguistics, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 409
Edward Schatz

Director, Eurasia Initiative
Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective

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Location:
Room 323N, 1 Devonshire Place
Anna Shternshis

Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies
Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
room 218, JHB, 170 St. George Street
Alison Smith

Professor, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Stephen Smith

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Stefan Soldovieri

Chair and Associate Professor of German
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Graduate Faculty, School of Environment

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Peter Solomon

Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place
Susan Solomon

Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Location:
Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place
Markus Stock

Principal, University College
Associate Professor of German and Medieval Studies
Affiliated Faculty Member, CERES

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Location:
University of Toronto 15 King’s College Circle, Room H013 Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Maxim Tarnawsky

Associate Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
121 St Joseph Street
Eva Tomory

Lecturer in Hungarian Studies; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 121N, 1 Devonshire Place
Lilia Topouzova

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology
Affiliated Faculty Member, CERES

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Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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Tamara Trojanowska

Associate Professor, Polish Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures;
Director, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
214 College Street
Lynne Viola

Professor, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 112N, 1 Devonshire Place
Lucan Ahmad Way

Professor, Department of Political Science
Cross Appointment, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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Location:
Room 109N, 1 Devonshire Place
David Wilson

Professor, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Rebecca Wittmann

Associate Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Dept. of Historical Studies Erindale Hall, 2nd floor, L5L 1C6
Piotr J. Wrobel

Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies
Professor, International Relations Program
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Room 212N, 1 Devonshire Place
John Zilcosky

Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Odette Hall 303 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

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T 416-926-2324

zilcosky@chass.utoronto.ca

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