Francisco Beltran

Francisco Beltran is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Previously, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), a Visiting Professor at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, a Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, and the Department of Government, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He...

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Maxim Tarnawsky

Research Interests: The Ukrainian novel, Ivan Nechui-Levyts’kyi. Education: Ph.D., 1986, Harvard University B.A., 1977, The University of Pennsylvania

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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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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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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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Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar is Visiting Professor of History at Harvard and the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History 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 societies, global nationalist movements, European colonialism,...

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Christina E. Kramer

Research Interests: Literary translation, Slavic and Balkan synchronic linguistics, language and politics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, heritage speakers, verbal categories. Education: Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983 M.A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989 B.A., Beloit College, 1975

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John Zilcosky

Prof. John Zilcosky teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where he writes about modernist literature, travel writing, colonial cultures and psychoanalysis. His publications include Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism and the Traffic of Writing (winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, 2003), Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (2008), andUncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the End of Alterity (forthcoming, 2015). Zilcosky also writes about philosophy,...

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Egor Lazarev

Egor Lazarev is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His main research interests are state-building and the rule of law, social and political legacies of conflict, and ethnic and religious politics. His primary geographic focus is the Muslim-majority regions of the former Soviet Union. His book project “Laws in Conflict” explores how the social and political consequences of armed conflict affect legal pluralism – the...

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Kai Arzheimer

Kai Arzheimer is the 2017-2018 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies. He joins the Munk School from the University of Mainz in Germany, where he holds the Chair for German Politics and Political Sociology. Kai researches voter behaviour and political attitudes in Western democracies. He is particularly interested in political extremism and in electoral support for the Radical Right in a comparative perspective. His current publications include...

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Robert Austin

Robert Clegg 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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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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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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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) and Free French Africa in World War II (Cambridge). Jennings has two books forthcoming in 2017: Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar (Palgrave) and Escape from Vichy:...

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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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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
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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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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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 pri...

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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 800 works, 39 of which are books, including: The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus’,...

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ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
Alexander Reisenbichler

Alexander Reisenbichler is Assistant Professor of West European Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. 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 current research investigates how public policies shape the political economies of homeownership in the United States and Germany from a comparative, historical perspective. For this research,...

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Phil Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Triadafilopoulos received his Ph.D. in Political Science for the New School for Social Research and is a former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. He also held a two-year visiting research fellowship at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University...

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Seva Gunitsky

Seva’s research examines how systemic disruptions like major wars, economic shocks, and imperial collapses shape modern democracy. His first book, titled Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century, offers a new explanation of modern regime change, focusing on great power transitions as drivers of sweeping waves of domestic transformations. His research has also appeared in International Organization, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, among others. A native...

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s.gunitsky@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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Nicola Vöhringer

Nicola Vöhringer studied Modern German Literature, Medieval German Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Tübingen and the University of Strasbourg, and received her MA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto in 2017 with a dissertation on the role of sound and acoustic perception in late medieval devotional culture and mysticism. Focusing on the sensory participation of lay audiences in the medieval mass and...

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Carolina de Miguel Moyer

Carolina de Miguel Moyer (PhD University of Michigan) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests lie in comparative politics with an emphasis in the comparative study of political parties and party systems, elections and electoral behavior, the politics of federalism and decentralization, and political geography. Carolina’s current book project explores how the geographic concentration of economic interests in a country...

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Sidney Smith 3035, 100 St. George Street

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Alison Smith

Professor Smith is a specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russian history. She has recently completed a monograph on social status and social mobility: For the Common Good and Their Own Well Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (Oxford, 2014), and has also published a series of articles on related subjects, including “Freed Serfs without Free People: Manumission in Imperial Russia,” AHR (2013). Her work on these projects was supported by grants from SSHRC and...

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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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Thomas Lahusen

Thomas Lahusen (PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland) is Professor at the Department of History and Centre of Comparative Literature. His research interests focus on the multi-faceted 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...

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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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p.perron@utoronto.ca

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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. Induced 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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Robert Brym

Robert Brym is SD Clark Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair (Undergraduate) of the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He has published more than 100 academic articles and 16 books on Canada, Russia, and the Middle East. His work has been translated into nine languages. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarly work, including the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology...

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725 Spadina Avenue

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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 5 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 Fellowship...

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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, where I am now Professor of History and German Studies. I 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...

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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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taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

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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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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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Anna Korteweg

Anna Korteweg (PhD, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga. She has been cross-appointed to the Centre for European Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES), at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, since 2008 and was Acting Director of CERES during the 2011-2012 academic year. Professor Korteweg’s research focuses on the integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and...

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Scott Eddie

Scott Eddie is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, where he taught since 1971. He is author of three books and several dozen articles and book chapters resulting from his research on the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe and the economics of transition from central planning to a market economy. Before coming to Toronto, Prof. Eddie held earlier teaching appointments at Williams College, the University...

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Lucan Ahmad Way

Lucan Ahmad Way received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He has held fellowships at Harvard University (Harvard Academy and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies) and the University of Notre Dame (Kellogg Fellowship). Way’s research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and the developing world. His most recent book, Pluralism by Default:...

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Kevin Rowley

Kevin Rowley is the acting Program and Internship Coordinator at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. No stranger to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Kevin was previously responsible for coordinating the Munk One Program, the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice, the Fellowship in Global Journalism, and the Global Ideas Institute. He brings over three years of experience in student guidance, recruitment, communications, events planning, and academic programming. Kevin...

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Anna Shternshis

Anna Shternshis holds the position of Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her doctoral degree (D.Phil) in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) and When...

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room 218, JHB, 170 St. George Street

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T 416 978 8131

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Lynne Viola

Professor Viola is a specialist in twentieth century Russian history and the history of the Soviet Union, focusing on political and social history. Her research interests include women, peasants, political culture, and Stalinist terror. She is the author of a some thirty articles and four books – The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization (1987); Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of...

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Room 112N, 1 Devonshire Place

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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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Matthew Light

Matthew Light (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. His research focuses on issues of migration policy, criminal justice, and policing in post-Soviet countries. His book, Fragile Migration Rights: Freedom of Movement in Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2016) examines the evolution of rights to freedom of movement in contemporary Russia based on case studies of four regions. Light’s work has also been published in journals including Post-Soviet...

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

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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 323N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Darius Ornston

Darius Ornston is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in the comparative political economy of Western Europe. Dr. Ornston’s first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps (Cornell University Press), examines how Denmark, Finland and Ireland leveraged private-public, industry-labour and inter-firm cooperation to assume surprisingly competitive positions in emerging, high-technology markets. His research on Nordic...

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1 Devonshire Place, Room 359S

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T 647-308-9423

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Orysia Kulick

Dr. Orysia Kulick received her PhD in History from Stanford University, where she focused on the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the Russian Empire. Her dissertation “When Ukraine Ruled Russia: Regionalism and Nomenklatura Politics after Stalin, 1944-1990” analysed local bureaucracies in Kyiv, Lviv, and Dnipropetrovsk as well as the personal networks that shaped Soviet Ukrainian relations with the Kremlin. With the support of the Petro Jacyk fellowship, she will transform her dissertation into a book-length...

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113N

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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

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Tamara Trojanowska

Research interests Polish culture and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries Intersections of culture and history Discourses of identity Theories of drama, theatre and performance education Ph. D.- University of Toronto, (1994) Ph. D – Research, Oxford University, England, (1987) M. A. – Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1983) Awards and Distinctions Book Institute in Kraków – book translation subvention (co-recipient), 2014 Dean’s Merit Award, 2012, 2011 Warsaw University, Centre for Polish Language and Culture “Polonicum,” honorary mention for the outstanding achievements in...

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214 College Street

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T 416 926 2075

t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca

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Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen is Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Canada Research in Global Migration. He works on Immigration and Citizenship, Demography and Population Policy and the Effects of War on Civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics,...

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Room 216, 315 Bloor Street West

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Edward Schatz

Edward Schatz (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) works on questions of social mobilization, statehood, and identity politics in ex-Soviet Central Asia and has an abiding interest in qualitative methods and methodologies. He has published with the University of Chicago Press, the University of Washington Press, as well as articles with journals such as Comparative Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, and International Studies Quarterly. He is currently completing a book on the politics of...

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János Kenyeres

János Kenyeres graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in English and Hungarian literature in 1991 and earned his doctoral degree in literary studies from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000. He is currently Visiting Professor of Hungarian at the University of Toronto, a position he filled from 2005 to 2008 as well as in March-April 2015. As visiting professor, his work is concentrated on Hungarian literature, cinema and culture. He...

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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

Contact:

T 416-926 1300 ext. 3200

F 416 926-2076

veronika.ambros@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Ambros.shtml
Themistoklis Aravossitas

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

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303N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416 946 89 59

themis.aravossitas@utoronto.ca
Kai Arzheimer

Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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219N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416 946 89 65

kai.arzheimer@utoronto.ca

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Robert Austin

Associate Professor; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Room 126N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8942

robert.austin@utoronto.ca

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Harald Bathelt

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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100 St. George Street

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T 416-946-0183

harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca

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Francisco Beltran

Lecturer in Comparative and European Studies, Department of Political Science and the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Room 303N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959

francisco.beltran@utoronto.ca
Aurel Braun

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

Location:
Room 309N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8952

F 416-946-8957

abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Robert Brym

SD Clark Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Sociology Associate,
Affiliated Faculty, the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies

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725 Spadina Avenue

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T 416-978-3410

F 416-787-0795

rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca

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Carolina de Miguel Moyer

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Location:
Sidney Smith 3035, 100 St. George Street

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T 416-978-3344

F 416-978-5566

carol.demiguel@utoronto.ca

www.carolinademiguel.com

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Harvey Dyck

Professor Emeritus; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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F 416-946-8939

hdyck@chass.utoronto.ca

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Scott Eddie

Professor Emeritus. Department of Economics
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Room 121N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8945

eddie@chass.utoronto.ca

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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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T 416-926-2326

F 416-926-2329

angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca

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Willi Goetschel

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

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

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T 416-926-2320

w.goetschel@utoronto.ca

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Seva Gunitsky

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty, CERES

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124N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959

s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca

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Randall Hansen

Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Professor, Political Science

Executive Assistant: Amanda Martin at amandas.martin@utoronto.ca

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Location:
Room 216, 315 Bloor Street West

Contact:

T 416-946-8450

F 416-946-8915

r.hansen@utoronto.ca
Joseph Hawker

Program Officer, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Joint Initiative in German and European Studies

Location:
Room 324N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8698

F 416-946-8939

j.hawker@utoronto.ca

twitter.com/CERESMunk

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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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Room 206N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8944

F 416-946-8963

jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Eric Jennings

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

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100 Saint George Street, room 2074

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T 416-585-4431

eric.jennings@utoronto.ca
Robert Johnson

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

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Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959 or 647-236-5284

F 416-946-8939

johnson@chass.utoronto.ca

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Filiz Kahraman

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

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filiz.kahraman@utoronto.ca
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 323N, 1 Devonshire Place

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andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
János Kenyeres

Visiting Professor in Hungarian Studies

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318N

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T 416 946 8965

janos.kenyeres@gmail.com
Olga Kesarchuk

Business Officer, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Location:
Room 125N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8938

F 416-946-8939

olga.kesarchuk@utoronto.ca
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

Contact:

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

ksenya.kiebuzinski@utoronto.ca

pjrc.library.utoronto.ca
Anna Korteweg

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

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T 905-828-5395

anna.korteweg@utoronto.ca

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Spyridon Kotsovilis

Sessional Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Program

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spyridon.kotsovilis@utoronto.ca
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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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 417

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T 416-926-1300 ext. 3236

taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

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Christina E. Kramer

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

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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 415

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T (416) 926-1300, ext. 3221

ce.kramer@utoronto.ca

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Orysia Kulick

Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow

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113N

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T 416 946 8945

orysia.kulick@utoronto.ca

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Thomas Lahusen

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

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Room 318N, 1 Devonshire Place

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thomas.lahusen@utoronto.ca
Egor Lazarev

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Matthew Light

Assistant 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,

Contact:

T 416-978-7124

matthew.light@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 416-978-3332

F 416-978-5566

ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
Katia Malyuzhinets

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

On leave until April 2020. Please contact Kevin Rowley at 416-946-8962

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1 Devonshire Place, room 127N

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John Noyes

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

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Location:
Odette Hall 304; 50 St. Joseph Street

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T 416-926-2344

john.noyes@utoronto.ca

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Darius Ornston

Assistant 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

Contact:

T 647-308-9423

darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
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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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 415

Contact:

T 416-926-1300 ext. 3316

donna.orwin@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Orwin.shtml

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Derek Penslar

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

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T 617 998 54 08

derek.penslar@utoronto.ca

ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/derek-penslar
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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303N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416 946 89 59

p.perron@utoronto.ca

munkschool.utoronto.ca/cefmf
Ronald W Pruessen

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

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T 416-946-0977

pruessen@chass.utoronto.ca

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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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128N, 1 Devonshire Place

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a.reisenbichler@utoronto.ca

www.reisenbichler.net
James Retallack

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

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Room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8944

F 416-978-4810

james.retallack@utoronto.ca

retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca
Kevin Rowley

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

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Room 127N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8962

kevin.rowley@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 416-926-1300 ext. 3246

joseph.schallert@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Schallert.shtml
Edward Schatz

Associate Professor of Political Science
Affiliated Faculty; Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Co-Director, Islam and Global Affairs Initiative

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Room 320N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8965

ed.schatz@utoronto.ca
Anna Shternshis

Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and the Director of the 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

Contact:

T 416 978 8131

anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Alison Smith

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

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T 416-978-2070

F 416-946-8915

alison.smith@utoronto.ca

twitter.com/profaks
Peter Solomon

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

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Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8959

F 416-946-8939

peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Susan Solomon

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

Location:
Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8959

F 416-946-8963

ssolomon@chass.utoronto.ca
Georgina Steinsky

Executive in Residence, Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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georgina.steinsky@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 416-926-1300 x3338

tarn@chass.utoronto.ca

homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~tarn/net-cv.html
Eva Tomory

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

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Room 121N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8945

eva.tomory@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/hungarian/faculty.html
Phil Triadafilopoulos

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Advisory Committee, Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Graduate Program
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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Contact:

T 416) 978-7035

t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca

triadafilopoulos.wordpress.com/.
Tamara Trojanowska

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

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Location:
214 College Street

Contact:

T 416 926 2075

t.trojanowska@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Trojanowska.shtml

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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

Contact:

lynne.viola@utoronto.ca
Nicola Vöhringer

Director, DAAD Information Centre Toronto

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Location:
325N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416 946 8116

vohringer@daad.org

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Lucan Ahmad Way

Professor of Political Science
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 109N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8945

F 416-946-8939

lucan.way@utoronto.ca
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

Contact:

T 905-828-3735

wittmann@chass.utoronto.ca
Piotr Wrobel

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

Location:
Room 212N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8971

piotr.wrobel@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 416-926-2324

zilcosky@chass.utoronto.ca

german.utoronto.ca/john-zilcosky

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