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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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

F 416-978-5566

ukr.chair@utoronto.ca
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
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

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

Dr. Lilia Topouzova is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto. She is a historian and a documentary filmmaker whose scholarship and creative practice explore the history and legacy of political and colonial violence. Her research on the history of state repression and transitional justice in Bulgaria appears in Gender& History, Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, and The Routledge Handbook of...

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lilia.topouzova@utoronto.ca
Claudia Diehl

Claudia Diehl is the 2019-2020 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair in German and European Studies. She joins the Munk School from the University of Konstanz where she holds a chair in microsociology. Claudia is currently working on integration processes among new immigrants in Europe and on xenophobia and ethnic discrimination. She received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2001 and has been a researcher at the research institute of the...

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219N, 1 Devonshire Place

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claudia.diehl@utoronto.ca
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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Room 110N, 1 Devonshire Place

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

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johnson@chass.utoronto.ca
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

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peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
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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Room 112N, 1 Devonshire Place

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lynne.viola@utoronto.ca
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
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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room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place

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filiz.kahraman@utoronto.ca
Mark Manger

Mark S. Manger (PhD UBC) is an Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs specializing in Political Economy. His prior appointments were Lecturer for International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill, and Advanced Research Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His research focuses on the...

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T 416-946-8927

mark.manger@utoronto.ca
Lama Mourad

Lama Mourad is a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Her PhD is from the University of Toronto. She specializes in comparative politics and the politics of migration, with a regional focus on the Middle East. In 2018-2019, she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s...

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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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124N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959

s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca

individual.utoronto.ca/seva
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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Odette Hall 304; 50 St. Joseph Street

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T 416-926-2344

john.noyes@utoronto.ca
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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T 416-978-2070

F 416-946-8915

alison.smith@utoronto.ca

alisonksmith.aseees.hcommons.org

twitter.com/profaks
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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Room 303N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8959

francisco.beltran@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
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

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

Edward Schatz is Associate 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 204N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8965

ed.schatz@utoronto.ca
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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Room 111N, 1 Devonshire Place

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thomas.lahusen@utoronto.ca
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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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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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 415

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T 416-971-2647

donna.orwin@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Orwin.shtml
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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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 409

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T 416-926-1300 ext. 3246

joseph.schallert@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Schallert.shtml
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 innovation policy, comparative politics, and Nordic Europe. His first book, When Small States Make Big Leaps, illustrates how these communities use cooperation to enter high-technology markets. In Good Governance Gone Bad, Dr. Ornston demonstrates how the same, tight-knit networks that accelerate restructuring can also lead to policy...

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1 Devonshire Place, Room 359S

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T 647-308-9423

darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
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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303N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416 946 89 59

themis.aravossitas@utoronto.ca
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. 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 (forthcoming Princeton University Press) provides a comparative historical explanation of the extraordinary durability of autocracies born of violent social revolution. ...

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lucan.way@utoronto.ca
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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T 416-926-2320

w.goetschel@utoronto.ca

german.utoronto.ca/willi-goetschel
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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121 St. Joseph Street, Room 417

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T 416-926-1300 ext. 3236

taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/slavic/people/faculty/Koznarsky.shtml
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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Room 121N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8945

eva.tomory@utoronto.ca

www.utoronto.ca/hungarian/faculty.html
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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325N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416 946 8116

vohringer@daad.org
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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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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T 617 998 54 08

dpenslar@fas.harvard.edu

ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/derek-penslar
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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katia.malyuzhinets@utoronto.ca
Cassandra Hartblay

Assistant Professor of Health Studies and Anthropology, UTSC Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology Affiliated faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Biography 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. 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...

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19 Russell Street

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cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca

cassandrahartblay.com
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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121 St Joseph Street

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T 416-926-1300 x3338

tarn@chass.utoronto.ca

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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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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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korteweg.wordpress.com
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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julie.macarthur@utoronto.ca
Alexander Reisenbichler

Alexander Reisenbichler is a political economist, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, and research coordinator of the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School. 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 the political economy of housing capitalism in the United States and Germany from a comparative,...

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128N, 1 Devonshire Place

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a.reisenbichler@utoronto.ca

www.reisenbichler.net
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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T 416-946-8942

robert.austin@utoronto.ca
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. Currently his research focuses on Islamophobia and illiberalism in Europe, with a focus on differences and relations between the post-socialist members of the European Union and the rest (including between the East and the West in Germany). He...

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i.kalmar@utoronto.ca

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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 now hold the rank of University Professor. 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 1770...

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F 416-978-4810

james.retallack@utoronto.ca

retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca
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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T 416-978-7124

matthew.light@utoronto.ca
Alexia Yates

Alexia Yates is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is a historian of economic life, focusing on urban political economy, business history, and the history of popular finance in modern Europe. Her first book, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital, appeared with Harvard University Press in 2015 and won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize for the best book in non-Canadian history...

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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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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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T 416-946-8931

andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Anna Shternshis

Anna Shternshis holds the position of 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 (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 Sonia Met...

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room 218, JHB, 170 St. George Street

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T 416 978 8131

anna.shternshis@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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T (416) 978-7035

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utoronto.academia.edu/PhilTriadafilopoulos
John Zilcosky

John Zilcosky is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He writes about European literature and culture, psychoanalysis, 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,...

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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

german.utoronto.ca/john-zilcosky
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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Robert Austin

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

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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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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

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Room 309N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8952

F 416-946-8957

abraun@chass.utoronto.ca

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Claudia Diehl

2019-2020 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies

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219N, 1 Devonshire Place

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claudia.diehl@utoronto.ca
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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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

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

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r.hansen@utoronto.ca
Cassandra Hartblay

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19 Russell Street

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cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca

cassandrahartblay.com
Joseph Hawker

Research and Projects Coordinator
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Joint Initiative in German and European Studies

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Room 324N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8698

F 416-946-8939

j.hawker@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

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

Contact:

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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room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place

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filiz.kahraman@utoronto.ca
Ivan Kalmar

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

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i.kalmar@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 416-946-8931

andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
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

korteweg.wordpress.com
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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Location:
121 St. Joseph Street, Room 417

Contact:

T 416-926-1300 ext. 3236

taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

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

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Thomas Lahusen

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

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Location:
Room 111N, 1 Devonshire Place

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thomas.lahusen@utoronto.ca
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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Julie MacArthur

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

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julie.macarthur@utoronto.ca
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

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Location:
1 Devonshire Place, room 127N

Contact:

T 416-946-8962

katia.malyuzhinets@utoronto.ca
Mark Manger

Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs

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T 416-946-8927

mark.manger@utoronto.ca
Lama Mourad

Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

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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

Contact:

T 416-926-2344

john.noyes@utoronto.ca

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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

Contact:

T 647-308-9423

darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
Donna Orwin

Professor of Russian Literature and Chair, 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

Contact:

T 416-971-2647

donna.orwin@utoronto.ca

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

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Derek Penslar

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

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T 617 998 54 08

dpenslar@fas.harvard.edu

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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Location:
303N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416 946 89 59

p.perron@utoronto.ca

munkschool.utoronto.ca/cefmf
Ronald W Pruessen

Professor Emeritus, 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

Contact:

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

Contact:

T 416-930-0738

F 416-978-4810

james.retallack@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

Acting Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Director, Eurasia Initiative
Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective

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Location:
Room 204N, 1 Devonshire Place

Contact:

T 416-946-8965

ed.schatz@utoronto.ca
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

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

alisonksmith.aseees.hcommons.org

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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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T 416 926 2341

F 416 926 2329

stefan.soldovieri@utoronto.ca

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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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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

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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
Lilia Topouzova

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

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lilia.topouzova@utoronto.ca
Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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T (416) 978-7035

t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca

utoronto.academia.edu/PhilTriadafilopoulos
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

Contact:

T 416 978 7982

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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Room 112N, 1 Devonshire Place

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lynne.viola@utoronto.ca
Nicola Vöhringer

Director, DAAD Information Centre Toronto

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325N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416 946 8116

vohringer@daad.org

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Lucan Ahmad Way

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Room 109N, 1 Devonshire Place

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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 J. Wrobel

Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies
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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Alexia Yates

CERES Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World

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alexia.yates@manchester.ac.uk

www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/alexia.yates.html

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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

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