The Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC)

 


Faculty
and
Departments

 
REESC MEMBERS (department, email, and phone)
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
VISITING FACULTY
GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWS
 

Twenty area specialists are members of the REESC committee, four active associates participate in the REESC program, and from among the five faculty emeriti come additional significant contributions to the life of REESC on the UO campus. 

These twenty-nine Russian and East European specialists are associated with five different professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences. Altogether they represent twelve different academic departments.

Members together have logged about 30 years of research on the scene in Russia and Eastern Europe--without calculating years for those who were born there.

Table: REESC Committee members, plus
Departments, EMAIL addresses, and office phone numbers.
Click on hypertext names for individual websites and departments.
Click EMAIL to send a message to a REESC committee member

 REESC
Name Department EMAIL & (541) 346-EXTENSION
John E. Bonine School of Law EMAIL      tel. -3827
Mischa Buczkowski Library EMAIL      tel. -1858
Mary-Lyon Dolezal Art History EMAIL      tel. -2071
Julie M. Hessler History EMAIL      tel. -4001
Katya E. Hokanson Comparative Lit EMAIL      tel. -3947
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Art History EMAIL      tel. -3677
Alan Kimball History EMAIL      tel. -4813
Yelaina Kripkov REESC EMAIL     tel. -4077
Mark Levy Music EMAIL      tel. -2852
Mikhail Myagkov Political Science EMAIL     tel. -4868
Julia Nemirovskaya REESC EMAIL     tel. -4043
Jenifer Presto Comparative Lit EMAIL      tel. -4065
James L. Rice REESC EMAIL      tel. -4079
Stephen J. Shoemaker Religious Studies EMAIL      tel. -4998
Carol T. Silverman Anthropology EMAIL      tel. -5114
Sherwin Simmons Art History EMAIL      tel. -2080
Caleb Southworth Sociology EMAIL      tel. -5053
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska Linguistics EMAIL      tel. -5922
Andrew Verner College of Business EMAIL      tel. -3251
Marc Weinstein Management EMAIL      tel. -3292
Ronald Wixman Geography EMAIL      tel. -4568
Lisa Wolverton History EMAIL      tel. -6158

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Name Department EMAIL (& tel)
Bean Comrada Author &
translator from the Czech
EMAIL
Oleg Kripkov REESC Adjunct Professor EMAIL |tel. -4001
Richard Morris Community liaison,
Woodburn OR Old Believers
EMAIL
Nathan Rosen REESC Adjunct Professor EMAIL

 

EMERITI
Gene Barnes, Library
A. Dean McKenzie, Art History
Fima Yurevich, REESC
George Zaninovich, Political Science

 

IN MEMORIUM

Gustav Alef, History, REESC founding member
John Fred Beebe, REESC founding member
Joseph Fiszman, Political Science, REESC founding member
Tanya Gorokhovskaya, Russian Instructor
Albert Leong, REESC founding member

 

OTHER VISITING FACULTY

2002 Spring: Mikhail Epshtein (Emory University)
2001 Spring: Igor Yefimov  (HERMITAGE, Publishers of New Russian Books)
2000 Spring: Vladimir Ufliand (Saint Petersburg poet)
1999 Spring:Catherine Chvany (MIT)
1998 Spring: Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh)
1997 Spring: Lev Loseff (Dartmouth College)
1996 SpringTatyana Tolstaya (Skidmore College)

1996 Winter: Boris Mironov, Professor of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, was visiting professor of Russian history and participated in the REESC seminar on Russian elections and other recent events.

1995 Spring: Andrei Sinyavsky (Sorbonne)
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Ilya Serman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Ruth Zernova (Jerusalem, Israel)
Efim Etkind (University of Paris, Nanterre)

Community programs or public symposia--for example:

Russian Culture, Before and After Soviet Power (1994)
New Political Cultures: Economics, Gender and Society in Eastern Europe (1991)
The Millennium: Christianity and Russia 988-1988 (1988)

These and other public programs on campus have featured presentations by

Joseph Brodsky
Ernst Neizvestny
Vladimir Voinovich
Rita Klimova
 

REESC departments sponsor extended stays by visiting Fulbright and International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) scholars from Russia and East Europe.

1996 February 13, visiting scholars from Russia, Natalya Kudryavtseva (Nizhnii Novgorod), Tatyana Kutz (Barnaul, Siberia), and Mikhail Vasiliev (St. Petersburg) presented a public colloquium, "Russian Universities in a Time of Rapid change". The visitors were sponsored by the Junior Faculty Develoment Program of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

1995, spring term, Dimitrina Petrova, Bulgarian philosopher and human rights activist, held Carlton and Wilberta Savage Professorship at UO.