Faculty

Russian and Soviet Cinema

Modern Hebrew literature, Holocaust literature and ethics

Social and cultural history of the medieval Middle East

Modern Eastern Europe, Poland

Early Christian, medieval and Byzantine art

Ethnolinguistics, the culture of dissent in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia

Turkish language and literature

Land Rights, Land Markets Around the World

Northeastern European religion, literary history

Intertextuality in Russian Modernism, German-Russian literary relations, foreign language pedagogy

Polish Cultural History, Polish drama and theatre, Polish literature

Domestic politics, comparative politics in post-communist states

Social stratification, demography

Russian folk music

Comparative law, contracts, Russian legal and economic reform

Politics in Russia and the former Soviet states, regionalism and ethnic politics

Russian and Soviet History

Israeli Literature, American and European Hebrew Literature, Israeli Film, Holocaust Literature, Jewish Literature, Gender Studies, Queer Theory

Education in Russia and Central Asia, especially post-Soviet higher education policy

Rescaling and Reterritorializing Place and Identity in the Post-Socialist Borderlands; Cultural Politics of Memory: Re-imagining the Past, Reclaiming the Future in the Estonian-Russian Borderlands

Modern China: environmental history, state power, industrial development, and wartime mobilization

Armed Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy, Political Violence, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Philosophy of the mind in the Greek and Indian traditions

South slavic literatures and cultures, Serbo-Croatian Language, Central and East European literary history

History of Imperial Russia

Russian Jewish history, socialism, working-class history, and nationalism

Language teaching methodology; teaching of Polish language through literature and media, Polish film

Medieval Byzantine history including the imposition of imperial governmental authority in provincial contexts, especially taxation

Human induced change in the environment

Comparative law, international law

20th century Russian poetry; contemporary Russian prose; translation; critical theory

Turkic philology & linguistics, social-economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the Muslim Turks of Central Eurasia

Russian modernist literature and art; Russian émigré literature; late Soviet culture; Russian poetry; Russian intellectual history; nationalism studies

Russian and Soviet history and literature

Russian literature

Language teaching methodology, instructional technology, and 19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture

Theatre for Youth, Russian theatre and culture, international theatre for young audiences

India and the Indian Ocean area in the medieval and early modern age.

Yiddish and Hebrew Literature, Film and Culture, American Jewish Literature and Culture, Transnational Medical Humanities, Age Studies, Ethnic-American and Immigrant Narratives

Hebrew and Yiddish literature; Rabbinic literature and thought; 
19th-century Russian literature and intellectual history; Literature and religion