UT College of Liberal Arts:

Professors

Robert Moser

Professor

rmoser@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7278 |
BAT 4.148

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Joan Neuberger

Professor

neuberger@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7219 |
GAR 2.102

Education: Ph.D., 1985, Stanford University

Mary Neuburger

Professor, Department Chair, Director of CREEES

burgerm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 452

Education: Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington

Interests: Southeastern Europe, Bulgaria, food history, urban culture, consumption, gender, identity

Steven Seegel

Professor

sseegel@utexas.edu |
BUR 584

Education: Ph.D., 2006, Brown University

Interests: East European critical geography/cartography; public history; digital and spatial humanities; transnational biography

Associate Professors

Craig Campbell

Associate Professor, Associate Director of CREEES

craig.campbell@utexas.edu |
512-232-4342 |
SAC 4.122

Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta

Interests: Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization. Visual and intermedia ethnography

Thomas Jesús Garza

University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director, Texas Language Center

tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9126 |
BUR 458

Education: Ed.D., Harvard University, 1987

Interests: Russian language teaching methodology/ Applied linguistics/ Contemporary Russian culture/ The Chechen wars / Post-Soviet youth culture/ Russian popular culture/ Contemporary Russian media/ Performing masculinity in Contemporary Russia & Mexico

Tatjana Lichtenstein

Associate Professor; Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies

lichtens@austin.utexas.edu |
737-701-0600 |
GAR 2.138

Education: Ph.D. 2009, University of Toronto, Canada

Keith Livers

Associate Professor

kalivers@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9128 |
BUR 468

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Charters Wynn

Associate Professor

wynn@utexas.edu |
512-475-7234 |
GAR 1.120

Education: Ph.D., 1987, Stanford University

Assistant Professors

Kiril Avramov

Assistant Professor

kiril.avramov@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6145 |
BUR 578

Education: Ph.D., University of Sofia

Interests: Non-western political warfare, Soviet and Russian propaganda, Soviet and Russian influence and psychological operations, "weaponization of information" and cognitive hacking, elite and mass cognitive resilience, history of Soviet and East European civilian and military intelligence services.

Vladislav Beronja

Assistant Professor

vladberonja@utexas.edu |
BUR464

Education: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Interests: Bosnian, Croatian, & Serbian Literature; Memory & Trauma Studies; Comics and Visual Narrative; Exhibition Culture; Balkan Popular Culture; Queer Theory; Digital Humanities

Chelsi West Ohueri

(on leave)

Assistant Professor

chelsiwestohueri@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9129 |
BUR 462

Education: Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, race and racialization, belonging, Albania, Southeastern Europe, Romani studies

Petre Petrov

Assistant Professor, Graduate Advisor

petrov@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9130 |
BUR 486

Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Russian and Western modernism; socialist realism; Stalinist culture; Soviet language and ideology; theory of ideology; Marxism; critical theory

Maria Sidorkina

Assistant Professor

maria.sidorkina@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 474

Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, Yale University

Interests: publics and politics, language and social life, comparative illiberalisms, post-socialist Russia, digital sociality

Senior Lecturers

Marina Alexandrova

Associate Professor of Instruction

marina.alexandrova@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9193 |
BUR 466; utexas.zoom.us/my/marina.alexandrova

Education: PhD, UT Austin

Interests: History of Political and Cultural Dissent in Russia, Russian Revolutionary Movements, International Modernism and Avant-Garde, Spirituality in Imperial Russia, Russian Intellectual History

Christian Hilchey

Senior Lecturer

hilchey@utexas.edu |
BUR 472

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Language pedagogy, Czech instructional material development, Texas Czech communities, food culture, Czech linguistics, verbal prefixes, Czech dialects

Lecturers

Bella B. Jordan

Lecturer

belka@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9127 |
BUR 470

Education: Ph.D., UT Austin

Interests: History, travel, architecture

Bernadeta Kaminska

Lecturer

BernadetaKaminska@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9133 |
BUR 580

Education: M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland)

Interests: I like to travel, read, watch foreign films.

Frane Karabatic

Lecturer

frane.karabatic@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 570

Interests: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Russian language pedagogy; language teaching methodology; creating language instructional materials; second language acquisition; Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian cinema; masculinity in the twentieth-century Russian literature.

Oksana Lutsyshyna

Lecturer

lutsyshyna@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 478

Education: Ph.D., University of Georgia

Interests: Ukrainian and Polish modernisms; poetry; postcolonial theories/decolonization; feminist theories; cultural studies; film studies; language teaching methodology; experiential learning

Heather R Rice

Assistant Professor of Instruction

hrrice@utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 386

Education: Ph.D., Indiana University

Interests: Community Building and Student to Student Interactivity in Online Learning; Experiential Learning Online; Distance Learning; Russian Language Pedagogy; Second-Language Acquisition, Phonetics and Phonology, Russian and Soviet cinema

Jason Roberts

Lecturer

j.roberts@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9125 |
BUR 586

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Intellectual history of confessional theology including discourses of demonology and magic, representations of time and space in systems of divination, Siberian shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy.

Evgenia Wilkins

Lecturer

evimikha@utexas.edu |
5124714056 |
BUR 482

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Intercultural Competence, Metadiscourse, interaction, conversation analysis, study abroad, discourse analysis, the use of technology in language classes