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

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 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 0.110/RLP 2.402C

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

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. Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Yale University

Senior Lecturers

Marina Alexandrova

(on leave)

Faculty

marina.alexandrova@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9193 |
BUR 466

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

Lecturers

Mary Greff

Faculty

BUR 570