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
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
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Marina Alexandrova (Potoplyak)
Senior Lecturer
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, Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde, Pedagogy and Instructional Technology, Russian Food History
Lecturers
Petra Dominkova
Lecturer
petra.dominkova@austin.utexas.edu |
512-758-5952
Education: PhD., FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: Czech and Eastern European Cinema, and Film Noir
Christian Hilchey
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
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 Modernism, Bruno Schulz, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Postcolonial Theory/Decolonization, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Language Teaching Methodology
Heather R Rice
Lecturer
hrrice@utexas.edu |
512-232-6913 |
MEZ 3.316
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Interests: Russian language pedagogy, creating Russian language instructional materials, 2nd 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 |
BUR 482
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Metadiscourse, interaction, intercorporeality, conversation analysis, study abroad, discourse analysis, the use of technology in language classes
Professors Emeriti
John Kolsti
Professor Emeritus
jkolsti@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Seth Wolitz
Professor Emeritus
slwolitz@mail.utexas.edu |
512 471 5531 |
HRH 3.114A
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Other faculty
Kiril Avramov
Visiting Post-doctoral research fellow
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.
Leslie O'Bell
Associate Professor, Retired
lobell@utexas.edu |
(512) 472-5080
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
