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
burgerm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 456
Education: Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington
Interests: Southeastern Europe, urban culture, consumption, gender, ethnic conflict, and nationalism
Associate Professors
Craig Campbell
Associate Professor
craig.campbell@utexas.edu |
EPS 4.128
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 and Arabic Flagship Program
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 and the media/ Post-Soviet youth culture/ Language teaching pedagogy/ Russian popular culture/ Modern Russian language/ Contemporary Russian media
Tatjana Lichtenstein
Associate Professor; Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
lichtens@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6171 |
GAR 0.110
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
Julia Mickenberg
Associate Professor, Interim Chair of Department, Interim Director of CREEES
mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 456
Education: Ph. D., University of Minnesota
Interests: American radical cultures, Russia in the US imagination (1905-1945), women's history, children's literature, history of childhood, Americans abroad, utopia; higher education
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 |
BUR462
Education: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Bosnian, Croatian, & Serbian Literature and Visual Arts, Memory & Trauma Studies, Heritage Industry & Exhibition Culture, Balkan Popular Culture, Queer Theory
Michael Pesenson
Assistant Professor, Graduate Advisor
mpesenson@utexas.edu |
512 232 9132 |
BUR 464
Education: Ph.D, Yale University
Petre Petrov
Assistant Professor
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
Lecturers
Marina Alexandrova (Potoplyak)
Lecturer
marina.alexandrova@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9193 |
BUR 446
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
Karen Chilstrom
Lecturer
chilstrom@utexas.edu |
512-475-6145 |
BUR 578
Education: PhD, UT Austin
Interests: Language and education policy in Ukraine; applied linguistics/Russian language teaching methodology; best practices in the teaching of culture; psycholinguistics
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: Polish language teaching methodology, development of materials for teaching Polish.
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, Applied Linguistics, 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 474
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.
Yekaterina Severts (Cotey)
Lecturer
ycotey@utexas.edu |
BUR 482
Education: Ph.D., UT Austin
Interests: Long Nineteenth Century, Russian History, British History, Folklore, Russian Novel, Alexander Pushkin, Fedor Dostoevsky, Russian Women Writers, Semiotics, Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, Online Pedagogy, Pop Culture and RuNet
Assistant Instructors
Professors Emeriti
John Kolsti
Professor Emeritus
jkolsti@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
CAL 415
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
Leslie O'Bell
Associate Professor, Retired
lobell@utexas.edu |
(512) 472-5080
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
