Melikian Center Affiliates
Agribusiness
Ph.D. University of California, Berkely
Agribusiness financing and resource management in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Anthropology
Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Siberian Ethnology, Ethnic Odontology
Architecture
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Architecture and Urbanism of the Roman Empire; Architecture and Urbanism of North Africa; Kyustendil (Bulgaria) architectural and archaeological study
Art/Photography
Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
M.F.A. State University of New York, Buffalo
Russian Art Photography
Barrett Honors College
Biology and Environmental Science
Economics
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
East-West Trade/Technology Transfer
Gender Studies
History
D.Phil., Universiät Potsdam, expected 2010
20th Century German History, particularly the
process of transformation in East Germany after 1989
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Modern East European history (in particular Poland and Czechoslovakia/Slovakia), modern Jewish history, comparative and social history, theories of ethnicity, violence, nationalism, and the aftermath of genocide.
Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
Ph.D., Emory University
Soviet Union, U.S.-Russian Relations
Ph.D., Boston University
U.S. Social and Immigration History; the Elderly; Mexican Americans and Hispanics; Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) Attitudinal Survey
Ph.D., University of Chicago
20th-century Germany and Eastern Europe; migration and displacement; architecture and urbanism
Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Fordham University
Critical theory, Continental philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism to post-Holocaust and reparative ethics
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Religious and economic factors that shaped power relations within Europe and throughout the Mediterranean, circa 1000 to circa 1500
Journalism
Languages and Literatures
Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
foreign language pedagogy
Ph.D., Columbia
Russian literature; women writers; comparative literary studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Historical surveys of German culture; Austrian literature, 1780-1914; German literature on film. Coordinator of German. Specialized studies of Serbian and Croatian folk tales
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Romanian literature; comparative literature; American studies in East Central Europe; gender studies; ethnic and religious conflict in East Central Europe
Ph.D., University of Belgrade, Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Linguistics, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish
Law
LL.M., University of London; J.D., University of Washington
Religion and the Constitution
J.D., University of Michigan
Public International Law, International Economic and Business Law, International Negotiations, Nuclear Non-Proliferation.
Musicology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Russian Musical Aesthetics, Composition
Nursing
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Community Health Care Delivery, Sociolinguistics
Politics and Global Studies
Ph.D., Duke University
Ethnic conflict and civil war dynamics; Institutional change and political instability; causal inference and statistical methodology
Public Affairs
Ph.D., The George Washington University
Public Administration, Human Sciences (Contemporary Social and Political Theory)