Melikian Center Affiliates

Agribusiness

Eric Thor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkely

Research Interests: Agribusiness financing and resource management in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

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Anthropology

Christy Turner, II

Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Interests: Siberian Ethnology, Ethnic Odontology

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Architecture

Thomas Morton

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Architecture and Urbanism of the Roman Empire; Architecture and Urbanism of North Africa; Kyustendil (Bulgaria) architectural and archaeological study

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Paul Zygas

Ph.D. Cornell University

Research Interests: Soviet Constructivism

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Art/Photography

Tamarra Kaida

Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

M.F.A. State University of New York, Buffalo

Research Interests: Russian Art Photography

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Barrett Honors College

Laura Popova

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Interests: Eurasian archaeology

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Biology and Environmental Science

Andrew Smith

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Wildlife Biology, Eurasia

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Economics

Josef Brada

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Interests: East-West Trade/Technology Transfer

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Nancy Roberts

Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Public Finance

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Gender Studies

Ann Hibner-Koblitz

Ph.D., Boston University

Research Interests: Russian Women, Women and Science

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History

Stephen Batalden

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Interests: Russia, Southeastern Europe

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Volker Benkert

D.Phil., Universiät Potsdam, expected 2010

Research Interests: 20th Century German History, particularly the process of transformation in East Germany after 1989

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Frederick Giffin

Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

Ph.D., Emory University

Research Interests: Soviet Union, U.S.-Russian Relations

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Brian Gratton

Ph.D., Boston University

Research Interests: U.S. Social and Immigration History; the Elderly; Mexican Americans and Hispanics; Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) Attitudinal Survey

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Anna Holian

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Interests: 20th-century Germany and Eastern Europe; migration and displacement; architecture and urbanism

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Laurie Manchester

Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests: European Cultural History, Russia

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Mark von Hagen

Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests: Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian history

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Journalism

Dan Fellner

M.A., Ohio State University

Research Interests: Public Relations, Print and Broadcast Journalism

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Languages and Literatures

Snaford Couch

Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Research Interests: foreign language pedagogy

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Lee B. Croft

Ph.D., Cornell University

Research Interests: poetics, linguistics

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Rolfs Ekmanis

Ph.D., Indiana University

Research Interests: Non-Russian Literatures of Eurasia

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Aleksandra Gruzinska

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests: Polish, French

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Peter Horwath

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Historical surveys of German culture; Austrian literature, 1780-1914; German literature on film. Coordinator of German. Specialized studies of Serbian and Croatian folk tales

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Ileana Orlich

Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Romanian

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Danko Sipka

Ph.D., University of Belgrade, Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Research Interests: Linguistics, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish

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Emil Volek

Ph.D., Charles University, Prague

Research Interests: Czech, Soviet Formalist Writing

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Law

Orde Kittrie

J.D., University of Michigan

Research Interests: Public International Law, International Economic and Business Law, International Negotiations, Nuclear Non-Proliferation.

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Musicology

Ellon D. Carpenter

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Russian Musical Aesthetics, Composition

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Robert W. Oldani

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Interests: 19th-C. Russian Music, Mussorgsky

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Nursing

Pauline Komnenich

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Interests: Community Health Care Delivery, Sociolinguistics

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Public Affairs

Thomas Catlaw

Ph.D., The George Washington University

Research Interests: Public Administration, Human Sciences (Contemporary Social and Political Theory)

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Religious Studies

J. Eugene Clay

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Interests: Eastern Orthodoxy, Russian Religious Dissent

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Agnes Kefeli Clay

Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Islam in Russia and Central Asia

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SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Thomas J. Keil

Ph.D., Temple University

Research Interests: Post-Socialist Romania

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SOCIAL AND FAMILY DYNAMICS

Victor Agadjanian

Ph.D., University of Southern California

Research Interests: Eurasian Demography

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University Libraries

Vladimir T. Borovansky

M.L.S., Ph.D., Charles University, Prague

Research Interests: Collection Development

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Michael Markiw

M.L.S., University of Western Ontario

Research Interests: Slavic-area Bibliography

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