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CERES Faculty

Michael David-Fox
Professor; Department of History, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Kathleen Smith
Teaching Professor, Associate Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Jill Dougherty
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Diana Dumitru
Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Maria Snegovaya
CERES Postdoctoral Fellow, Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Angela Stent
Professor Emerita, Director Emerita of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Harley Balzer
Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East Europeans Studies

Our program works closely with our colleagues in the Department of Slavic Languages.

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Gregory Afinogenov
Assistant Professor; Department of History

Mustafa Aksakal
Associate Professor; Department of History, Nesuhi Ertegun Chair of Modern Turkish Studies

Spencer Boyer
Adjunct Professor; BMW Center for German and European Studies

Sinan Ciddi
Adjunct Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Liana Fix
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Center for German and European Studies

Vadim Grishin
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Trevor Gunn
Adjunct Professor

Thane Gustafson
Professor; Department of Government, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Gavin Helf
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Lise Howard
Professor; School of Foreign Service, Department of Government

Roger Kangas
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Michael Rouland
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Claire Kaiser
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Jaclyn Kerr
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Charles King
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Chair of the Department of Government

Jennifer Long
Teaching Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies

Erica Marat
Adjunct Associate Professor; Center for Security Studies

James Millward
Professor of Intersocietal History; Department of History

Wael Moussa
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies

Theresa Sabonis-Helf
Professor of the Practice and Concentration Chair for Science, Technology and International Affairs

Farima Sadigh Mostowfi
Associate Teaching Professor; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Director of Persian Program

Sylvia Önder
Teaching Professor; Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Head of the Turkish Program

Gonzalo Paz
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies; Center for Latin American Studies

William Pomeranz
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Elton Skendaj
Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Director, Democracy and Governance Program

Judyth Twigg
Adjunct Professor; Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Jennifer Wistrand
Adjunct Professor; Institute for the Study of International Migration, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

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