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Visiting Professors: Wolfram Hilz is Hannah Arendt DAAD Visiting Professor for German and European Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto for the academic year 2011-2012. He is full professor of political science at Bonn University, Germany. He holds a Master and Doctoral degree in political science from University of Munich as well as a habilitation in political science from the University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany. Before working at Bonn University he had teaching and research positions at the University of the German Armed Forces in Neubiberg, Germany, and at the University of Technology in Chemnitz. His research interests include German foreign and security policy, the European Integration process, Europe as a global actor, challenges by migration & security and conflict management. He has published books and articles on European dynamics, the role of the nation state in contemporary Europe, German foreign policy and Germany’s bilateral relations. He is a member of the advisory board of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) and the international advisory board of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC).
Oleh Havrylyshyn is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies with former positions as Deputy Director of European Department at the IMF in Washington; faculty member at George Washington University; and Acting Deputy Minister of Finance Government of Ukraine. His research interests include development economics and the political economy of transition. His most recent books include “Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation” (2006) (Ukrainian translation 2007), and “Return to Growth in CIS Countries” (2006). He has published widely in professional journals including Comparative Economic Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Economic Policy, IMF Staff Papers, Journal of Development Economics. Post-Doctoral Fellows: Roman Dudka is a postdoctoral fellow at CERES. His research interests include multilateralism, international organizations, European integration and intergovernmental cooperation in the post-Soviet space. He received his doctoral degree in public law from the University of Reims. His PhD dissertation, L’évolution de la Communauté des Etats indépendants. Etude d’une corrélation entre la réforme organique et l' altération fonctionnelle au sein d’une organisation internationale sui generis, was published by the ANRT, Lille in 2011. He also holds an MS in International Relations and European Studies from UMLV/IFRI/CNAM, Paris. Roman’s current research is focused on the conceptualization, representation, and materialization of common policies and common spaces in the European Union and Eurasia. He is currently working on a manuscript about common foreign and security policy in the post-Lisbon European Union. Zbigniew Wojnowski is the 2011-2012 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at CERES. He specializes in modern European socio-cultural history, with a focus on the USSR, Ukraine and Russia. He is particularly interested in the evolution of Soviet nationalities policy and the growth of Soviet patriotism in Ukraine during the post-war period. More broadly, his research deals with twentieth-century East European popular culture, memory and commemoration, and the history of East-Central European borderlands. Zbigniew is currently working on a monograph based on his doctoral dissertation, which explored how the establishment of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe affected Soviet culture and society. Dr. Wojnowski also has an article forthcoming in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. The article examines the scope and nature of Soviet patriotism in Ukraine during the tumultuous year of 1956. His next research project will focus on pop music as a site of historical memory in Eastern Europe, examining the ways in which cultural artefacts of the Brezhnev era affect Ukrainian attitudes towards the Soviet past. Fellows: Olga Andriewsky: Chair of the Department of History at Trent University. Her research interests include Russia as empire; national identity and imperial discourse; and Russian-Ukrainian relations. James Bater: Department of Geography at the University of Waterloo. His current research is on urban management issues in a transitional economy, focussing on St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saratov, and Omsk. [Personal page] Sterling Beckwith: Professor of Humanities and Music, Emeritus, York University. His current research interests focus on music and ideology in Russian culture, i.e., how doctrines such as national patriotism, populism, folk revivalism, modernism, neo-Marxism, or anti-Stalinism were expressed and reflected in the work of 19th- and 20th-century Russian composers and critics. Zsuza Csergo: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Queen's University. Her research interests include nationalism and the politics of ethnicity, Central and East European politics, majority-minority conflict and cooperation, the politics of language use, democracy and democratization, European integration Marta Dyczok: cross-appointed to history and political science at the University of Western Ontario. She is a specialist in the politics of Ukraine and is particularly interested in media. [Personal page] Barbara Falk: a political scientist who is currently working on Cold War political trials on both sides of the East-West divide. She is a specialist in comparative public policy in post-communism (particularly social policy, gender, and history-as-policy, especially the Holocaust). Henryk Flakierski: Professor of Economics, Emeritus, York University. He has published extensively on economic reform and income distribution in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Sara Ginaite: Dr. Ginaite taught in the Division of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science at York University. Current research interests: social security reform in Lithuania and the economic dimension of the Holocaust in the Baltic States. Dejan Guzina: Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. His current research is on nationalism and citizenship in the post-communist Balkans. He is Director of the “University Education and Civil Society in Russia” project, financed by the University of Calgary/ Gorbachev Foundation. [Personal page] Erich Haberer: Associate Professor of German and Russian History at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is currently completing his SSHRC-funded project on the German police and genocide in the Soviet Union. [Personal page] Juliet Johnson: Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. Her research interests include post-communist financial systems, Russian and Eastern European politics, democracy and the market, institutionalist theories, comparative politics, and international political economy. Nikolai Kovalev: Assistant Professor of Criminology and Law & Society at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to joining the faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University, he completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of the University of Toronto. Dr. Kovalev's research interests are focused on judicial and legal reforms in post-Soviet countries. Other research projects include study of hate crimes in Russia and military justice in Russia. He has served as an expert on judicial and legal reforms in post-Soviet states for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), American Bar Association/Rule of Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI) and U.S. Department of Justice. Homepage: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=12105 Veronica Kitchen: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her teaching and research interests include foreign policy, transatlantic relations, civil security & counter-terrorism, and critical security studies. Nikita Lary: teaches film at York University. Yuri Luryi: Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Western Ontario. His current research focuses on Russian constitutional law, in particular the problem of separation of powers as exemplified by the role of the Russian President and the Parliament in appointing a Prime Minister. Steve Maddox is an assistant professor of history at Canisius College, where he teaches Russian and European history. His research focuses on the Soviet experience in WWII and postwar restoration. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Resurrecting History: The Preservation and Restoration of Leningrad's Historic Monuments under Stalin.” Sergei Plekhanov (PhD Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada, Academy of Sciences of the USSR). From 1988 to 1993, Professor Plekhanov was Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada. Dr. Plekhanov has taught as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Occidental College (Los Angeles), and served as Soviet Affairs Consultant with CBS News (1989-1991). Since his arrival in Canada in 1993, he has been a frequent commentator on Russian and East European affairs for Canadian TV and radio networks and print media. He has consulted Canadian and US governments on Russian affairs and testified at hearings at the Parliament of Canada and US Congress. Current positions: Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, York University; Coordinator of the Post-Communist Studies Program at York Centre for International and Security Studies; Senior Fellow at CERES. Professor Plekhanov has published widely on issues of post-communist transformations in Russia, Russian foreign policy, US-Russian relations, and American politics. [Personal page] Richard Pope: Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. His research interests range from mediaeval Slavic literature to modern Russian literature, and he is currently working on a cultural history of St. Petersburg. Peter Potichnyj: Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, McMaster University. Professor Potichnyj is currently working on the archive that he donated to John P. Robarts Library on the Ukrainian Partisan Army and the Ukrainian underground. Petra Rethmann: Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. She has conducted fieldwork in the Russian Far East and Germany, and has begun a research project that focuses on the possibilities and limitations of democratization in the post-Soviet Russian Far East. [Personal page] David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye: Chair of the Department of History and Professor of Russian History at Brock University. Focuses on Russian Imperial diplomatic, intellectual and cultural history, especially with regard to Asia. [Personal page] Orest Subtelny: Department of History at York University. Current activities have focused on Ukraine, from restructuring the curriculum in the history faculty of the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy to conducting archival research on post-World War II partisan warfare. Frank E. Sysyn: Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. He is carrying on a research project on political thought and expressions of identity in early modern Ukrainian historiography.
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