Faculty

Jeffrey Kopstein

Jeffrey Kopstein (BA, MA, PhD, Berkeley) is Professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of European Studies at the University of Toronto. Before moving to Toronto in 2002, he taught at Dartmouth College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was Director of Central and East European Studies. He has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, and in 2001 was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich. He has published The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989 (1997) and Comparative Politics: Identities, Institutions, and Interests in a Changing Global Order , ed. with Mark Lichbach (2d ed. 2005). Recent articles have appeared in World Politics (1996, 2000), Political Theory (2001), German Politics and Society (2002), Comparative Politics (2003) and Slavic Review (2003). He is currently completing a new book, Crossing the Divide: European Politics between East and West .  

Thomas Lahusen

Thomas Lahusen (PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland [EE/Rus]) is Professor at the Department of History and Centre of Comparative Literature. His research interests focus on the multi-faceted experiences of “real socialism” and other forms of “totalitarian” culture during the twentieth century. He is the author of The Concept of the “New Man”: Forms of Address and Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia (1982), On Synthetism, Mathematics and Other Matters: Zamyatin's Novel “We” (1994, with Edna Andrews and Elena Maksimova), and How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia (1997). His publications also include about 50 articles, as well as the following co-edited collections: Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (1993), Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s (1995), Socialist Realism without Shores (1997), and a number of special journal issues: “Views From the Postfuture: Soviet and East European Cinema” ( Discourse , 1995), “Aube Rouge: Les Annees Trente en Extreme-Orient sovietique” ( Revue d'etudes slaves , 1999), “Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity” ( South Atlantic Quarterly , 2001), “Harbin: Histoire, Memoire et Difference” ( Revue d'etudes slaves , 2001). Home page: http://individual.utoronto.ca/lah/

Sarfaroz Niyozov

Sarfaroz Niyozov ( BA Tajik State University, Master’s in Education Aga Khan University In Karachi, PhD in Education OISE/University of Toronto) has worked as a translator in the Middle East for a number of years and as an instructor at Tajik State Universities in Dushanbe and Khorog between 1989 -1993, as well as an Instructor at the Aga Khan University in 1995-1997. From 2001 to July 2005 he served as a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Central Asian Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) in London UK. In July 2005, Sarfaroz Niyozov joined Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto . He is a core faculty in the Centers for Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development, Comparative, International Development Education, and Center for Urban Studies. Sarfaroz Niyozov has been a member the Canada ’s Ismaili Community’s Religious Education Board since July 2005. He has also been involved in an advisory capacity with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, University of Central Asia, Aga Khan Foundation Canada , PTEP, and Aga Khan Development Network ( Tajikistan ). Niyozov has written and edited publications on education and culture of Central Asia and Muslim world.

Edward Schatz

Edward Schatz (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a specialist on former Soviet Central Asia and comparative politics. His research interests include identity politics, development and change, and social mobilization. Publications include Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond (U of Washington Press, 2004); “The Soft Authoritarian ‘Tool Kit’: Agenda-Setting Power in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,” Comparative Politics, forthcoming 2008; “Transnational Image Making and Soft Authoritarian Kazakhstan,” Slavic Review, forthcoming spring 2008;  “Access by Accident: Legitimacy Claims and Democracy Promotion in Authoritarian Central Asia,” International Political Science Review 27(3), July 2006: 263–284; and "What Capital Cities Say about State and Nation Building," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9(4), winter 2003. He is working on a project that traces how Central Asians imagine the United States.

Lucan Way

Lucan Way (PhD University of California at Berkeley) is a specialist on regime development in the post-Cold War era in postcommunist Eurasia and the developing world as a whole. He has published in Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Journal of Democracy, Politics & Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. He is currently completing two book projects: "Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Political Competition in the Former Soviet Union" and "Competitive Authoritarianism after the Cold War" (with Steven Levitsky). He completed his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and has held research fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame.