MA Program in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the University of Toronto was founded in 2005 as the result of a merger between the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) and the European Studies programs.

Working with scholars in departments and faculties across the university, CERES provides education to graduate students and undergraduates in the languages, history, politics, economies and societies of Europe, Russia and Eurasia and prepares them for careers dealing with the region; supplies a platform for research on these regions, including joint, interdisciplinary, and applied; and offers comprehensive, accessible and authoritative information and analysis to the world outside the university, including the media, the business community, the public, and particular communities associated with countries of the region. In so doing, CERES seeks to strengthen relations between East and West, especially among scholars and students.

Unique in Canada and among a handful of similar centres in North America, the Centre offers a two-year interdisciplinary MA program in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (MA ERES), overseas internship and exchange programs, and a busy schedule of visiting scholars from the area. CERES's membership includes close to sixty University of Toronto faculty members from over ten different disciplines and Fellows from other universities with expertise on the region. About one hundred graduate students from all affiliated departments regularly participate in CERES's activities.

CERES also offers an undergraduate program in European Studies. A major in European Studies prepares students either for further specialized study at the graduate level (e.g., MA ERES) or for work either in Europe itself or within a Canadian-based organization dealing with Europe. For further information, please visit the European Studies program website at www.utoronto.ca/esp/ or contact Dr. Robert Austin at 416-946-8942.

Anna Korteweg (PhD, University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga. She has been cross-appointed to CERES since 2008 and is currently Acting Director of CERES, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Professor Korteweg's research focuses on the integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and Canada. She looks at citizenship, constructions of national belonging in public and parliamentary debates on immigrant integration, and the ways in which the problems of immigrant integration is defined in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity, and national origin. She is working on a book on national narratives and headscarf debates in France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany, which is under contract with Stanford University Press (with Gökçe Yurdakul, Georg Simmel Professor of Social Conflict and Diversity, Humboldt University, Berlin). In addition, Professor Korteweg is engaged in an ongoing comparative project on immigrant integration policies and practices in the Netherlands and Germany (with Phil Triadafilopoulos, Political Science, University of Toronto). An edited book (with Jennifer Selby, Religious Studies, Memorial University) on the Ontario Sharia debated is expected to be published in the spring of 2012 with University of Toronto Press.

Professor Korteweg's research has been funded by SSHRC, JIGES, the DAAD, and CERIS, and through a Connaught New Faculty Matching Grant. She has published in various scholarly journals, including Theory & Society, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Gender & Society and in edited book volumes. She has recently published a four-country study on media and policy debates regarding honour-related violence for UNRISD (with Gökçe Yurdakul).

Randall Hansen (D Phil, Oxford University) will be the Director of CERES as of July 2012. He is a Full Professor of Political Science and holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Governance. His research interests cover comparative public policy and contemporary history. His is the author of Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Doubleday, 2008, Penguin, 2009), Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000, [w Patrick Weil] Towards a European Nationality (Palgrave, 2001, [w Patrick Weil] Dual Citizenship, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship (Berghahn, 2002) and [w Matthew Gibney] Immigration and Asylum (An Encyclopedia) (ABC Clio, 2005). His current projects include a volume on liberalism, immigration and integration, on immigration and public opinion, and manuscripts on eugenics and forced sterilization and the history of German resistance after July 20, 1944. His website is www.randallhansen.ca.

Alison Smith (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of History and the Graduate Coordinator of CERES for 2011/12. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of Imperial Russia. Her research on food in late 18th and early 19th century Russia led to a number of publications, including Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (NIUPress, 2008), "National Cuisine and Nationalist Politics: V. F. Odoevskii and 'Doctor Puf,' 1844-5," Kritika 2009, and a chapter on "National Cuisines" in a forthcoming Handbook of Food History (Oxford University Press). A second research project, on social mobility in Imperial Russia, is currently underway, with funding from IREX and SSHRC. A first publication from the project appeared in the Journal of Modern History, titled "'The Freedom to Choose a Way of Life': Fugitives, Borders, and Imperial Amnesties in Russia" (2011). For more information, see her website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/aksmith/index.html.