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Graduate Faculty in Ethnicity or Immigration

The following directory includes University of Toronto professors teaching courses for the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. In addition, departmental representatives are listed, as well as faculty members whose academic interests concern either ethnicity or immigration.

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Anthropology (5)
Economics (1)
European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (11)
Geography (6)
History (13)
Industrial Relations & Human Resources (3)
Law (8)
Nursing (3)
Political Science (9)
Religion (5)
Social Work (6)
Sociology (8)
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (6)
Theory & Policy Studies in Education (3)
Women & Gender Studies (5)


CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN, RUSSIAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES

Robert Clegg Austin
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Professor Austin, the CERES Project Coordinator, teaches RUS 1191—Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 1945-2000. Interests include twentieth-century Albanian nationalism, interwar Albania, and media and transition in Albania and Kosovo.

Selected Publications

Austin, Robert C. "Albania's Economic and Political Transition." Paper presented at Southeastern Europe: Moving Forward, Ottawa, January 23-23, 2006.

_____. Shtegu i pashkelur i Fan Nolit: demokracia Shquiptare ne vitet 1920-1924. Tirane, Albania: 2000.

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Ralph Bogert
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Professor Ralph Bogert teaches SLA 1520—Bosnia in Literature and Culture: Between Croats and Serbs, for the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Interests include Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian cultural ethnography, as well as multiculturalism in Canada.Professor Bogert is currently working on a translation of Serbian Drama by Sinisa Kovacevic and Between Parnassus and Purgatory: A Comparative Literary History of South Slavic Culture in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.

Selected Publications

Bogert, Ralph. Visages from the Wasteland. London: Genie Quest, 1999.

_____. The Bloodblossoms of Kosovo (Translation and Notes). Toronto: Serbian Literary Co., 1997.

_____. "The Burden of Vuk's Philological Reform on the Lyrics of Branko Radicevic," Facta Universitatis 1.3 (1996): 157-168.

_____. The Writer as Naysayer: Miroslav Krleza and the Aesthetics of Interwar Central Europe. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1991.

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Barbara Falk
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Professor Falk teaches RUS 1188—Comparative Public Policy in Post-Communist Regimes for the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Interests include politics of East Central Europe, anti-Semitism and anti-Roma persecution, comparative Cold War political trials, and post-communism.

Selected Publications

Falk, Barbara. The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe. New York: Central European University Press, 2002.

_____. "Tabulating Crimes in Germany: On the Responsible Handling of Statistical Data," Kriminalistik 53.11 (November 1999): 730-732.

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Edith Klein
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Professor Klein is a specialist on the politics of the Balkans, and more specifically on the successor states of ex-Yugoslavia. Her research interests and publications lie in the areas of gender politics, community-based conflict resolution, and the impact of international presence in conflict zones. In addition to her training in political science, Dr. Klein completed the certificate program in community-based conflict resolution through St. Stephen's Community House (Toronto) and training in program evaluation with The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity at the University of Ulster, Magee Campus, in Northern Ireland. She is currently the Program Advisor for European Studies at the Munk Centre for International Studies, and she teaches ERE 1188H, Identity, Ethnicity, and Political Culture in Eastern Europe, for the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies graduate collaborative program.

Selected Publications

Klein, Edith et al., eds. Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges across War Zones. Toronto: Between the Line, 2003.

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Jeffrey Kopstein
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Professor Kopstein is Professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of European Studies at the University of Toronto. He represents CERES on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies collaborative program committee. 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 is currently completing a new book, Crossing the Divide: European Politics between East and West.

Selected Publications

Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Mark Lichbach, eds. Comparative Politics: Identities and Institutions in a Changing Global Order 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

_____. "Irony and Continuity in East European History," Theory and Society 34.1 (2005): 13-20.

_____. "Regime Type, Diffusion, and Democracy: On Designing Inquiry in Comparative Politics," Canadian Journal of Political Science 28.1 (2005): 1-31.

_____. "Post-Communist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes," Comparative Politics 35, 1(2003).

_____, and Jason Wittenberg. "Who Voted Communist? Reconsidering the Social Bases of Radicalism in Interwar Poland," Slavic Review 62, 1 (2003).

_____. "The GDR: Internal and External Constraints," German Politics and Society 20, 3 (2002).

_____, and David Reilly. "Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World," World Politics 53, 1 (2000).

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Taras Koznarsky
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Professor Koznarsky teaches SLA 1039—Slavic Languages and Literatures, for the Centre of East European Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Interests include Ukrainian literature (the first half of the 19th century, modernism and avant-garde, the contemporary scene); the processes of shaping Ukrainian and Russian cultural identities in the 19th century; literary institutions (Ukrainian and Russian literary almanacs).

Selected Publications

Koznarsky, Taras. "Izmail Sreznevsky's Zaporozhstaia starina as a Memory Project," Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, 1 (Fall 2001): 92-100.

_____. "What is at the Bottom? Erotic Prose of Yury Pokalchuk," Krytyka 4 (1999).

_____. "Surzhykiada: Surzhyk Prose of Bohdan Zholdak," Krytyka 5 (1998).

_____. "The Sword of Kotovsky and the Shield of Tychyna," Suchasnist 4 (1997).

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P.R. Magocsi
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See listing in History.

Andrew Rossos
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Professor Rossos teaches HIS 1297—National Survival in Eastern Europe, for the Centre for Russian and East European Studies. Interests include Russian-Balkan relations, Czech historiography, Balkan nationalism, and the Macedonian question. Presently, Professor Rossos is preparing a volume, Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History, for the Studies of Nationalities Series, published by the Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.

Selected Publications

Rossos, Andrew. "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, Macedonia's Independence, and Stability in the Balkans." In War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict, and Cooperation, edited by Brad K. Blitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

_____. "Great Britain and Macedonian Statehood and Unification, 1940-49," East European Politics and Societies 14.1 (Winter 2000): 119-142.

_____. "Incompatible Allies: Greek Communism and Macedonian Nationalism in the Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949," Journal of Modern History 69.1 (March 1997): 42-76.

_____. "The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941." In National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe, edited by Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdey. New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1995.

_____. "The Macedonians of Aegean Macedonia: A British Officer's Report, 1944," Slavonic and East European Review 69.2 (1991): 282-309.

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Donald Schwartz
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See listing in Political Science.
Peter Solomon
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Professor Solomon was the faculty representative for CERES on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies committee for 2003-2005. A faculty member of the Political Science Department, the Centre for Criminology, and the Faculty of Law, his interests and research include: judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia; courts, law, and politics in authoritarian and transitional regimes; and the history of criminal justice in the USSR.

Selected Publications

Solomon, Peter. Recrafting Federalism in Russia and Canada: Power, Budgets, and Indigenous Governance. Toronto: CERES, 2004.

_____. The Dynamics of "Real Federalism": Law, Economic Development, and Indigenous Communities in Russia and Canada. Toronto: CERES, 2004.

_____, and Todd S. Foglesong. Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

_____,ed. Reforming Justice in Russia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

_____. Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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P. Wrobel
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See listing in History.

Program Director:
 Jeffrey G. Reitz
Courses, 2010-2011

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Collaborating Departments:

Anthropology
European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies
Geography
History
Industrial Relations & Human Resources
Nursing Science
Political Science
Religion
Social Work
Sociology
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Theory & Policy Studies in Education
Women & Gender Studies