Faculty

Andrea Lanoux, Department Chair
Associate Professor
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching and Research Interests: Russian and Polish languages and literatures; contemporary Slavic cultures

Petko Ivanov
Visiting Lecturer
B.A., University of Sofia, Bulgaria; M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago; A.B.D., Slavic Studies, University of Chicago
Teaching and Research Interests: Cultural History of the Slavs, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnography, Folklore, National Identity, Polish and Balkan Studies

Associated Faculty

Eileen Kane
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Teaching and Research Interests: The Russian empire, the Soviet Union, modern Europe, the hajj in the modern era

Jane Dawson
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government
B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A., Harvard; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Teaching and Research Interests: International environmental politics, comparative environmental activism and politics, politics of post-Communist societies

Joe Alchermes
Associate Professor of Art History
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Teaching and Research Interests: Late Roman art, Early Christian art, Byzantine art, medieval architecture

Retired Faculty

Marijan Despalatovic
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
B.A., Zagreb University; M.A., Yale University
Teaching and Research Interests: Russian language and literature, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, semiotics, Marxism