Petko Ivanov
Senior Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Chair of the Slavic Studies Department
Cultural history of the Slavs • History of Slavistics • Linguistic anthropology • Second language acquisition • Nationalism • Ethnography of religion • Polish and Balkan studies
Christopher Colbath
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Learning Specialist and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Coordinator
Russian Literature
Andrea D. Lanoux
Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor of Slavic Studies, Director of the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies & the Liberal Arts (CISLA)
Russian and Polish languages and literatures • Gender studies in Slavic cultures • Nationhood and nationalism studies • Literary canon formation • Post-Soviet children's literature
Laura Little
Faculty Director of the Global Learning Lab, Lecturer of Slavic Studies
Russian Literature • Late Soviet Culture • Russian Language • Bulgarian Language and Culture • Slavic and Balkan Cuisines • Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe
Joseph Alchermes
Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Architectural Studies
Late Roman art • Early Christian art • Byzantine art • Medieval architecture
Jane Dawson
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government and Environmental Studies
International environmental justice • International environmental politics • Comparative environmental activism and politics
Denis Ferhatović
Associate Professor of English
Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation
Eileen M. Kane
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Program
Russian/Soviet/post-Soviet history • Modern Europe • Empires
John Qunjian Tian
Professor of Government and International Relations
Chinese political economy • East Asian political economy • International political economy • Comparative political economy and politics
Anna Vallye
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
(On Sabbatical: Fall 2020 - Fall 2021)
History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture
Marijian Despalatovic
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Russian language and literature • Chekhov • Dostoevsky • Semiotics • Marxism