Mentor List

If you wish to add your name to the list, or to correct information on it, contact Cynthia Simmons.

Unless otherwise indicated, everyone listed is willing to mentor both students and colleagues:

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  • Adele Barker, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona, Harvill Building, Box 6, Tucson, AZ 85721; (tel. (520) 621-3608, fax (520) 626-8694; adeleb@ccit.arizona.edu
    Research Interests: (ex) Soviet women's writing
  • Margaret H. Beissinger, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 249 East Pyne, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; 609-258-3874; mhbeissi@Princeton.edu
    Research interests: Balkan languages and literatures, oral traditions, Romani culture.
  • Laurie Bernstein, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102; tel. (609) 757-6080; e-mail care of: rweinbe1@swarthmore.edu
    Research In terests: Adoption & orphans in Soviet period, prostitution, 19th & 20th century Russian History, women's history
  • Donna A. Buchanan, Dept. of Music, New York University, 24 Waverly Pl., Rm. 268, New York, NY 10003; tel. (212) 998-8311, fax (212) 995-4147; buchannd@is2.nyu.edu
    Research Interests: Bulgaria; East Eur. music and folklore; E Eur music and politics
  • Cynthia Buckley, Professor of Sociology, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 326 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801; buckleyc@illinois.edu; Research Interests: Sociology, Demography, Migration, Health, Development
  • Diana Burgin, 1643 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 492-0170
    Research Interests: Silver Age -- Parnok, Tsvetaeva; lesbian studies
  • Maria Bucur-Deckard, Associate Dean for International Programs, School for Global and International Studies The College of Arts And Sciences, John W. Hill Professor of East European History, Indiana University; Kirkwood Hall 104, 130 S. Woodlawn Ave. Bloomington, IN, 47405-7104; tel. (812) 856-0827; fax (812) 855-2060

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  • Choi Chatterjee, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032; (323) 343-2023; cchatte@calstatela.edu
    Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Russian/Soviet History, Gender and Women studies, Russian-American Relations
  • Heather Coleman, Department of History and Classics, Tory Building 2-28, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6E 2J8 Canada. (780) 492-3922; hcoleman@ualberta.ca
    Research interests: 19th-20th century Russia; religious history; 19th-20th century Ukraine

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  • Barbara Engel, Dept. of History, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; Barbara.Engel@colorado.edutel
    Research Interests: History of Russian women -- 19th and 20th centuries; family history; peasants

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  • Halina Filipowicz, Dept. of Slavic Langs., van Hise Hall, Rm. 720, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706; tel. (608) 262-3498; fax (608) 265-2814; gheith@duke.edu
    Research Interests: Gender issues in Polish literature; feminist theory & criticism
  • Sibelan Forrester, Modern Languages & Literatures, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390; tel. (610) 328-8162, fax (610) 328-7769; sforres1@swarthmore.edu
    Research Interests: Russian/Soviet women writers; 20th-century poetry, Tsvetaeva; Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian lits and cultures; gender studies in literature; literary translation; folklore and science fiction.

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  • Rebecca Gould, Division of Humanities (Literature), Yale-NUS College, 6 College Avenue East, Singapore, 138614 rebecca.gould@yale-nus.edu.sg
    Research interests: Literatures of the Caucasus (Georgian, Persian, Russian), translation theory, poetics, world literature, postcoloniality in Eurasia
  • Jehanne Gheith, Dept. of Slavic Langs & Lits., Duke University -- Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259; tel. (919) 452-9286; fax (919) 660-3140; gheith@duke.edu
    Research Interests: Russian literature -- 19th & 20th c.; women's and gender studies; various literary theories; Gulag studies
  • Helena Goscilo, Professor and Chair Department of Slavic & East European Langs. & Cultures Hagerty Hall 400F, 1775 College Road, Columbus OH 43210; goscilo@gmail.com
    Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Graphics, Film, Art, Gender, Folklore, Literature

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  • Elissa Helms, Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Gender Studies, Zrinyi u. 14, Room 510/A, Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Hungary; Phone: 327-3000/2578; helmse@ceu.hu
    Research Interests: Gender, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Gender in Muslim societies, NGOs and social/political activism, Gender and ethnic violence, Ethnography of post-conflict and post-socialist societies
  • Heather Hogan, Dept. of History, Rice Hall 316, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074-1095; tel. (440) 775-8520; heather.hogan@oberlin.edu
    Research Interests: 19th-20th Russian/Soviet history, esp. labor and social history
  • Christine Holden, Retired (2012) from Department of History, Univ. of Southern Maine, College Ave., Gorham, ME 04038; contact at home address, 183 Summer Street, Lewiston, ME 04240 tel. (207) 783-1685; holden@maine.edu
    Research Interests: Diplomatic, Balkan and women's history, 18th-20th cc., Holocaust
  • Beth Holmgren, Dept. of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708; beth.holmgren@duke.edu
    Research Interests: Russian and Polish literature -- esp. 20th century, but will be glad to look at work in 19th c.; women's autobiography, 19th and 20th c.; women in the performing arts, Poland and Russia

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  • Dr. Judith E. Kalb, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; fax (departmental): (803) 777-0454; jkalb@sc.edu
    Interests: Symbolists, twentieth-century prose, classics and Russian
  • Natasha Kolchevska, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Ortega Hall, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131; tel. (505) 277-7363, fax (505) 277-9138; nakol@unm.edu
    Research Interests: 20th c. Russian literature & culture, esp. prose; Tsvetaeva; autobiography

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  • Joan Neuberger, Dept. of History, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1163; tel. (512) 471-1355, fax (512) 475-7222; neuberger@austin.utexas.edu
    Research Interests: Social, cultural history; Imperial Russia; women's history
  • Norma Noonan, Augsburg College, 731-31st Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN 55454; tel. (612) 330-1198, fax (612) 330-1649; noonan@augsburg.edu
    Research Interests: Russian gov, and pol. elites; Russian foreign policy; Women in Russia

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  • Sarah D. Phillips, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Student Building 130, 701 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington IN 47405; (812) 855-0216; sadphill@indiana.edu; http://www.indiana.edu/~medanth/
    Research Interests: Ukraine and Russia; postsocialist transformations, civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), development, gender studies, medical anthropology, disability studies, post-Chernobyl health and healing, HIV prevention, and the anthropology of pharmaceuticals.
  • Teresa Polowy, Dept. of Russian & Slavic Languages, ML 340, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; tel. (602) 621-9258, fax (602) 626-4007; tpolowy@email.arizona.edu
    Research Interests: Post-1956 Russian prose; women's texts; literary sociology; intercultural communication; alcohol, writing and gender; experiential learning pedagogy

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  • Charlotte Rosenthal, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Classics, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103; tel. (207) 780-4325, fax (207) 780-4318; crosenth@usm.maine.edu
    Research Interests: Russian women writers, Silver Age; language pedagogy
  • Christine Ruane, Dept. of History, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104; christine-ruane@utulsa.edu
    Research Interests: 19th & 20th-c. history; women's history; women in professions; fashion; gardening
  • Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Research Associate, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; ruthchil@yahoo.com
    Areas of interest: History of Russian Women and especially the feminist movement, late imperial, Soviet, post-Soviet periods.

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  • Stephanie Sandler, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Barker Center 321, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; ssandler@fas.harvard.edu
    Research Interests: modern Russian and American poetry, especially contemporary poetry, film, feminist theory, philosophy
  • Laura Schlosberg, PhD, Laura.E.Schlosberg@gmail.com; LinkedIn; cell: 617-388-2667; skype account: laura.schlosberg
    Research Interest: Higher Education Administration
  • Veronica Shapovalov, San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA 92182-0439; veronica.shapovalov@sdsu.edu
    Research Interests: Russian lit., 19th-c.; Russian lang. teaching

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  • Isabel Tirado, Wm. Paterson College, History Dept., Wayne, NJ 07470
    Research Interests: Russian youth -- 1920's; 1920's, chastushki & women

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  • Rebecca Wells, Dept. of Literature-0410, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
    Research Interests: Russian lang. teaching; Slavic linguistics; Russian lesbian studies
  • Christine Worobec, Professor Emerita, Dept. of History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115; worobec@niu.edu
    Research Interests: modern Russia and Ukraine: peasant women, witchcraft, lived religion

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  • Denise Youngblood, History Dept., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0165; tel. (802) 656-4497, fax (802) 656-8794; denise.youngblood@uvm
    Research Interests: 19th & 20th-c. Russo-Soviet cultural & intellectual history, popular culture, post-modernism, interdisciplinary studies, cinema

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  • Mary Zirin, 1178 Sonoma Drive, Altadena, CA 91001; (818) 791-3696; mary@bigbear.caltech.edu
    Research Interests: Prerevolutionary Russian women writers

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