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

Christopher Colbath
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Laura Little
Adjunct Instructor

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