RUSSIAN & EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM
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AGRIBUSINESS

• Clifford J. Shultz, II   Ph.D., Columbia University (clifford.shultz@asu.edu):
  Food and agribusiness marketing, consumer decision making, entrepreneurship, sustainable development and reconstruction in the Balkans and Indochina

• Eric Thor   Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (ethor@asu.edu):
  Agribusiness financing and resource management in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Christy Turner, II   Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (christy.turner@asu.edu):
  Siberian Ethnology, Ethnic Odontology

ARCHITECTURE

• K. Paul Zygas   Ph.D., Cornell University (zygas@asu.edu):
  Soviet Constructivism

ART/PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tamarra Kaida   M.F.A., State University of New York, Buffalo (tamarra.kaida@asu.edu):
  Russian Art Photography

BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

• Stephen J. Pyne   Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin (stephen.pyne@asu.edu):
  Environmental History, Eurasian Ecology

• Andrew T. Smith   Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (andrew.smith@asu.edu):
  Wildlife Biology, Eurasia

ECONOMICS

• Josef C. Brada   Ph.D., University of Minnesota (josef.brada@asu.edu):
  East-West Trade/Technology Transfer

GENDER STUDIES

• Ann Hibner-Koblitz   Ph.D., Boston University (koblitz@asu.edu):
  Russian Women, Women and Science

HISTORY

• Stephen K. Batalden   Ph.D., University of Minnesota (stephen.batalden@asu.edu):
  Russia, Balkans

• Fredrick C. Giffin  Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University/Ph.D., Emory University (mfgiff@asu.edu):
  Soviet Union, U.S.-Russian Relations

• Beth Luey   A.M., Harvard University (beth.luey@asu.edu):
  Historical Editing, Scholarly Publishing

• Laurie Manchester   Ph.D., Columbia (laurie.manchester@asu.edu):
  European Cultural History, Russia

LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

• Dora Burton   Ph.D., University of Washington (dburton@asu.edu):
  Lyrical Poetry, 19th-C. Russian Literature

• Sanford C. Couch   Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (tsar@asu.edu):
  Pedagogy, Tolstoy

• Lee B. Croft   Ph.D., Cornell University (lee.croft@asu.edu):
  Linguistics, Poetics

• Rolfs Ekmanis   Ph.D., Indiana University (rolfs.ekmanis@asu.edu):
  Non-Russian Literatures of Eurasia

• Aleksandra Gruzinska   Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (gruzinska@asu.edu):
  Polish, French

• Peter Horwath   Ph.D., University of Michigan (peter.horwath@asu.edu):
  Serbian-Croatian, German

• Ileana Orlich   Ph.D., Arizona State University (orlich@asu.edu):
  Romanian

• Emil Volek   Ph.D., Charles University, Prague (emil.volek@asu.edu):
  Czech, Soviet Formalist Writing

MUSICOLOGY

• Ellon D. Carpenter   Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (ellon.carpenter@asu.edu):
  Russian Musical Aesthetics, Composition

• Alexander Lingas   Ph.D., University of British Columbia (alexander.lingas@asu.edu):
  Eastern Orthodox music, liturgy and theology, Byzantine chant and Russian 18th-century polyphony

• Robert W. Oldani   Ph.D., University of Michigan (robert.w.oldani@asu.edu):
  19th-C. Russian Music, Mussorgsky

NURSING

• Pauline Komnenich   Ph.D., University of Arizona (paulina@asu.edu):
  Community Health Care Delivery, Sociolinguistics

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

• Alex Agadjanian   Ph.D., Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow (alexagad@mainex1.asu.edu):
  Religion and Nationality in Russia

• J. Eugene Clay   Ph.D., University of Chicago (eugene.clay@asu.edu):
  Eastern Orthodoxy, Russian Religious Dissent

• David Damrel   Ph.D., Duke University (david.damrel@asu.edu):
  Islam

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

• Thomas J. Keil   Ph.D., Temple University (thomas.keil@asu.edu):
  Post-Socialist Romania

SOCIOLOGY

• Victor Agadjanian   Ph.D., University of Southern California (victor.agadjanian@asu.edu):
  Eurasian Demography

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

• Vladimir T. Borovansky   M.L.S., Ph.D., Charles University, Prague (vladimir.borovansky@asu.edu):
  Collection Development

• Michael Markiw   M.L.S., University of Western Ontario (mike.markiw@asu.edu):
  Slavic-area Bibliography

ASU RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES STAFF

Stephen K. Batalden is Professor of History and Coordinator of ASU's Russian and East European Studies Consortium. He directs ASU's academic exchange with the University of Sts. Kiril & Metodij in Skopje, Macedonia. A specialist on the religious and cultural history of modern Russia and East Europe, Dr. Batalden is the author of Catherine the Great's Greek Prelate: Eugenios Voulgaris in Russia, 1771-1806 (Columbia University Press, 1982); Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia (Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 1993) and, with Sandra Batalden, The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, 2nd ed. (Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1997). His work on the politics of Russian Bible translation is currently in press. His new research is on religious property restitution in the Balkans. Advisor to REESC baccalaureate certificate candidates and mentor to numerous graduate students, he was awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Quality Teaching Award in 1988.
E-mail: stephen.batalden@asu.edu

Carol Withers is the Academic Associate for the Russian and East European Studies Consortium. She has been at Arizona State University since 1991. Ms. Withers received a B.A. in Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.P.A. in Public Administration at ASU. You are invited to contact her if you wish for more information about the Consortium, or if you have any questions about the Critical Languages Institute, the study abroad program at UKIM, the REESC baccalaureate certificate program, or ASU's exchange program with the University of Ss. Kiril & Metodij in Skopje, Macedonia.
E-mail: carol.withers@asu.edu

Robert Niebuhr, B.A., Arizona State University, is the Graduate Assistant for the Russian and East European Studies Consortium. He is a graduate student in the Department of History currently working on a MA.
E-mail: Robert.Niebuhr@asu.edu

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