Faculty and Staff

Faculty | Lecturers | Visiting Faculty | Affiliated Faculty and Academic Staff | Graduate Students | Undergraduates | Alumni

Faculty

 
Name Interests Contact Information

Joseph Frank,

Professor Emeritus

on Active Duty

Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky.

Building 240, Room 104
frankjosn@gmail.com

Richard Schupbach,

Professor Emeritus

on Active Duty

The interaction of styles in the Russian language; contemporary Russian vocabulary.

Building 240, Room 208
schup@stanford.edu

   

 

Gregory Freidin,

Chair

Modern Russian literature; intersection of culture and politics in Russia; the Russian-Jewish nexus; Russian and European intellectual history.

Building 240, Room 108
650 725 0006
gfreidin@stanford.edu

Office hours: M 2:00-4:30

Lazar Fleishman,

Professor

Boris Pasternak; Russian avant-garde poetry and art; Russian-Jewish, Russian-Baltic and Russian-Polish cultural relationships; poetics; and archival research.

Building 240, Room 106
650 725 0005
lazar.fleishman@stanford.edu

Office hours: Th 1:00-2:00 or by appointment

Monika Greenleaf,

Associate Professor

Pushkin; creative friction and poetic form in Russia's Golden Age; mimetic memory vs. historical narrative in Russian concepts of time; Russian theater; the novel; Tsvetaeva; Nabokov; the cultural legacy of Catherine the Great.

Building 240, Room 105
650 725 5933
mad@stanford.edu or monika.gmail.com

Office hours: Th 12:45-2:00 and 4:00-5:00

Gabriella Safran,

Associate Professor

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism.

Building 240, Room 103
650 723 4414
gsafran@stanford.edu

Office hours: M 2:00-4:00

Nariman Skakov,

Assistant Professor

Dostoevsky, Platonov, contemporary Russian literature (Sokolov, Tsvetkov); Bakhtin and literary theory; cinema (Tarkovsky, Khamdamov); word and image; Post-Soviet culture and visual arts.

Building 240, Room 107

650 724 3073

nskakov@stanford.edu

Office hours: W 3:00-5:00, or by appointment

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Lecturers

Name Interests Contact Information

Rima Greenhill,

Senior Lecturer

Foreign language teaching methodology; Russian-English diplomatic and trade relations during the time of Shakespeare.

Building 240, Room 204
650 723 8240
rima@stanford.edu

 

Eugenia Khassina,

Russian Program Coordinator and Lecturer in Russian

A native Russian speaker, Eugenia keeps close ties to her home country and a keen interest in the way politics, globalization, and the internet are reshaping the Russian language. Other ares of interest include Russian cinema, press, and literature.

Building 240, Room 205
650 724 0416
415 519 8766 (mobile)
eugeniak@stanford.edu

 

     

Visiting Faculty

Name Interests Contact Information



     

 

 

 




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Affiliated Faculty and Academic Staff

Name Interests Contact Information
Alexander Abashkin Director of Overseas Studies Program in Moscow  

abashkin@anx.ru

Robert D. Crews
Assistant Professor of History
The Russian empire; the Caucasus; Central Asia; cultural and institutional history

Bldg 200, Rm 29
650-724-5435
rcrews@stanford.edu

John Dunlop, Hoover Senior Fellow Nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, the politics of religion in Russia

dunlop@hoover.stanford.edu

 

Maria Gough, Associate Professor of Art and Art History Modern and Contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes, French modernism, and Weimar Germany

Cummings 119 MC: 2018
650-725-0133
mgough@stanford.edu

David J. Holloway, Department of History & Fellow at IIS Civil wars; history of nuclear weapons; science and technology in the Soviet Union

Encina Hall E214
650-723-1737
David.Holloway@stanford.edu

Branislav Jakovljevic, Assistant Professor of Drama Avant garde and experimental theater, modern Russian theater, performance theory, critical theory

bjakov@stanford.edu

 

Katherine Jolluck
Senior Lecturer in History
Modern Eastern Europe, Modern Poland, Modern Russia/Soviet Union,
Women and War, Gender and Nationality

Bldg 200, MC:2024
650 723-1884
jolluck@stanford.edu

 

Nancy S. Kollmann, William H. Bonsall Professor in History Intersection of political practice and social values in early modern Russia; Legal culture in Muscovy and eighteenth-century Russia

Bldg 200 Rm 311
650 723-9475
kollmann@stanford.edu

David D. Laitin, Prof in the School of Humanities and Sciences
(Watkins and Watkins)

The relationship of language and nationality; recently he studied this relationship in the post-Soviet world, leading to his Identity in Formation: The Russian-speaking Populations in the Near Abroad

Encina West, 423
650 725-9556
dlaitin@stanford.edu

Pavle Levi, Asst Prof of Art and Art History European cinema with an emphasis on Eastern Europe; aesthetics and ideology; encounters between film theory and practice

Cummings;MC: 2018
plevi@stanford.edu

Michael McFaul, Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Russian Politics, Soviet Foreign Policy, U.S.-Russian Relations, Theories of Revolutions

Encina West 416
650 725-5673
mcfaul@hoover.stanford.edu

Norman Naimark McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies Soviet Union and Europe in the postwar period; ethnic cleansing and genocide

Bldg 200 Rm 113 MC:2024
650 723-2651
naimark@stanford.edu

Bissera Pentcheva, Assistant Professor Art and Art History Byzantine art, icons, aesthetics and sensory experience, imperial ideology and court culture, ritual and liturgy, medieval image theory, memory and imagination

Cummings; MC: 2018
650 724-4426
bissera@stanford.edu

 

Karen A. Rondestvedt, Curator for Slavic & East European Collections Acquisition of Slavic, East European & Central Asian library material; Slavic librarianship; Slavic historical & comparative linguistics; Slavic morphology & syntax

Green Library 345A MC:6004
650 725-1052
rondest@stanford.edu

Nancy B. Tuma, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow by courtesy at the Hoover Institution

Quantitative Methodology; Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality; Life Course; Socialist Societies; Demography

Bldg 120, Rm 226/228
650 723-4461
tuma@stanford.edu

Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History Soviet history with an emphasis on the interaction between totalitarian politics, ideology, nationality, and society

Bldg 200, Rm 336
650 723-3527
weiner@stanford.edu

Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Prof in Jewish Culture and History Modern Jewish History; History of Zionism; Russian and East European Jewish History

Bldg 200 Rm 1
650 725-5660 steven.zipperstein@stanford.edu

 


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Emeriti Faculty


Joseph Frank,

Professor Emeritus

on Active Duty

Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky.

Building 240, Room 104
frankjosn@gmail.com

Richard Schupbach,

Professor Emeritus

on Active Duty

The interaction of styles in the Russian language; contemporary Russian vocabulary.

Building 240, Room 208
schup@stanford.edu

Joseph Van Campen,

Professor Emeritus