Faculty | Lecturers | Visiting Faculty | Affiliated Faculty and Academic Staff | Graduate Students | Undergraduates | Alumni
Faculty
| Name | Interests | Contact Information |
| Professor Emeritus on Active Duty | Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky. | Building 240, Room 104 |
| Professor Emeritus on Active Duty | The interaction of styles in the Russian language; contemporary Russian vocabulary. | Building 240, Room 208 |
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| Chair | Modern Russian literature; intersection of culture and politics in Russia; the Russian-Jewish nexus; Russian and European intellectual history. | Building 240, Room 108 Office hours: M 2:00-4:30 |
| 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 Office hours: Th 1:00-2:00 or by appointment |
| 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 Office hours: Th 12:45-2:00 and 4:00-5:00 |
| Associate Professor | Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism. | Building 240, Room 103 Office hours: M 2:00-4:00 |
| 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.eduOffice hours: W 3:00-5:00, or by appointment |
Lecturers
| Name | Interests | Contact Information |
| Senior Lecturer | Foreign language teaching methodology; Russian-English diplomatic and trade relations during the time of Shakespeare. | Building 240, Room 204
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| 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
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Visiting Faculty
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Affiliated Faculty and Academic Staff
| Name | Interests | Contact Information |
| Alexander Abashkin Director of Overseas Studies Program in Moscow | ||
| Robert D. Crews Assistant Professor of History | The Russian empire; the Caucasus; Central Asia; cultural and institutional history | Bldg 200, Rm 29 |
| John Dunlop, Hoover Senior Fellow | Nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, the politics of religion in Russia |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Branislav Jakovljevic, Assistant Professor of Drama | Avant garde and experimental theater, modern Russian theater, performance theory, critical theory |
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| 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
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| 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 |
| David D. Laitin, Prof in the School of Humanities and Sciences | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Emeriti Faculty
Professor Emeritus
on Active Duty
Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky.Building 240, Room 104
frankjosn@gmail.com
Professor Emeritus
on Active Duty
The interaction of styles in the Russian language; contemporary Russian vocabulary.
Building 240, Room 208
schup@stanford.edu
Professor Emeritus