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Faculty

Shahzad Bashir

Shahzad Bashir

Religious Studies
Intellectual and social histories of Persianate societies of Iran and Central and South Asia
Coit D Blacker

Coit D Blacker

Freeman Spogli Institute
Soviet/Russian foreign policy and security policy; U.S. foreign policy and security policy
Margaret Brandeau

Margaret Brandeau

Freeman Spogli Institute - Stanford Health Policy, Management Science and Engineering
Application of mathematical models and management science techniques to health policy problems; bioterrorism preparedness planning; expansion of HIV treatment in Russia and Eastern Europe
Martin Carnoy

Martin Carnoy

Graduate School of Education
Applied Econometrics of Education; International Comparative Education; engineering and science education in China, India, and Russia
Robert Crews

Robert Crews

History
Muslim networks, empire, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Iran
Ewa  Domanska

Ewa Domanska

Comparative theory of the human and social sciences, history and theory of historiography, posthumanities and ecological humanities
Saadet  Ebru Ergul

Saadet Ebru Ergul

Turkish language lecturer
Lazar  Fleishman

Lazar Fleishman

Slavic Languages and Literatures
the history of 19th and 20th century Russian literature (especially, Pushkin, Pasternak, and Russian modernism); poetics; literary theory; 20th-century Russian history; Russian émigré literature, journalism and culture
Gregory  Freidin

Gregory Freidin

Slavic Languages and Literatures
contemporary Russian culture, literature, politics and society
Jeremy  Goldhaber-Fiebert

Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert

Freeman Spogli Institute - Stanford Health Policy, Centers for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Policy of prevention and management of chronic diseases in the US, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Eastern Europe
Rima  Greenhill

Rima Greenhill

Senior Russian language lecturer
Monika  Greenleaf

Monika Greenleaf

Slavic Languages and Literatures
Russian theater, women's poetry, film, Nabokov, Tsvetaeva, Gogol, and Pushkin

Vera Gribanova

Linguistics
Linguistics of Uzbek, Russian, Bulgarian
Anna Grzymala-Busse

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Political Science, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Political parties, state development and transformation, informal political institutions, religion and politics, and post-communist politics.
Siegfried S Hecker

Siegfried S Hecker

Freeman Spogli Institute - Center for International Security and Cooperation, Management Science and Engineering
Plutonium Science; Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship; Cooperative Threat Reduction; History of Russian-U.S. laboratory-to-laboratory cooperation
David Holloway

David Holloway

History and Political Science; FSI - CISAC
international history of nuclear weapons; history and sociology of science in the Soviet Union
Yuliya  Ilchuk

Yuliya Ilchuk

Slavic Languages and Literatures
Intellectual History; Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture; Slavic and East European Literatures
Branislav  Jakovljevic

Branislav Jakovljevic

Theater and Performance Studies
History of late nineteenth-century theater, Russian and Soviet avant-garde, Contemporary American experimental performance
Katherine R Jolluck

Katherine R Jolluck

History
women and war, women in communist societies, the Soviet Gulag, nationalism, anti-Semitism, and human trafficking
Burcu  Karahan Richardson

Burcu Karahan Richardson

Comparative Literature
Lecturer in Turkish Language and Literature, Ottoman/Turkish literature with focus on the novel, issues of translation, sexuality, formation of masculine identities, and Westernization
Srdan Keca

Srdan Keca

Documentary Film and Video
Architecture, Art & Science, Experimental Media Art, Film/Cinema, Installation, Interactive Art, Internet Art, Sound Art, Visual Culture
Eugenia  Khassina

Eugenia Khassina

Senior Russian language lecturer
Nancy  Kollmann

Nancy Kollmann

History
Early modern Russian politics, structures of power, legal culture; roles of women in political ideology and practice
Alma  Kunanbaeva

Alma Kunanbaeva

cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, storytelling, and linguistics
David D Laitin

David D Laitin

Freeman Spogli Institute, Political Science
Comparative politics; political culture, ethnic conflict, and civil war in Somalia, Nigeria, Catalonia, Estonia and France
Gail W Lapidus

Gail W Lapidus

Freeman Spogli Institute - Center for International Security and Cooperation, Political Science, Emerita
Impact of the Soviet legacy on patterns of conflict in the post-Soviet states; politics and state-building in Central Asia
Michael A McFaul

Michael A McFaul

Freeman Spogli Institute - Center for International Security and Cooperation, Political Science
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, great power relations, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT; Russian politics; US-Russia relations
Grant  Miller

Grant Miller

Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford Center for International Development, Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Health economics, development economics, economic demography, and population health; Russia’s mortality crisis
Eric  Morris

Eric Morris

Freeman Spogli Institute, International Policy Studies
International mediation and civil wars, global governance and organizations, conflict resolution
Norman M Naimark

Norman M Naimark

History
Soviet Union and Europe in the postwar period; ethnic cleansing and genocide
Karla Oeler

Karla Oeler

Film and Media Studies
Film history, theory and criticism, cinematic representations of violence and thinking, and the relations between film aesthetics, literature, theory and philosophy
Bissera  Pentcheva

Bissera Pentcheva

Art & Art History
liturgy, Byzantine musicology, and architectural history
William J Perry

William J Perry

Freeman Spogli Institute, Management Science and Engineering
U.S. foreign policy; national security; arms control
Aron  Rodrigue

Aron Rodrigue

History
Modern Jewish History; History and culture of Sephardic Jews; The Jews of Modern France; The Ottoman Empire
Nancy  Ruttenburg

Nancy Ruttenburg

English
political, religious, and literary expression in colonial through antebellum America and nineteenth-century Russia, with a particular focus on the development of liberal and non-liberal forms of democratic subjectivity
Gabriella  Safran

Gabriella Safran

Slavic Languages and Literatures
Russian Literature, Yiddish literature, folklore, and folkloristics
Edith  Sheffer

Edith Sheffer

Freeman Spogli Institute, History
Modern Europe and Germany (including East Germany), social and cultural history of the twentieth century
Nariman  Skakov

Nariman Skakov

Slavic Languages and Literatures
Andrei Platonov, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and Rustam Khamdamov, literary theory (Bakhtin and Shklovsky in particular), Moscow conceptualism (Ilya Kabakov, Vladimir Sorokin and Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov), intersections between the textual and the visual, and the Soviet 'Orient'
Kathryn  Stoner

Kathryn Stoner

Freeman Spogli Institute
comparative state building and effective governance; political economy of developing countries; Russian domestic and international politics; Canadian politics
Ilya A Strebulaev

Ilya A Strebulaev

Graduate School of Business
Nancy  Tuma

Nancy Tuma

Sociology, Emerita
Impact on individuals of political, economic, and social structures in post-Soviet societies; patterns of social inequality, life careers, social stratification, and quantitative methods for studying change
Allen S Weiner

Allen S Weiner

Stanford Law School, Stanford Center on International Conflict & Negotiation
international and national security law, the law of war, international conflict resolution and international criminal law (including International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Court of Justice and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal)
Amir  Weiner

Amir Weiner

History
study of totalitarian movements and regimes with a focus on the Soviet polity; population politics; the Second World War; and modern mass violence
Ali  Yaycioglu

Ali Yaycioglu

History
Early Modern Europe; Middle East and Central Asia; Transnational, International, and Global History
Patricia Young

Patricia Young

comparative political economy, elites, corruption, economic and social reforms, Eastern Europe, Russia, China
Steven  Zipperstein

Steven Zipperstein

History
Modern Jewish History, History of Zionism, Russian and East European Jewish History, Israeli politics

Affiliates

Zachary M Baker

Zachary M Baker

Stanford University Libraries, Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development in Humanities/Area Studies/Social Sciences
Chaim  Braun

Chaim Braun

Center for International Security and Cooperation, Consulting Professor
economics of nuclear power and fuel supply; nuclear nonproliferation
John  Dunlop

John Dunlop

Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow Emeritus
John A Eilts

John A Eilts

Stanford University Libraries, Curator for Islamic and Middle Eastern Collection
Liisi  Eglit

Liisi Esse

Stanford University Libraries, Assistant Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies
Timothy  Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash

Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow
Paul R Gregory

Paul R Gregory

Hoover Institution, Research Fellow
Lessia Jarboe

Lessia Jarboe

Ukrainian Lecturer

Barbara Brigida Krupa

Stanford University Libraries, Interim Slavic and East European selector
Margarita Nafpaktitis

Margarita Nafpaktitis

Stanford University Libraries, Curator for the Slavic and East European Collections
Bertrand M Patenaude

Bertrand M Patenaude

Center for Innovation in Global Health, Faculty Fellow
Anatol  Shmelev

Anatol Shmelev

Hoover Library & Archives, Curator for Russia/Soviet/Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Collection
Maciej  Siekierski

Maciej Siekierski

Hoover Library & Archives, Curator for East European Collection
Richard F Staar

Richard F Staar

Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow Emeritus