CSEEES Fellows

Robert S. Kravchuk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His recent research focuses on the political economy of reform in former Soviet republics, with a special emphasis on Ukraine. He also studies US domestic U.S. domestic public finance and budgeting. He is the author of Ukrainian Political Economy: The First Ten Years (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002). He is also co-editor of State and Institution Building in Ukraine (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), and co-author (with Taras Kuzio and Paul D'Anieri) of Ukrainian Politics and Society (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999). He is also co-author with David H. Rosenbloom and Richard Clerkin of the widely-adopted text, Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector 7th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009). In 1991-93, Kravchuk served as a deputy director in the State of Connecticut budget office. In his international activities, Kravchuk has been a member of numerous U.S. Treasury Department expert missions to former Soviet and Eastern European countries. In 1993-94, he was the U.S. Treasury's Resident Budget Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine. During 1995-96, he was appointed jointly by the U.S. Secretaries of State and the Treasury as Financial Advisor to the President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Kravchuk holds the Ph.D. in political science from the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Additionally, he holds an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lashchinsky, Nikolay

Matekeeva, Sairagul

Michaels, Paula

Paula Michaels joined the History Department in 1997, after receiving degrees from Northwestern University (BA) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD, 1997). Her research interests lie in the cultural and political history of twentieth century Russia and Central Asia. In 2003, Michaels published Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia ( University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the Association for Women in Slavic Studies’ Heldt Prize for best book by a women in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. It was also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Combining colonial and postcolonial theory with intensive archival and ethnographic research, Curative Powers explores Soviet medical initiatives and their underlying political and social implications for and impact on Kazakh society. Her articles have appeared, among other places, in Russian Review, Feminist Studies, and Nationalities Papers. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the National Council for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Research, and the International Research and Exchanges Board.

Peck, Anna

Current research: 1) Presentation and perception of Polish history in American school and college programs and textbooks. It considers high school standard and Advanced Placement levels and undergraduate courses such as World History, European History, American History and Western Civilizations; 2) Russian scholars' and missionaries' perception of Tibetan Buddhism in Siberia and Mongolia before 1917.

Rubinstein, George

George Ruibinstein is studying the book "Russian Verbal Modifications" by I. V. Ivlieva and will write a review on it for SEEJ review. He also works on the general topic "Derivation and Aspectuality", and, particularly, on the problem of Aspectual Clusters of Russian Verbs. Also, he is preparing for participation in the Slavic Cognitive Linguistic Conference in Prague with a presentation on Russian Non-Aspectual Verbs.

Suhr, Gerald

Wolowyna, Oleh