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is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. His interests are syntactic theory, cognitive science, Slavic linguistics, musical perception, language pedagogy and evolutionary psychology. He is also Director of the Advanced Critical Language Institute for Russian Immersion. He holds a PhD. in Linguistics from Cornell University. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. Her current book manuscript, Engendering Autonomy: Indigenous Women’s Struggles and the State in Mexico, examines the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and indigenous autonomy in Mexico. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory, race/ethnicity, gender and indigenous rights, anthropology of the state and nationalism, immigration, and Latin America. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Website |
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is Visiting Professor of Literature and Translation at St. Petersburg State University. Her interests include translation theory, comparative literature and poetry, women's literature, and film studies. She teaches courses in Cultural Studies and Translation and is Director of Russian Studies for Stony Brook University at St. Petersburg State University. She hosts the weekly Translators' Tea Party at 'Zoom' in St. Petersburg. Tea party blog: She holds a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Cornell University. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. She specializes in Russian Literature, Modern Yiddish Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and the Literature of Ukraine. She has published several articles on Russian literature and Jewish-Slavic relations, as well as translations from Russian, Yiddish and Italian. She is the translator and co-editor (with David Weintraub) of an anthology of American Yiddish poetry, Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford.
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is Associate Professor of Journalism at Stony Brook University where he teaches journalism and narrative nonfiction writing and directs Study Abroad programs for Journalism students to China and Russia.. He has also taught nonfiction writing at Emory University and served as director of a Knight Fellowship that promoted excellence in medical and public health journalism. He’s a graduate of Harvard University and Sarah Lawrence College. Website |
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is Professor of Syntax at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests are in Theoretical Syntax and the Syntax/Semantics interface, with particular reference to English, the other Germanic languages and Japanese. Recent and current research topics include reconstruction phenomena, equatives and other copular constructions, the syntax and semantics of (especially) nominal conjunction, and syntactic attrition in the native language of advanced learners of a second language. She is co-Editor in Chief of The Journal of Linguistics. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Website |
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is Associate Professor in the Psychology Department and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he studies the social psychology of gender and sexuality. In the most general sense, Prof. Hill’s research is focused on how historical, social, and cultural contexts shape gender and sex identities.Dr. Hill has conducted a series of studies on how gender influences the way we think about ourselves as sexual beings. He is specifically interested in prejudice and violence directed against gender outlaws. He holds a PhD from the University of Windsor (Canada). Website |
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is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. He works on the morphologies and phonologies of Semitic languages, focusing on Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic in both their classical and modern, colloquial varieties. Other interests include (in various overlapping circles) writing systems, comparative Semitic linguistics, the phonological history of Yiddish, Jewish interlinguistics, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. Website |
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is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Stony Brook University. She specializes in Polish and Russian nineteenth-century literatures, and East-Central European cinema. She teaches courses in film studies, cultural studies, and literature. She is the author of Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient (University of Rochester Press, 2004). She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Literature from Yale University. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in the field of psycholinguistics, spanning from acquisition of syntax and semantics to neurolinguistics, sentence processing and speech perception. More recently she has been interested in exploring the degree to which the speaker's use of grammatical knowledge guides his/her online processing and whether it is used to restrict the set of possible candidate representations. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Russian at Pomona College. His interests are in Russian 19th- and 20th-century literature, the history of the press, literary theory, media studies, and Czech 20th-century literature. He holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His research interests concern postcommunist politics in Eastern Europe (particularly Poland), comparative explorations of Labor and democracy in Europe and America - the changing relationship between the United States and the European Union, Globalization protests, and chances for a new international order. He was awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize in 2006 for The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Website |
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is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research is in phonology and phonetics, the study of human speech sound patternings. His main language interest is Russian, but his work is directed at an understanding of language in general. His other language interests include Polish, Irish, and Catalan. His combines formal analysis, usually within Optimality Theory, with experimental methodologies. He is particularly interested in the role of contrast and perceptual distinctiveness in phonetics and phonology. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts. Website |
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is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests are in comparative syntax, in both a synchronic and historical perspective, and on the interface between syntax and semantics. It employs formal modeling, cross-linguistic comparison from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, and neurolinguistic experimentation. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Website |
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is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection of theoretical syntax and the study of cross-linguistic variation in sentence structure. Language-wise, she specializes in Austronesian and languages of the Caucasus. These days she divides her time between theoretical and experimental work on long-distance dependencies, ergativity, and subject island effects. She has also studied language universals and their explanation, the expression of information structure in natural language and incomplete acquisition (heritage language). Website |
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is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Rochester. His research occupies the broad intersection of political, intellectual, and industrial history. In collaboration with Maurice Isserman he has just completed a history of Himalayan exploration and mountaineering. He is the author of two other books and numerous scholarly articles. He teaches surveys of English, Irish, and Indian history and seminars on topics ranging from The Industrial Revolution to the First World War. Website |
