Mentor List
This is the mentoring list maintained by the graduate student representatives to the Board of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. Thanks to Jehanne Gheith, who compiled the original mentoring list, to Judy Kalb, Sheila Kunkle, Betsy Hemenway and Laura Schlosberg who updated and maintained it.
If you wish to add your name to the list, or to correct information on it, contact Cheri Wilson.
Everyone on the list urges graduate students, undergraduate students, and even junior faculty NOT to be shy or hesitant about getting in touch. Mentors not only wish to help develop the future of our profession, but also gain great satisfaction from learning about the research and projects that will shape that future.
Unless otherwise indicated, everyone listed is willing to mentor both graduate and undergraduate students.
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- Patricia Arant, Box E, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
Research Interests: Folklore, Old Russian Lits., language pedagogy
- Adele Barker, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona, Harvill Building, Box 6, Tucson, AZ 85721; (tel. (520) 621-3608, fax (520) 626-8694; adeleb@ccit.arizona.edu
Research Interests: (ex) Soviet women's writing - Rosamund Bartlett, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275; tel. (313) 763-0239; fax (313) 764-3521; rosamund.bartlett@um.cc.umich.edu
Research Interests: Russian literature and cultural history, interdisciplinary studies esp. music and theatre - Margaret H. Beissinger, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 249 East Pyne, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; 609-258-3874; mhbeissi@Princeton.edu
Research interests: Balkan languages and literatures, oral traditions, Romani culture. - Laurie Bernstein, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102; tel. (609) 757-6080; e-mail care of: rweinbe1@swarthmore.edu
Research In terests: Adoption & orphans in Soviet period, prostitution, 19th & 20th century Russian History, women's history - Donna A. Buchanan, Dept. of Music, New York University, 24 Waverly Pl., Rm. 268, New York, NY 10003; tel. (212) 998-8311, fax (212) 995-4147; buchannd@is2.nyu.edu
Research Interests: Bulgaria; East Eur. music and folklore; E Eur music and politics - Cindy Buckley, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Population Research Center, 1800 Main Tower, Austin, TX 78712; Buckle@prc.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Sociology/demography; agricultural reform, fertility - Diana Burgin, 1643 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 492-0170
Research Interests: Silver Age -- Parnok, Tsvetaeva; lesbian studies - Maria Bucur, Director Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, 565 Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405; (812) 855-7309; mbucur@indiana.edu
- Choi Chatterjee, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032; (323) 343-2023; cchatte@calstatela.edu
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Russian/Soviet History, Gender and Women studies, Russian-American Relations - Pamela Chester, 5 Falmouth Street, Belmont, MA 02178; (617) 484-6088; pchester@delphi.com
Research Interests: 19th-20th c. Russian literature; women's studies - Heather Coleman, Department of History and Classics, Tory Building 2-28, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6E 2J8 Canada. (780) 492-3922; hcoleman@ualberta.ca
Research interests: 19th-20th century Russia; religious history; 19th-20th century Ukraine - Jane Costlow, Dept. of German, Russian & E. Asian Langs. and Lit., Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240; tel.: 207 786-6289; fax: 207 786-6123; jcostlow@abacus.bates.edu
Research Interests: 19th-c. women writers; feminist readings of Russian literature
- Beata Dafeldecker, Senior Program Officer, Central and East European Programs, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), 1616 H. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; tel. (202) 628-8188; fax; (202) 628-8189; e-mail: bdafelde@irex.org
Willing to advise on grant-seeking, preparing applications to research funding organizations. - Ethel Dunn, Highgate Rd. Social Science Research Station, 32 Highgate Rd., Berkeley, CA 94707; (510) 525-5508
Research Interests: Russian peasants, daily life, ethnicity, religion, disability, Far North
- Barbara Engel, Dept. of History, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; tel. (303) 492-6683; engelb@spot.colorado.edu
Research Interests: History of Russian women -- 19th and 20th centuries; family history; peasants
- Halina Filipowicz, Dept. of Slavic Langs., van Hise Hall, Rm. 720, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706; tel. (608) 262-3498; fax (608) 265-2814
Research Interests: Gender issues in Polish literature; feminist theory & criticism - Sibelan Forrester, Modern Languages & Literatures, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390; tel. (610) 328-8162, fax (610) 328-7769; sforres1@swarthmore.edu
Research Interests: Russian/Soviet women writers; 20th-century poetry, Tsvetaeva; Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian lits and cultures; gender studies in literature; literary translation; folklore and science fiction.
- Jehanne Gheith, Dept. of Slavic Langs & Lits., Duke University -- Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259; (919) 660-3147, fax (919) 660-3140; gheith@acpub.duke.edu
Research Interests: Russian literature -- 19th & 20th c.; women's and gender studies; various literary theories - Helena Goscilo, Dept. of Slavic Langs. & Lits., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel. (412) 624-5908, fax (412) 624-9714; goscilo+@pitt.edu
Research Interests: Literature (19th & 20th c.); Russian women writers - Lisa Granik, 65 Clark Street #1, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 06511; (203) 787-4848
Research Interests: Women's legal history in Russia
- Jane G. Harris, Dapt. of Slavic Langs & Lits, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel. (412) 681-3044, fax (412) 624-9714; jgharris+@pitt.edu
Research Interests: Autobiography; 20th-c. poetry - Barbara Heldt, Dept. of English, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1; (604) 822-5130
Research Interests: Russian lit., 19th/20th c.; feminist theory and criticism - Martha Hickey, 6903 SW 54th Ave., Portland, OR 97219
Research Interests: Russian and Czech literature, arts, and film - Heather Hogan, Dept. of History, Rice Hall 316, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074-1095; tel. (216) 775-8527; fhogan@oberlin.edu
Research Interests: 19th-20th Russian/Soviet history, esp. labor and social history - Christine Holden, Department of History, Univ. of Southern Maine, College Ave., Gorham, ME 04038; tel. (207) 780-5059, fax (207) 780-5167; Holden@Portland.maine.edu
Research Interests: Diplomatic, Balkan and women's history, 18th-20th cc. - Beth Holmgren, Dept. of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708; beth.holmgren@duke.edu
Research Interests: Russian and Polish literature -- esp. 20th century, but will be glad to look at work in 19th c.; women's autobiography, 19th and 20th c.
- Dina Iordanova, Radio-TV-Film/Slavic Depts., Univ. of Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712; DinaI@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Women in film and media, Bulgarian and other East European
- Dr. Judith E. Kalb, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; fax (departmental): (803) 777-0454; jkalb@sc.edu
Interests: Symbolists, twentieth-century prose, classics and Russian - Ann Kleimola, History Dept., Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0327; tel. (402) 472-2414, 472-8839; kleimola@unlinfo.unl.edu
Research Interests: Muscovite/early modern Russian history - Natasha Kolchevska, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Ortega Hall, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131; tel. (505) 277-7363, fax (505) 277-9138; nakol@unm.edu
Research Interests: 20th c. Russian literature & culture, esp. prose; Tsvetaeva; autobiography
- Barbara Lobodzinska-Lien, 630 Cleveland
Ave. SW #16, New Brighton, MN 55112; (612) 633-2648
Comparative sociology, family policy, and women's issues in Poland and Central Europe
- Martha Merritt, Dept. of Government, University
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; (219) 631-7695, fax (219)
631-4268; martha.l.merritt.7@nd.edu
Research Interests: Comtemporary Russian and Baltic politics
- Carol Nechemias, Division of Public Affairs,
Penn State University, Middleton, PA 17057; tel. (717) 948-6049,
fax (717) 948-6320; c4n@psuvm.psu.edu
Research Interests: Contemporary status of women in Russia; political science - Linda Nelson, Humanities Division, Mississippi
Univ. for Women, Box 1634, Columbus, MS 39701
RI: 19th & 20th-c. Bulgaria; history-gender; film in E. Eur.; Balkan history - Joan Neuberger, Dept. of History, Univ.
of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1163; tel. (512) 471-1355,
fax (512) 475-7222; neuberger@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Social, cultural history; Imperial Russia; women's history - Norma Noonan, Augsburg College, 731-31st
Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN 55454; tel. (612) 330-1198, fax (612)
330-1649; noonan@augsburg.edu
Research Interests: Russian gov, and pol. elites; Russian foreign policy; Women in Russia - Barbara T. Norton, Humanities Division,
History Department, Widener University, Chester, PA 19013; tel.
(610) 499-4341, fax (610) 876-9751; Barbara.T.Norton@widener.edu
Research Interests: Late Imperial political and social history, with particular emphasis on women's history
- Sarah D. Phillips, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Student Building 130, 701 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington IN 47405; (812) 855-0216; sadphill@indiana.edu; http://www.indiana.edu/~medanth/
- Teresa Polowy, Dept. of Russian & Slavic
Languages, ML 340, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; tel. (602)
621-9258, fax (602) 626-4007; tpol@ccit.arizona.edu
Research Interests: Post-1956 Russian prose; women's texts; literary sociology
- Anne Rassweiler, 130 Library Pl., Princeton,
NJ 08540; tel. (609) 924-9434, fax (609) 497-4388
Research Interests: Social social history, educ.; women & labor; women in Siberia 1920's-1930's. Willing to talk with anyone locally. - Charlotte Rosenthal, Dept. of Foreign Languages
and Classics, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103; tel.
(207) 780-4325, fax (207) 780-4318; crosenth@usm.maine.edu
Research Interests: Russian women writers, Silver Age; language pedagogy - Christine Ruane, Dept. of History, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104; christine-ruane@utulsa.edu
Research Interests: 19th & 20th-c. history; women's history; women in professions; fashion; gardening - Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Research Associate, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; ruthchil@yahoo.com
Areas of interest: History of Russian Women and especially the feminist movement, late imperial, Soviet, post-Soviet periods.
- Stephanie Sandler, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Barker Center 321, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; ssandler@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: 19th-20th c. Russian lit.; feminist theory - Sydney Schultze, 3601 Sudbury Lane, Louisville,
KY 40220; tel. (502) 852-6686, fax (502) 852-8885; spschu01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
Research Interests: Tolstoi - Veronica Shapovalov, Dept. of German &
Russian, San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA 92182-0439
Research Interests: Russian lit., 19th-c.; Russian lang. teaching
- Isabel Tirado, Wm. Paterson College, History
Dept., Wayne, NJ 07470
Research Interests: Russian youth -- 1920's; 1920's, chastushki & women - Christine Tomei, Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 420 West 118th St., New York, New York, 10027; tel.
(914) 928-8213 (home number); g12187@usma2.usma.edu
Research Interests: 19th & 20th-c. literature - Joyce Toomre, Russian Research Center, Harvard
University, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02165; tel. (617)
969-9596; toomre@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Russian food history; domestic history; food in lit. & folklore
- Rebecca Wells, Dept. of Literature-0410,
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
Research Interests: Russian lang. teaching; Slavic linguistics; Russian lesbian studies - Christine Worobec, Dept. of History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115; worobec@niu.edu
Research Interests: modern Russia and Ukraine: peasant women, witchcraft, lived religion
- Denise Youngblood, History Dept., Univ.
of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0165; tel. (802) 656-4497, fax
(802) 656-8794; dyoungbl@polyglot.uvm.edu
Research Interests: 19th & 20th-c. Russo-Soviet cultural & intellectual history, popular culture, post-modernism, interdisciplinary studies, cinema
- Mary Zirin, 1178 Sonoma Drive, Altadena,
CA 91001; (818) 791-3696; mary@bigbear.caltech.edu
Research Interests: Prerevolutionary Russian women writers