Marina Alexandrova's research interests include international modernism and avant-garde (1870s-1920s), Russian radical and revolutionary movements, spirituality in Imperial Russia, and, most recently, cultural and spiritual ties between Russia and the U.S.
Owen Anderson is a scholar whose expertise is in oil and gas, particularly with regards to international petroleum law, transactions, and taxation. He has written extensively on water law and domestic and global petroleum law.
Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Government, Public Affairs
Kiril Avramov is a scholar of non-western political warfare, particularly focusing on Soviet and Russian propaganda, influence and psychological operations.
Thomas Bay is an author and syndicated columnist, professor, developmental aid advocate, radio commentator, retired reserve soldier, war game designer, consultant in organizational planning and training simulations.
Nathaniel Brickens is an internationally acclaimed trombone player and educator. He has traveled and performed both national and internationally as a free-lance trombonist, as conductor of the UT Trombone Choir, and as a music educator.
Craig Campbell's research is concerned with the realm of ethnographic and documentary images. The research and visual experiments undertaken explores the possibility for failed, defaced, degraded, manipulated, and damaged photographs to activate interpretive fields typically unacknowledged in conventional ethnographies and histories.
Sergey Fomel's research interests include computational and exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, wave propagation, seismic data analysis, inverse problems, and geophysical estimation.
James Galbraith is an expert on macroeconomic policy, monetary policy, economic development policies, comparative economic policy and economic inequality.
James Gardner's research focuses on the physical and chemical aspects of volcanic eruptions and magmatic processes. One side involves studying active centers and their deposits, including understanding the dynamics of caldera-forming eruptions. A second area utilizes experiments to determine the contents of volatiles in magmas, the degassing of those volatiles from magmas, and the control of such behavior on eruptions and formation of ore bodies.
Thomas Garza's research interests include a longitudinal study of Russian youth culture, comparative work on masculinity in contemporary Russia and Mexico, the vampire myth in Slavic cultures, Russian language teaching methodology, and applied linguistics.
Karol Lang is an experimental particle physicist, whose research focuses on studies of neutrinos. Lang typically conducts research and development on particle detectors, such as those for large water Cherenkov detectors.
Yuliya Lanina is a multimedia artist whose works exist at the intersection of visual, performing arts, and technological innovation, and explore social issues like gender perception, sexuality, loss, and motherhood. Her work has been exhibited and performed around the world.
Jung-Fu Lin's research focuses on understanding the nature of the Earth and planetary interiors as well as material sciences through direct examination of the properties of materials under high-pressure and high/low-temperature conditions. His research group often by conducts high pressure experiments using high-pressure diamond anvil cell techniques combined with in-house and synchrotron-based facilities.
Matthew McGlone studies social influence, persuasion, and deception, focusing on language’s key role in these processes. His current research projects explore strategic word choice in messages promoting wellness, patience, disaster preparedness, and prosocial behavior; stereotyping and prejudice in interpersonal communication; (in)civility in social media discourse; and the language people use to describe pain, illness, and addiction.
Julia Mickenberg is a historian of women, children, and radical cultures in the 20th-century. She is interested in the cultural milieu of leftist political movements and in the tension between utopian desire and the practical realities of human fallibility, abuse of power, and limited resources. She is drawn toward unexplored and repressed dimensions of the historical record, including stories of those whose significance has been overlooked.
Robert Moser specializes in the study of electoral systems, political parties, ethnicity and elections, women's and minority representation, and Russian politics. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on democratization, elections, and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Heather Rice's research interests include developing a Russian language curriculum that targets individual student interests and needs, is fully accessible, and is representative of the diverse Russian-speaking communities around the world. In the classroom, her work focuses on community-building, especially in the online setting, by creating opportunities for shared experiences that lead to greater student engagement, success, and retention.
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza writes on Oscar Wilde, theatre, the gothic, detective stories, and literary theory. She teaches strategic thinking, team building, and diversity/inclusivity through literature and the fine arts and works actively in eight world languages.
Maria Sidorkina is an anthropologist with a focus on digital ethnography, political communication, illiberalism and the language and interaction in protests and collective actions in the post-Soviet Eurasia and Russian context.
Mikhail Smigelski is a singer and enjoys a career of various genres, including opera, oratorio, early music, musical theatre, and contemporary music. He has toured in Russia, various parts of Europe, and the U.S. in a variety of roles, e.g., opera soloist, music director, collaborative pianist.
Jeremi Suri's research interests include the formation and spread of nation-states, the emergence of modern international relations, the connections between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.
Delgerjargal Uvsh conducts research and teaches on when and how positive changes in state-business relations, political regimes, and environmental policies and discourses happen in countries rich in natural resources, particularly in Central Asia as well as Russia and Mongolia.
Rachel Wellhausen's primary field of interest is international political economy. Wellhausen's research focuses on international economic relations and political risk, investment law, trade in waste and recyclables, and sovereign debt management, as well as the political economy of semi-sovereign territories and indigenous lands.
Evgenia Wilkins' research interests include development of L2 interactional competence, cross-cultural aspects of intercorporeality, and the impact of study abroad on the intercorporeal repertoire.
Charters Wynn is a historian whose research interests are on Soviet political and labor history with a focus on New Economic Policy Russia and the Stalinist Russia.