Russia

Marina Alexandrova

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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

Law

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.

Kiril Avramov

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

Plan II Honors Program

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.

Mikhail Belkin

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mikhail Belkin’s research interests are in the areas of mid-infrared and terahertz photonics, optoelectronics, and nonlinear optics.

Svetlana Boyarchenko

Economics

Svetlana Boyarchenko's research interests include mathematical and quantitative methods, financial economics, and real options.

Nathaniel Brickens

Music Performance, Music Education

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

Anthropology, Salve and Eurasian Studies

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.

Jessica Ciarla

Textiles and Apparel, Human Ecology

Jessica Ciarla's research focuses on the function of textiles and apparel in the fashion industry.

Edwin Dorn

Public Affairs

Edwin Dorn teaches defense policy and courses about the relationship between race and immigration policy.

Sergey Fomel

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sergey Fomel's research interests include computational and exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, wave propagation, seismic data analysis, inverse problems, and geophysical estimation.

John Fremgen

Jazz Studies, Music Performance

John Fremgen's is a trained bassist in both classical and jazz styles. He has performed, taught, and conducted around the world.

James Galbraith

Public Affairs, Government

James Galbraith is an expert on macroeconomic policy, monetary policy, economic development policies, comparative economic policy and economic inequality.

James Gardner

Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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.

Bella Jordan

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Bella Jordan's research focuses on the ethnogenesis of the Sakha (Yakut) people and creation of their homeland since the 14th-century.

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Conducting

Farkhad Khudyev is an international award-winning conductor and has worked with orchestras around the world.

Karol Lang

Physics

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

Design

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

Earth and Planetary Sciences

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.

Keith Livers

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Keith Livers is a scholar of Russian literature.

Matthew McGlone

Communication Studies

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

American Studies

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

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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.

Eve Prilipko

Management

Eve Prilipko's research interests include emotional intelligence, leadership, and globalization.

Heather Rice

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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

English

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.

Steven Seegel

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Steven Seegel is a historian focused on the critical geography and cartography of Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine.

Maria Sidorkina

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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

Music Performance

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

Public Affairs, History

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

Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Government

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.

Mikhail Vishik

Mathematics

Mikhail Vishik's research interests include partial differential equations and fluid dynamics.

Rachel Wellhausen

Government, Business, Government and Society

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

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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

Slavic and Eurasian Studies, History

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.

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