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9. Faculty Biographies
Stephan Astourian, Executive Director of the Armenian Studies Program and the William Saroyan Assistant Adjunct Professor of History, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. His recent publications include “State, Homeland, and Diaspora: The Armenian and Azerbaijani Cases” in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (2005); a review of Levon Abrahamian and Nancy Sweezy, eds., Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review XIII (2002); “Le Génocide arménien: massacre à l’asiatique ou effet de modernité?” in Stéphane Courtois, ed., Quand tombe la nuit: Origines et émergence des régimes totalitaires en Europe (2001); and “From Ter-Petrossian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia,” the Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies Working Paper Series (Winter 2000-01).
Victoria Bonnell, Chair of the Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies and Professor of Sociology, received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975. Her recent publications include “Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies” (with George W. Breslauer) in David L. Szanton, ed. The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines (2004); New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China [editor, with Thomas B. Gold]; Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder (2001) [editor and contributor]; Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (1999) [editor, with Lynn Hunt]; Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Art, 1917-1953 (1997); Identities in Transition: East Europe and the Former Soviet Union Since 1985 (1996) [editor and contributor]; Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August Coup (1994) [with Ann Cooper and Gregory Freidin]; and “The Iconography of the Worker in Soviet Political Art,” in Making Workers Soviet (1994).
George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost and Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1973. Professor Breslauer was Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies from 1985-1994 and Chair of BPS from 1994-1996. Among his recent publications are Gorbachev and Yeltsin As Leaders (2002); Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder (2001) [editor and contributor]; “Methodological Considerations in the Study of the Impact of International Factors on Post-Soviet Evolution,” in Karen Dawisha, ed., The International Dimension of Post-Communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (1997); “Identities in Transition: An Introduction,” in Victoria Bonnell, ed., Identities of Transition: East Europe and the Former Soviet Union Since 1985 (1996); “Aid to Russia: What Difference Can Western Policy Make?” in The New Russia (1994); and Soviet Policy in Africa [editor and contributor] (1992).
Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. His publications include “Public Sociology vs. the Market,” Socio-Economic Review (2007, forthcoming); “Open the Social Sciences: To Whom and For What?” Portuguese Journal of Social Science (forthcoming, 2007); “The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise,” Conclusion in Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming, 2007); “Public Sociology on a Global Scale,” Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (forthcoming, 2006); “A Public Sociology for Human Rights,” Introduction to Judith Blau and Keri Iyall-Smith (eds.), Public Sociologies Reader (2006); “Third-Wave Sociology and the End of Pure Science,” American Sociologist 36(3): 152-65 (2005); “Forging Public Sociologies on National, Regional, and Global Terrains,” E-Bulletin, The International Sociological Association, No.2: 42-52 (2005); “Combat in the Dissertation Zone,” American Sociologist 36(2): 43-56 (2005); “Public Sociology: Populist Fad or Path to Renewal?” British Journal of Sociology 56(3): 417- 432 (2005); and “Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College,” Social Problems (February 2004).
Diane Clemens, Professor of History (Emerita), received her Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1966. Her publications include From War to Cold War: American Policy at the Crossroads (1999); The Wartime Origins of German-American Relations: Postwar Visions, Berkeley: Center for German and European Studies, Working Paper (Summer 1993); “Yalta” and “From War to Cold War” in Yalta, 1945: Problems of War and Peace, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Military History of Defense of the Russian Federation, 1992 (in Russian); and “From War to Cold War: The Role of Harriman, Deane, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Reversal of Cooperation with the Soviet Union, April, 1945,” The International History Review, XIV (May 1992).
John Connelly, Associate Professor of History, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. A comparative historian of Eastern Europe, Professor Connelly specializes in intra-bloc relations from 1945 to 1956, and particularly in educational policy in Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. His publications include Universities under Dictatorship (2005), co-edited with Michael Gruttner; “Why the Poles Collaborated So Little and Why that is No Reason for Nationalist Hubris,” Slavic Review 64(4), (Winter 2005); Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 (2000); “Humboldt Co-opted: East German Universities, 1945-1989” in German Universities, Past and Future (1997); and “Communist Higher Education Policies in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany,” Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, Eastern Europe (1997).
M. Steven Fish, Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. He is the author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (2005); Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (1995); and a coauthor of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (2001). His recent articles and book chapters include “Democratization and Economic Liberalization in the Post Communist World,” (with Omar Choudhry) in Comparative Political Studies 40 (2007); “Diversity, Conflict and Democracy: Some Evidence from Eurasia and East Europe,” Democratization 13(5) (2006); “Stronger Legislatures, Stronger Democracies,” Journal of Democracy 17(1) (2006); “Does Diversity Hurt Democracy?” (coauthored with Robin S. Brooks), Journal of Democracy (January 2004); “Out of the Brown and into the Blue: The Tentative ‘Christian-Democratization’ of the Croatian Democratic Union” (coauthored with Andrej Krickovic), East European Constitutional Review (Spring/Summer 2003); “The Impact of the 1999-2000 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections on Political Party Development,” in Vicki Hesli and William Reisinger, eds., The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia (2003); and “Islam and Authoritarianism,” World Politics (October 2002).
Victoria Frede, Assistant Professor of History, received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Her interests include Imperial Russia, late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Russian intellectual history, with comparisons between developments in Russia, Germany, France and Britain, and the history of anti-religious thought. Her recent publications include The Making of Atheism in Russia: Educated Russians and Unbelief, 1780-1870 (in progress); “A Radical Woman Confronts a Radical Circle: M. L. Ogareva, the Westernizers, and the Problem of Individual Self-Fulfillment” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 54 no. 2 (2006), pp. 161-189; “Lovers of Wisdom” Encyclopedia of Russian History, ed. James Millar, (2004), vol. 2, pp. 875-876; and “Istoriia kollektivnogo razocharovaniia: druzhba, nravstvennost' i religioznost' v druzheskom krugu A. I. Gertsena - N. P. Ogareva 1830-1840-kh gg.,” tr. S. Silakova, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol. 49 (3, 2001), pp. 159-90.
Gregory Grossman, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1953 and began his appointment at Berkeley that year. His research has focused on money, finance, and the second economy in the USSR, as well as on economic reform in communist countries. His publications include “Central Planning and Transition the American Desert: Latter-day Saints in Present-day Sight,” Economic Systems, 24:4 (2000); “Natural Riches and an Economic System’s Fate: A Russian Century,” Economic Systems, 23:2 (1999); “The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy,” Journal of Comparative Economics 26:3 (1998); The Political History of Economic Reform in Russia: 1985-1994,” Europe-Asia Studies 49:5 (1997).
David Hooson, Professor of Geography (Emeritus), received his Ph.D. from London School of Economics in 1955. His recent publications include “The Heartland-Then and Now,” in Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West (2005); Geography and National Identity (The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications) [editor] (2002); “The New Political Geography in Russia: Antecedents and Applications,” in Geography and Professional Practice, Utrecht et al ed. (1996); “Geography” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (1994); National Identity and Geography (1993) [Editor and contributor]; “The I.G.U. Commission on the History of Geographical Thought,” Geojournal (1992); and “National Rootedness and the Variable Success of World Geography,” Organon (1991).
Andrew C. Janos, Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1961. His book-length studies include East Central Europe in the Modern World: Political Change in the Borderlands from Pre- to Post-Communism (2000); Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia: Ethnic Conflict and the Dissolution of Multinational States (1996); Politics and Paradigms (1986); The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary (1980); Authoritarian Politics in Communist Europe (editor, 1976); and Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic (with W.B. Slottman, 1971). His recent articles include “Modernization or Decay: Romania, 1825-1940,” in K. Jowitt, Social Change in Romania, 1860-1940: A Debate on Development in a European Nation (1996); “Social Science, Communism and Change,” World Politics (1991); “Germany and Russia as Great Powers,” German Politics and Society (1996); and “From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: Eastern Europe under Two International Regimes,” EEPS (2002).
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Professor of History (Emeritus), received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1949. His publications include the classic, History of Russia, now in its 7th edition (2005); “The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia,”(Review) Russian Review 59:2 (2000); “Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917,” Russian Review 57:1 (1998); The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History,” Russian Review 56:3 (1997); Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia,” Slavic and East European Journal 40:1 (1996).
Dylan Riley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002. He is currently working on a book entitled The Civic Foundations of Fascism. His recent publications include “Civic Associations and Authoritarian Regimes in Inter-War Europe: Italy and Spain in Comparative Perspective,” American Sociological Review 70: 288-310 (2005); “Property and Privilege: The Political Foundations of Failed Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century Austrian Lombardy,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 45: 190-213 (2003); and “Post Colonial Journeys: Historical Roots of Immigration and Assimilation,” Comparative Sociology 1: 169-191 (2002) (with Rebecca Emigh).
Gérard Roland, Professor of Economics and Political Science, received his Ph.D. at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1988. His publications include “Coordination and Experimentation in M-form and U-form Organizations” (with Y.Qian and C. Xu ), Journal of Political Economy, (forthcoming 2006); “In Praise of the European Constitution” in Designing the New European Union, H. Berger and T. Moutos, eds. (forthcoming 2005); “The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam” (with E. Miguel, May 2005); “Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies” (with T. Persson and G. Tabellini, March 2005); “Who are Russia's Entrepreneurs?” (with S. Djankov, E. Miguel, Y. Qian and E. Zhuravskaya), Journal of the European Economic Association (2005); “A 'Normal' Parliament? Party Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001” (with S. Hix and A. Noury) British Journal of Political Science (2005); “Colombia's Electoral and Party System: Proposals for Reform” (with J. Gonzalo Zapata), in Institutional Reforms in Colombia, A. Alesina ed. (2004); “How to Choose the European Executive: A Counterfactual Analysis, 1979-1999” (with S. Hix and A. Noury) in A Constitution for the European Union, C. Blankart and D.C. Mueller, (2004); “Understanding Institutional Change: Fast-Moving and Slow-Moving Institutions,” Studies in Comparative International Development (2004); and “Built to Last: A Political Architecture for Europe” (editor with Erik Berglof et al., 2003).
Yuri Slezkine, Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Professor of History, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include The Jewish Century (2004); In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (2000) [coeditor]; "N. Ia. Marr and the National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics," Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 826-862, reprinted in Michael D. Kennedy and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (1999); "Ethnoterritorial Units in the USSR and Successor States," in Victoria E. Bonnell, ed., Identities in Transition: Eastern Europe and Russia after the Collapse of Communism (1996), 92-102; Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (1994); "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53:2 (1994); Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (1993) [coeditor].
Edward W. Walker, Executive Director of BPS and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, received a Masters from SAIS in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1992, where he was a member of the Harriman Institute. He has taught at New York University and at Colgate University and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford for 1997-98. His recent publications include “Putin, The Litvinenko Affair, and the Dictatorship of Law in Russia,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Spring 2007); “The Long Road from Empire: Legacies of Nation Building in the Soviet Successor States,” in From Empire to Nation, Joseph Esherick, ed., (2005); “Islam, Territory, and Contested Space in Post-Soviet Russia,” in Eurasian Geography and Economics 46:4 (2005); Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (2003); “Islam, Islamism, and Political Order in Central Asia,” in Journal of International Affairs, 52:2 (2003); and “Dagestan and the Stability of Instability in the North Caucasus,” in Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer, eds., Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? (2001).
Jason Wittenberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1999. His current research focuses on the social bases of support for fascist and communist movements in interwar Eastern Europe. His recent publications include Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary (2006); “Who Voted Communist? Reconsidering the Social Bases of Radicalism in Interwar Poland” (with Jeffrey S. Kopstein), Slavic Review 62:1 (Spring 2003); “Clarify: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results” (with Michael Tomz and Gary King), Journal of Statistical Software 9:1 (2003); “An Easy and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data” (with Michael Tomz and Joshua A. Tucker), Political Analysis 10:1, pp. 66-83 (Winter 2002); “Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation” (with Gary King and Michael Tomz), American Journal of Political Science, 44:2, pp. 347-361 (April 2000); “The 1994 Hungarian Election in Historical Perspective” in G´abor T´oka and Zsolt Enyedi (Eds.), The 1994 Election to the Hungarian National Assembly (Berlin: Sigma, 1999).
Alexei Yurchak, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
received his Ph.D. from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1997.
His recent publications include Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No
More: The Last Soviet Generation (2005); “Night Dances With the
Angel of History: Critical Cultural Studies of Postsocialism” in
Russian Cultural Studies, Aleksandr Etkind, ed. (2004); “Soviet
Hegemony of Form: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More,”
in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45, no. 3, (2003); “Russian
Neoliberal: The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of New Careerism,”
in Russian Review, 62:1 (2003); “Entrepreneurial Governmentality
in Post-Socialist Russia. A cultural investigation of business practices,”
in The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia, V. E. Bonnell and T. B. Gold,
eds., (2002); “Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Post-Socialist
Russia,” in V. E. Bonnell and T. B. Gold, eds. The New Entrepreneurs
of Europe and Asia (2002); “Male Economy: Business and Gender in
post-Soviet Russia,” in On Masculinity (2001); “Tracing a
Woman’s Image: Symbolic Work of the New Advertising Discourse,”
Woman and Visual Signs (2000); and “Privatize Your Name: Symbolic
Work in a Post-Soviet Linguistic Market,” Journal of Sociolinguistics
4:3 (2000).
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