Advisory Council
Director: Olga
Mesropova (olgames@iastate.edu)
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Gender studies in Russia; Cultural and film studies
James Andrews (andrewsj@iastate.edu)
Department of History
Modern Russian/Soviet social and cultural history; Social history of Russian
science
Dennis Chamberlin (dennisch@iastate.edu)
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
Photography in Poland
Daniela
Dimitrova (danielad@iastate.edu)
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
Communication technology and political communication in the post-communist
countries
Elena Karpova (karpova@iastate.edu)
Department of Apparel, Educational Studies and Hospitality Management
Clothing consumption in contemporary Russia
Xiaoyuan
Liu (xyliu@iastate.edu)
Department of History
Chinese/Mongol history; Borderlands of Chinese empire; Ethnic politics
in Central/East Asia
James McCormick (jmmcc@iastate.edu)
Chair, Department of Political Science
International policy/affairs
Andrejs
Plakans (aplakans@iastate.edu)
Professor Emeritus in History
Latvian/Baltic history; Demographics and family history in former Russian
Imperial and Soviet Empire
Jeffrey Prater (jlprater@iastate.edu)
Professor of Music
Composer, Russia
Maria Vorozhbit (mariav@iastate.edu)
Visiting Professor of Russian, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language; Russian cultural
studies.
Kimberly Elman Zarecor (zarecor@iastate.edu)
Department of Architecture
Architecture, politics and culture in the former Czechoslovakia; Eastern
European modernism; cultural and intellectual history of communism
Zora
Zimmerman (zdzimme@iastate.edu)
Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Folklore/literature of Southeast Europe
