A-Z List of Staff and their Research Interests

Dr Daniel ABONDOLO, d.abondolo@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Reader in Hungarian
Research Interests:
Hungarian and comparative metrics; Translation and the evolution of literary norms.

Dr Robin AIZLEWOOD, r.aizlewood@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Russian
Research interests:
Russian philosophy; Russian poetry and verse theory; Futurism and the OBERIU;Russian language curriculum and text book design.

Dr Bojan ALEKSOV, b.aleksov@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Modern South-East European History
Research interests:
History of South-Eastern Europe after 1700; religion; migration; nationalism; historiography; arts.

Dr Tim BEASLEY-MURRAY, t.beasley-murray@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in European Thought and Culture
Research Interests:
Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin; contemporary Slovak literature; literary theory; Czech Structuralism; psychoanalysis and Habsburg literature.

Dr Sergei BOGATYREV, s.bogatyrev@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Early Russian History
Research interests:
Medieval Russia; Muscovite court culture; Ivan the Terrible.

Professor Wendy BRACEWELL, w.bracewell@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Southeast European History
Research interests:
South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans, with special interests in early modern frontiers, social and national identities, travel and travel writing; historiography, post-colonial studies, interdisciplinarity.

Dr Lydia BURAVOVA, l.buravova@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow
Research interests:
Business Russian; Russian word-formation; new developments in Russian vocabulary.

Dr Richard BUTTERWICK, r.butterwick@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Modern Polish History
Research interests:
The political, intellectual, religious and cultural history of early modern and early nineteenth-century Poland-Lithuania.

Ms Jelena ČALIĆ
Senior Teaching Fellow in Serbian and Croatian Language
Research interests:
Serbian and Croatian language; sociolinguistics (linguistic diversity and standardisation); materials development in language teaching

Dr Philip CAVENDISH, p.cavendish@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Russian literature and culture; Zamiatin; Pushkin; Soviet and Russian cinema.

Dr Felix CIUTĂ, f.ciuta@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Research Interests:
IR and security theory, critical geopolitics, alliance theory; European security, NATO, Romanian foreign and security policy; hermeneutics, begriffsgeschichte, game and popular culture.

Professor Pamela DAVIDSON, p.davidson@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Russian Literature
Research interests:
Russian literature with particular reference to modernism; Viacheslav Ivanov; the interaction of religion and culture; comparative literature.

Professor Dennis DELETANT, d.deletant@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies
Research Interests:
Romanian history from 1250; Marshal Ion Antonescu (1940-44); Party, politics and literature in Romania, 1944-1989; Romanian current affairs.

Professor Simon DIXON, s.dixon@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Sir Bernard Pares Chair of Russian History
Research interests:
Modern Russian history; the Russian Orthodox Church in Imperial Russia; the Enlightenment in Russia; the reign of Catherine the Great.

Evgeniia DROZDOVA, e.drozdova@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
UCL Teacher
Research interests:
Russian language.

Dr Ger DUIJZINGS, g.duijzings@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Reader in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe
Research Interests:
Ethnic conflict and violence; history, memory, and commemoration; cities and the urban experience.

Dr Peter DUNCAN, p.duncan@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Russian Politics and Society
Research Interests:
Russia's relations with its neighbours; Russian national identity and foreign policy; nationalism, fragmentation and state-building in Russia; local and regional politics in Russia.

Dr Christopher J GERRY, c.gerry@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy
Research Interests:
Research on applied micro-economics based on household survey data. Particular interest in the labour market, wage differentiation, gender inequality, poverty and well-being with special emphasis on the Russian Federation. Also interested in alcohol use, child labour, educational attainment as well as issues of European integration and enlargement.

Ms Ramona GÖNCZÖL, r.gonczol@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow in Romanian Language
Research interests:
Romanian language; psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics; translation studies and ethnography

Dr Eric GORDY, e.gordy@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in South East European Politics
Research Interests:
Southeast European politics, society and culture; transitional justice and post-conflict reconciliation; organised crime and corruption; political and sociological theory.

Professor Julian GRAFFY, j.graffy@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema
Research interests:
Russian and Soviet cinema; Russian literature with particular reference to the work of Nikolai Gogol´ and to the early 20th century.

Dr Seth GRAHAM, s.graham@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Russian
Research interests:
Contemporary Russian culture, humour theory, Central Asian cinema, Russian language pedagogy

Dr Seán HANLEY, s.hanley@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in East European Politics
Research Interests:
Democratisation and democratic transition; party formation and party organisation; the centre-right in East and Central Europe; politics and society in the Czech Republic; euroscepticism.

Dr Rebecca Ann HAYNES
Senior Lecturer in Romanian History
Research interests:
History of Romania; interwar political movements; German foreign policy in the 1930s.

Dr Titus HJELM, t.hjelm@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Finnish Society and Culture
Research interests:
Cultural sociology, sociology of religion, social problems, media and popular culture, social theory

Dr Dorota HOŁOWIAK, d.holowiak@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow in Polish Language
Research interests:
Polish language; language and intercultural communication; the psychological aspects of foreign language acquisition in adult learners; the use of new media to support language learning.

Professor Geoffrey HOSKING
Emeritus Professor of Russian History
Research interests:
The history of Russia and the Soviet Union; nation-building and state-building in Russia; the ex-Soviet Union from 1991; society, ideology and literature in the Soviet Union; the history of trust and social solidarity in European societies.

Ms Marta JENKALA, m.jenkala@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow in Ukrainian Language
Research interests:
Ukrainian language; the problems of teaching Ukrainian grammar to non-native speakers; the development of Ukrainian language teaching materials.

Dr Egbert KLAUTKE, e.klautke@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Europe
Research interests:
Intellectual, cultural, urban history.

Professor George KOLANKIEWICZ, g.kolankiewicz@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Central Europe
Research Interests:
Specialises in the social aspects of transformation in post-Communist societies.

Dr Julia KOROSTELEVA, j.korosteleva@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Business Economics
Research Interests:
Political economy, financial development and economic growth in transition and developing economies, corporate governance and finance.

Dr Ognyan KOVACHEV, o.kovachev@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Bulgarian Studies

Professor Alena LEDENEVA, a.ledeneva@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Politics and Society
Research Interests:
Post-Soviet Russian affairs: Russia in the global order; informal economy, corruption, and economic crime in Russia; social, economic and political implications of social networks and informal exchange.

Ms Kristiina MCCABE, k.mccabe@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Teaching Fellow in Estonian language

Dr Svetlana MCMILLIN, s.mcmillin@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow
Research interests:
Modern Russian literature.

Dr Svetlana MAKAROVA, s.makarova@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Economics
Research Interests
Modelling inflation and timing of monetary policy under inflation targeting; quantifications in New Comparative Economics; nonlinear and nonstationary modelling of economic time series.

Dr Miriam MANCHIN, m.manchin@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in the Political Economy of European Union Integration
Research Interests:
International trade and FDI, regional economic integration in Europe, preferential trade agreements, economic development.

Dr Zoran MILUTINOVIĆ, z.milutinovic@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in South Slav Literature and Culture
Research Interests:
Drama theory, 20th-century literary theory, cultural studies.

Dr Richard MOLE, r.mole@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology
Research Interests:
Central European politics, nationalism and national identity, foreign policy, political discourse, migration, social psychology, ethnic conflict regulation, minority rights, gender and sexuality, domestic and international politics of the Baltic States.

Dr Susan MORRISSEY, s.morrissey@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Modern Russian History
Research interests:
Social, cultural, and political history of Russia from the 18th to the 20th century; the history of death, especially suicide; Russian revolutionary culture; autobiography, gender, and history of the 'self'.

Dr Nat MOSER, n.moser@ucl.ac.uk
Research Fellow in Russian & CIS Energy
Research interests:
Enterprise performance, corporate governance, technology and foreign investment in the Russian & CIS energy sector.

Dr Philipp MÜLLER, p.mueller@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Honorary Lecturer in Modern German History
Research interests:
Police, crime, media and urban history in 19th and 20th century Europe; history of sciences, history of historiography; historical anthropolgy, gender history, history of the everyday, micro history.

Dr Eugene NIVOROZHKIN, e.nivorozhkin@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in the Economics of Central-Eastern Europe
Research Interests:
Corporate finance, labour markets, banking and financial regulation.

Professor Robert PYNSENT, r.pynsent@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature
Research Interests:
14th-century Czech literature; Czech Renaissance prose; nationalism in literature; decadence; contemporary Slovak fiction; Czech women's writing.

Professor Slavo RADOŠEVIĆ, s.radosevic@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies
Research Interests:
Industrial and economic restructuring; technology and innovation in Central and Eastern Europe; international business in Central and Eastern Europe; 'East' - 'West' industrial networks.

Professor Martyn RADY, m.rady@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professor of Central European History
Research interests:
Medieval Hungary; history of Central Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 15th and 16th centuries; history of Transylvania; legal history.

Dr Kristin ROTH-EY, k.roth-ey@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Modern Russian History
Research interests:
20th century Russia and the Soviet Union; mass media; cultural production.

Dr Maria RUBINS, m.rubins@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Russian Literature
Research interests:
Russian émigré literature; Franco-Russian literary relations; literature and the twentieth-century Russian literature; the Silver Age in Russian culture.

Dr Daniel SIEMENS, d.siemens@ucl.ac.uk
DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History
Research Interests:
Social, cultural, and political history of Europe and the United States (19th and 20th century); historiography. Current fields of research: history of journalism in the GDR, protestantism and politics in the late 19th century, National Socialism in Berlin.

Dr Allan SIKK, a.sikk@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Baltic Politics
Research Interests:
Party systems, party financing, Baltic politics, electoral behaviour, and electoral systems.

Eszter TARSOLY, e.tarsoly@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow in Hungarian Language

Dr Alexey TIKHOMIROV, a.tikhomirov@ucl.ac.uk
Marie Curie Fellow
Research Interests:
Cultural, social and political history of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic; personality cults and cultures of iconoclasm in Soviet-style societies; history of trust and distrust.

Dr Riitta-Liisa VALIJÄRVI, r.valijarvi@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Senior Teaching Fellow in Finnish Language

Dr Ivana VRTIČ, i.vrtic@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Croatian Lector
Research interests:
Croatian language; historical syntax; textual criticism; sociolinguistics (standardisation); Bible translations

Dr Yuanyuan WANG, yuanyuan.wang@ucl.ac.uk
Research Associate
Research interests:
Macroeconomics(Economic growth and Development, Governance and Corruption, Financial markets and Institutions),Time Series Analysis and Applied Econometrics.

Professor Faith WIGZELL, f.wigzell@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
Research interests:
Russian folklore and popular culture especially fortune-telling; pre-Petrine Russian literature; the impact of native Russian traditions on modern Russian literature; Nikolai Leskov.

Dr Andrew WILSON, a.wilson@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Reader in Ukrainian Studies
Research Interests:
Ukrainian politics and history; Ukrainian nationalism; problems of post-Soviet democratisation; identity politics in the post-Soviet states.

Ms Lucie WISEMAN, l.wiseman@ucl.ac.uk
Teaching Fellow in Czech and Slovak

Dr Sarah YOUNG, s.young@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Russian
Research interests:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, thought and culture

Dr Katarzyna ZECHENTER, k.zechenter@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Polish Literature
Research Interests:
Contemporary Polish prose with an emphasis on the concept of loss, displacement and disappearance; women in Polish literature; the role of cities (with particular emphasis on Kraków) in national mythology and cultural discourse.

Dr Peter ZUSI, p.zusi@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Czech with Slovak Studies
Research Interests:
Modern Czech and German literature and culture; theory of modernism and the avant-garde; literature in relation to the visual arts, particularly architecture; Kafka; philosophy of history; and cultural history of central Europe from the Enlightenment onward.

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