Executive Committee
Expertise: Modern German literature and culture; European modernism; comparative literature (especially comparing literature with other art forms); the novel as form; literature and philosophy; the avant-garde
Expertise: Heritage languages (Russian); bilingualism; bilingual code-switching; second language and heritage language pedagogy; language teacher education
Expertise: The novel in Russia and Europe of the 19th century; the short story in Russia; the literature of childhood and children’s literature; representations of the family, of animals
Expertise: Modern Russia; modern Germany; history of globalization; religion
Expertise: International political economy; comparative politics of advanced industrialized economies; comparative political economy
Expertise: Modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies
Expertise: Domestic and international terrorism; Islam in the West; immigration and social cohesion
Expertise: Jewish and Holocaust film; archivist and producer
Expertise: Nationalism; ethnicity; sociology of culture; sociology of religion; political dissent; terrorism; modern European politics
Expertise: International macroeconomics, macro- and monetary economics
Expertise: Modern Jewish history and thought
Expertise: Russian theatre and drama; contemporary European theatre; theory of theatre directing; American theatre; avant-garde theatre; documentary theatre and film studies; opera and music theater.
Expertise: Comparative democratization; cybersecurity; the effect of the Internet and social media on authoritarian regimes, particularly in the post-Soviet world
