Executive Committee
![Stephen Dowden](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/dowden-stephen.jpg)
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
![Irina Y. Dubinina](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/dubinina-irina.jpg)
Expertise: Heritage languages (Russian); bilingualism; bilingual code-switching; second language and heritage language pedagogy; language teacher education
![Robin Feuer Miller](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/miller-robin-feuer.jpg)
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
![Gregory Freeze](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/freeze-gregory.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Russia; modern Germany; history of globalization; religion
![Lucy Goodhart](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/goodhart-lucy.jpg)
Expertise: International political economy; comparative politics of advanced industrialized economies; comparative political economy
![Laura Jockusch](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/jockusch-laura.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies
![Jytte Klausen](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/jytte-klausen.jpg)
Expertise: Domestic and international terrorism; Islam in the West; immigration and social cohesion
![Sharon Pucker Rivo](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/pucker-rivo-sharon.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish and Holocaust film; archivist and producer
![Chandler Rosenberger](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/rosenberger-chandler.jpg)
Expertise: Nationalism; ethnicity; sociology of culture; sociology of religion; political dissent; terrorism; modern European politics
![Raphael Schoenle](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/schoenle-raphael.jpeg)
Expertise: International macroeconomics, macro- and monetary economics
![Eugene Sheppard](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/sheppard-eugene.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Jewish history and thought
![Dmitry Troyanovsky](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/troyanovsky-dmitry-340.jpg)
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.
![Sabine von Mering](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/von-mering-sabine.jpg)
![Steven Wilson](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/wilson-steven-340.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative democratization; cybersecurity; the effect of the Internet and social media on authoritarian regimes, particularly in the post-Soviet world
![Stacey Winkler with a soft smile](../images/staff-pictures/executive-committee/stacey-winkler-340.jpg)