Teaching

These courses are part of the curriculum in Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies offered at UIC at both undergrad and graduate studies levels. I am working in close cooperation with wonderful colleagues and knowledgeable professors: historians and philologists. There already exists interdepartmental graduate concentration in Central and Eastern European Studies, where we all cooperate and offer a truly interdisciplinary and comparative instruction. Study our resources on the Web and contact me directly for any further explanations and advice.

I am advisor to PhD students:

Alexander Turbin (aturbi2@uic.edu), studies Russia as a maritime empire with a focus on three free trade ports: Vladivostok, Batumi, and Odessa. 

Aleksei Epishev (aepish2@uic.edu), is looking into the presence of the Chinese in late imperial and early Soviet Russia and their role in the country's political transformations.

Ismael Biyashev, “Beyond Myths and Ruins: Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire and the Early USSR 1850-1920s”
PhD awarded: 2023
Placement: Senior Fellow, University of Michigan Society of Fellows  

Zukhra Kasimova, “Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality, and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984”
PhD awarded: 2023
Placement: Assistant Professor of Eurasian History, Bucknell University