Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Andres Kasekamp
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Baltic Sea Region
- Baltic states
- Europe
- European politics
- European Union
- Fascism
- International relations
- NATO
- Populism
- Populist radical right
- Relations with Russia
- State Politics and Law
Office: +1 (416) 946-8931
Mobile: +1 (416) 949-4284
Website
Email: andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Angelica Fenner
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Berlin School Films
- Buddhism and film
- Cultural production by/about Afro-Germans
- European cinemas
- First person and autobiographical documentary
- German film history
- Posthumanism and Animal Studies
- Race and ethnicity in German visual media
- Women's film authorship
Office: 416-978-7382
Languages: German
Website
Email: angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Anna Shternshis
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Holocaust in the Soviet Union
- Post-Soviet Jewish diaspora
- Refugee Studies
- Soviet Jewish History and Culture
- Yiddish culture, literature music, and theatre.
- Yiddish Music during the Holocaust
Office: (416) 978-8131
Languages: Yiddish, Russian, some Hebrew
Website
Email: anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Cassandra Hartblay
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Critical Design Studies / Anthropology of Design and Infrastructure
- Critical disability studies
- Critical social theory
- Documentary practices
- Epistemology
- Ethnography
- Health and socialism / postsocialism
- Health Humanities
- Medical Anthropology
- Performance Ethnography, Research Creation, and arts-based inquiry
- Queer/Feminist Transdisciplinary Research
- Russia and the former Soviet Union
- Russo-Finnish borderlands
- Whiteness, Ethnicity, and Debility
Office: (647) 601-4457
Languages: Russian
Website
Email: cassandra.hartblay@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Darius Ornston
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative politics
- Innovation policy
- Institutional development
- Nordic Europe
- Politics in industrialized economies
- Western Europe economies
Office: 647-308-9423
Languages: English
Website
Email: darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Donna Orwin
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 19th century Russian culture
- 19th century Russian literature
- Dostoevsky
- Literature and war
- Tolstoy
- Turgenev
Office: 416-971-2647
Home: 416-921-6708
Mobile: 416-627-6708
Languages: Russian
Website
Email: donna.orwin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Harald Bathelt
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic, technology and innovation policy
- German political economy
- Industrial clusters and regional economic development
- Inter-regional inequality and connectivity
- Knowledge creation and innovation over distance
- Regional and national innovation and technological change
- Regional impacts of foreign direct investments
- Socioeconomic impacts of regional industrial and institutional change
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-890-1705
Languages: German,English
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jennifer Jenkins
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Commerce and Trade
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Europe
- German domestic politics and foreign policy
- German global politics
- German nationalism
- Germany and the Middle East
- Germany in the World
- Informal Empire Germany and the Middle East/Central Asia Transnational and Global History
- Mediterranean and Middle East
- Modern Germany
- National identity
- Politics and culture
Office: +1 (416) 946-8944
Home: 416-767-2064
Mobile: +1 (416) 522-2371
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Joshua Arthurs
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Dictatorships
- Fascism
- Italy
- Monument and memory controversies
- Populist far-right
Office: N/A
Languages: Italian,French,Spanish; Castilian,German,Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Website
Email: joshua.arthurs@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matthew Light
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Belgorod Oblast
- Civil liberties in Russia
- Corruption and crime in Russia
- Criminal Behaviour
- Criminal justice
- International response to Russia
- Law and Legal Processes
- Migration
- Migration and ethnic relations in Russia
- North caucuses
- Policing
- Regional government and federal-regional relations in Russia
- Russian law enforcement/policing
- Specific regions of Russia, Moscow
- Ukraine & Georgia tensions
Office: 416-978-7124 Ext. 227
Languages: English
Website
Email: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Nikolai Krementsov
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- History of Russian/Soviet biomedical sciences
- international relations in science
- Science and fiction
- Science and the Cold War
Office: 416-978-5020
Languages: English,Russian
Website
Email: n.krementsov@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Solomon
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Criminal law and procedure in the post-soviet world
- Criminal policy and policy-making
- Judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine
- Law and courts in authoritarian and transitional states
- Politics of Criminal Justice in Various Countries
- Russian legal system
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
Office: 416-946-8959
Website
Email: peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Phil Triadafilopoulos
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian public policy
- Immigration and Citizenship Policy
- Immigration and multiculturalism in Canada and Germany
- Immigration and party politics in Canada
- Immigration in Germany
- International Migration
- Nationalism
- Politics in Greece
Office: 416-208-4813
Home: 416-778-7259
Mobile: 416-346-8067
Languages: English,Greek, Modern (1453-),German
Website
Email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Randall Hansen
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizenship
- European politics
- Forced migration
- Immigration
- Refugees
Office: N/A
Home: 416-978-4160
Languages: English
Website
Email: r.hansen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Robert Austin
Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Democratization and Populism in Central Europe and the Balkans
- State and Nation Building in the 19th and 20th Century Balkans
- Transitional Justice in the Balkans and Georgia
Office: 416-946-8942
Mobile: 416-486-1246
Languages: English
Website
Email: robert.austin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online