Shirley J. Gedeon, Associate Professor of Economics and Interim Director of the Russian/East European Studies Program, earned her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts and joined the UVM faculty in 1981. Gedeon's areas of special expertise are Post-Keynesian monetary theory, central banking, Eastern European economics, and the pedagogy of teaching. Her scholarship has earned her several Fulbright and IREX Awards and her distinguished teaching has earned her the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award (1994) and the Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award in 1998. In addition to her teaching at UVM, Gedeon has served as a Fulbright visiting professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is also an international educational consultant who conducts intercultural training workshops. Professor Gedeon was appointed director of the UVM Center for Teaching and Learning. Email Prof. Gedeon at Shirley.Gedeon@uvm.edu
Jonathan Huener, Assistant Professor of History earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He teaches courses on the Holocaust, German history, National Socialism, and also offers general survey instruction in the area of public memory in the post-World War II Germany and Poland. Huener has undertaken extensive archival research in Poland and Germany with the support of the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. More recently, he was a research fellow of the Social Science Research Council's Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. A member of the Holocaust Studies program, he has recently added two new courses to the History curriculum: a seminar for first year students entitled "The Holocaust in Historical Context" and a senior-level/ graduate seminar on "The Shapes and Uses of Holocaust Memory". Email Prof. Huener at Jonathan.Huener@uvm.edu
Daniel Krymkowski is a mathematical sociologist. His substantive interests include social stratification, formal theory, research methods, and modern Europe. He teaches introductory sociology classes, as well as courses on research methods and statistics and social stratification. Recent publications include: "The Puzzle of Lenski's Curve" in the journal Rationality and Society , and "Measuring Opportunity" in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Mathematical Sociology. The first article explicates a formal model of the wealth accumulation process, while the second outlines a rigorous approach to measuring the concept of opportunity. Email Prof. Krymkowski at Daniel.Krymkowski@uvm.edu
Kevin McKenna, Director of the Area and International Studies Program, completed his Ph.D. work at the University of Colorado and came to UVM in 1984, where he teaches courses in Russian language, literature, culture and civilization, Soviet and post-Soviet Press, lexicology, and paremiology. In addition, he team teaches a course with Professor Ron Savitt (School of Business), entitled: "The Culture of Doing Business in Russia Today" . He has served as the Director of the UVM Area and International Studies Program since 1990, and was the Chair of the UVM Provost's International Advisory Council (1996-1997; 1998-2001).
Professor McKenna was awarded the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Outstanding UVM Faculty member in 1992, nominated and acclaimed by his students for his dedication to their educational and career goals. He has been instrumental in helping UVM Russian language and area studies graduates to locate jobs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baku, New York, Washington, and Boston.
Professor McKenna's research interests include numerous articles on Catherine the Great and eighteenth-century Russian literature, women writers in 19th century Russia, Soviet political cartoons, Russian paremiology, lexicology, and teaching methodology. He is the author, most recently, of All the Views Fit to Print: Changing Images of the U.S. in Russian 'Pravda' Political Cartoons, 1917-1991 (Peter Lang Publishers: New York, 2001). He is also the author of Proverbs in Russian Literature: From Catherine the Great to Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Proverbrium: Burlington, VT, 1998). Professor McKenna is currently writing a book titled, The Role of Russian Proverbs in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Fiction.
Professor McKenna was an official
"outside observer" at the 1995
national elections in Russia. More recently he has been invited
by the Carnegie Corporation to deliver lectures on American Higher
Education to 100 presidents of Russian universities in Moscow, Russia,
and is currently hosting a Russian delegation of higher education
administrators for the Fall, 2002 semester on the UVM campus. In
the summer of 2003, he has been invited by the Smithsonian Institution
to give a series of lectures on Russian cultural history
at the Tri-Centennial Anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg
(1703-2003)
in St. Petersburg, Russia. Email Prof. McKenna at Kevin.McKenna@uvm.edu.
(Click
here to visit Prof. McKenna's website).
Denise J. Youngblood, Professor
of History and former Chair of
the
Department, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980. She
joined the faculty at UVM in 1988, after serving for six years as
Assistant to the Executive Director of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Youngblood's areas of expertise include Russian and Soviet history, the history of modern Eastern Europe, visual culture and cultural theory, and film and history.
She has written extensively on Russian and Soviet cinema, including a dozen articles and three books, the most recent of which is The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).
She currently serves on two committees of
the Association of Women
in Slavic
Studies and was a council member and past vice- president of the
International Association for Media and History. She has also been
review editor for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, &
Television and the Soviet
& Post-Soviet Review. Her many academic awards include the
Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellent in Teaching at UVM, a Presidential
Fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar, and the Heldt Prize for Best Book
by a Woman in Slavic Studies for her book Movies for the Masses:
Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s (Cambridge University
Press, 1992). Email Prof. Youngblood at Denise.Youngblood@uvm.edu
Ernesto Capello (Ph.D. St. John's University of New York 2005) is Assistant Professor of Latin American History. Besides surveys of colonial and modern Latin America, Professor Capello's teaching interests include the relationship between the arts, society, and politics in modern Latin America, the Latin American city, global urban history, and cultural and geograhical theory. Professor Capello has scholarly interests in Russia. Email Prof. Capello at Ernesto.Capello@uvm.edu
Robert
V. Daniels - (PhD, Harvard
1951; Professor Emeritus) Russian history, contemporary history,
history of revolutions. Robert V. Daniels taught in the
History Department from 1956 until his retirement in 1988, and served
as Chair of the Department from 1964 to 1969. He was the first
director of the Area and International Studies Program, 1962-65;
director of the Experimental Program of the College of Arts and
Sciences, 1969-71; a co-founder of the Center for Research on Vermont;
and initiator of the Integrated Humanities Program in Arts and
Sciences. He was a University Scholar for 1982-83.
Daniels received the A.B., M.A., and PhD degrees from Harvard
University, and the LLD (honorary) from UVM. He is a specialist
in Russian history, particularly since 1917, and also taught European
Civilization, Contemporary History, and (for the Political Science
Department) Comparative Government and Soviet Politics, as well as
Introduction to Linguistics. He is the author or editor of
numerous books and articles on Soviet Russia and Communism (most
recently, "The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia, " Yale, 2007), and
on recent American political history (most recently, "The Fourth
Revolution," Routledge, 2005).
He was President of the Conference on Russian and East European History
of the American Historical Association, 1975-76; a trustee of the
Vermont Historical Society; a member of the Advisory Committee on
Eastern Europe for the Fulbright Program, 1984-86; and President of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1992.
In 2001 he was co-recipient of the AAASS award for distinguished
contributions to Slavic Studies. From 1973 to 1982 he served as a
Vermont State Senator from Chittenden County.
Email Robert Daniels at Robert.V.Daniels@uvm.edu
Mark A. Stoler (PhD, Wisconsin, Madison 1971; Professor
Emeritus) U.S. diplomatic, U.S. military, World War II.
Mark A. Stoler earned his B.A. at the City College of New York (1966)
and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1971). He joined
the UVM faculty in 1970 and became Professor Emeritus in 2007.
Stoler's areas of special expertise are U.S. diplomatic and military
history and World War II. Included among his many publications are
Allies and Adversaries: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance,
and U.S. Strategy in World War II (2000), The Politics of the Second
Front: American Military Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare,
1941-1943 (1977), George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American
Century (1989), and Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis
Powers, 1940-1945 (2005). He also co-authored Explorations in American
History (1987) with Marshall True, Major Problems in the History of
World War II (2003) with Melanie Gustafson, and Debating Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policies (2005) with Justus Doenecke.
Stoler's scholarship earned him the University Scholar Award at UVM
(1993) and the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military
History (2002); his equally distinguished teaching earned him the
Dean's Lecture Award (1992), the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty
Award (1984), and the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award
(2006). In addition to teaching at UVM, Stoler served as a
visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S.
Naval War College, the University of Haifa in Israel, and the U.S.
Military History Institute. He is former president of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations (2004) and a trustee of the
Society for Military History. In 2007-8 he will be the Kaplan
Visiting Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at Williams College.
Email Mark Stoler at Mark.Stoler@uvm.edu
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