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Jonathan Becker
Associate Dean of the College, Dean of International Studies; Associate Professor of Political Studies; Director, Global and International Studies Program

B.A., McGill University; D. Phil., St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Specialization in Soviet, Russian, and Eastern European politics; media and politics. Taught at Central European University, University of Kiev Mohyla Academy, Wesleyan University, Yale University. Author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999; new edition, 2002). Articles in European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Slovo, among others. Director, Global and International Studies Program; Academic Director, Bard Program on Globalization and International Affairs. (2001– )
Phone: 845-758-7378
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Jonathan P Brent
Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature

B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Author, Stalin’s Last Crime (HarperCollins, 2003; named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Financial Times); Isaac Babel (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Editor, The Best of TriQuarterly (Washington Square Press, 1982); A John Cage Reader (C. F. Peters, 1984). Has held editorial positions at Yale University Press, Northwestern University Press, FORMATIONS, TriQuarterly. Articles published in Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, American Scholar, New Criterion, New Republic, New York Times, Commentary, and many other newspapers and journals. Recipient, Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1977–78). (2004– )
Phone: 203-432-0349
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Jennifer Day
Assistant Professor of Russian

B.A., University of South Carolina Honors College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University. Areas of interest include 20th-century Russian literature; city-space-place studies. Recipient, Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University (1998); Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (1999); Walter D. Foss Visiting Assistant Professorship, The College of Wooster (2001–02); and several Mellon Endowment grants. Has taught at Indiana University, The College of Wooster, Hamilton College. Coauthor of My Petersburg, Myself: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern Russian Letters (Slavica Publishers, 2004); numerous articles, translations, reviews. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Russian.
Phone: 845-758-7391
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Tamar Khitarishvili
Assistant Professor of Economics

B.S., University of Georgia; M.S., Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Research interests include human capital development and growth, income distribution, rural development and finance, methods of efficiency, productivity estimation. Honors and awards: Farm Credit Bank of Columbia Scholarship (1995–96); Emory Cocke Scholarship (1995–96); Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy Research Travel Grant (1999); International Association of Agricultural Economists Travel Grant (2000). Taught Ph.D.-level courses in econometric analysis and applied financial economics at University of Minnesota. Coauthor, "Trade and Macroeconomic Policy: What Does It Mean for Farmers and Lenders?" (Agriculture Outlook Forum 2001) and "Farm Real Estate Lending: A Survey of Midwest Bankers" (Journal of Agricultural Lending, 1999), among other articles. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.
Phone: 845-758-6822 x6141
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Marina Kostalevsky
Associate Professor of Russian; Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies Program

M.A., Leningrad State Conservatory; Ph.D., Yale University. Lecturer and teaching assistant, Yale University; lecturer, Yale Summer Piano Institute; music instructor, Rutgers University; accompanist and music adviser, Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. Publications include Dostoevsky and Soloviev: The Art of Integral Vision (1997) and articles in Russian Language Journal, Voprosy Literatury, Russian Literature, Transactions of Russian-American Scholars, Pushkin v XX veke, Moskovskii Pushkinist, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. (1996– ) Associate Professor of Russian.
Phone: 845-758-7390
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Cecile E. Kuznitz
Assistant Professor of Jewish History; Director of Jewish Studies

A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Awarded fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies (1997–98); Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1999–2000); Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2002); Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2004). Has lectured at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Harvard University, University of Maryland, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania. Articles published in The Yivo Encyclopedia of the Jews in Eastern Europe; S. Ansky at the Turn of the Century; The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies; Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now. Visiting assistant professor of Jewish history/Jewish studies, Georgetown University (2000– ). (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Jewish History.
Phone: 845-758-7543

Gennady Shkliarevsky
Professor of History

B.A., M.A., Kiev State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia. Editor, Committee for Television and Broadcasting (USSR). Head, public relations, Kiev State Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Recipient, Dupont Fellowship and Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, University of Virginia. Publications include Labor in the Russian Revolution: Factory Committees and Trade Unions, 1917–1918 and articles in Journal of International Studies in Management and Organization, Russian History/Histoire Russe, Journal of Modern History, Dialogue, Annandale, Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New York), Forum (Germany), Rossiiskaia gazeta (Russia), Nevskoe vremia (Russia). (1985– ) Professor of History.
Phone: 845-758-7237
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