Dr. Eugene Huskey is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of Russian Studies. He received the Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and taught at Bowdoin College and Colgate University before coming to Stetson in 1989. In 1999 he was appointed to the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair in recognition of his wide-ranging accomplishments as a teacher and scholar. Dr. Huskey is responsible for courses in the fields of comparative politics and political philosophy. Among the courses he offers in the comparative or international field are Russian politics, Russian foreign policy, and Central Asian Politics and Society, a course which is taught at only a handful of American universities. He has also developed an expertise in ethnicity and politics and teaches a senior seminar on this subject at Stetson. Professor Huskey’s research and writing focus on politics and legal affairs in the Soviet Union and the postcommunist countries of Russia and Kyrgyzstan. His interest in Russian affairs began in high school in the late 1960s, when he started to study the Russian language. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as an IREX scholar doing doctoral research at Moscow State University, and he has traveled to the region more than 20 times in the last three decades. His publications range across three areas: the Russian executive, Soviet and post-Soviet law, and politics of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. He is the author more than three dozen academic articles and three books: Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State, Princeton, 1986; Executive Power and Soviet Politics (editor and contributor, Sharpe, 1992); and Presidential Power in Russia (Sharpe, 1999). He is currently completing an edited book on Russian Officialdom with Don Karl Rowney. Professor Huskey is also the associate editor of Russian Review and is a member of the editorial board of Advokat (the journal of the Moscow Bar Association), The Journal of Postcommunist and Transition Studies (Glasgow), and Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (Washington, DC). E-mail Dr. Huskey >>> |
