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Excellence in teaching and a focus on student development are hallmarks of Stetson University. Because Russian Studies is an interdisciplinary course of study, the faculty represent a variety of departments. Trained at leading universities in this country and overseas, they are at Stetson because they place top priority on teaching undergraduates.

The listing below gives you an idea of the variety of interests and knowledge that the Russian Studies faculty members bring to their program.

If you have specific questions for our Russian specialists, please send a message to them directly using the links offered here.

  • BRUCE BRADFORD. Professor and chair of department of geography and environmental science
    • PhD Pennsylvania State University
    • Specialty area: population dynamics; human-environmental interaction in Russia
    • Current research: changing demography of the former Soviet Union

      Send a message to Dr. Bruce Bradford

  • MICHAEL DENNER. Assistant professor of Russian.
    • PhD, Northwestern University.
    • Specialty area: Nineteenth- and twentieth- century Russian prose classics, Asian intellectual influence on Russia, avant-garde aesthetic theories, Russian Formalism, intellectual history, Soviet film and film theory
    • Current research: Leo Tolstoy

      Send a message to Dr. Michael Denner or visit his web page.

  • EUGENE HUSKEY Professsor of political science and director of Russian Studies. William R. Kenan Chair (1999- )
    • PhD London School of Economics and Political Science
    • Specialty area: Comparative politics, Russian and Central Asian politics
    • Current research: Russian presidency; Russian court reform; politics in Kyrgyzstan
      Send a message to Dr. Eugene Huskey
  • NEAL LONG. Professor of economics
    • PhD Indiana University
    • Specialty area: Comparative economics
    • Current research: The Russian economy in transition

      Send a message to Dr. Neal Long

  • SVETLANA A. KOZINA
    • M.A. Tver State University, Russia
    • Specialty area: Russian Language and Literature; Short Story Cycle in the Prose of Sergey Dovlatov

  • PAUL D. STEEVES. Professor of history
    • PhD University of Kansas
    • Specialty area: Russian history, Russian religion, Russian art and architecture
    • Current research: Religions of Russia and former Soviet Union; Russian pacifism

      Send a message to Dr. Paul Steeves , or visit his web page featuring news of religion in Russia



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