Canada
Alexander Pershái / Александр Першай
e-mail:
apershai@gmail.com
Current position:
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
Докторант, Факультет Исследований Культуры, Университет Трент
PhD:
Gender and Language, Belarus State University, Minsk, 2002
«Репрезентация гердерных отношений во фразеологии», Беларусский государственный университет, Минск, 2002
Research interests:
Belarus, nationalism in Belarus and Eastern Europe, language policies, post-Soviet space and condition
Беларусь, национализм в Беларуси и восточной Европе, языковая политика, постсоветское пространство и состояние
Theory of nationalism, dictionaries, technologies of archiving and organizing knowledge, transformation of academia, gender and power stratification, transgender
Selected publications:
Negotiating Space for Gender Studies: Frameworks and Applications. Özen Odağ and Alexander Pershai (eds.), (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005)
“Localness and Mobility in Belarusian Nationalism: The Tactic of Tuteishaść,” Nationalities Papers 36.1 (2008): 85-103
“Questioning the Hegemony of the Nation State in Belarus: Production of Intellectual Discourses as Production of Resources,” Nationalities Papers 34.5 (2006): 623-635
Колонизация наоборот: гендерная лингвистика в бывшем СССР // Гендерные исследования, № 7-8, Харьков, 2002. – С. 236-249.
Current research project:
On Specificity of Belarusian Nationalism
Беларусский национализм и его специфика
Albert Kaganovitch
e-mail:
dr.kaganovitch@gmail.com
Current position:
Senior Research-Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba
PhD:
Bukharan Jews and Russian Empire, 1867-1917 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2003
Research interests:
Russian Empire, Central Asia, Jewish Studies, ethnic relations, socio-economic history, state and minorities
Selected publications:
The Mashhadi Jews (Djedids) in Central Asia, Berlin: Anor, 2007. ISBN 978-3-87997-141-6
Речица: история еврейского местечка Юго-Восточной Белоруссии, Иерусалим 2007 г. ISBN 965-7129-45-1
Current research project:
Jewish Refugees in Soviet Eastern areas during World War II
Emilian Kavalski
e-mail:
kavalski@ualberta.ca
Current position:
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Political Science
University of Alberta, Canada
PhD:
PhD
Research interests:
European security governance and conceptualizations of security community building, theories and history of International Relations,
Post-Cold War developments in the Balkans, the process and the implications of the eastern enlargement of the EU and NATO, the history of Balkan federalism
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
e-mail:
dschimme@brocku.ca
Current position:
Chair and Professor of Russian History, History Department, Brock University (Canada)
PhD:
PhD: History, Yale University, 1997
Research interests:
18th and 19th-Century Russian Diplomatic, Intellectual, Cultural and Military History
Selected publications:
Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire on the Path to War with Japan. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001
Orientalism and Empire in Russia. Kritika Historical Studies 3. Columbus: Slavica, 2006), 61-84
Current research project:
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
Myroslav Shkandrij
e-mail:
shkandr@cc.umanitoba.ca
Current position:
Acting Head, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba (Manitoba, Canada)
Research interests:
Ukrainian history
