Visiting Scholars 2009–10

Peter Collmer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich: “Administrative Culture in 18th-Century Poland.” (Fall 2009)

Yukiko Hama, Research Fellow, Tsuda College: “The Reinterpretation of Russia’s Eurasianism from the Viewpoint of International History.”

Urs Heftrich, Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures, University of Heidelberg: “Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism: The Poetry of Vladimír Holan and his Contemporaries, 1938–1954.”

Bettina Kaibach, University Teacher, English Department and Slavic Department, University of Heidelberg: “Literary Representations of the Holocaust in Communist Eastern Europe: The Case of Jiří Weil.”

Ivan Katchanovski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, State University of New York at Potsdam: “U.S. Television Coverage of Postcommunist Countries: A Comparative Perspective.” (Fall 2009)

Thomas Simons, Jr., Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan: Contemporary post-Soviet affairs; modern and contemporary Islam; South and Southwest Asia.