REES Faculty

Juliette R. Stapanian Apkarian

Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Specialty: 20th century Russian literature and visual arts; nationalities.
 

Harold J. Berman

Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University, and James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard University. Specialty: Russian law; U.S.-Russian trade relations.
 

Alan Cienki

Associate Professor of Russian and Linguistics. Specialty: Cognitive linguistics, semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, Slavic linguistics.
 

Mikhail Epstein

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature. Specialty: 19th & 20th century Russian literature and philosophy.
 

Elena Glazov-Corrigan

Associate Professor of Russian. Specialty: Comparative literature and literary theory. 
 

Kevin Karnes

Assistant Professor of Music History. Specialty: Cultural history of 19th and 20th century Europe.

Maria Lunk

Senior Lecturer in Russian. Specialty: Russian folklore and religious verse.
 

Karla Oeler (Leave Fall 2007)

Associate Professor of Film Studies. Specialty: Russian cinema and violence in Russian literature.
 

Matthew J. Payne

Director of REES and Associate Professor of History. Specialty: Soviet social history and Stalinist industrialization. Kazakhstan and Soviet nationalities policy. 
 

Thomas F. Remington (Leave 2007-2008)

Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professor of Global Learning; Chair, Department of Political Science. Specialty: Soviet political system (1917-1991); Russian Federation politics.
 

Tarina Rosen

Slavic Librarian, University Libraries.
 

Hubert Tworzecki

Associate Professor of Political Science. Specialty: Comparative politics of Eastern Europe; public opinion, voting behavior, and political parties.
 

Tibor Varady

Professor, Emory University School of Law and Professor, Legal Studies Department, Central European University in Budapest. Specialty: International commercial arbitration.