Mikhail Dolbilov, Candidate of Sciences (History, Voronezh State University, 1996). Associate Professor, Department of History, EUSP.
Co-author of Западные окраины Российской империи [The Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire](Moscow, 2006, with Aleksei Miller). Author of English-, Russian- and Polish-language articles on the 19th and early 20th cent. Russian history that have appeared in journals Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Russian Studies in History, Ab Imperio, Arcana, and in conference volumes. His current book-length project concentrates on the politics of national and confessional identities in the west of the Russian empire. Carnegie research fellow at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2002), local faculty fellow of the Civic Education Project, Budapest (2002), visiting associate professor at the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University (2005-6). Recipient of research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Soros Foundation, Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Research interests: the Russian empire, ethnicity and nationalism; imperial bureaucracy; state and religiosity; symbolic representations of imperial power.

Vladimir Gel’man, Candidate of Sciences (Political Science, St. Petersburg State University, 1998). Professor, Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, EUSP.
He was a visiting professor at Central European University, Budapest, the University of Texas at Austin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and research fellow at St. Anthony’s College (Oxford), University of Essex, Harvard University, and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung. He is author and/or editor of sixteen books in Russian and in English, including Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions: The Comparative Politics of Russia’s Regions (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Elites and Democratic Development in Russia (Routledge, 2003), and The Politics of Local Government in Russia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). He has also authored or co-authored more than 120 articles, which were published in Europe-Asia Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Regional and Federal Studies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, as well as numerous edited volumes in English, German, and Russian.
Research interests: study of contemporary Russian politics through the prism of political science theories.

Evgenii Golovko, Candidate of Sciences (Linguistics, 1985; Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). Professor of the Department of Ethnology, European University at St Petersburg; Chair of the Department of the Languages of the Russian Federation, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of Philology, St Petersburg State University, and at the Institute for the Peoples of the North, the Hertzen Pedagogical University.
Author of the books Russkie starozhily Sibiri: Sotsialnye i simvolicheskie aspekty samosoznanija (Russian Old-Settlers of Siberia: The Social and Symbolic Aspects of Self-Identification), 2004; in co-authorship with Nikolai Vakhtin and Peter Schweitzer; Sotsiolingvistika i sotsiologija jazyka (Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language), 2004, in co-authorship with Nikolai Vakhtin; of dictionaries, grammars, and articles (in Russian and English) on Native Siberian languages and on the social anthropology of Siberia and Alaska. In 1993-1996 and 1997-1998 Golovko conducted research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He occasionally lectured at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, the University of Kyoto, the University of Osaka, Amsterdam University, Leiden University.
Research interests: languages and peoples of Siberia and Alaska; language and culture change; identity and ethnicity issues; ethnic minorities; language policies.

Boris Kolonitskii, Doctor of Sciences (History, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences).
Visiting professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1999, Fall). Grants and fellowships: Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship (1992, 1995), East European Scholarship (Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 1994—1995), Kennan Institute (1998), George Soros Foundation (1999—2000). Author of Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (New Haven and London, 1999, with O.G. Figes). In Russian: Погоны и борьба за власть в 1917 году (Shoulder boards and the struggle for power in 1917, 2001), Символы власти и борьба за власть: К изучению политической культуры российской революции 1917 года (Symbols of Power and Struggle for Power: Political Culture of the Russian Revolution, 2001).
Research interests: the history of the Russian revolution of 1917, the history of the Russian intelligentsia.

Nikita Lomagin, Doctor of Sciences (History, St. Petersburg State University), J.D. (St. Petersburg State University). Professor of World Economy at St. Petersburg State University. Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University, 1994-98.
Author of introductions in Russian to IR Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis (2001) and to International Organizations (1999). Author of In the Wrench of Hunger. The Blockade of Leningrad: An Account of German and NKVD Intelligence Documents (St. Petersburg, 2001), The Unknown Blockade (St. Petersburg, 2002), Blockade of Leningrad (Moscow, 2005), Soldiers at War: German Propaganda and Soviet Army Morale during the Battle of Leningrad, 1941-44 (Pittsburgh, 1998), and The Siege of Leningrad (co-author, forthcoming, Yale University Press). Author of chapters in Russia as Russia. Re-Emerging Great Power. Dimensions of Security under Putin (Routledge, 2005, and Palgrave and Macmillan, 2007) . He has published articles and working papers on Russian Foreign Policy in Journal of St. Petersburg State University, Pro et Contra, LUT, Journal of University of Michigan, GSPIA, the Finnish Institute of International Relations and on NATO web page. Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School (1995), GSPIA (1996), University of Limerick (1997), College of Europe (1998), George Washington University (1998), the Finnish Institute of International Relations (2000). Post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, the Davis Center (2002). Recipient of research grants from Soros Foundation, Moscow Public Science Foundation, University of Michigan Law School, Pew, NATO, IREX and Harvard University. Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Research interests: contemporary Russian foreign policy, international organizations, modern Russian history.

Pavel Lyssakov, Ph.D. (Literature, Columbia University). Director of International Programs and Development and part-time Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.
Editor and contributor, Cultural Studies (European University Press, 2006). Author of articles and papers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, which appeared in journals, such as Irish Slavonic Studies and Russkii Tekst, and in numerous conference volumes. Recipient of the Harriman Institute Certificate in Russian Studies (1995). Junior Fellow of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University (1995—1998). Teaching Assistant (1991-1993) and Preceptor (1993—1997), Columbia University. Visiting Professor of Russian, Hofstra University (1997—1998). He was also instructor of Russian at the University of Montana (1990—1991) and has taught in 5 summer schools in the USA. He is co-director of the Cultural Studies Program at the EUSP and coordinator of the Russian Cultural Studies international network of Baltic universities sponsored by the Council of Ministers of the North-European Countries.
Research interests: Nikolai Gogol, Russian modernism, intertextuality, cinema, mass media and communication theory.

Sergei Podbolotov, Ph.D. (History, Cambridge University, expected 2008), Candidate of Sciences (History, St. Petersburg State University). Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, EUSP.
Formerly an associate professor at the Department of History, St. Petersburg State University; author of articles on Russian right-wing political parties in the early 1900s. Recipient of IREX awards for research stays at Stanford and at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University.
Research interests: modern political history of Russia, political parties during the Russian revolution, Russian nationalist and right-wing movements in the beginning of the XXth century.

Eduard D. Ponarin, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Michigan). Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science and Sociology at EUSP.
Eduard Ponarin was born in 1964. Graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Leningrad State University in 1986. Served in the Soviet Army from 1986 through 1988. Worked as a lecturer at the Leningrad Institute of Culture in 1988—1989. From 1989 through 1996, Eduard Ponarin was a graduate student at the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in Sociology. He began teaching at the European University in 1998. He is interested in methods and ethnic issues; he has numerous publications in English and Russian.
Research interests: nationalism, formation of ethnic consciousness, ethnic minorities, the role of generational succession in social change, and methodology of social sciences.

Anna Temkina, Ph.D. (Social Sciences, Helsinki University). Professor, Department of Political
Sciences and Sociology, EUSP. Co-director of the Gender Studies Program at EUSP.
Visiting professor at the universities of Tampere, Helsinki, Joensuu, Minsk, Vilnus; instructor at more than 10 summer schools. Author of Russia in Transition: the Case of New Collective Actors and New Collective Actions (Helsinki, 1997) and of more than 100 research articles, reviews, reports and other publications in the field of gender studies and research on sexuality. Co-editor of several editions, including Rossiiskii gendernyi poryadok: sotisologicheskii podhod (SPb, 2007), V poiskah sexualnosti (SPb. 2002). Recipient of an IREX award to conduct research at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research (1993); two-year PhD fellowship, University of Helsinki (1995-1996). Winner of the MacArthur foundation individual research grants competition (1997), Research Fellowship, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2004). Co-director, Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Ph.D. courses, the course “Transnational Feminism and Local Perspectives: Theories, Practices and Analytical Approaches,” St.Petersburg (2006). She participated in the following research projects: “Soft Security, Sexuality and Reproductive Health,” “Discrimination in the Sphere of Reproductive Rights,” “New Everyday Life in Russia,” “Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity,” “Sexual and Reproductive Practices,” “Gender Studies in Transnational Context.”
Research interests: research of the gender culture, sexuality, private sphere and reproductive health in post-Soviet societies.

Vadim Volkov, Ph.D. (Sociology, Cambridge University). Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg (EUSP).
In 1999—2001, he was Social Science Research Council/MacАrthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for the International Peace and Security Program. In 1998, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Department of History.
Dr. Volkov received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge in 1995 and Diploma of Higher Education from Leningrad State University, Faculty of Economics, in 1987. He is the author of Violent Entrepreneurs: the Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), and of articles in Social Research, Politics and Society, and Europe-Asia Studies.
Research interests: economic sociology, problems of state and violence, public and private security, comparative mafia, sociology of everyday life, and politics in the cultural context.

Elena Zdravomyslova, Candidate of Sciences (Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Co-director of the Gender Studies Program at EUSP.
Professor Zdravomyslova is author of Paradigms of Western Sociology of Social Movements (in Russian; Moscow, 1994). Co-editor of Biographical Research in Eastern Europe: Altered lives and broken biographies (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003), In Search of Sexuality (in Russian; SPb: Bulanin, 2002), A Reader in the Feminist Theory (in Russian; SPb: Bulanin, 2000) and Civil Society in Northern Europe (St. Petersburg, 1997, in Russian). She also published articles in International Sociology and Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen and various edited volumes. Recipient of an IREX grant for research at the University of California, Berkeley, and of a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford. Visiting Professor at Universitaet Bochum, Germany (1998).
Research interests: gender studies, biographical methods, Russian transformation, political sociology, social movements, stratification analysis, gender studies.