Associate Professor, Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeDisinformation, Information Studies, Russia, Ukraine
Haigh is an expert in disinformation campaigns. She is from Ukraine and can talk about how Russia is using disinformation in the war there. She can also talk about what is happening on the ground in Ukraine since she is in regular contact with friends there and monitoring media.
Associate Professor, Political Science
University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeePolitical Economy, Political Science, Polls, Russia, Russia-Ukraine, Russian politics, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Reuter can discuss topics including: Russian domestic politics and public opinion. Reuter and colleagues and have been doing polling in Russia about the conflict. Reuter has been a senior researcher at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow since 2011.
Professor & Religious Studies Program Director History
University at Albany, State University of New YorkHistory, Religion, Religious Studies, Russia
Nadieszda Kizenko researches and teaches Russian history, with a focus on religion and culture. She explores the history of Orthodox Christianity, saints鈥 lives as a historical source, lived religion, political liturgy, women鈥檚 written confessions, and depictions of religion in film. Her first book, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn State University Press, 2000) examined the cult of a charismatic priest whose cult spanned the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Russian edition appeared as 鈥溞⌒惭徰傂拘 袧邪褕械谐芯 袙褉械屑械薪懈: 芯. 袠芯邪薪薪 袣褉芯薪褕褌邪写褌褋泻懈泄 懈 褉褍褋褋泻懈泄 薪邪褉芯写禄 (Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006). Her history of confession in Russia spanning four centuries, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, was published with Oxford University Press in 2021 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/good-for-the-souls-9780192896797?). She has now begun a new project exploring the intersection of women, devotional practice, and writing. Prof. Kizenko's courses and seminars cover Russian history, East European history, religion and film, and European history in general. Recent dissertations supervised by Prof. Kizenko include: 鈥淪cience and Culture on the Soviet Screen: Russian and Member Republic Biographical Films during the Early Cold War, 1946-1953,鈥 鈥淧romiscuous Pioneers of Morality: The Code of Ethics of a Secret Service Functionary in Communist Poland as Set by Law and Practice, 1944鈥1989,鈥 "Sacrifice in the Name of Sacred Duty: The Representation of the Decembrist Wives in Russian Culture, 1825-Present," and "Striving for Salvation: Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations and Revolution in Ireland, 1830-1922.鈥
Agricultural Development, Agricultural Economics, applied economics, Economics, International Trade, Russia, Supply Chain, Ukraine
Dr. Sunghun Lim's research centers on the intersection between International Trade, Agricultural Development, Production, and Supply Chains. His primary research focus is studying how agricultural global value chains and international trade affect national economic outcomes, such as structural transformation, employment, food security, and international trade. His other research interest is understanding the ways in which farmers' risk attitudes toward uncertainty affect strategic agribusiness management, in the context of food security, contract farming, crop diversification, and supply chains. Prior to Texas Tech University, Dr. Lim worked as an adjunct faculty at St. Catherine University in St Paul, Augsburg University in Minneapolis, and Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He also researched at the University of Minnesota Extension's Applied Research and Evaluation Team. His primary job was leading large scale statewide impact studies in the topics, including the USDA-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), healthy food choice experiments, farmers' markets, and local supply chains. In addition, he researched at the National Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI)'s Global Food Supply Chain Team, and the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Dr. Lim earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and B.A. in Economics both at the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis).
Antitrust, Economics, oil and gas, Pricing, Russia, Ukraine
Noel specializes in competition economics and is perhaps best known for his work on dynamic price competition in the oil and gas industry. He pioneered the now large professional literature on price cycles and price volatility in gasoline markets and is internationally known as a leading competition expert in the industry. He is available to discuss the effects of the current situation on oil prices and inflation.
Economics, quantitative analysis, Russia, Trading, Ukraine
鈥淭he Russia-Ukraine crisis has resulted in a significant shock to global energy markets,鈥 she said. 鈥淕eopolitical tensions, which always cause uncertainty and concerns about supply disruption, are particularly amplified in this case. Global energy demand is recovering from COVID-19 and supplies were relatively tight even before this crisis. U.S. shale producers, who would normally be expected to respond to higher prices and bring more supply to the market, are not responding as they might have in the past. Some continue to have financial problems, and some have been concerned about the impact of some of the Biden administration's mandates and executive orders. OPEC producers do not have much spare production capacity and are, themselves, not in the position to raise production. The only market certainty is that energy markets will continue to experience volatility.鈥 Kantelis' areas of expertise include economics, quantitative analysis, energy midstream and downstream trading.
Buena Vista Foundation Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Texas Tech UniversityEconomics, History, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine
Alan Barenberg specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the social and economic history of the 1930s-1970s. His research focuses on a broad range of topics in the economic and social history of the Russian Empire and the USSR. His book, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale UP, 2014), uses the case of the Arctic community of Vorkuta to resituate the Gulag in the history of the Stalin and post-Stalin eras. Gulag Town, Company Town has been recognized with various prizes, including the Canadian Association of Slavists' Taylor and Francis Book Prize in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2015), the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (Honorable Mention, 2015), and the TTU President's Book Award (First Prize, 2016). Dr. Barenberg teaches specialized courses on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Central Asia, as well as surveys of Western civilization. He has received multiple teaching awards, including the Hemphill-Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Texas Tech Parents Association (2013) and the TTU President's Excellence in Teaching Award (2016). Before coming to Texas Tech University, Dr. Barenberg received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2007), an M.A. from the University of Chicago (2000), and a B.A. from Carleton College (1999). Dr. Barenberg has received numerous fellowships, including: Kennan Institute Title VIII Long Term Research Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (2011-12, declined); Institute for Historical Studies Residential Fellowship, University of Texas (2010, declined); Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Fellowship (2005-2006); Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in the Humanities (2003-2004). In summer 2015, Dr. Barenberg was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
Economics, Legislation, Political Science, Post Communism, Russia, Ukraine
Frank Thames is Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. Dr. Thames received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and joined the Texas Tech faculty in 2002. His current research focuses on legislative behavior in post-communist legislatures, the economic effects of electoral systems, and gender. His journal articles have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies,Demokratizatsiya, Europe-Asia Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Politics & Gender, Comparative Politics, and Comparative Political Studies. He co-authored Contagious Representation: An Examination of Women's Representation in Democratic Political Systems, with Margaret Williams. He teaches undergraduate courses on Comparative Politics, Gender, and Russian Politics. He teaches graduate courses on Comparative Politics, Legislatures, and Gender.
Russia, russia invasion of ukraine, Russian politics, Soviet Union, Ukraine war
Dr. Lisa A. Baglione is a Professor in the Political Science Department and a member of the International Relations Program, and she has led both groups (as chair and director, respectively) in the past. As a young person, she became fascinated with US-Soviet relations and that interest 鈥 along with the well-timed mentorship from a special faculty member 鈥 inspired her to become a political scientist. Her dissertation, which she revised and then the University of Michigan Press published in 1999, investigated superpower arms control decision-making in the 1980s and 1990s when the two sides were negotiating to limit intermediate-range and strategic nuclear forces. As the Soviet Union was changing (and she was lucky enough to be in the USSR during the summer of 1989), Dr. Baglione became increasingly interested in Soviet and then Russian politics. In the early 1990s with support from SJU, she took three research trips to Russia with a colleague in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and wrote about elections, democratization, economic transformation, and labor relations there. Her interests in negotiations between adversaries and democratization led her to study conflict management and transformation, and she has investigated the complexity of creating peace in post-conflict areas like Chechnya and Bosnia among others. A dedicated teacher and believer that skills empower students, Dr. Baglione developed introductory research and writing courses in the Department and the IR Program, and her lecture notes and other teaching materials from those classes became the basis for her book Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods which is now (2019) in its fourth edition with CQ Press. This text is used in undergraduate and graduate programs around the country. Today, her research interests have morphed somewhat as what was old is new again. She continues to be fascinated by Russia's authoritarianism, the rise of authoritarianism around the world, the challenges of American-Russian relations, and what the nature of "peace" (more than conflict resolution) is. In the process, she has become increasingly interested in gender, intersectionality (the intersection of multiple sources of advantage or disadvantage -- like gender, race, religion, class, and other factors), and politics, particularly as gender and its intersections affect democracy, authoritarianism, and peace.