Vitae
EDUCATION
- USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, Ph.D., Economic Geography, 1980
- Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, MA, Economic Geography, 1974
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Economic Geography; Population Geography; Russia and the Former Soviet Union, and Europe
COURSES TAUGHT
Economic Geography, Population Geography, European Culture Sphere, Europe and the Americas, Europe, Former USSR, Middle East, Climatology, and Physical Geography
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Geography, Radford University, Radford, VA, 1990 - present
- Researcher and Department Chair (Population Geography), Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, 1980-89
- Researcher, Institute for Rural Physical Planning, Moscow, USSR, 1974-80
INVITED PUBLIC SPEAKING
University of Texas at Austin (1999), Virginia Tech (2000), Harvard University (2001 and 2005), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (1996 and 2002), US Department of State (2003 and 2007), World Bank (2004), Central Intelligence Agency (2004)
ADDITIONAL AND OCCASIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
- Reviewing/editing chapters of Glencoe World Geography, a high school geography text by McGraw-Hill (2006)
- Acting as external examiner of a Ph D thesis devoted to the political economy of modern Belarus (University of Kingston, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK, 2006)
- Revising survey articles on Russian cities for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (2002)
- Editorial board member of the Eurasian Geography and Economics (2002 – present)
- Participating in Regional Russia and Rural Russia workshops, Kennan Institute for the Advanced Russian Studies Washington, D.C. (1999-2000)
- Editorial board member of the Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press (1998)
- Field-Advising for the American Council of Teachers of Russian (1995, 1996)
- Conducting a Radford University summer school program in Antwerp, Belgium (1994)
- Consulting for the National Research Council's Committee on Population (1994)
- Lecturing for the US Department of Defense Dependents Schools Office (1991)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Association of American Geographers (since 1990); American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (since 1997); Association for the Study of Nationalities (since 2006)
LANGUAGES
Russian (native), Polish (read and communicate), Belarusian (read), Ukrainian (read), and German (read)