List of Members
Dr Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov, Research Fellow, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research interests: Slavic literatures and Balkan culture
e-mail: Adelina.Angusheva-Tihanov@manchester.ac.uk
Dr. Ian Appleby
Relevant research interests: identity politics in post-communist Russia
Dr. Lynne Attwood, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: gender issues in post-communist Russia and the Soviet Union; Soviet and Russian cinema
e-mail: lynne.attwood@manchester.ac.uk
tel. 0161-2753133
Dr. Nick Baron, Department of History, Nottingham University
Relevant research interests: Russian and Soviet political, cultural and economic history
e-mail: nick.baron@nottingham.ac.uk
Mr. Martin Barry, Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: Russian phonetics
e-mail: martin.barry@manchester.ac.uk
tel. 0161-2753250
Dr. Oliver Bast, Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: Bolsheviks/Social Democrats and the early Iranian left; use of Russian sources for the study of modern Iranian history
e-mail: oliver.bast@manchester.ac.uk
tel. 0161-2753065
Ms. Justyna Drobnik-Rogers, PhD candidate, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Relevant research interests: contemporary Polish theatre.
Prof. Peter Gatrell, History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: economic history of Russia, displacement and other forms of population transfer in Russian and European history
e-mail: peter.gatrell@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753097
Prof. David Fanning, Music, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: Shostakovich, Russian/Soviet music
e-mail: david.fanning@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2574989
Dr. Yoram Gorlizki, Government, School of Social Sciences
Relevant research and teaching interests: Soviet political history, post-communist Russian politics
e-mail: yoram.gorlizki@manchester.ac.uk
tel. 0161-2754251
Dr. Sue-Ann Harding
Relevant research interests: the Russian Chechen-Conflict
Mr. Ted Harrison, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, Salford University
Relevant research interests: history of Soviet espionage
e-mail: e.harrison@salford.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Hutchings, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research interests: Post-Soviet film and media, Russian and Soviet literature, cultural theory
e-mail: Stephen.Hutchings@manchester.ac.uk
Dr. Joanne Laycock, PhD candidate in History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Relevant research interests: displacement and nation-building in Armenia
e-mail: Joanne_laycock@yahoo.co.uk
Dr. Kevin McDermott, History, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
Relevant research interests: Stalinism, the Communist International, Czech labour history
e-mail: k.f.mcdermott@shu.ac.uk
Dr. Peter McMylor, Sociology, School of Social Sciences
Relevant research interests: welfare and privatisation in Russia; sociology of religion with reference to Eastern Orthodoxy
e-mail: peter.mcmylor@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2752492
Dr. Galina Miazhevich, Gorbachev Media Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford
Relevant research interests: post-Soviet identity; mass media and xenophobia in Belarus
e-mail: Galina.Miazhevich@rai.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Andrew Mycock, Politics Department, University of Huddersfield
Relevant research interests: civic education, teaching of history and nation-building in post-communist Russia
e-mail: a.j.mycock@hud.ac.uk
Dr. Ewa Ochman, RCUK Fellow, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research interests: collective memory and nation-building in Poland post-1989
e-mail: ewa.ochman@manchester.ac.uk
Dr. Dimitris Papadimitriou, Government, School of Social Sciences
Relevant research and teaching interests: post-communist Eastern and East Central Europe and the EU enlargement
e-mail: dimitris.papadimitriou@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2754888
Dr. John Payne, Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research interests: Russian and languages of Central Asia
e-mail: john.payne@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753186
Ms Maria Petrova, PhD candidate in Russian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Relevant research interests: Buddhism in post-communist Russia
Dr. Rachel Platonov, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: Russian and Soviet popular culture
e-mail: rachel.platonov@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753135
Dr. Oxana Poberejnaia
Relevant research interests: civic education and democratisation in Russia post 1991
e-mail: oxana.poberejnaia@manchester.ac.uk
Dr. Christopher Rees, Institute for Development and Policy Management
Relevant research and teaching interests: human resource management, with expertise in Russia, the Baltic states, Hungary and Croatia
e-mail: chris.rees@manchester.ac.uk
Dr. Susan Reid, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Sheffield University
Relevant research interests: Soviet visual and material culture
e-mail: s.e.reid@sheffield.ac.uk
Ms. Nailya Safiullina, PhD candidate, Russian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Relevant research interests: the politics of culture in the USSR in the 1930s
e-mail: nely@mail.ru
Dr. Stuart Shields, Government, School of Social Sciences
Relevant research and teaching interests: political economy of Eastern and East Central Europe, including Russia
e-mail: stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-275 7824
Dr. Jonathan Sutton, Department of Russian, University of Leeds
Relevant research interests: church-state relations and the formation of civil society in post-communist Russia and Eastern Europe
e-mail: j.f.sutton@leeds.ac.uk
Ms Ewa Stanczyk, PhD candidate, Russian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
Relevant Research interests: Polish poetry and painting in the twentieth century.
e-mail: eleusa@up.pl
Professor Galin Tihanov, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Lignuistics and Cultures
Relevant research interests: Russian and East European intellectual and cultural history
e-mail: Galin.Tihanov@manchester.ac.uk
Professor Vera Tolz, Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: Russian intellectual history, ethnic relations in the USSR and post-communist Russia, Russian nationalism
e-mail: vera.tolz@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753140
Mrs. Maria Vorozhishcheva
Research interests: Russian religious philosophy and social thought; Eastern Orthodox visual culture.
Mr. Ali Williams, PhD candidate in History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Relevant research interests: late imperial Russian and Soviet diplomatic practice
e-mail: aliwilliams@aliwilliams.me.uk
Dr. Feroze Yasamee, Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Relevant research and teaching interests: modern Ottoman History, including the Balkans; Russian and Bulgarian sources used in research
e-mail: feroze.a.yasamee@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753068
Mrs. Jekaterina Young
Relevant research and teaching interests: contemporary Russian prose, Russian and Czech languages
e-mail: katya.young@manchester.ac.uk
tel.: 0161-2753138