Russian and Eurasian studies is an interdisciplinary degree program designed for students interested in Russia and Eurasia, an area of the world that is of strategic importance to the United States.
Karina V. Korostelina is a Professor and Director of Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflicts and Intergroup Divisions and of the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, GMU. Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on dynami...
This course will examine Joseph Stalin, one of the bloodiest dictators in human history, and Stalinism, the political, economic, social, and cultural system that bears his name. In just three decades of Stalin’s rule, the Soviet Union underwent a radical transformation, as the backward, defeated Russ...
Professor Barnes is a specialist in the history of the former Soviet Union. His first book, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society, published by Princeton University Press in 2011, was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association and the B...
Professor Bockman works in globalization studies, economic sociology, urban studies, and East European Studies. Her book Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism was published by Stanford University Press. In her research and teaching, Bockman uses comparative and hist...
Mills Kelly is a Professor of History and a Senior Scholar at George Mason's award-winning Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). He was the director of RRCHNM from 2019-2023. His most recent book and is Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail and he is the host of The Green Tunnel podca...