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Karina Korostelina

Karina Korostelina

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...

BA in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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.

Mills Kelly

Mills Kelly

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...

HIST 326-001: Stalinism

Fall 2024 -  Vadim Staklo 

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...

Steve Barnes

Steve Barnes

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...

Johanna Bockman

Johanna Bockman

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...

HIST 329-DL1: Modern Russia and Soviet Union

Fall 2024 -  Steve Barnes 

This course explores the history of the lands and peoples that made up the Russian Empire under the tsars at the beginning of the 20th century, through the Russian Revolution, the establishment of a communist regime under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the collapse of the Soviet system, the emerge...