Education
Ph.D., History, Michigan State University, 2007

Research Interests
Modern world history; Korean/Asian studies; Cold War studies; U.S. & Russian foreign relations

Teaching Fields
World history; Asian history; Russian history

Major Publications
“Beyond Totalitarianism: Western Scholars’ Interpretations of Stalinism Since World War II,” Journal of Historical, Philological, and Cultural Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2006): 178-186. [in Russian]

Co-author, “New Challenges of Expansion: Korean Communities in the Ural and Volga Regions.” Journal of History and Culture (February, 2005): 891-926

“The Expansion of Korean Communities and the Rise of Korean Studies in the Urals, 1991-2003,” Siberian Studies, Vol. 7 (December 2004): 1-35.

Course Offerings
World Civilizations
Empire
Russia Between East and West