Welcome Aboard: New Tenure-Track Faculty
As with every year, The HSE Look continues its tradition of welcoming newly recruited international faculty. Several of them have kindly provided a short summary about themselves. Everyone can be found on the HSE website should you need to learn more about your colleagues and are interested in discussing potential collaboration.
Faculty of Humanities (Moscow)
Seth Bernstein is an Associate Professor at the School of History. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto and, for three years, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the International Centre for the Study of World War II at HSE. His book, forthcoming from Cornell University Press, is Communist Upbringing under Stalin: Young Communists and War in a Socialist Society, 1929-1945. His next project is on repatriation to the USSR after World War II. Seth also works on projects related to digital humanities.
Silver Bronzo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Philosophy. After studying philosophy as an undergraduate in Italy (Sapienza Università di Roma), he received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2015 and has worked for the last two years as a philosophy instructor at Auburn University. His research focuses on the philosophy of language, as well as the history of analytic philosophy, with a special interest in Wittgenstein.
Svetlana Cecovic is an Assistant Professor at the School of Philology. She received her Master’s degree from University of Paris III (2009). Between 2012 and 2016, she was a doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, Art and Literature of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), finally receiving her PhD there in 2016. She works on cultural and literary relations between Russia and the West, in particular Belgium and France. The title of her thesis is “Intellectual Mediation, Transfers and Imagology of Russian Thought in French-speaking Belgium (1880-1940). Between Confrontation and Conciliation”.
Ulrika Carlsson is an as Assistant Professor at the School of Philosophy and holds a PhD from Yale University (USA).
Natalia Ivlieva is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the School of Philology and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).
Alexander Podobryaev is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the School of Philology and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).
Tudor Ioan Protopopescu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Philosophy and holds a PhD from City University of New York (USA).
Faculty of Economic Sciences (Moscow)
Dagmara Celik Katreniak is an Assistant Professor in Economics. She received her PhD in 2016 from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Economic Institute (CERGE-EI1), New York, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Madina Karamysheva is an Assistant Professor in Economics. Madina received her PhD from Bocconi University (Milan) in 2016. Her research interests include macrofinance at the crossroads of policy, economic activity and financial markets. In particular, she is interested in fiscal policy with a special focus on fiscal consolidation and its impact on economic growth. Madina stresses the importance of understanding the heterogeneity of output effects of fiscal adjustment plans. In particular, she investigates uncertainty and monetary policy as potential channels of this heterogeneity. Her research methods mostly rely on empirical analysis.
Maria Veretennikova is an Assistant Professor in Economics and holds a PhD from University of Warwick (UK).
International College of Economics and Finance (Moscow)
Markus Gebauer is an Assistant Professor in Economics. He comes from Leipzig, Germany and did his undergraduate degree at Edinburgh University. Markus then moved on to obtain his Master’s and PhD in Toulouse. His specialty is labour economics and macroeconomics in which he intends to deepen his understanding and eventually branch out into other areas.
Vincent Fardeau is an Assistant Professor in Economics and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (UK).
School of Economics and Management (St. Petersburg)
Alexander Nesterov is an Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg School of Economics and Managementand holds a PhD from Humboldt University (Germany).
Faculty of Mathematics (Moscow)
Petr Dunin-Barkowski is an Associate Professor in Mathematics and holds a PhD from University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Faculty of Social Sciences (Moscow)
Israel Marques II is an Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science. He is a Virginia native of the US and received his PhD in Political Science at Columbia University. His research addresses several fundamental questions regarding comparative political economy. First, when do governments provide social policy programmes to their populations and who supports such programmes? Second, how are firms willing to invest in environments in which governments are not highly accountable and/or poorly constrained by institutions? His current research in these areas involves laboratory experiments on social policy preferences, as well as a large project funded by the Russian National Science Foundation exploring public-private partnerships in vocational education in Russia’s regions.
Victor Albert is an Assistant Professor at the Public Policy Department. He holds a PhD from La Trobe University in Political Anthropology. Victor has broad interdisciplinary interests in policy, government and the changing nature of socio-political relations throughout the world. He has developed this interest through his study of participatory governance and how power relations shape the way citizens and social groups intervene in state decision- and policy-making. He is now working on a project focused on how housing policy may have given rise to a new, combative social movement in Brazil. Victor is looking forward to doing collaborative, policy-focused research closer to Moscow.
Navid Hassanpour is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Science and holds a PhD from Yale University (2014) in Political Science and Stanford University (2006) in Electrical Engineering.
Institute of Education
Tatjana Kanonire is an Assistant Professor in Education. She holds a PhD from University of Latvia (Latvia). Tatjana was interviewed by The HSE Look about her research interest in its May issue (2016) while working as a research fellow at the Centre for Education Quality Monitoring of the Institute of Education.