Degree Requirements and Courses, 2009-10
Please find below links to the Stanford Bulletin listing the courses and degree requirements for the Master's Degree and undergraduate minor in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies for 2009-10
MASTER'S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AND COURSES, 2009-10
COTERMINAL MASTER'S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS, 2009-10
UNDERGRADUATE MINOR DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AND COURSES, 2009-10
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CREEES-SPONSORED COURSES, 2009-10
WINTER 2010
REES 320. State and Nation Building in Central Asia (5 units)
M 2:15 -4:05 pm at ECON 218
Open to graduate students, undergraduates require permission; cognate course
in the Political Science department.
Issues of identity, development, and security following the dissolution of
the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states in Central Asia and
the Southern Caucasus. Topics include the impact of 9/11, the spread of
radical Islamist movements in the region, its growing role as a transit
route for drugs, weapons, and possibly nuclear materials, the impact of the
Soviet legacy, the nature of political and economic transformations,
relations with neighboring countries, security challenges, and options
facing U.S. policy makers.
Gail Lapidus is a Senior Fellow Emerita at the Institute for International
Studies at Stanford University. Lapidus is also Professor Emerita of
Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as
Chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
from 1985 to 1994. A specialist on Soviet society, politics and foreign
policy, she has authored and edited a number of books on Soviet and
post-Soviet affairs, including The New Russia: Troubled Transformation
(Westview Press, 1995), From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and
Separatism in the Soviet Republics, with Victor Zaslavsky and Philip Goldman
(Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Soviet System in Crisis, with
Alexander Dallin (Westview, 1992), and Women in Soviet Society (University
of California Press, 1979).
ANTHRO 148A/248A. Nomads of Eurasia: Culture in Transition (5 units)
M/W 11:00 - 12:50 pm, HERRINT 185
Open to undergraduates and graduate students.
Traditional peoples of Central and Inner Asia; their lifestyles and cultural
history. Modern research approaches and recent fieldwork data published
mainly in Russian and Central Asian languages. Audio-visual materials.
Alma Kunanbaeva specializes in cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology,
storytelling, and linguistics. Native of Kazakhstan, she defended Ph.D. from
the State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in St. Petersburg,
Russia. While in Russia, she was the Chairman of the Research Department of
Ethnography of the Peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus, at the State
Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the former USSR in then Leningrad.
Since 1993 she has taught anthropological and linguistic courses at various
American universities. Presently she is Visiting Professor at Stanford
University, teaching such courses as "Nomads of Eurasia," "Women in Islam,"
"Folklore, Mythology, and Oral Literature of Central Asia", among others.
She is the author of numerous scholarly articles including the principal
encyclopedic entries on Kazakh traditional music in the New Grove's
Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Second Edition, vol. 13, UK, 2001), in the
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (vol. 6, N.Y., 2002), and in the
Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife (Greenwood Press, 2008.) She
is a co-author (with Wayne Eastep as a photographer) of The Soul of
Kazakhstan, published in New York in 2001.
HISTORY 220G/320G. Demons, Witches, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular
Religion in Russia, 19th and 20th Centuries (4-5 units)
Wed 3:15 PM - 5:05 PM at 160-325
Popular religion in Russia, focusing on life in the provinces and villages
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The double faith of
Orthodox Christianity combined with folk beliefs. Topics include: parish
priests, witchcraft, possession, Holy Fools, Old Believers, spiritual
elders, saints, icons, religious cults,and women's lay religious movements.
Jack Kollmann is the CREEES Lecturer and Academic Coordinator. He holds a
PhD in Russian History from Harvard University and has taught many courses
on Russian civilization at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He and Professor Nancy
Kollmann will be taking a group of Stanford undergraduates to St. Petersburg
for a Bing Overseas Seminar in August and September 2008.
SPRING 2010
POLISCI 140C. The Comparative Political Economy of Post-Communist
Transitions (5 units)
M/W 11:00-12:15 pm at 50-51P
Dominant theoretical perspectives of comparative democratization and
marketization; focus is on the political economy of transition in Eastern
Europe and Eurasia while comparing similar processes in Latin America and
Asia. Topics include: meanings of democracy, synergy between democracies and
markets, causes of the collapse of communism, paths to political
liberalization and democracy, civil society, constitutions, parliaments,
presidents, the rule of law, electoral systems, market requirements,
strategies of reform, the Russian experience of market building, exporting
democracy and the market, and foreign aid and assistance.
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss is Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy,
Development and the Rule of Law. Prior to coming to Stanford, she was on the
faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the
Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and
Public Affairs. In addition to many articles and book chapters on
contemporary Russia, she is the author of two single authored books:
Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia
(Cambridge, 2006), and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian
Regional Governance (Princeton, 1997). She is also co-editor (along with
Michael McFaul) of After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of
Transitions (Cambridge, 2004).
FRENGEN 361: Theories of Resistance (3-5 units)
Thu 5:15 PM - 8:05 PM at 260-244
A critique of theories of resistance developed by Agamben, Althusser,
Butler, Deleuze, Foucault, Latour, Mouffe, Rancière by testing their
assumptions and methodologies against concrete practices of resistance drawn
from postcolonialism, postsocialism and postapartheid sites and embodied in
the works of scholarship, art, and literature produced mainly by natives as
analysts of their own condition. How to build theory from the bottom-up
based on student's own research material.
Ewa Domanska is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of
Anthropology at Stanford and Associate Professor in Theory and History of
Historiography, Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan,
Poland. She is widely published in the areas of the theory of
historiography and memory studies.
Anthropology 147A. Folklore, Mythology, and Islam in Central Asia (3-5
units)
MW 1:15-3:05 pm at 320-220
Central Asian cults, myths, and beliefs from ancient time to modernity. Life
crisis rites, magic ceremonies, songs, tales, narratives, taboos associated
with childbirth, marriage, folk medicine, and calendrical transitions. The
nature and the place of the shaman in the region. Sources include music from
the fieldwork of the instructor and the Kyrgyz epoch "Manas." The cultural
universe of Central Asian peoples as a symbol of their modern outlook.
Alma Kunanbaeva specializes in cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology,
storytelling, and linguistics. Native of Kazakhstan, she defended Ph.D. from
the State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in St. Petersburg,
Russia. While in Russia, she was the Chairman of the Research Department of
Ethnography of the Peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus, at the State
Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the former USSR in then Leningrad.
Since 1993 she has taught anthropological and linguistic courses at various
American universities. Presently she is Visiting Professor at Stanford
University, teaching such courses as "Nomads of Eurasia," "Women in Islam,"
"Folklore, Mythology, and Oral Literature of Central Asia", among others.
She is the author of numerous scholarly articles including the principal
encyclopedic entries on Kazakh traditional music in the New Grove's
Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Second Edition, vol. 13, UK, 2001), in the
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (vol. 6, N.Y., 2002), and in the
Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife (Greenwood Press, 2008.) She
is a co-author (with Wayne Eastep as a photographer) of The Soul of
Kazakhstan, published in New York in 2001.
CREEES supports SPECIAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM courses in Albanian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Kazakh, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Yiddish. Contact the SLP director Eva Prionas to learn about language courses offered on demand each academic quarter.