Visiting Scholars
Currrent Visiting Scholars
Dr. Kostiantyn Moharychev
Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor
Kostiantyn (Kostia) Moharychev is currently a Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. Previously, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Purdue University (USA). His research explores Jewish political history in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, with a focus on Soviet Jewish unit projects. In 2021, he defended his dissertation and published the book Our New Soviet Zion: Project and Creation Attempts of the Jewish National Entity in Crimea (in Russian), which examines the “Crimean Project” — an effort to establish a Jewish national entity in the Soviet Union. He is currently working on a refined and expanded English translation of his book, as well as a digital humanities project related to the 1897 Russian Empire Census and Jewish demography. He is also interested in Gaming Studies.
Former Visiting Scholars
2026
Dr. Andriy Kohut - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2025-2026)
Dr. Chuqiao Li - Visiting Professor (2026)
2025
Dr. Hu Sang - Visiting Professor (2025)
Dr. Yang Yang - Visiting Professor (2025)
2024
Dr. Claire F. Fox - Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Arts and Humanities (2024)
Wenjiao Li - Academic Visitor (2024)
Dr. Timur Mukhamatulin - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor (2024-2025)
Dr. Xingang Qi - Visiting Professor (2024-2025)
Dr. Yong Qin - Visiting Professor (2024)
2023
Dr. Yolanda Natalia Alvarez Gomez - Academic Visitor (2023)
Hislla S. M. Ramalho - Academic Visitor (2023-2024)
2022
Dr. Alex Averbuch - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Dr. Magdalena Kaltseis - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
Dr. Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle - Fulbright Scholar (2022)
2021
Dr. Maxime Bock - Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022)
Dr. Bettina Egger - Austrian Visiting Professor (2021-2023)
2020
Dr. Florian Mundhenke - DAAD Visiting Associate Professor (2020-2023)
2019
Dr. Maria Mayerchyk - Huculak Research Felow (2019-2020)
Dr. Iryna Skubii - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2019-2020)
Dr. Wolfgang Stadler - University of Innsbruck (Austria) - September 2019
Dr. Yanyu Zeng - Hunan Normal University, China - November 2019
Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez - Visiting Professor (October 2019-March 2020)
2018
Dr. Tatiana Saburova - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2018-2019)
Anna Seidel - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service research; Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
Marianna Novosolova - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service/ research
Dr. Paulo Andrade - Brazilian Visiting Scholar