STAVRAKIS, Peter J(acob)

STAVRAKIS, Peter J(acob). American, b. 1955. Genres: Politics/ Government. Career: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, lecturer in political science, 1985-86; University of Vermont, Burlington, assistant professor, 1986-92, associate professor of political science, 1992-, head of Russian and East European Area Studies Program, 1994. University of Wisconsin-Madison, instructor, summers, 1985-86; Harvard University, summer fellow at Russian Research Center, 1989, 1991; lecturer at colleges and universities. Governor's Institute on International Affairs, Brattleboro, VT, faculty member, 1990; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, deputy director of Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1994-97; National Defense University, Washington, DC, visiting professor, 2001; George Washington University, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, research associate, 2001; consultant. Field work includes assistant director of excavations for Rio Hondo Project, Belize, 1973, 1974. Guest on television and radio programs in the United States and abroad; public speaker. Publications: Moscow and Greek Communism, 1944-1949, 1989; (ed. with J. DeBardeleben and L. Black, and contrib.) Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia, 1997. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals and popular magazines. Address: Department of Political Science, Old Mill, Room 533, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, U.S.A. Online address: pstavrak@zoo.uvm.edu