Announcing New EUC Associate Director Markian Dobczansky

The European Union Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Markian Dobczansky has joined the center as its new Associate Director. Dr. Dobczansky teaches classes in European Studies and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MAEUS program. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Stanford University with a dissertation on the politics of culture in twentieth-century Kharkiv. His research interests include the history of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia, the politics of culture, urban history, and the Cold War. He has also worked in an administrative capacity at the Central Eurasian Studies Society, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Dobczansky is currently an Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and German, and has studied Qazaq and Armenian.

Announcing New EUC Associate Director Markian Dobczansky

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Welcoming Our New MAEUS Students!

The EUC would like to welcome two new students to our MA program in European Union Studies: Ben Nathan and Angelina Sandora. They are joined by our continuing MAEUS students: Jean-Yves Lacascade and Simone Palmieri.

Ben is a recent graduate of UIUC where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He is staying there for one additional year to complete a Master of Arts in European Union Studies through a 5-year accelerated graduate program offered at the European Union Center. His primary area of research has been propaganda and misinformation, which culminated in a senior honors thesis seeking to explore when and why governments utilize minority group targeting propaganda campaigns in the manner that they do. Ben has been a research assistant on numerous projects dealing with topics ranging from constitutional law to civil war conflicts. In the long term, he hopes to go to law school after finishing his graduate program so that he can practice law in the realm international law and trade.

Angelina is a first year MAEUS student. She graduated with a Bachelor of the Arts in International Relations from Michigan State University in spring of 2022. She is interested in questions of populism, refugees, the Mediterranean, and security. She also is passionate about learning languages and activism.

Click here to learn more about our M.A. in European Union Studies program, which is designed for students who are seeking to combine area expertise with professional training, planning to pursue a PhD, or desiring a stand-alone professional degree.

Welcoming Our New MAEUS Students!

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