Veljko Vujacic

"A Comparison of Russian and Serbian Nationalism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia"

Monday, Oct. 16, 2006
1:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Sponsored by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies.

Veljko Vujacic is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College. His fields of specialization include sociological theory, political and comparative-historical sociology, and social movements, with a special focus on communism and nationalism in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia .

Vujacic's articles on these themes have appeared in Theory and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, East-European Constitutional Review, The Harriman Review, Research in Political Sociology, The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Revolutions in World History, and a number of edited volumes.

He is currently working on a large comparative-historical study of Russian and Serbian nationalism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.