Dr. James Heizer

Jim is a long time Russian teacher / scholar who has visited Russia fifteen times. He will speak on his experiences in a talk entitled "Dead Souls Refuse to Die - Russia's Struggle with Post Modernism."

Education
B.A. History, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
M.A. Russian Area Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
M..Div. Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
M.A. / Ph.D. Russian History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Post Doc experiences
Post-doctoral research (five terms) at St. Anthony's College at Oxford
NEH summer scholarships at Harvard and at Yale
Russian and East European Workshop at University of Illinois
Fulbright summer programs at University of Belgrade
Fulbright summer programs at University of Helwan in Cairo
Fulbright summer programs at University of Krakow

Scholarship
Various publications are articles with specialty in Russian History
Associate Editor, Nationalities Papers

Teaching Interests
Georgetown College: Russian history, comparative government (34 years)
Institute for Advanced Pedagogical Studies in Kazan (Tatarstan)
Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China
Yan Tai University
Russian American Christian University in Moscow
Moscow Baptist Theological Seminary
West Ukraine Bible College in Truskavets