Teaching and Supervision 

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Graduate Courses Taught (UIC)
Seminar in Comparative Politics; Democracy and Democratization; Research Methods and Design; Comparative Political Institutions 

Undergraduate Courses Taught
Current Issues in European Union Politics (UIC); East European Politics (FSU and UIC); European Economic Integration: Politics and Policy (UF); European Union Enlargements (UF); European Union in the World (UF; study abroad); European Union: Politics and Institutions (UIC); Europe and Its Neighbors (UIC; Honors College); Introduction to Comparative Government (UF and UIC); Introduction to International Relations (FSU); Politics of Developing Areas (UF); Political Parties (UIC); West European Politics (UF and UIC);

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Graduate Theses Supervision 

Mine Tafolar – chair (Ph.D. Political Science, UIC)
Eliska Schnabel – member (Ph.D. Political Science, UIC)
Beyza Buyuker – member (Ph.D. Political Science, UIC; defended August 2021)
Eduardo Salinas – member (Ph.D. Political Science, UIC; defended August 2021)
Koldo Fernandez Barutell – member (PhD. Jane Addams College of Social Work, UIC; defended July 2020.). 
Ajara Chekirova – member (Ph.D. Political Science, UIC; defended Fall 2019)
Melanie Mierzejewski – member (Ph.D. Political Science; UIC; defended Summer 2014)
Katherine McAuliffe – member (MA Journalism; University of Florida; defended Spring 2010)
Kristina Roberts – member (MA Tourism, Recreation and Sports Management; University of Florida, defended 2007)
Christopher Karadjov – member (Ph.D. Journalism; University of Florida; defended Spring 2007)

Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervision 

Hana Ahmed – member (2020-2021; UIC); Kayla Massey – chair (2019-2020; UIC); Eddie Gross – chair (2018-2019; UIC); Eunice Kpatah – chair (2018-2019; UIC); Hugh Vondracek – member (Spring 2014; UIC); Sarah Zaidi – member (Spring 2012; UIC); Jeanette Leal – chair (2010-11; UF); Regina Topolinskaya – chair (2010-11; UF); Corinne Tomasi – chair (2009-10; UF); Richard Baron – chair (2009-10; UF); Audrey Couprie – chair (2008-09; UF); Maria Bingemann – chair (2008-09; UF); Julie Shaffer – chair (2008-09; UF); Benjamin Freeman – chair (2006-07; UF); John November – chair (2005-2006; UF)

Independent Study/Research Supervision – UIC 

Elif Baba (graduate): European Union – history, institutions, and policies (Fall 2021)
Saif Said (undergraduate): Neoliberal Diffusion: the spread of neoliberal ideals through western democracies in the 1980s, and its correlation to partisanship (Fall 2021)
Max Ileyko (undergraduate): Ukraine’s relations with the EU (Fall 2019)
Koldo Fernandez Barutell (graduate): welfare state in times of crisis (Spring 2019)
Ajara Chekirova (graduate: post-communist parties (Spring 2015)
Rita Nassar (graduate): ethnic diversity in post-communism (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
Eliska Schnabel (graduate): protest vote in post-communist countries (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
Ion Nimerescu (graduate): post-communist diaspora (Spring 2015)
Adam Harper (undergraduate): political legitimacy (Spring 2015)     
Alfred Hegyes (undergraduate): EU and Turkey (Spring 2015)    
Pedro Ramirez (undergraduate): democracy in Eastern Europe (Spring 2015)
Huan Chang (graduate): local governance (Fall 2014)
Olga Poes (graduate): aging and social policies (Fall 2014)
Gabriela Miankova (undergraduate): democracy and the European Parliament  (Fall 2013)
Medzit Redzepi (undergraduate): Macedonia and the EU (Fall 2013)
Paulina Fira (undergraduate): social policy models in Eastern Europe (Spring 2013)
Brittanie Wilczak (graduate): comparative health regimes (Spring 2013)
Elizabeth Christian (undergraduate): EU privacy laws (Spring 2012)
Hermane Luis (undergraduate): EU enlargement (Spring 2012)
John Valdez (undergraduate): EU enlargement (Spring 2012)
Catherine Griffiths (graduate): institutionalism in comparative politics (Fall 2011)