European Studies Group

International Programs’ affinity groups contribute to Iowa’s global mission
Monday, July 1, 2024
The faculty-led affinity groups create opportunities for faculty to advance research and teaching through a focus on collegiate issues and perspectives, provide opportunities for faculty and students across disciplines to interact and collaborate, and develop public engagement projects to benefit communities in Iowa and abroad.

In the news: Professors discuss Russia-Ukraine war after year of conflict in UI panel
Monday, February 27, 2023
Professors from universities in the Midwest discussed the Russia-Ukraine war in an event put on by UI’s European Studies Group at the Iowa Memorial Union.

In the news: Looking back at a year of war in Ukraine
Friday, February 24, 2023
Ben Kieffer speaks with guests about how the last year has changed global politics and what may be next.

In the news: University of Iowa panel marks anniversary of invasion of Ukraine
Friday, February 24, 2023
Today marks one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and experts from across the Midwest are gathering in Iowa City tonight for a panel discussion about the war and what may be next for that region — and for the world.

In the news: University of Iowa marks one-year of Russia's war in Ukraine with panel discussion Friday
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
KGAN covered the upcoming UI panel hosted by the European Studies Group to discuss the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Russia’s War on Ukraine – a panel discussion hosted on the UI campus, Feb. 24
Friday, January 27, 2023
The discussion will engage leading experts from Midwestern universities in a conversation about Russia's war against Ukraine.

Marina Zaloznaya
Title/Position
Director, European Studies Group
Marina Zaloznaya is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science and a co-founder of the Corruption in The Global South Research Consortium (https://www.cgs.network). She holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores political dimensions, gender patterns, and network properties of public sector corruption in non-democratic regimes from a range of methodological perspectives. Her first book, The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe, which drew on ethnographic and comparative-historical analyses of corruption in Ukrainian and Belarusian universities, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. More recently, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, Dr. Zaloznaya and her collaborators collected and analyzed three rounds of public opinion surveys in Russia, China, Ukraine, and Georgia. Along with Dr. Zaloznaya’s other work, findings from these have been published in a range of sociology, political science, and interdisciplinary journals, including Social Forces, Electoral Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Law & Social Inquiry, Europe-Asia Studies, Sociology of Development, Crime, Law, and Social Change, the Annual Review of Sociology, and other venues. At Iowa, Dr. Zaloznaya teaches courses in Global Criminology, Sociology of White-Collar Crime, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Human Rights, Gender & Politics under Authoritarianism, and Law & Society.

Steve W Duck
My work is in the study of rhetorical, psychological and communicative processes in personal relationships. After a PhD in Social Psychology, I moved to Communication Studies and finally Rhetoric. After founding the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, I edited it for 15 years and was also President of the International Network on Personal Relationships and cofounder of the Interpersonal Conferences on Personal Relationships, both of them international and interdisciplinary in emphasis.

Russ Ganim
Title/Position
Associate Provost and Dean
International Programs
My specialization is early modern French literature, with a focus on poetry as well as the intersection of word and image. Most recently, I have worked on French antecedents in Shakespeare as well as expressions of obscenity in both Italian and French literature.

Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Marvin has published widely on Italian opera of the nineteenth century, especially the music of Verdi and Rossini, focusing on cultural and social history, as well as textual criticism. Her work touches more specifically on topics including censorship, celebrity, performance practices, dissemination and reception of foreign opera in Britain, opera and print culture, operatic burlesques, iconography of singers in Victorian illustrated newspapers, and music during World War II. Co-editor of seven books (the most recent being Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States), she is also sole editor of The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. In addition, Dr. Marvin is series editor for Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera and Associate General Editor for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, the award-winning critical edition of the composer’s music.

Nancy Hauserman
I have a J.D. and taught Business, Law and Ethics in the Tippie College of Business for 30 years. I taught undergraduates (Iowa, London and Italy) and MBAs and taught in our Executive MBA programs in Iowa, Italy (CIMBA) and Hong Kong. I directed the Italy (CIMBA) program as well. My primary areas of research were law and ethics generally and whistleblowing and sexual harassment specifically. Served as undergraduate Dean in the Tippie College.
Mary L Cohen
My research area is music education and well-being with a focus on music in prisons (from an abolitionist perspective), songwriting, and collaborative communities. I am creating connections among many researchers across the U.S. through the Justice Arts Coalition and recent Arts in Prison conferences and across the globe interested in music education in prisons, currently in Germany, Scotland, England, Brazil, Belgium, Norway, Australia, and hoping to continue to build this network. I am also very interested in peacebuilding and music education, and restorative & transformative justice.
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