Dr. Olga Medvedkov
Professor of geography: urban, population,
GIS, globalization, Russian Area Studies
omedvedkov@wittenberg.edu
(937) 327-7301

Dr. Olga Medvedkov, Professor of Geography, is also past Department Chair, and past Division Chair of the East Lake Division of the Association of American Geographers. She teaches courses on Globalization, Urban and Population Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and a regional course on Russia and Central Eurasia. Dr. Medvedkov is team teaching the geography of East Asia and a special course on Moscow: Urban Development and Local Politics, followed by an optional Summer Term in Russia.

Dr. Medvedkov is known for bringing innovative technology into her classes, she served as faculty technology mentor for several year; all her courses are on the WEB.
Dr. Olga Medvedkov became a full-time faculty member at Wittenberg in 1989.
She received her B.A. and M.A. from Moscow State University and her Ph.D. from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, in Moscow where she worked before coming to Wittenberg. She held many research positions, a current one being Senior Research Associate at the Mershon Center in The Ohio State University and an adjunct professor in the geography department, also at OSU.

Dr. Medvedkov has published extensively. Her book, Soviet Urbanization (1990) received excellent reviews. She also contributed chapters to: "Cities of the former Soviet Union" in Cities of the World (1993) and "Turning Points and Trends in Russia's Urbanization" in Population under Duress (1999). Dr. Medvedkov coauthored the chapter "Russia 's Fragmented Space" in Fragmented Space in the Russian Federation, edited by Blair A. Ruble, Jody Koehn, and Nancy E. Popson, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington D.C. , 2001.

Dr. Medvedkov delivered an invited paper, "Urbanization Trends in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia during the Recent Decade," at the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Germany, Bonn, June 2002.

Dr. Medvedkov has also published numerous articles in professional journals. She has presented papers at national and international professional meetings.
Dr. Medvedkov was awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in 2002, and spent a semester teaching GIS in Moscow and doing research on Spatial and Social Proliferation in Moscow during Transition. In spring of 2005 she was invited by the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde in Leipzig to collaborate in international research on Changing Urban Landscape in Central and Eastern Europe.