Wittenberg University - Russian Area Studies - Faculty

Russian Area Studies — Dr. Olga Medvedkov

Academic Background

B.A.         Moscow State University
M.A.         Moscow State University
Ph.D.       Soviet Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography

Awards and Recognitions

Dr. Medvedkov was awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in 2002, and spent a semester in Moscow teaching GIS and researching spatial and social proliferation in Moscow during the transition. In spring of 2005 she was invited by the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde in Leipzig to collaborate in international research on the changing urban landscape in Central and Eastern Europe .

Publications

Dr. Medvedkov has published extensively. Her book, Soviet Urbanization (1990) received excellent reviews. She has also contributed chapters for other books: "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.

In June 2002, 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.

She has also published numerous articles in professional journals and presented papers at national and international professional meetings.

RAST Courses Taught

Geog 250 Russian and Central-Eurasian Geography

Other Info

Dr. Medvedkov became a full-time faculty member at Wittenberg in 1989. She has held many research positions, a current one being Senior Research Associate at the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. She is also an adjunct professor in the geography department at OSU.

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