Visiting SPA Faculty

The Maxwell School-SPA partnership includes an exchange of scholars. Nine SPA faculty were in residence at the Maxwell School during the the period from Fall 2000 through Spring 2002. They had the designation of Visiting Scholar and were housed in the Global Affairs Institute (GAI). Each Visiting Scholar had a Maxwell School faculty mentor, and they were integrated into one of the research centers or institutes in the Maxwell School. In June 2002 eight SPA instructors visited the Maxwell School for one month to observe the Executive Leadership Program and develop a strategy for implementing a similar simulation exercise at Moscow State University. The Executive Education Program of the Maxwell School coordinated the visits of all SPA faculty members.

The Purpose of the Visiting Scholars Program

1. Visiting Scholars will attend graduate classes in their areas of interest and specialization.

2. They will consult with their mentors and other Maxwell School faculty about course content, curricula revision and teaching pedagogy in public administration and public policy.

3. They will revise their course syllabus or prepare a new course under the guidance of their mentors and prepare at least two new pedagogical innovations (e.g., cases, simulations, role-play exercise, and team-based projects).

4. They will meet with Maxwell School alumni in the metropolitan Syracuse area to learn how interns and class projects are integrated into real world learning experiences and observe public and non-profit management in action.

5. They will participate in the bi-weekly faculty and graduate student seminar organized by GAI and will make a presentations during their stay at the Maxwell School.

6. They will engage in collaborative research with their mentors and/or members of a research team associated with one of the centers or institutes in the Maxwell School.

Visiting Scholars for the Spring 2001 Semester

Ludmila Minaeva

Professor Ludmila V.Minaeva is a scholar and educator in the field of speech communication. Sha was awarded a Kandidat Nauk (Ph.D) in English Linguistics (1976) and Doctor in English Philology (1984) by Moscow State University. Since 1986 Ludmila Minaeva has been Professor of English and Head of Speech Communication Department which is in charge of language studies in SPA at MSU. She is the author of over 100 publications including eight monographs and textbooks and a Shorter English-Russian Dictionary.

For last six years she has been working in the field of communication management and offered courses in presentation and negotiation skills and Public Relations. At SPA she has promoted active learning techniques, especially case study teaching methodology. As Vice-President of the All-Russia Association of Applied Linguistics, she has organized three international conferences with worshops devoted to the development of active learning techniques and problem solving skills in such fields as management, business, and public administration.

Olga Molchanova

Dr. Olga P. Molchanova is a scholar and educator in the field of Innovation and Strategic Management. For last 10 years she has paid special attention to new strategic approaches and innovation development in Education. She was awarded a Kandidat Nauk (Ph.D.) in Economics by Moscow State University (1984 ) and Doctor in Economics by the National Academy of Sciences (1997). She is the author of 44 publications including three monographs and four computer learning packages.

At Moscow State University Dr. Molchanova teaches courses in Strategic Management, Innovation Management, Educational Management. As Deputy Director of Agency "Intellectual Resources" she has consulted a number of organizations (Russian Central Bank in particular) on problems of the training system development, conducted All-Russia seminars and workshops on Distance Education. Her research has been funded by the long-term grant from Russian Foundation of Social Studies.

Vladimir V. Smirnov

Mr. Vladimir V. Smirnov is a specialist in the field of computer science. He is responsible for the computer network development in School of Public Administration, Moscow State University. Mr. Smirnov is a member of the MSU Council on Telecommunication and Information System (ITIS) Policy Development.

He teaches courses on information technologies in management for graduate and post-graduate students. For five years he has developed the SPA system for upgrading and retraining to use the up-to-date information technology in the pedagogical and administrative processes. Mr. Smirnov researches problems on information security and advocacy for non-profit organizations

Visiting Scholars for the Fall 2001 Semester

Alexander Livshin

Dr. Alexander Livshin is a scholar and educator in the areas of modern history and political science. He was awarded a Kandidat Nauk (Ph. D.) in Russian History in 1987. Since 1987 he has offered Russian history and politics at SPA of MSU. He is the author of over 50 publications, including three books. Over the past year he was in charge of developing a non-profit studies curriculum at SPA. He was one of the organizers of two SPA-sponsored conferences on non-profit organizations in Russia. He is also working on developing a course on management of non-profit organizations, which will be taught at MSU starting in Spring 2002. He has been teaching courses on Russian History and Politics at Penn State, BYU, and he has been guest-lecturing in a number of other universities in the USA. He taught a "Comparative Politics: Russia" course at Maxwell School in the Fall semester 2001.

Tatiana Zaitseva

Tatiana V. Zaitseva is an educator and a consultant in the field of Human Resources Management and Industrial Psychology. Previously she was a staff member of H. Neumann International Executive Search and Management Consultants company and was announced among five best Russian executive search consultants.

After joining School of Public Administration of MSU she concentrated on research and consultancy in the field of Human Resources Management. She did international comparative research on PA reforms in different countries for the World Bank. As a HRM consultant she joined the Working group on PA Reform in Russia working under the supervision of the Russian Government. Mrs. Zaitseva is the co-head of the Working Group on Quality Management organized by NISPAcee. Mrs. Zaitseva holds a Ph. D. (kandidat nauk) degree in Psychology from the Moscow State University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the IRI Management Institute in Rome, Italy. She is an author of two books and more than 20 publications in different jornals, including international ones.

Anatoli Zoub

Professor Anatoli T. Zoub is a scholar and educator in the field of Strategic, Crisis, Innovation Management and Project Management. He was awarded a Kandidat Nauk degree (Ph. D.) in Methodology of Science in 1982 and Doctoral Degree in Philosophy in 1994 by Moscow State University. Since 1995 Mr. Zoub has been Professor of Management and Deputy Head of Theory and Technologies of Management Department, SPA at MSU. He is the author of over 100 publications including 11 monographs and textbooks in methodology of science and management.

Professor Zoub participates in municipal management as the member of the Moscow's Mayor Board in the local government and elected counselor of a District Administration in Moscow. He also works as an independent consultant in business.

Visiting Scholars for the Spring 2002 Semester

Alla Bobyleva

Alla Bobyleva is a scholar and educator in the field of Corporate Finance. In addition to lecturing in SPA, she is the Division Chief of Accounting and Finance in the University of Russian Academy for Education, and she works as a lecturer in Business School of MSU, in an Auditor's training program. She also consults for small scale businesses in managing working capital and investment analysis.

She was awarded a Kandidat Nayk (Ph. D.) in Economics in 1982 from MSU. She is the author of over 50 publications, including two books. During the last year she coordinated a new program in SPA, "Crisis Management." The program has two branches: "Crisis Management in Corporations" and "Regional Aspects of Crisis Management." Now, Professor Bobyleva is developing a new course called, "Theory and Practice of Enterprise Well-Being." Her new textbook should be completed in April 2002.

Anna Kashirova

Anna V. Kashirova is a scholar and educator in the field of Accounting and Financial Control. She was awarded a Kandidat Nauk (Ph. D.) in Economics by Moscow State University in 1996. For last six years she has paid special attention to new approaches to Accounting in Higher Education.

She is author of 20 publications in different journals and textbooks. At Moscow State University Anna V.Kashirova teaches courses in Economics, Accounting, Financial Control in School of Public Administration. Now, she is developing a course called "Managerial and Financial Accounting". Her new textbook should be completed in November 2002.

Eugene Shikin

Eugene V. Shikin is a scholar and educator in the fields of Mathematical Methods and Models in Management, Search Games, Geometry, and Computer Graphics. Since last year he is a head of chair "Mathematical methods in Mannagement" in SPA. In addition to lecturing in SPA and Faculty of Applied Mathematics, he is Professor of Russian State University Humanitarian, and Center of the Scientific and Mathematical Education for Humanitarians in Russian University of Friendship.

He is interested in developing and widening mathematical appoaches to the management problems, especially to the problems in crisis management.

He was awarded as a Kandidat Nauk (Ph. D.) in Mathematics in 1970 from Moscow State University (Lomonosov), and Doctoral Degree in Mathematics in 1977 from Mathematical Institute (Steklov) of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an author or coauthor of 135 publications, including 15 books in various fields (in Mathematics, Mathimatical Education, and Applications of Mathematics); two of the books were first published in the USA. Now, Professor Shikin is developing a new course called, "Methods of Optimal Solutions and Operations Research." His new textbook should be completed in September 2002.

Visiting SPA Instructors for June 2002

In June 2002 eight SPA instructors, Alfiya Golovshchinskaya, Anna Chvidounova, Dimitri Medvedko, Konstantin Golovchtchinski, Ksenia Molostova, Olga Mikhaylova, Pavel Kadrov, and Timofei Smirnov, visited the Maxwell School to observe the MPA's Executive Leadership Course. The group observed presentations by the Maxwell faculty and practitioners, as well as the simulation of American government.

On 27 June, they presented the results of their observations as a PowerPoint Slide Show (with speaker notes) to Maxwell faculty, and discussed how the course could be adapted and run in the Russian context. During the presentation the SPA instructors gave their view of the course, its objectives and structure; shared their impressions of its benefits and constraints; and discussed opportunities to implement the course at the School of Public Affairs at MSU.

Visiting Scholars for the Fall 2002 Semester

Ekaterina Panina

Ekaterina Panina is a scholar and educator in the field of Innovation and Strategic Management. She was awarded a Kandidat Nauk degree (Ph. D.) in Methodology of Science in 2000 by Moscow State University. Now she is developing new course called "Organization Development" and a Web-based version of this course for distant education.

Visiting Scholars for the Spring 2003 Semester

Eugene Vassine

Eugene Vassine is a PhD student at the Moscow State Universiy, department of Math and Computer Science and graduate student an the New Economic School, Moscow. He recieved his masters degree in math and computer science in 2002 for his work in a field of performance analysis and simulation. Now he is participating in organization of a subfaculty of IT and IS at the Moscow State University. His primary interests are pattern recognition and design and implementation of corporate IT systems.