ANDREW DONSKOV, Ph.D. is a Full Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Ottawa, specialising in Tolstoy and Russian drama.  In 1991 he was appointed Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Sciences (Pedagogical Division) in Moscow.  He has been with the University of Ottawa since 1981, and was appointed Co-ordinator of the Slavic Research Group at its founding in 1998.  In early 2001 his title was changed to Director. On 16 November 2001 Professor Donskov was  inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences), where he now serves on the Council as Foreign Co-Secretary and Co-Chair of the International Relations Committee.  A year later he was appointed Full Member of the Petrovskaja Academy of Arts & Sciences (Petri Primi Academia scientiarum et artium) in St-Petersburg.  He was appointed Distinguished University Professor (2003-2004) of the University of Ottawa.

JOHN WOODSWORTH, M.A., is a Russian/English translator and also served for many years as a Part-time Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Ottawa, teaching language, translation and conversation courses.  Joining the University of Ottawa teaching staff in 1982, he was appointed SRG Administrative Assistant soon after its founding, and later Research Associate.  He has edited and/or translated 17 books to date as well as many articles, documents and poems.  His original Russian-language poems continue to be published in print and on-line (more than 60 to date).  In May 2005 he was awarded standing as a Certified Translator (Russian - English) by the Associaiton of Translators & Interpreters of Ontario.

J. DOUGLAS CLAYTON, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Ottawa, specialising in Russian Romanticism, Pushkin, Chekhov and tweniteth-century  Russian theatre.  He has been a member of the University of Ottawa faculty since 1971. 

CHAD GAFFIELD, Ph.D., formerly founding Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies, one of the SRG's liaison partners at the University of Ottawa, is now the Team Leader of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) project (see press release).  A specialist in Canadian social history, Dr Gaffield is also a Professor of History and former Vice-Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Ottawa.

CORINNE GAUDIN, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, specialising in Russian and Soviet History.  Her particular research interests are Russian peasant society and rural administration.
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MARIA LOS, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.  Her research interests include the sociology of law and human rights, particularly in the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe.

RICHARD SOKOLOSKI, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Ottawa, specialising in Polish Studies.  He came to the University of Ottawa in 1986.  He has recently been appointed Corresponding Member of the Learned Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe) of the Catholic University of Lublin.

MARK STOLARIK, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, as well as the current Chair of Slovak History & Culture.  He specialises in the history of Slovakia and Slovak immigration to North America, and is affiliated with the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa.

GALINA ALEXEEVA, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher (and Head of Research) at the Tolstoy Museum-Estate at Yasnaya Polyana.  She has organised a number of international scholarly conferences at Yasnaya Polyana devoted to Tolstoy's literary legacy, and has travelled extensively in Canada.  She has published widely on Tolstoy's reltionship to the American transcendentalists.
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ANNA BIOLIK, Ph.D., formerly Director of the Market Support Division of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is currently Consul-General for Canada in St-Petersburg, Russia.  She has a particular interest in Canadaís relations with Eastern and Central European countries.
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J. LAURENCE BLACK, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University here in Ottawa, as well as the Director of the Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations (CRCRR) at Carleton.  He has done considerable research in Russian and Soviet education, human rights and refugee issues in the former Soviet Union as well as historical relations between Russia and Canada.
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HENRYK DUDA, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Institute of Polish philology at the Catholic University of Lublin.

PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, as well as Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa.  His research interests include state/society relations and human rights in Russia and Eastern Europe, in particular the theory of transition as applied to countries in these areas.

ARKADI KLIOUTCHANSKI, M.A., is a full-time Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto.  He received his M.A. in Slavic Studies at the University of Ottawa in 1999, and is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on Tolstoy under the supervision of Donna Orwin (see below).
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DONNA ORWIN, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto, as well as Editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal at the University of Toronto.  She is the author of a major work, Tolstoy's art and thought, 1847-1880 (Princeton, 1993).

GÜNTER SCHAARSCHMIDT, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of Germanic & Russian Studies (formerly Department of Slavonic Studies) at the University of Victoria (British Columbia).  He is an eminent linguist and an expert in minority language research in Canada (especially Slavic), Europe, and Asia.

MARINA SHCHERBAKOVA, Ph.D., is a long-time scholar and researcher with the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she now serves as Head of Classical Literature (following Dr Lidia Gromova's retirement in May 2002).  Specialising in textology and the works of Leo Tolstoy in particular, she is the author of numerous works on 19th-century Russian literature.
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DANIELA STOJANOVIC, Ph.D., is a specialist in Serbo-Croatian linguistics, who has worked with the Departments of Linguistics both at McGill University and the University of Ottawa.  She is currently Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, where she is carrying out a project on cross-linguistic properties of language acquisition and impairment, with special reference to binding constructions in Serbian.

LIDIA GROMOVA, Ph.D., is former Head of Classical Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of World Literature, a Professor of Philology at Moscow State University and a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  She passed away 31 December 2003 in Moscow.  For further details on this outstanding scholar and her association with the Slavic Research Group, please see the heading  Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow on our Russian Liaisons page. 

GALINA GALAGAN, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Russian Literature, a Professor at the University of St-Petersburg and Associate Editor of the prestigious journal Russkaja literatura.  For further details on this remarkable scholar and her association with the Slavic Research Group, please see the heading  Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg on our Russian Liaisons page. 
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