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Dr. Jeff Plaks
received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. from
Northern Illinois University (1998). His research specialty is
nineteenth-century Russia. Dr. Plaks lived and researched his dissertation in
Moscow and St. Petersburg as an IREX Fellow in 1995 and 1996. He has presented
numerous papers at scholarly conferences. His teaching fields at UCO are modern
Europe and Russia. He was the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts’
Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award for 2000-2001 and the UCO Faculty
Enhancement Center’s Teaching Excellence Award for 2001-2002. Dr. Plaks
is the director of UCO’s International Studies Program and the editor of an
online journal, the Southwest Social Science Review. He also serves as
faculty sponsor of Rho Lambda, UCO’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (history honor
society). Rho Lambda received Best Chapter Commendation Awards in 2001
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(When I still had hair and bushy eyebrows) |
