OSUN Faculty

Jonathan Becker

Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, Center for Civic Engagement; Professor of Political Studies Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, Global and International Studies, Politics, Russian and Eurasian Studies. B.A., McGill University; D. Phil., St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Specialization in Soviet, Russian, and Eastern European politics; media and politics. Taught at Central European University, University of Kiev Mohyla Academy, Wesleyan University, Yale University. Author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999; new edition, 2002). Articles in European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, Slovo, among others. Director, Global and International Studies Program; Academic Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. At Bard since 2001.