RONALD D. LIEBOWITZ
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Geography and Economics
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography
Columbia University
New York, N.Y. 10027
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
7/1/04 to 6/30/15:
President, Middlebury College
6/1997 to 6/30/04:
Provost and Executive Vice President, Middlebury College
1984-88:
1988-93:
1993 to present:
Middlebury College, Department of Geography, Assistant Professor
Associate Professor of Geography
Professor of Geography
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
The National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Washington, D.C.
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Social Science Research Council, New York, N.Y.
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, D.C.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Gorbachev's "New Thinking": Prospects for Joint Economic Ventures. Edited Cambridge: Ballinger
Press
Perestroika and East-West Economic Relations: Prospects for the 1990s. Edited with Michael Kraus.
New York: New York University Press
Russian and Eastern Europe After Communism: the Search for New Political, Economic, and
Security Systems, Edited with Michael Kraus. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press
Sponsored Research Project/Report:
"Soviet Investment Policy (1956-90) and the Gorbachev Reform Program." Report for the
National Council for Soviet and E. European Research. Contract # 805-02 (134 pp).
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Selected Articles/Chapters:
"Russia's Center-Periphery Fiscal Relations During Transition, in Russian and Eastern Europe
After Communism: the Search for New Political, Economic, and Security Systems, Michael
Kraus and R.D. Liebowitz, Eds. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
"Soviet Geographical Imbalances and Soviet Central Asia” in Geographical Perspectives on
Soviet Central Asia. Ed. Robert A. Lewis Routledge: London.
"Spatial Conflict and Conflict Resolution: A Pedagogical Simulation" with Robert R.
Churchill. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 14.3.
"Capital Investment in Siberia and the Far East." (from a roundtable presentation at the
national meetings of the Association of American Geographers) Soviet Geography XXXII.
"Inequality Under Gorbachev" in The Soviet Union: A New Regional Geography? Ed.
Michael Bradshaw. London: Belhaven Press.
"Soviet Investment Strategy: A Further Test of the 'Equalization Hypothesis'." Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 77.3.
"Literacy and Education Data in the Russian and Soviet Censuses" in A Scholar's Guide to
Russian and Soviet Censuses. Ed. R.S. Clem. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
"Finlandization: An analysis of the Soviet Union's 'domination' of Finland." Political
Geography Quarterly 2-4.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Future of Doctoral Education
Fiscal Federalism in Russia
Center-Periphery political relations/Putin and the return of Muscovy?
The Nationality Question in the Russian Federation
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Geography
Human Geography
Political Geography
Population Geography
Statistical Methods in Geography
The Nationality Question in Marxist-Leninist Societies
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the State
Political Geography of the USSR/Russia
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