He received his bachelor's degree in political science and economics from the University of Rochester. Kaminski's area of specialization includes mathematical methods in the social sciences, Eastern-Central European politics, methodology of social sciences, and the political history of the Communist Bloc. There will be no speaker on April 20. The series continues on April 27 with a lecture by Christian List, visiting professor at the Center for Basic Research in Social Science at Harvard University. List, who specializes in political economy, is a professor at Oxford University.
All seminars are free and open to the public.