The faculty of the Russian Area Studies Program brings expertise, experience, and the diversity of approaches to the study of Russia and New Successor States. Wittenberg faculty members, in addition to their classroom teaching, regularly conduct research in Russia and its neighboring states, publish books and articles on their specialties, present papers at professional meetings, and are invited to speak at the other campuses and community organization meetings around the nation and the world.
All faculty hold the Ph.D. degree.
Indiana University George E. Hudson has tuaght in the Russian Areas Studies Program and in the Political Science Department at Wittenberg since 1972. He recently returned to Wittenberg after a year's teaching and research in Moscow, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Senior Fulbright Scholarship. He is a frequent traveler to Russia. He teaches classes on Russian domestic and foreign policy and in several other areas of Political Science. Students have already given a number of interesting Oral reports on various aspects of Russian foreign affairs.