Jeffrey Lugowe

Jeffrey Lugowe is no stranger to either HECUA or the International Summer School (ISS), HECUA's institutional partner. Jeff has taught an ISS summer course on Scandinavian Government and Politics, and in 2008-09 he was the teaching assistant for both of HECUA's semester-long programs, Scandinavian Urban Studies Term (SUST) and Divided States of Europe (DSE). Jeff holds an M.A. in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard University and a B.A. in Slavic Studies from Brown University. He developed his expertise in Scandinavian issues in 2007-2009 while a Fulbright grantee doing research in Oslo's community of labor migrants from Poland. In 2009-2011 Jeff received a U.S. Department of State fellowship in Foreign Language & Area Studies, and along with his native English, Jeff is fluent in Norwegian, Polish, and Czech and has advanced abilities in Russian and German. Jeff is committed to an interdisciplinary approach that draws on recent work in anthropology, political science, history and cultural studies, and he believes such an approach is indispensable for understanding contemporary Norwegian and wider Scandinavian debates over politics, national identity, the welfare state, and ethnic and religious diversity. Jeff has strong ties with field speakers and community organizations in Oslo that are critical to the HECUA programs.