Prior to joining the Brooklyn College faculty, Janet Elise Johnson was a postdoctoral fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio. She teaches courses on Russia and other postcommunist societies, European politics and gender politics and policy as well as introduction to global politics. She is a co-coordinator of the monthly workshop on Gender and Transformation: Europe at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies of New York University (for more information, see http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/).