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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carol Skalnik Leff

Carol Skalnik Leff

Associate Professor
234 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-2270
leffc@illinois.edu


Ph.D. Harvard University 1979 Government

research interests:

  • Government and politics of post Soviet countries
  • Regime change
  • Ethnic conflict

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching

  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Political Science 391, Spring 2007
  • William Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1998.
  • Clarence Berdahl Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Political Science, April 1994.

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • National Conflict in Czechoslovakia: The Making and Remaking of a State, 1918-1987 (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988).

  • The Czech and Slovak Republics: Nation vs. State (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1997).  
    Choice Academic Book of the Year, 1997.