Timothy Heleniak

Education

• PhD  Geography, University of Maryland, College Park (expected 2008)
• MBA Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995
• BA   Sociology, Eastern Washington University, 1983

• Migration and population change in the former Soviet Union
• Regional development in the former Soviet Union
• Development and migration in Siberia the Circumpolar North

Research Projects

• “Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North (MOVE)”. The US portion of this project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Arctic Social Sciences Program (award no. ARC-0705654). MOVE is an endorsed International Polar Year 2007-2008 project (IPY project number 436). More information can be found at the project website (http://www.alaska.edu/boreas/move/)

Representative Papers

Timothy Heleniak (in press) “Population Perils in Russia at the Beginning of the 21st Century”, After Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Unknown, edited by Stephen Wegren and Dale Herspring, Rowman and Littefield Publishers.

Timothy Heleniak (in press) “The role of attachment to place in migration decisions of the population of the Russian North”, Polar Geography, paper submitted to special issue of on “Circumpolar Migration” edited by Wayne Edwards (In press).

Timothy Heleniak (in press) “Growth Poles and Ghost Towns in the Russian Far North” Russia and the North, Centre for Russian Studies, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, Oslo, Norway.

Timothy Heleniak (2008) “Changing Settlement Patterns across the Russian North at the Turn of the Millennium”, Russia’s Northern Regions on the Edge: Communities, industries and populations from Murmansk to Magadan, University of Finland Press, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 25-52.

Timothy Heleniak (in press) “Migration and Population Change in the Russian Far North during the 1990s”, Migration in the Circumpolar North: New Concepts and Patterns, Northern Studies Press, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Journal info

Timothy Heleniak (2008) “An Overview of Migration in the Post-Soviet Space”, Migration, Homeland and Belonging in Eurasia, Chapter 1, Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Washington, DC and Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, pp. 29-67.

Timothy Heleniak (2008) “Population, Health, and Migration”, Chapter 8 in Understanding Contemporary Russia, Lynne Rienner Publishers, series “Understanding: Introduction to the States and Regions of the Contemporary World”, pp. 221-255.

Timothy Heleniak (2007) Overview of Migration Trends in Europe and Central Asia, 1990-2004”, Migration and Remittances: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Chapter 1, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank, 2007, pp. 23-56.

Timothy Heleniak (2004) “Migration of the Russian Diaspora after the Breakup of the Soviet Union”, Journal of International Affairs, Columbia University, Spring 2004, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 99-117.

Timothy Heleniak (2003) “Geographic Aspects of Population Aging in the Russian Federation”, Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, July-August 2003, pp. 325-347.

Timothy Heleniak (2001) “Migration and Restructuring in Post-Soviet Russia”, Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 531-549.