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Robert Clegg Austin (PhD, University of Toronto) is a specialist in East Central and Southeastern Europe, providing a historical and contemporary perspective. He has served as a Tirana-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a Slovak-based correspondent for the Economist Group Publications. Additionally, he has worked as a news writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. Austin has contributed articles to notable publications such as the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, as well as numerous book chapters and books published in separate editions in Tirana and Prishtina. He has lectured widely across Europe and North America and was a Guest Professor at the University of Graz’s Centre for Southeast European Studies from 2009 to 2010. His recent book, 'Founding a Balkan State,' was published by the University of Toronto Press in October 2012. At the University of Toronto's Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), he coordinates the Undergraduate European Studies Program, the Hellenic Studies Program, and the Hungarian Studies Program.
Department of Sociology