Robert A. Saunders is the Distinguished Professor (2023)FSC Professor Achieves SUNY Distinguished Rank in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. His interests include geopolitics, national identity, and popular culture.
He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Florida, an M.A. in history from the Stony Brook University,Robert A Saunders and a Ph.D in Global Affairs from Rutgers University (2005).
Works In addition to publications in journals such as Political Geography, Politics, Geopolitics, Millennium, Nations and Nationalism, and Slavic Review, he authored several books:
2020: Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics (Routledge) 2010: Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation (with Vlad Strukov; Scarecrow Press, ) 2019: Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation, 2 volumes (Bloomsbury, ) 2017: Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity 2016: Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm (Routledge) 2008: The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle Over Borat (Lexington Books) In 2006, Ken Silverstein labeled Saunders the "world's leading Boratologist".Ken Silverstein, A Recap From the World's Leading Boratologist, October 4, 2006 2005: Unweaving the Web of Identity: Assessing the Internet's Impact on Identity Among National Minorities (Ruthers University; Ph.D. in Global AffairsRobert A. Saunders, Denationalized digerati in the virtual near abroad: The internet's paradoxical impact on national identity among minority Russians)
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