e-mail: gregmons@yahoo.com
Education/Qualifications
2015 named Docent (Associate Professor) in Political Science at Uppsala University on 11 September.
2001 – 2004 PhD French and Russian Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Title of the thesis – Ideology, Image-making and the Media in Putin’s Russia. On exchange at Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden since April 2002. Successfully defended at the Russian Union of Journalists on Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow on August 3, 2004. Opponent was the Executive Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists.
2000 – 2001 Master’s thesis with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Thesis title is The Impact of Political and Business Interests on the Contemporary Russian Media. ReceivedMasters with Distinction grade
1998 – 1999 Russian Government Scholarship to the Russian University of Friendship Peoples in Moscow Russia for intensive language training
1998 Bachelor of Arts with Honours with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Received B. A. Honours (First Class).
1995 – 1997 Bachelor of Arts with the Department of French and Russian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1988 – 1990 Bachelor of Arts with the Department History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
