Ron Wixman

Professor Ron Wixman, a specialist in world cultural geography, is well versed in both the ancient and modern societies of the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Ron is conversant in several languages, including Croatian and Bulgarian. For 20 years, he spent the summers living in shepherds' villages in the Balkans. His extensive knowledge of the region has led to his work as a consultant to the State Department and CIA on ethno-cultural conflict. Over the years, he has amassed one of the largest private collections of Balkan folk costumes in the world. Much of the collection has been displayed in museum exhibits. He has traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe and is a consultant with a number of government agencies in the U.S. and abroad on issues of ethnic, religious, and territorial conflicts in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states, and the Middle East. At home in Oregon, Ron is not only a well known professor at the University of Oregon, but he is also a regular commentator on radio and television as an expert on religion, culture, geopolitics, and ethnicity.

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