Dr. Timothy Edward O’Connor has been appointed as the new President of the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). Dr. O’Connor has a distinguished career of academic and administrative leadership, including over 30 years of teaching experience, 20 of which were as Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. For more than 12 years he served as the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs at the National University of Science and Technology MISIS in Moscow. In these positions, he was primarily responsible for institutional transformation, having conceived and implemented international accreditation for select educational programs; foresights with industrial partners in materials science, metallurgy, and mining; a new Learning and Teaching Center; projects on both Student Journey and Faculty Journey; and an International Scientific Advisory Council for external expertise on strategic development. He also led the University’s participation in the Russian national initiative on enhancing academic excellence (5- 100 Project) from 2013 to 2020. He is the author of six books, and scores of articles and other publications.
Dr. O’Connor earned his BA from Creighton University, with majors in both History and Theology, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota, focusing on Russian Studies, particularly the history of Soviet Russia. For several decades, he worked at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), first as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Department of History and then as director of International Programs. He became an emeritus professor of History of UNI in 2012.
Dr. O’Connor first traveled to the then Soviet Union in 1975 and thus has been associated with Soviet and post-Soviet institutions of higher education for forty-eight years. Most of this experience comes from his long-time involvement with American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, an educational organization established in the mid-1970s for the purpose of promoting immersion foreign language and other culture learning for Americans abroad and for providing educational and research opportunities for students and scholars from around the world in the US.
1993
Timothy O'Connor, "Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky", 1993, LINK
December 7, 2009
Timothy O'Connor, "Московский комсомолец", 2009, LINK
May 5, 2010
Timothy O'Connor, "Republic", 2010, LINK
October 27, 2010
Timothy O'Connor, "Polit.ru", 2010, LINK
August 24, 2012
Timothy O'Connor, "Science and Life", August, 2012, LINK
January 31, 2013
Timothy O'Connor, "Expert", January, 2013, LINK
October 4, 2013
Timothy O'Connor, «МИСиС» «Сталь», 2013, LINK
December 5, 2014
Timothy O'Connor, "Russian Council for International Affairs", December, 2014, LINK
January 18, 2018
Timothy O'Connor, "History issues: article about the biography of Leonid Borisovich", 2018, LINK
June 4, 2018
Timothy O'Connor, "From Generation Z to Generation TECH", 2018, LINK
October 2019
Timothy O'Connor, "On the path of people's diplomacy," October, 2019, LINK
September, 2019
Timothy O'Connor, "Pedagogical news" No. 26-28, 2019, LINK
October 3, 2019
Timothy O'Connor, "Pedagogical news", 2019, LINK
June 14, 2021
Timothy O'Connor, "Industrial and educational partnership with African and Latin American countries", 2021, LINK
Books:
January 1, 1983
Timothy O'Connor, "The Politics of Soviet Culture: Anatolii Lunacharskii", 1983, LINK
1993
Timothy O'Connor, "Engineer of the Revolution. L. B. Krasin and the Bolsheviks. 1870-1926", 1993, LINK
1991
Timothy O'Connor, "Georgy Chicherin and Soviet Foreign Policy 1918-1930", 1991, LINK