The Davis Center is pleased to welcome new postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and fellows for the 2023–24 academic year.
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Lyudmila Austin, Ph.D. in History, Michigan State University
- Alex Averbuch, Ph.D. in Slavic and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Visiting Scholars
- Nikoloz Aleksidze, Professor, Free University of Tbilisi
- Maris Andzans, Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies, Riga
- Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Irina Busygina, Independent Researcher
- Astrid Hedin, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Malmo University
- Beka Kobakhidze, Associate Professor, Ilia State University
- Hua-yu Li, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, Asian Studies Program, Oregon State University
- Galina Miazhevich, Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and Senior Researcher at Tampere University
- Rahat Sabyrbekov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Academy
- Yelena Severina, Independent Researcher
- Thomas W. Simons, Jr., U.S. Foreign Service Officer (1963-1998); U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1990-1993) and Pakistan (1996-1998)
- Ewa Sułek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
- Malkhaz Toria, Associate Professor and Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University
- Ilya Vidrin, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
- Andrei Yakovlev, Senior Researcher, HSE University (Moscow), Institute for Industrial and Market Studies
Fellows
- Ingrid Burke Friedman, JURIST Legal News & Research, Features Editor
- Nino Berishvili, Independent Researcher
- Natia Chankvetadze, Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University
- Wei Geng, Ph.D. Candidate, Peking University
- Ivan Gunjic, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law Zurich; Recognized Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
- Megi Kartsivadze, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford
- Piotr Majda, Ph.D. Candidate, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES)
- Dana Masalimova, Harvard Kennedy School Policy Analysis and Communications Exercise Coach
- Chia-Yun Po, Legal Scholar, Member of the Global Justice Program at Yale University
- Khasan Redjaboev, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Malika Toqmadi, Ph.D Candidate, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES)
- Ekaterina Vorobeva, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bremen; EU Researcher
