New Faces

The following individuals are new to the Davis Center (or have joined us in a new capacity) for the academic year 2007-08.

Faculty Associates

Laura Adams (PhD, Sociology, UC Berkeley), Lecturer on Sociology. Culture and national identity in Uzbekistan in particular; the performing arts, politics, and contemporary social issues such as ethnicity, migration, and education in Central Asia more broadly.

Kelly O’Neill (PhD, History, Harvard University), Russian Imperial history.

Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History. Cultural and intellectual history of Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on the history of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. The formation of national identities; the role of religion in the justification of revolt and violence in multiethnic and multicultural societies; the role of historical narratives in the unmaking of imperial and construction of national loyalties and stereotypes.

Benjamin Tromly (PhD, History, Harvard University), Lecturer on History. Soviet society and politics during the Khrushchev “thaw”; the university in the USSR and Eastern Europe; student movements.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Mikhail Berg (PhD, Russian literature, Helsinki University), independent researcher working on a study on the Russian underground from Soviet times to the present. (academic year 2007-08)

Cynthia Hooper (PhD, History, Princeton University), assistant professor at College of the Holy Cross, for research on collaboration and coercion in Soviet power.
(academic year 2007-2008)

Anna Wexler Katsnelson (PhD, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard) for work on the visual culture of late Russian avant-garde.
(academic year 2007-2008)

Senior Fellow

Margarita Pavlova (PhD, Russian literature, Institute of Russian Literature), senior scholar at the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, was awarded a senior fellowship for research on the idea of “new religious consciousness” and its realization in the neo-Christian commune of the Merezhkovsky circle.
(spring 2008)

Regional Fellow

Valentina Apresjan (PhD, Linguistics, University of Southern California), senior researcher at the Institute of Russian Language, Moscow, was awarded a regional fellowship for a project on Russian emotions from a linguistic perspective.
(fall 2007)

Sakharov Fellows

Elena Skryakova
Oxana Zamolodskaya

Visiting Scholars

Svetlana Arkina (Ph.D. Economics, Université Paris Sorbonne) recently completed her Ph.D. and will work on the project “Investment Tax Incentives in Russia and the United States: Historical and Comparative Aspects.

Martin Dimitrov (Ph.D. Government, Stanford University) is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.  As a visiting scholar during spring semester, he will work on intellectual property rights laws in Russia and China.

David Engerman (Ph.D. History, University of California, UC Berkeley) is associate professor of history at Brandeis University.  As a visiting scholar, he will work on a project on America’s Russia experts and the making of the Cold War.

Timothy Frye (Ph.D. Political Science, Columbia University) is professor of political science at Columbia University.  He will conduct research on property rights in Russia.

Paul Josephson (Ph.D. History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is associate professor of history at Colby College.  While at the Davis Center he will be working on the project “Stalin, Soviet Engineering, and Technology in Eastern Europe, 1945-1964.”

Thomas Remington (Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University) is professor of political science at Emory University.  As a visiting scholar, he will be working on a project called “Inequality, Governance, and Democracy.”

Graduate Student Associates

Coming Soon!