Janet G. Vaillant

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970; B.A., Radcliffe College
Independent Consultant, Russian and CIS Education Forum
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
978.430.6645
vaillant@fas.harvard.edu
janet.vaillant@post.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Russian education; cultural change.

Current Projects
Co-director of project (with Alexander Tubelsky) on teacher training for effectiveness in democratic schools; Consultant, Russian Foundation for Legal Reform project to introduce law education into Russian secondary schools.

Selected Publications
Black, French, and African: A Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).

With John Richards, From Russia to USSR and Beyond: A Narrative and Documentary History, 2nd ed. (White Plains NY: Longman: 1992).

"Civic Education in Russia: an Outsider's View," in Stephen Webber and Ilkka Liikanen, Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Countries (London: Palgrave, in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, 2001, pp. 260-272).