Nina Khrushcheva is a Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs at The New School. She is an editor of and a contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. In the 2000s, Khrushcheva was a fellow at World Policy Institute, where she directed the Russia Project. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a recipient of the Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2013, and of a 2019 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008), The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). Her latest book in Russian is Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System (Diletant.media, 2024).
