Ričards Umbraško is a Harvard College undergraduate (bachelor’s expected in 2025), concentrating in Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature. His academic interests lie in Baltic studies, ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, and post-Soviet border(land) studies. One of his major projects has been on the cultural history of eastern Latvia during the Soviet occupation, and he has presented his research on the Baltic region at the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Conference, the Davis Center Undergraduate Colloquium, and the REEESNe Student Conference.
Ričards has previously worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and, in 2024, completed a summer internship at Civil.ge, a news and analysis website based in Tbilisi. He pursued his interest in Georgia and the Caucasus after taking part in the inaugural spring-term trip to the country organized by the Davis Center’s Program on Georgian Studies in January 2024.
