People

We are a community of students, scholars, and staff who share a dedication to understanding the region more deeply.

 

The views expressed by people affiliated with the Davis Center are as different as the people themselves and do not necessarily reflect institutional positions held by the center.

People

Center Associate
Boriana Nikolova's current project is "What is Democracy: The Gap Between Popular and Academic Definitions."
Center Associate
David Nordlander studies the economic and political history of Siberia.
Fields
Center Associate
Gayane Novikova's current project is "Eurasia's Ethno-political and Political-military Conflicts as a Tool in Russia's Interaction with its Immediate Neighbors."
Graduate Student Associate
Kateryna Olkhovyk is a student in the REECA Master's program with research interests in energy security in the Eurasian region and Ukrainian politics.
Center Associate
Former Asst Professor of Russian, Cornell University, SUC Cortland
Staff
Scholar-Entrepreneur
Kelly O’Neill is a historian of the Russian Empire and an advocate of spatial history.
Center Associate
Asher Orkaby is a Lecturer at Harvard Extension School and Tufts University.
Center Associate
Donald Ostrowski is a Lecturer in History at the Harvard University Extension School, where he has taught for forty years.
Fields
Center Associate
Thomas Owen is Retired.
Özgür Özkan is a research fellow with the at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a visiting scholar at Tufts Fletcher School.