People

Nadia Boyadjieva is a Professor of International Law and International Relations at the Balkan Studies Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

A native of Kyiv, Natasha immigrated to the United States during the Cold War and studied International Relations at Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Brainerd’s research focuses on labor and health economics, with particular interest in understanding the social and health consequences of the transition to capitalism in formerly socialist countries.

Alex Braslavsky is a scholar and translator of Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry.

Aurel Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.

Catherine Breen is the managing director of Harvard Online & Advances in Learning at Harvard, part of the Provost’s Office, overseeing the university’s online learning strategy and operations for certificate programs.

Olga Breininger-Umetayeva’s research interests lie where culture intersects with politics, anthropology, history, and religion.

Boris Brevnov is a Managing Member of Liberty Energy.

Nathan Brock is an Army Foreign Area Officer (FAO) and graduate student in the REECA Master’s Program.

Peter Brown received his Ph.D. in Pre-Petrine Russian History at the University of Chicago, 1978.