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.
Slava Gerovitch is a historian of Soviet mathematics, cybernetics, computing, and cosmonautics, focusing on the politics, culture, rhetoric, and everyday life of scientists.
Alyssa Gillespie is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry and an award-winning translator of poetry from Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian into English.
Sean Gilsdorf is Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an affiliate member of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology.
Krista Goff is an assistant professor of Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of Miami, and specializes in the study of nationalism, citizenship, empire, ethnic conflict, oral history, and the North and South Caucasus.
