People

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

Find scholars with specific areas of geographic or historical focus by using the “Location” and “Time Period” pull-downs below — these refer to the places and eras our affiliates study, not the ones in which they live.

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

Alumni
Austin Holdridge is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Fields
Graduate Student Associate
Zachary is pursing his master's in the Davis Center's REECA program, focusing on soft power, religion, language, and identity in Central Asia.
Graduate Student Associate
Ph.D. candidate studying informing to the political police in the USSR, 1927-1965.
Fields
Graduate Student Associate
Josh Hughes is a REECA master's student studying the sociology of nationalism in post-Soviet Central Asia with a focus on Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Faculty Associate
Sarah Hummel is Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University.
Center Associate
Alumni
Erin Hutchinson (REECA A.M., ’13, Ph.D. ’20) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado–Boulder.
Graduate Student Associate
Aspram is a REECA student researching Russian and Turkish strategic ideologies, regional institutions, and small-state agency in post-Soviet Eurasia.
Graduate Student Associate
Anna (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, where she studies Russian poetry and poetic networks.
Alumni
Anna Ivanova studies history of the Soviet Union with a focus on the social history and history of consumption.
Fields