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.

And please remember: 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

Faculty Associate
Sarah Hummel is Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University.
Local Affiliate
Erin Hutchinson (REECA A.M., ’13, Ph.D. ’20) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado–Boulder.
Visiting Scholar
Political communication scholar and practitioner in the areas of disinformation, propaganda, pop-culture and democratic resilience.
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
Graduate Student Associate
Aziza Izamova is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.
Graduate Student Associate
Ph.D. student in history interested in Soviet nationalisms and internationalisms, the Comintern, and the Black East.
Fields
Graduate Student Associate
Early career scholar of contemporary Polish culture and translator