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

Graduate Student Associate
Yevhenii (Zhenia) Monastyrskyi is a Ph.D. student in history at Harvard University, in residence at the Davis Center for 2023-2024..
Graduate Student Associate
María Matilde Morales is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature.
Center Associate
Ainsley Morse's current project is "The Last and the First: Poets and Poetry in the Russian 1990s."
Center Associate
Steven Nafziger's current project is "Serf Emancipation, Institutional Reform, and Russian Economic Development, 1861 - 1917."
Staff
Lizzie is the advisor to the Georgian Studies Program
Center Associate
Sarah Jane Nelson is an author and musician currently at work on a biography of émigré balalaika player Sasha Polinoff and his greater musical community.
Graduate Student Associate
Lana Neufeld is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, focusing on identity construction in the context of exile, diaspora, and displacement in Latin American Jewish and Israeli Jewish literature.
Advisory Board
Edward (Ed) Nicholson has been involved in Russian financial markets since 1996 when he managed the first sale of Gazprom GDR’s to European investors for Kleinwort Benson.
Center Associate
Olena Nikolayenko's current project is "The Role of Trade Unions in the Struggle for Democratic Change in Belarus."