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

Local Affiliate
Donald Ostrowski is a scholar of the political and social history of medieval and early modern Russia, and has taught at the Harvard Extension School for over 40 years.
Fields
Local Affiliate
Thomas Owen is Retired.
Özgür Özkan is a research fellow with the at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a visiting scholar at Tufts Fletcher School.
Graduate Student Associate
Jemma Paek is a doctoral candidate at Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Alumni
REECA graduate interested in energy and economic issues across the former Soviet Union.
Faculty Associate
Dmitrii Pastushenkov is Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Graduate Student Associate
Anastasiia Pereverten advocates for Ukraine amid the Russian-Ukrainian war and studies U.S. foreign policy toward Eastern Europe.
Local Affiliate
Dr. Alexis Peri is an Associate Professor of History at Boston University, specializing in Russian and Soviet history.
Alumni
Vikki Perijainen is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Local Affiliate
Rachel Perry's research focuses on the representation and memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War in the visual arts of the immediate postwar period.