People

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People

Visiting Scholar
During a 35-year U.S. Foreign Service career, Tom Simons specialized in East-West relations, including service in Warsaw, Moscow, and Bucharest.
Fields
Alumni
Helen Simpson is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Alumni
Abigail Skalka is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program. She researches the religious underpinnings of right-wing populism in contemporary Poland.
Alumni
Mike Smeltzer is a senior research analyst at Freedom House and a graduate of the Davis Center's REECA Program.
Alumni
Alisa Sopova is an anthropologist and a journalist studying the war in Ukraine.
Faculty Associate
Center Associate
George Soroka's primary research interests focus on democratization in the post-communist world and the uses and abuses of historical politics in foreign policy.
Center Associate
Valerie Sperling research interests lie at the intersection of Russian politics and gender studies.
Alumni
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a historian and an alumna of the Davis Center's REECA program.
Alumni
Bernadette Stadler is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Center Associate
Russian constitutional scholar, diaspora and human rights activist and expert on country conditions in U.S. asylum cases.