People

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People

Center Associate
Jeffrey Burds is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and an Associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University.
Fields
Visiting Scholar
Irina Busygina is a scholar of comparative politics whose research focuses on post-Soviet Eurasia.
Advisory Board
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in Harvard's Department of Government and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Advisory Board
Nicole Carter is a strategy and operations manager at Google, within YouTube’s content moderation team.
Graduate Student Associate
Anabelle Caso is a Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics at Harvard University specializing in the syntax and morphology of Indo-Iranian languages.
Alumni
Frances Cayton is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Graduate Student Associate
Jess Chen is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art and Architecture program at Harvard. She studies artistic production in pre- and post-Soviet Central Asia.
Center Associate
Xenia Cherkaev's work focuses on the fringes of property law and on Russian illiberal politics.
Alumni
After 12 years in the U.S. government, Eric Ciaramella is now focusing on Ukraine and Russia as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.