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Introducing Our 2024-2025 Visitors

We’re delighted to welcome scholars from around the world to our campus community. Meet the in-residence visitors who will be joining the Davis Center this academic year.

The Davis Center is pleased to welcome new postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and fellows for the 2024–25 academic year. 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Visiting Scholars

  • Yevgenia Albats, Independent Scholar; Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times
  • Nikoloz Aleksidze (Fall 2024), Dean, School of Governance and Social Sciences, and Professor of the History of Religion and Political Thought, Free University of Tbilisi
  • Myroslava Antonovych (Fall 2024), Director, Center for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and Associate Professor, School of Law, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
  • Liubov Apostolova-Sossa (Fall 2024), Head, Department of Urban Economy, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
  • Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Irina Busygina, Independent Scholar
  • Marine Chitashvili (Spring 2025), Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
  • Pëllumb Çollaku, Chief Economist and Senior Advisor to the Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo; Senior Lecturer, Riinvest College; Senior Research Associate, Riinvest Institute
  • Deniz Dinç, Independent Scholar
  • Vali Kaleji (Spring 2025), Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran; Senior Research Fellow, Iran and Eurasia Research Center (IRAS)
  • Mārtiņš Kaprāns, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia
  • Rashmini Koparkar, Assistant Professor, Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Gulnur Makulbayeva, Associate Professor, Academy of Public Administration Under the President of Kazakhstan
  • Daria Malchykova (Fall 2024), Vice Rector for Educational, Scientific, and Pedagogical Affairs and Professor, Department of Geography and Ecology, Kherson State University
  • Magsud Mammadov (Spring 2025), Independent Scholar
  • Dana Masalimova, Independent Scholar
  • Mie Nakachi, Professor, Hokusei Gakuen University
  • Rahat Sabyrbekov (Spring 2025), Postdoctoral Researcher, OSCE Academy
  • Roberta Sala (Fall 2024), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Turin
  • Yelena Severina, Independent Scholar
  • Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Retired Career Diplomat, U.S. Department of State (1963-1998)
  • Ewa Sułek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Malkhaz Toria, Associate Professor, Ilia State University
  • Mikhail Troitskiy, Visiting Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • Agshin Umudov (Spring 2025), Independent Scholar

Fellows

  • Danilo Bulatović (Spring 2025), Ph.D. Candidate, Polytechnic University of Turin
  • Khasan Redjaboev, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Khatuna Salukvadze (Spring 2025), Senior Fellow, Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard University
  • Natia Seskuria (Spring 2025), Executive Director, Regional Institute for Security Studies (RISS)
  • Malika Toqmadi, Ph.D. Candidate, University College London