by Elias Allen | Oct 22, 2026 | 80th Anniversary, News
Colette was a woman of remarkable presence, spirit, and grace. I learned much from Colette over the many years we worked together on the feminist newsletter “You and We” (Vy i My). I admired her fearless and trailblazing life as a reporter in post-Stalin Russia, and...
by Elias Allen | Oct 19, 2026 | 80th Anniversary, News
– Excerpted from Padma Desai’s tribute to Abram Bergson for Harriman’s 60th Anniversary I discovered the progression of events that contributed to Abe’s becoming a comparativist as he described himself professionally in his memoirs. He [Bergson]...
by Elias Allen | Oct 14, 2026 | 80th Anniversary, News
Following the collapse of McCarthyism in the United States and the death of Stalin in the USSR, more opportunities for collaboration between Soviet and American institutions opened up. The landmark Lacy-Zarubin agreement of 1958 created the first organized academic...
by Elias Allen | Oct 12, 2026 | 80th Anniversary, News
– Excerpted from Robert Belknap’s tribute to Simmons for Harriman’s 60th Anniversary Ernest J. Simmons was in his early forties when Columbia brought him from Cornell to reinvigorate its Russian Department and elaborate on an idea he had conceived at...
by Elias Allen | Oct 8, 2026 | 80th Anniversary, News
– Excerpted from Peter Juviler’s tribute to John Hazard in Harriman’s 60th Anniversary book John Newbold Hazard, Nash Professor of Law, brought an impressive background (in Harvard and Chicago University Law Schools, and public policy — helping...
