Student News

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20): "Return to Kosovo: The Serbs Who Re-Embraced Their Hometown"

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) writes for Balkaninsight.com about Serbs who have returned to live in Prizren, Kosovo after fleeing at the end of the war in 1999.

Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) Awarded Davis Fellowship

We are pleased to announce that our BA/MA candidate Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) received a Davis Fellowship from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20): "On Belgrade-Kosovo Bus, Ethnic Tensions Take a Backseat"

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) interviewed riders on the Belgrade-Dagrash bus from late May to mid-July. The result is an article for Balkaninsight.com about how, despite ethnic tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovars and Serbians seem to relate to each other on an individual level.

2019 Columbia-Harvard Thesis Colloquium

On Friday, April 26, 2019, five M.A. students from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies joined six Harriman M.A. students at Columbia for the third annual Columbia-Harvard Thesis Colloquium.

Colleen Wood (GSAS) Awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

We are thrilled to announce that Colleen Wood (GSAS) received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study Central Asian return migration and diasporic identities. The award recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students to conduct research relevant to society-at-large and national security.

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) Interviews Vladimir Kulić

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) interviews Vladimir Kulić, co-curator of the MOMA exhibit "Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980," for Balkaninsight.

Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS '19) Write Op-Ed on Specter of Russia and Georgian Presidential Runoff

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS '19) co-authored an op-ed for the Moscow Times, titled "The Specter of Russia Hangs over Georgia's Presidential Runoff."

"The U.S. Midterms: What’s at Stake for the Kremlin?" by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze

Lincoln Mitchell (Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies) and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS -REERS) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times on "The U.S. Midterms: What's at Stake for the Kremlin?" (Nov. 1, 2018).

Moscow Times Op-Ed on Cyber Security by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (Harriman MARS student) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times, titled "Trump Has Cleared the Way for Russian 'Hacktivities.'"

Moscow Times Op-Ed by Lincoln Mitchell and Tinatin Japaridze (MARS)

Lincoln Mitchell (Adjunct Associate Research Scholar) and Tinatin Japaridze (Harriman MARS student) published an op-ed in the Moscow Times, titled "When the Russian Dog Finally Caught up With the American Car" (Sept. 26, 2018).

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Announcements

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 12:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar (register here) and streamed via YouTube Live. Please join us for a talk with journalist Catherine Belton, author of the book Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 23, 2020), joined by discussant Timothy Frye, Marshall Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Department of Political Science, Columbia University. Moderated by Alexander Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute.

Mark Andryczyk on the Evolution of Ukrainian Culture

Monday, June 1, 2020

Mark Andryczyk, Associate Research Scholar, Ukrainian Studies Program, traces independent Ukraine's cultural trajectory at Eurasianet.org.

David Stark Publishes "Tested and Being Tested in Pandemic Times" in Sociologica

Monday, June 1, 2020

David Stark (Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology) published his article "Testing and Being Tested in Pandemic Times" in the May 2020 issue of the journal Sociologica.

Alexander Cooley on Trump's Decision to Pull out of the WHO

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Harriman Director Alexander Cooley, with co-author Daniel Nexon, published "Trump Says the U.S. Will Pull Out of the World Health Organization. China Will Happily Fill the Void," on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog. The authors draw on arguments from their new book, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order. This is an updated version of an article published in April 2020.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Matvei Yankelevich's New Translation of Pushkin's Feast During the Plague

Friday, June 5, 2020 - 3:00pm EDT

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Please join us for a discussion with translator Matvei Yankelevich, who will read his translation of Pushkin's 1830 play Feast During the Plague (Пир во время чумы). Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) will moderate the discussion.

COVID-19 Guide for the Columbia Community

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Columbia University COVID-19 Resource Guide gathers information on all aspects of the coronavirus and its effects. Topics range from Health FAQs and Health Advisories to information about teaching and learning remotely and current research.

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