Student Spotlight

Student Spotlight

Student Spotlight: Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS '20)

Mariya Chukhnova is a BA/MA student at the Harriman Institute. This year she received the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Fellowship recognizes outstanding students born in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Read the spotlight.

Student Spotlight: Dante Matero (MARS-REERS '20)

"My central question is: What makes a successful asylum application in New York City for a Russian LGBT person, and how has that changed since Trump’s election?" Read more.

Student Spotlight: Nigina Khaitova (SIPA ’20)

Nigina Khaitova (SIPA ’20) was a Harriman Institute’s 2019 Civil Society Fellow. She is President of SIPA Eurasia Group and focuses on human rights, the United Nations, and East Central Europe. Read the spotlight.

Student Spotlight: Colleen Wood (GSAS)

"Ideally, the things I write and think about can be brought into the real world." Read more about the 2019 NSF fellow.

Student Spotlight: Katy Swartz (SIPA ’19)

"While living in Bulgaria I realized that what we know, learn and understand about Eastern Europe is both limited and often times flawed." Read more.

Student Spotlight: Justin Key Canfil (GSAS)

Justin Key Canfil is a fifth-year doctoral student in Columbia’s Department of Political Science with a minor in international law. His dissertation explores the relationship between military technological change and arms control, focusing on patterns in Cold War discussions over new technologies. Read more.

Student Spotlight: Jennifer Ginsburg (MARS-REERS, ‘19)

"I think regional and linguistic knowledge, and an understanding of the nuances of the region, is so important for the formulation of effective policy and effective responses to regional challenges." Read more here.

Student Spotlight: Tinatin Japaridze (MARS-REERS '19)

Tinatin Japaridze (MARS-REERS ’19) is enrolled in the Harriman’s BA/MA program, which allows Columbia undergraduates to begin coursework for their master’s degree in their senior year, as they complete undergraduate degrees in their respective departments. The nontraditional approach proved a perfect match for Japaridze, who came to the Harriman from the School of General Studies (GS).

Student Spotlight: Andres Fernandez (MARS-REERS ’18)

When Andres Fernandez (MARS-REERS ’18) first visited Hungary through an American Field Service exchange program during the 2010-11 academic year, he fell in love with the country. But he was also shocked by the blatant anti-Semitism, racism and nationalism that he observed from the people around him, including his host father. A few years later, he had a similar experience in Russia. Read more.

Student Spotlight: Sarah Calderone (SIPA '18)

Sarah Calderone (SIPA ’18) has been interested in the treatment of migrants in Russia since 2012. That year, as a junior at Drew University, she received a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the U.S. State Department to study Russian in Vladimir—a small city about 120 miles outside of Moscow. Calderone spent two months there, and was struck by the negative attitude toward migrants that she encountered. Read more.

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Announcements

"Russian Practices of Government in Eurasia" by Gulnar Kendirbai Published by Routledge

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Gulnar Kenirbai's (Adjunct Assistant Professor of History) Russian Practices of Government in Eurasia: Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century has just been published by Routledge (February 2020).

Guide to E-Resources for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies

Monday, March 23, 2020

Robert H. Davis (Librarian for Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies) has compiled an extensive overview of available electronic resources for research in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies that can be accessed remotely by students and faculty.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Book Talk. Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

Monday, April 27, 2020 - 12:00pm EST

This event will be held virtually and streamed on the Harriman Institute's Facebook page via Facebook Live. There will be no in-person event. Please join us for the launch of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, April 2020), featuring a discussion between co-authors Alexander Cooley (Director, Harriman Institute) and Daniel Nexon (Associate Professor, Georgetown University).

Harriman Magazine, Spring 2020

Friday, March 20, 2020

The Spring 2020 issue of Harriman Magazine features a cover story by the the photographer Hope Herman Wurmfeld, whose exhibit documenting her 1964 road trip behind the Iron Curtain was mounted at the Harriman Institute this winter. Read the issue.

VIRTUAL EVENT. Sovereigntists of Europe Unite: De-democratization in Hungary and the Emerging Alliance of EU Sovereigntists

Monday, April 13, 2020 - 12:00pm EST

This event will be held virtually and streamed on the Harriman Institute's Facebook page via Facebook Live. There will be no in-person event. Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a talk with Laszlo Bruszt, István Deák Visiting Professor of East Central European Studies.

Alexander Cooley: "Russia and the New Oil Price War"

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

How did a squabble between Saudi Arabia and Russia over oil production targets lead to the "nuclear version of a price war"? Harriman director Alexander Cooley discusses on Australian national radio.

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