Harriman Institute alumni


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  • Sarah Aasbo


    HI '13
    Advisor, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

  • Jessika Aguilar

    Ph.D., Department of Slavic Languages
    ja2265@columbia.edu

  • Madeleine Albright


    RI '68

    Principle, The Albright Group LLC; Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

    U.S. Secretary of State, 1997-2000

    "In the '60s, the Russian Institute provided those of us enrolled in the University's Public Law and Government Department a home base: intellectual sustenance, camaraderie, and a sense of purpose. Although, happily, most of what we learned is now archeology, the discipline and love of the subject continue."

  • Christian Amos

    MARS-REERS '19

  • Megan Ausen


    HI '11
    Senior Associate at Stroz Friedberg, An Aon Company

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  • Sarah Calderone

    SIPA '18

    Political Risk Analyst, Russian and Eurasian Affairs
    Horizon Client Access

  • Erin Carll


    HI '10
    PhD Candidate, Sociology
    University of Washington

  • Oktavia Catsaros

    HI '17

    Account Director, BLJ Worldwide

  • Lindsey Cohen

    MARS-REERS '19

  • Stephen F. Cohen


    RI '69

    Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University

    "I recall above all, and value even more as the years pass, the wonderfully eclectic collection of senior scholars gathered at the Institute in the 1960s--all of them devoted in their own ways to understanding and teaching about Russia, none of them instilling any orthodoxy in their students, and few of them afflicted by the cold-war passions of the time. I know of no academic institution that could have been a better place to study, then or now." 

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  • Joe Gamse

    MARS-REERS '19

  • Dana L. Geraghty


    HI '13
    Special Assistant to the Cheif Executive Officer
    Foundation for a Just Society

  • Vanina Gergorin


    HI '14 
    Consultant

  • Apryl Gibson


    HI '12
    Volunteer Coordinator
    Review and Translation Program Manager
    Kiva.org

  • Franklin E. Gill


    RI '59

    Former Research Professor of Law
    The University of New Mexico School of Law
     
    "The experience of working closely with scholars such as John Hazard, Philip Mosely and Henry Roberts was indeed a highlight of my life and provided, I believe, a solid basis for my work in various aspects of international law and relations in later years."

  • Viktoriya Gilvarg

    MARS-REERS '15

    Compliance, Societe Generale

  • Jennifer Ginsburg

    MARS-REERS '19

  • Elliot R. Goodman


     

    RI '51
    (deceased)
     
    "As a graduate of one of the Russian Institute's earlier classes, I felt part of a groundbreaking experience, and this served as the foundation for my subsequent academic career.  I was also fortunate enough that my mentor was Philip Mosely, scholar and superb human being."

  • Loren R. Graham


    RI '60

    Professor of the History of Science MIT

    "The Harriman Institute/Russian Institute at Columbia was the formative institution in my intellectual life. Coming there as a beginning graduate student in 1958, I stayed on until I received my Ph.D. in 1963, and three years later joined the history and Russian Institute faculties at Columbia, where I stayed until 1978." 

  • Cory Greenberg

    SIPA '18

    Consultant

  • Karina Grinstein


    HI '11
    Program Coordinator, Open Society Foundations

  • Eugenia Gusilov


    HI '10
    Managing Director, Romanian Energy Center

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  • Cynthia A. Roberts


     

    HI '92
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
    Associate Professor of Political Science
    Hunter College
    City University of New York
     
    "Columbia set the standard when I went through, partly because the richness of the Soviet area studies program was combined with a broad and rigorous foundation in political science and even more so because of the exceptional quality of the faculty."

  • Stephen S. Rosenfeld

    RI '59
    Deputy Editorial Page Editor (Deceased)
    Link to homepage

    "My two years at the Russian Institute got me a job at The Washington Post, the Moscow Bureau, a wife (an American I met in Moscow), a career, a life."

  • Karl W.Ryavec


     

    RI '62
    Professor Emeritus of Political Science
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst
     
    "While at the Institute I made strong friendships that I still maintain and established contacts that have been very important to me professionally..."

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  • Jonathan E. Sanders


     

    RI '76
    Writer/Editor
    Former Moscow Correspondent, CBS News
     
    "The Russian Institute was a warm, caring home inside a sprawling university all too often cold and bureacratic, despite its best intentions.  Inculcation of a spirit of critical-mindedness was the hallmark of the Russian Institute.  The informal cross-fertilization of ideas, discussions in the halls with visiting scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, and intense "brown bag" lunchoeons...these were the highlights of my graduate school days."

  • Gabriel Santamaria

    SIPA '18

    Senior Associate, Veracity Worldwide

  • Nate Schenkkan


    MARS-REERS '11
    Director for Special Research
    Freedom House

  • Nina Schwalbe

    Director of Policy, TB Alliance

    HI '93
    Cheif Executive Officer
    Spark Street Consulting

  • Judith Sedaitis


     

    HI '90
    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    CUNY New York City College of Technology
     
    "The esprit de corps and supportive faculty of the Harriman Institute created a lively forum for exploring the incredible changes in our field during my time there."

  • Claire Shipman


     

    HI ‘94
    Senior National Correspondent, Good Morning America, ABC NEWS

  • Marshall Shulman

    Former Director of the Harriman Institute
    Columbia University

  • Jack Snyder

    RI ‘78
    Link to homepage

    Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University 
    Acting Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2005-06)

  • Irina Soboleva

    Ph.D. '20, Department of Political Science
    is2486@columbia.edu

  • Jesse Sodam

    MARS-REERS '15

    Foreign Area Officer, US Army

  • Gene Sosin


     
    RI '49 (deceased)
    Director of Broadcasting, Radio Liberty

  • Willis Sparks


    HI '04
    Director, Global Macro, United States
    Eurasia Group

  • Joel Springstead

    MARS-REERS '16

    Foreign Area Officer, US Army

  • Jack Stein

    HI '18

    Presidential Management Fellow
    US Department of State

  • Ronald Grigor Suny


     

    RI '65
    William H Swewell Jr Distinguished University Professor of History
    University of Michigan
    Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Chicago
     
    "The Institute was a home as well as a school, the place where we worked with, rather than under, such wonderful mentors as Alex Dallin, Henry Roberts, Marc Raeff, and Leo Haimson."

  • Katy Swartz

    HI '19

  • Steve Swerdlow


    HI '03
    Central Asia Senior Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division
    Human Rights Watch

  • Stephen Szypulski

    MARS-REERS '15

    Vice President, Insider Threat Program
    Goldman Sachs

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  • Edward W. Walker


     

    HI '92
    Executive Director
    Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
    University of California at Berkeley
     
    "The Harriman Institute was critical in enabling me to pursue a career in Soviet and post-Soviet studies.  I am very grateful for both the intellectual stimulation and the financial support provided by the Institute and its excellent faculty and staff during my years as a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Columbia."

  • Diego Benning Wang

    MARS-REERS '16

    PhD Candidate, History
    Princeton University

  • Angela Wheeler

    HI Certificate '16

    PhD Candidate, Architecture
    Harvard University

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  • Donald S.Zagoria


     

    RI '49
    Professor of Government
    Hunter College
    City University of New York
     
    "The Russian Institute was one of my most important intellectual homes throughout my scholarly career."