Russian Studies at Harriman
Established as the Russian Institute in 1946, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University is one of the world’s leading academic institutions for the study of Russia in all disciplines, from literature and culture to history and politics.
Coming Up
War on Ukraine: The Impact on China and India
War on Ukraine: The Impact on China and India
Blind Spots of the Counter-Canon: Soviet Underground Culture Revisited
Blind Spots of the Counter-Canon: Soviet Underground Culture Revisited
Prigov’s Distant Planets: A Presentation of the Project
Prigov’s Distant Planets: A Presentation of the Project
Alexander Genis as a Cultural Institution
Alexander Genis as a Cultural Institution
The New Kino Pravda: Sergei Loznitsa’s Historical Films
The New Kino Pravda: Sergei Loznitsa’s Historical Films
Writing against the War: A Talk by Mikhail Shishkin
Writing against the War: A Talk by Mikhail Shishkin
Russia at the Harriman Institute
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Past Russia Events
Film Screening & Discussion. Convenience Store
Film Screening & Discussion. Convenience Store
Vladimir Gandelsman: A Man Only Needs a Room. Poetry Reading
Vladimir Gandelsman: A Man Only Needs a Room. Poetry Reading
Blacklisted in Russia: A Conversation with Rapper Noize MC
Blacklisted in Russia: A Conversation with Rapper Noize MC
European Security After the War in Ukraine
European Security After the War in Ukraine
Russian Studies Faculty
Peter Clement
Interim Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Alexander A. Cooley
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science
Catherine Evtuhov
Professor of History
Timothy M. Frye
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
Keith Gessen
George T. Delacorte Assistant Professor of Magazine Journalism
Elise Giuliano
Senior Lecturer in Political Science; Director of the MARS-REERS Program; Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations
Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Artemy Kalinovsky
Adjunct Professor in the Department of History
Anna Katsnelson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
Thomas Kent
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Liza Knapp
Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages
Julia Lajus
Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History
Marina Ledkovsky (1924-2014)
Professor of Russian Emerita, Barnard College
Adam Leeds
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
Mark Lipovetsky
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
