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.
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Russian Studies Faculty

Knar Abrahamyan
Assistant Professor of Music

Alexandra Birch
Mellon Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute; Lecturer in History

Peter Clement
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Alexander A. Cooley
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science; Vice Provost for Research, Libraries and Academic Centers, Barnard College

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

Marina Grineva
Lecturer in Russian

Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Anna Katsnelson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages

Thomas Kent
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs

Liza Knapp
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages

Adam Leeds
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages

Mark Lipovetsky
Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages