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

Journalism in Post-Soviet Russia: Future in the Past or Past in the Future?

December 6, 20221:00 pm-2:00 pm

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Taking Stock of Sanctions on Russia: How will the Russian Economy Survive and Transform?

December 14, 202212:00 pm-1:30 pm

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Russia at the Harriman Institute

Anton Shirikov Gives Talk at PONARS Eurasia

October 27, 2022

Mark Pomar’s Op-Ed for the Santa Fe New Mexican—Putin’s in a Corner: What Next?

October 9, 2022

Timothy Frye’s “Weak Strongman” Included on WSJ Five Best List

October 3, 2022

Carna Pistan on Memory Politics and the Russian Constitution for PONARS

September 29, 2022

Gregory Klassen Exhibit of Drawings a Response to Max Lawton’s Sorokin Translation

September 27, 2022

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Past Russia Events

Book Talk. Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century by Gabriella Safran

December 1, 20225:00 pm-6:30 pm

The Rhetorical Foundations of Russian Politics: Putin as a Metaphor and/or a Metonymy of Russia

November 29, 202212:00 pm-1:30 pm

Blacklisted in Russia: A Conversation with Rapper Noize MC

November 28, 20224:15 pm-5:45 pm

European Security After the War in Ukraine

November 24, 20222:00 am-12:00 pm

Decoupling Europe and Russia after an Unanticipated War

November 21, 20224:15 pm-5:45 pm

Film Screening. Core of the World

November 15, 20226:30 pm-9:00 pm

Book Talk. Cold War Radio by Mark Pomar

November 15, 202212:00 pm-1:30 pm

Is There Civil Society Left in Russia? What Are Its Prospects?

November 9, 202212:00 pm-1:30 pm

Russian Studies Faculty

Elidor Mëhilli

Adjunct Associate Professor of History

Jessica Merrill

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages

Ronald Meyer

Communications Mgr.; Adj. Associate Professor of Slavic Languages

Tatiana Mikhailova

Lecturer in Russian, Department of Slavic Languages

Matthew Murray

Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

Irina Reyfman

Professor, Department of Slavic Languages

Stephen Sestanovich

Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor for the Practice of International Diplomacy

Mikhail Shishkin

Spring 2013 Writer in Residence

Vadim Shkolnikov

Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages

Maria Stepanova

Harriman Writer in Residence

Natasha Udensiva

Lecturer in International and Public Affairs

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