The Harriman Institute

Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia

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Rafis Abazov

Adjunct Lecturer, International & Public Affairs
1205 IAB, 854-0016
ra2044@columbia.edu
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Public policy and governance, democratization and population movement in the former Soviet Union with a focus on Central Asia


Bradley F. Abrams

Associate Professor of History
Associate Director, Harriman Institute
1230 IAB, 854-6287
bfa4@columbia.edu
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Cultural and intellectual history of East Central Europe


Karen Barkey

Associate Professor of Sociology
414 Fayerweather Hall, 854-3692
kb7@columbia.edu
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Comparative historical sociology, political sociology


Edward Beliaev

Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Affairs
1228A IAB, 854-8624
evb1@columbia.edu
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Current Russian politics, Russian political and social structures, Kyrgyz traditional ties and modern politics


Robert L. Belknap

Professor of Russian, Emeritus
Director, Columbia University Seminars
305 Faculty House, 854-2389
rb12@columbia.edu
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Dostoevsky, literary theory, novelistic and dramatic plots


Richard W. Bulliet

Professor of History
1114 IAB, 854-1741
rwb3@columbia.edu
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History of Middle East and North Africa, historical methodology, history of technology, social history


Alexander A. Cooley

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
418 Lehman, 854-9544
ac210@columbia.edu
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Post-Soviet Central Asian politics, comparative imperial organization and legacies, influence of external actors on post-Communist transition, foreign military bases abroad


Ann Cooper

Director of the Broadcast Concentration at the School of Journalism
603 Journalism, 854-9696
akc24@columbia.edu


István Deák

Professor of History, Emeritus
1200 IAB, 854-4623
id1@columbia.edu
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Central and East European history, World War II Europe


Padma Desai

Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems
Director, Center for Transition Economies
1015 IAB, 854-2266
pd5@columbia.edu
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Soviet economy, Russia and transition economy reforms, econometric analyses of the impact of Russia’s nonpayment crisis, East Asian currency meltdown


Michael Eskin

Associate Professor, Germanic Languages
Director, Deutsches Haus
319 Hamilton Hall, 854-4824
me337@columbia.edu
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Comparative literature, 19th- through 21st-century literature and intellectual history, theory and practice of translation, theory of fiction and narrative


Anna Frajlich-Zajac

Senior Lecturer, Slavic Languages
706 Hamilton, 854-4850
af38@columbia.edu
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Polish literature and language, the literature of exile


Timothy M. Frye

Professor of Political Science
1215 IAB, 854-4377
tmf2@columbia.edu
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Comparative politics, political economy