The Harriman Institute is proud of its alumni who have gone on to positions in government, academia, business, NGO's, human rights groups and other ventures.
These are just a few of our many distinguished alumni. Please visit this page often for a different sample.
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Selected alumni of The Harriman Institute
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Hope Harrison
HI ‘91
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
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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."
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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."
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Jochen Hellbeck
HI ‘96
Professor of History, Rutgers University
"My most cherished memories of the Harriman Institute are of the seminars I took with Professor Leopold Haimson. His colloquia on the social and political history of late Imperial Russia were the most exhilarating and intellectually stimulating experience of all my years in graduate school. Only occasionally did our fascination with the drama of Russian society before the Revolution give way to acute worries when we watched how Professor Haimson was trying to smoke a filter cigarette that he had accidentally lit at the wrong end."
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Nina Schwalbe
HI '93
Director of Policy, TB Alliance
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