The Harriman Institute

Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia

Institute Director Philip E. Mosely examining an issue of "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press" with assistant editor Fred Holling in 1953Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Chief of Mission to the Republic of Korea & former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian FederationHarriman Lecturer Imre Kertesz, 2004
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Faculty
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Karen Barkey

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


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

Associate 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

CBS Professor of Professional Practice in International Journalism
Director of the Broadcast Concentration at the School of Journalism
603 Journalism, 854-9696
akc24@columbia.edu


István Deák

Seth Low Professor of History, Emeritus
1200 IAB, 854-4623
id1@columbia.edu

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