The Harriman Institute

Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia

Pamela Harriman,Winston Churchill, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Robert Legvold and Michael I. Sovern.Vladimir SorokinPrealpes (1971). Photograph by Horst Tappe
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Tarik Amar

Assistant Professor
410 Fayerweather Hall, 851-5906

tca2109@columbia.edu
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The history of the Soviet Union, Russia and East Central Europe in the twentiethcentury, with special attention to Ukraine and to urban history. Hisdissertation “The Making of Soviet Lviv” focuses on the often violent twentieth-centurytransformations of a borderland city also known as Lwów, Lvov, and Lemberg.
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
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


Vangelis Calotychos

Associate Professor, Modern Greek Literature and Culture, Department of Classics
606 Hamilton Hall, 212-854-6988


ec2268@columbia.edu

Hellenic Studies; Modern Greek culture and literature; Cyprus: interdisciplinary studies; the novel; Balkan novel and film; comparative literature & critical theory

Alexander A. Cooley

Tow 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


David Fishman

Professor, Jewish History
678-8001





dafishman@jtsa.edu
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Modern Jewish history, East European Jewry.

Anna Frajlich-Zajac

Senior Lecturer, Slavic Languages
706 Hamilton, 854-4850

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/fac-bios/frajlich/faculty.html
af38@columbia.edu
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Polish literature and language, the literature of exile


Timothy M. Frye

Director, Harriman Institute
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
1214 IAB, 854-6213
Timothy.frye@columbia.edu
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Comparative politics, political economy