Expertise

This is a general and evolving list of Russia experts available to the media and public. Unless otherwise indicated, the experts listed below are not affiliated with Russia Matters in any way.

In addition to the individual experts listed below, we would like to share an interactive multimedia guide to U.S.-Russia relations introduced in June 2019 by Carnegie Corporation of New York, called "U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability." This educational tool distills the fundamental issuesadversarial and cooperative alikethat define U.S.-Russia relations and harnesses the corporation’s unparalleled access to issue-area expertise, offering contemporary insight and analysis, historical context and a framework for moving toward greater geopolitical stability.

 

Bryan Hanks, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: the development of late prehistoric societies in Europe and the Eurasian steppes.

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Melinda Haring, Nonresident Senior Fellow & Former Deputy Director, Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center; Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; Senior Advisor, Razom for Ukraine

Areas of expertise include: Russia; Eurasia; Ukraine; Azerbaijan; Georgia; democracy assistance.

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Jonathan Harris, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: comparative politics; USSR and Russian Federation; international politics.

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Yoshiko M. Herrera, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of expertise include: U.S.-Russian relations; politics in Eurasia; nationalism; xenophobia; social identities; international norms; constructivist political economy,

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Kamal Kariem, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology, Princeton University

Areas of expertise include: Russia; indigeneity; protected areas; post-Socialism; environmental governance; conservation.

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Allia Kassianova, Research Scholar, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

Areas of expertise include: Russia; U.S.-Russia relations; nuclear security; defense; the interplay of identity and security politics and developments in the Russian defense sector. 

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Tatiana Kastueva-Jean, Director of Russia/Eurasia Center, Institut français des relations internationales.

Areas of expertise include: Russia-France relations, Russia-EU relations, Russian domestic and foreign policies and Russian higher education.

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Mark N. Katz, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, George Mason University.

Areas of expertise include: Russian foreign and security policies focusing on the Middle East.

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Ian Kearns, Co-Founder, Board Member, Former Director, European Leadership Network (ELN)

Areas of expertise include: foreign and security policy issues, nuclear non-proliferation, the enlargement of the European Union and conflict in former Yugoslavia.

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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Areas of expertise include: national security; United States; Europe; Russia; authoritarianism; threats to democracy; the transatlantic alliance; Eurasia; political dynamics of autocracies; democratic decline; Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan; energy.

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Michael Kimmage, Director, The Kennan Institute, Professor of History at Catholic University of America

Areas of expertise include: Russia, Ukraine, the Russia-Ukraine war (2014–), U.S. foreign policy, history of anti-Communism in the United States.

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Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Areas of expertise include: great power relations, international institutions, U.S. foreign policy, warfare and peacekeeping.

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