RUSSIAN, EURASIAN, AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (REEES)

Ian Kelly, Ambassador (ret.) in Residence, has authored an op-ed on Belarus and the stability of Europe and how it depends on the ability of the people to determine their future.

Robert Bird, University of Chicago, Professor of Slavic Literature and Languages, and Media and Cinema, husband and collaborator of Christina Kiaer, Associate Professor of Art History passed away on September 7. Bird co-taught a graduate seminar with Kiaer at Northwestern, Art Hist 460, The Aesthetics of Socialist Realism (2012 and 2017) and served on the Ph.D. committees of several Slavic-themed dissertations in Art History.

Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science, discussed corruption in Russia and Ukraine with Matthew Rojansky, Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute

Andrew Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science, has published a new book on democracy in the Czech Republic.

Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities, served as a keynote speaker at the Boston University World Languages & Literatures symposium on "Worlds of The Brothers Karamazov"

Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities, and Morton Shapiro, the president of Northwestern University, co-authored an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times arguing against the politics of hate and political fundamentalism.

Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science, together with Tymofii Brik and Aaron Erlich, published an analysis in The Washington Post (Monkey Cage) about Ukrainians’ views of the Trump impeachment scandal.