2022-2024 Professors of Practice in Russian Studies
With funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the U.S. Russia Foundation, and International Division at UW-Madison, professors of practice in Russian studies were in residence during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years and through December 2024. The professors taught courses in their area of expertise and conducted research.
Mikhail Troitskiy
Position title: Professor of Practice in Russian Studies, Department of Political Science
Vladimir Gimpelson
Position title: Professor of Practice in Russian Studies, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Mikhail Sokolov
Position title: Professor of Practice in Russian Studies, Department of Sociology
2021-2022 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, four pre-doctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison during the 2021-2022 academic year. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Venera Albaeva
Position title: Pre-doctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
Alina Kontareva
Position title: Pre-doctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
Alfiya Lyapina
Position title: Pre-doctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
Arseny Verkeev
Position title: Pre-doctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
2021-2022 Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, three post-doctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison during the 2021-2022 academic year. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Marat Iliyasov
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
Yulia Khalikova
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
Iana Nakhimova
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2021-2022
2021-2022 Graduate Research Assistants
The Wisconsin Russia Project provided funding for research assistantships to students completing their doctoral programs in the social sciences at UW-Madison. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Erik Katovich
Position title: Research Assistant - Agricultural & Applied Economics
Evgeniia Mitrokhina
Position title: Project Assistant - Law School
Anton Shirikov
Position title: Research Assistant - Political Science
Michael Zaslavsky
Position title: Research Assistant - Sociology
2019-2020 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, eight pre-doctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison during the 2019-2020 academic year. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with current UW-Madison faculty.
Viktor Bryzgalin
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Aleksei Egorov
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Grigory Grigoryev
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Ekaterina Libova
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Alina Maiboroda
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Elena Onegina
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Julia Ushakova
Position title: 2019-20 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
2019-2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, five postdoctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison in spring 2019 and during the 2019-2020 academic year. They worked under the guidance of UW-Madison social science faculty members and connected to extensive networks of scholars in their fields of research.
Austin Charron
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-20
Cole Harvey
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2019
Sasha Klyachkina
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-20
Natalia Savelyeva
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-20
Nikita Zakharov
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-20
2019-2020 Graduate Research Assistants
The Wisconsin Russia Project provided funding for research assistantships to students completing their doctoral programs in the social sciences at UW-Madison. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Dmitri Kofanov
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2016-2017, 2018-2019
Khasan Redjaboev
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2018-2019
Valeriia Umanets
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2018-2019
2017-2018 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, four pre-doctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison during the 2017-2018 academic year. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Kristina Butaeva
Position title: Visiting Graduate Student Fellow 2017-2018
Aldar Chirninov
Position title: Visiting Graduate Student Fellow 2017-2018
Dmitri Trifonov
Position title: Visiting Graduate Student Fellow 2017-2018
Mariia Ukhvatova
Position title: Visiting Graduate Student Fellow 2017-2018
2017-2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, four postdoctoral research fellows were in residence at UW-Madison during the 2017-2018 academic year. They worked under the guidance of UW-Madison social science faculty members and connected to extensive networks of scholars in their fields of research.
Alexander Kondakov
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018
Aleksandra Lukina
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018
Megan Metzger
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018
Dmitriy Vorobyev
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018
2017-2018 Graduate Research Assistants
The Wisconsin Russia Project provided funding for research assistantships to students completing their doctoral programs in the social sciences at UW-Madison. Awardees worked on research projects related to Russia with UW-Madison faculty.
Hannah Chapman
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2017-2018
Dmitri Kofanov
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2016-2017, 2018-2019
Alex Straka
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2017-2018
Michael van Landingham
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2017-2018
Chelsea Zielke
Position title: Graduate Research Assistant 2017-2018