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Stephen Kotkin
Senior Advisor to the Combating Open Society Threats working group
Short biography:
Stephen Kotkin is Professor of European and Asian history at Princeton
University, where he also directs the Russian Studies Program. He serves
on the Editorial Board and Trustees of Princeton University Press and on
the Executive Committee of the Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies (PIIRS). Outside Princeton, he serves on the Social
Science Research Council (SSRC) Advisory Committee and as a consultant
to a number of foundations. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine
books, including Magnetic Mountain (1995), Armageddon Averted (2001),
and Political Corruption in Transition: A Handbook (2002). He has been
a visiting professor in Russia and Japan, and is the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He writes reviews and essays for The New Yorker,
The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Financial Times, The
New Republic, and the TLS. He is also a commentator on the BBC and National
Public Radio (NPR). His current project—“Lost in Siberia: Dreamworlds of
Eurasia”—is a study of the Ob River basin over the last seven centuries.
He earned a PhD and MA from the University of California at Berkeley.
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