Robert F. Byrnes
Russian and East European Institute

Distinguished Russian Studies Fellow

Maria Lipman is a distinguished Russian journalist and expert on Russian media affairs. This is her second semester as a Distinguished Fellow of Russian Studies at IU Bloomington as she held the same post in Spring of 2017. Lipman has published numerous works on Russian media and was the editor in chief of the Pro et Contra journal published by the Carnegie Moscow Center. She has also served as the expert of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. She is teaching an REEI course entitled “Putin’s Russia,” an in-depth look at contemporary Russian society and culture to better understand the modern Russian state.

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Martina Bergamaschi is a master’s student in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe, a joint degree program through Bologna University (Italy), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). As an exchange student at IU in Spring 2018, she is attending classes in Russian area studies and working on her graduate thesis, which addresses the role of school history textbooks in shaping nation-building narratives in Russia and Central Asia.

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Anna Dekalchuk is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Saint Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg. During the current semester, she is serving as a post-doctoral fellow affiliated with the Russian Studies Workshop. While on campus, she is also teaching Russia and the European Union, a cross-listed course in European Studies, International Studies, and REEI.

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Ivan Grigoriev is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Saint Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, a division of Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg. During the current semester, he is in residence at IU Bloomington as a post-doctoral fellow of the Russian Studies Workshop. While on campus, he is teaching Law, Courts, and Constitutions in Authoritarian States and conducting research on the internal organization of the Russian Constitutional Court and the manners in which it adapts to the changing social, legal and political environment in present-day Russia.

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