Steering Committee


Mary Dakin

Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts


Gregory Freidin

Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures


David Holloway

Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History
Professor of Political Science
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute


Norman Naimark

Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Programs
Robert & Florance McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies
Professor of History
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute and Hoover Institution


Karen Rondestvedt

Slavic & East European Curator, Stanford Libraries


Gabriella Safran

Director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literartures and, by courtesy, of German Studies


Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Deputy Director
Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Senior Research Scholar