Nina Khrushcheva

Nina Khrushcheva is Professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School. She is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute and an editor of and a contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014). Her latest book (with Jeffrey Tayler), In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in 2019. She is the great granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev. As a graduate student at Princeton in the 1990s, she was George Kennan’s last research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study.