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Dmitry Gorenburg is the Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is also a Research Analyst and Director of Russian and East European Studies at the Center for Strategic Studies of The CNA Corporation, where he has worked since 2000. During the 2003-04 academic year, he was a Wilson Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to CNA, Dr. Gorenburg worked as a research associate at the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies.

He holds a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University and a B.A. in international relations from Princeton University. Dr. Gorenburg's current work focuses on the evolution of Soviet policies toward minority ethnic groups in the 1953-1991 period and the impact of these policies on ethnic identities in the region during and after the Soviet collapse. He is also examining the success of minority language revival policies in the former Soviet states.

He is the author of Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has also published several articles on minority nationalism in the Russian Federation that have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies.




 
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