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Nina Khrushcheva is Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs at The New School. She is 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, a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2013 and of a 2019 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, 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 (2008), The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). Her books in Russian include Visiting Nabokov (Vremya, 2008) and Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System (Diletant, 2024).

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Princeton University

Professional Affiliation

Council on Foreign Relations (New York, USA)

Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue (Vienna, Austria)

Recent Publications

Books

1. Nikita Khrushchev: Vozhd vne Sistemy (Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System), Diletant, 2024 (in Russian)

2.  In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (with Jeffrey Tayler), St. Martin's Press, 2019

3. The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, Tate Publishing, 2014 (also in Russian, published by AIRO-XXI in 2019)

4. Small World: Roman v Neromanakh (Small World: A Novel in Novellas), Vremya, 2009 (in Russian) 

5. V Gostyakh u Nabokova (Visiting Nabokov), Vremya, 2008 (in Russian)

6. Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, 2008

Select Journal Articles & Book Chapters

1. "The Metamorphosis of Frank Walter," Frank Walter's Chessboard (exibition catalogue, Xavier Hufkens Publications, Brussels, Belgium, 2022)
2. “The Coup in the Kremlin,” Foreign Affairs, May 10, 2022
3. “Introduction: A Carnival for All Time,” Find Yourself: Carnival and Resistance, Antigua and Barbuda National Pavilion Catalogue, 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019, Italy
4. “Defeating the Cold War Victory: The Return of Russian Monumentality” in Monument to Cold War Victory, edited by Yevgeniy Fiks, Stamatina Gregory (The Cooper Union, 2018)
5. “Introduction: In Between Heaven and Hell, Islands of Utopia and Dystopia,” Environmental Justice as a Civil Right, Antigua and Barbuda National Pavilion Catalogue, Venice Architectural Biennale 2018, Italy
6. “The enemies of those people: life in Trump’s USA,” Index on Censorship, Summer 2017
7. Introduction “The Imaginative Reality of Frank Walter’s Universe” in Barbara Paca, Frank Walter: The Last Universal Man, 1926-2009 (Radius Books, 2017), in conjunction with the Antigua Pavilion Frank Walter exhibition, Venice Biennale 2017
8. "Russia's Identity of Perpetual Crisis" in Liah Greenfeld, ed., Globalisation of Nationalism (Colchester, UK: ECPR Press, 2016) 
9. "Putin v. Purse Power: Confronting International Laws, Russian Style," Social Research: International Quarterly, Winter 2015
10. Epilogue "A Visionary from Hope" in Barbara Paca, Ruth Starr Rose (1887-1965): Revelations of African American Life in Maryland and the World (Baltimore, MD: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 2015), in conjunction with Ruth Starr Rose exhibition, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD, Oct 10, 2015-Apr 3, 2016
11. Romancing True Power: D20 Journal, with Yiqing Wang (Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy Publication, 2015), in conjunction with Romancing True Power: D20 exhibition, Parsons The New School for Design, Feb 12-26, 2015
12. “Een verlangen naar propaganda” [A Desire for Propaganda], Nexus 67: Fall 2014 (in Dutch)
13. “Inside Vladimir Putin’s Mind: Looking Back in Anger,” World Affairs, July-August 2014
14. “Once KGB Agent, Always a KGB Agent,” excerpt from The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, Newsweek, May 14, 2014
15. “A Breath of Fresh Air in the Kremlin,” excerpt from The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, Newsweek, May 13, 2014
16. “Khrushchev: Hero or Villain?” excerpt from The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, Newsweek, May 12, 2014
17. “Change Nobody Believes in” in IWMPost No. 106, January-March 2011 (p. 13)
18. Chapter “Russia, A Revolutionary Life” in Anthony Anemone, ed., Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (Northwestern University Press, 2010)
19. “De grijze massa van het poetinisme” [The Grey Matter of Putinism], Nexus 54: Summer 2010 (in Dutch)

Research Interests

Global Media and Culture, World Politics, Russian Politics and Culture, Art and Politics, Propaganda and Hollywood, Post-Truth

--July 26, 2024: Keynote Address "Idealism of Art in Times of War and Peace" at Salzburg Festival, Austria

--August-October 2022: Co-curator with Barbara Paca, Frank Walter’s Chessboard, Xavier Hufkens Galleries, Brussels, Belgium

--May-November 2019: Co-curator with Barbara Paca, Find Yourself: Carnival and Resistance, Antigua & Barbuda National Pavillion, Venice Art Biennale 2019, Italy

--February 12-26, 2015: Co-curator of Romancing True Power: D20, exhibition at Parsons The New School for Design (66 Fifth Ave)

The D20 - modeled after the G20 group of most industrialized nations - is a selective list of leaders from present and recent past, across continents and political systems, who, in some way, represent many people's ideal of strong power - a true power. We call it Dick power. Romancing True Power investigates an idea of power: autocratic, authoritarian and dictatorial; a power present in dictatorships, but that can be found in democracies as well. The exhibition is an invitation to re-imagine true power by looking at dicktatorial constructs, their typology and trappings.  As each person’s Dick list is subjective, at the show we will invite you to PYOD (Pick Your Own Dick). Who is on your D20 list?

Awards And Honors

Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013

Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage for Outstanding Contributions to Political Science and International Relations of Eastern Europe, Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin, 2019

Portfolio

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Romancing True Power: D20