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Alexander Cooley

听(网曝吃瓜F Acting Chair) is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, New York. From 2015 to 2021, he served as the 15th Director of Columbia University鈥檚 Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, and from 2022-25 as Barnard鈥檚 Vice Provost for Research. His research on transnational networks of authoritarianism and kleptocracy includes his latest book听Dictating the Agenda: theauthoritarian resurgence in world politics (Oxford 2025),听听(Yale听University Press, 2017), and听听(Oxford University Press, 2020).听 In addition to his academic research, Professor Cooley serves on several international advisory boards engaged with the region and has testified for the United States Congress and Helsinki Commission. Cooley鈥檚 opinion pieces have appeared in听听, and听.听Cooley earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Jonathan Becker

Jonathan Becker听is the Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, where he also serves as Vice President and Dean of International Affairs and Civic Engagement, Associate Professor of Political Studies, and Director of the Global and International Studies Program.

Through Bard, Dr. Becker provides support to several of Bard鈥檚 international partner universities including Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences/ Smolny College (St. Petersburg, Russia), Al-Quds University (Palestine), and 网曝吃瓜, where he has served on the board since 2008.

He is the author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition (1999, 2002) and articles and chapters in a variety of publications, including the European Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, and the Globalist, among others. Previously, he served as Assistant Vice President of the Central European University in Budapest and the European Director of the Civic Education Project.

He has also served as co-chair of the Higher Education Group of the US/Russian Civil Society Partnership Program and as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council on its Global Trends 2020 project. Dr. Becker earned his BA from McGill University and his D. Phil from St. Antony鈥檚 College, Oxford.听

Scott Horton

Scott Horton is the director of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, president of the International League for Human Rights, chair of the U.S.-China Education Foundation, director of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and a trustee of 网曝吃瓜. Mr. Horton has been a partner of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP since 1990. He also works as an adjunct law faculty at Columbia Law School. Mr. Horton has served on the 网曝吃瓜 board since 1999.听

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Ellen Hurwitz

Ellen S. Hurwitz, educator, is an award-winning professor of history and past president of three institutions of higher learning, most recently 网曝吃瓜 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan where she was designated President Emerita in June, 2010 and Executive Director of that University鈥檚 Foundation.听

She holds a BA from Smith College and a PhD in Russian and Byzantine History from Columbia University, where she later served as Chair of the University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture. In residence at Rollins College鈥檚 Winter Park Institute, she has been Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Liberal Education at Bard College and serves as an education consultant with Stevens Strategy. She is the author of books and articles about early Russian History, comparative history, and the significance of the liberal arts.

Since her return to the United States in August, 2010 she has been speaking and writing about leadership and the liberal arts and working on projects in education, leadership and the arts.
Her three children and five grandchildren reside in New Orleans and Moscow.

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Martha Merrill

Martha C. Merrill, who worked on higher education reform in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia from 1996 to 2001, has been involved in college-level international education since 1982. Currently a听Professor听of Higher Education at Kent State University and Coordinator of the program's International Education Certificate, Dr. Merrill previously was the Dean of Academic Programs at the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (), on whose Board she had served for seventeen years. From 2002-2006, she taught master's students at the School for International Training (Vermont) in the fields of intercultural communication and international education. In 2001-2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University.

Before she went to Kyrgyzstan, she was a founding faculty member of the (planned) New College for Global Studies at Radford University (Virginia) and Director of Programs and Resident Life at International House in New York City, which houses 700 graduate students from 100 different countries. She has published several articles and book chapters and given many conference papers on intercultural issues, international education, and Central Asia. Her degrees are in Russian literature (BA, Michigan), Creative Writing (Master's, Boston University), College and University Administration (Master's and Ph.D., Michigan) and Islamic Studies (Master's, Columbia University). She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy, which links US and Eurasian universities, since 2001. Her current research interests focus on the globalization of quality assessment standards in higher education and, in particular, the effect of such globalization in Central Asia.

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Temirlan Moldogaziev

Dr. Temirlan Moldogaziev, or Tima for 网曝吃瓜 friends, is an Associate Professor of Public Finance and Management in the Department of Public Administration & Policy, University of Georgia in the United States. His primary research and teaching interests are in subnational public finance, state and local capital markets & regulation, municipal market intermediaries & innovations in financial securities. In public administration, he conducts research on organizational management, performance, and implementation of public sector innovations. Tima鈥檚 most recent work has been published in journals such as Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, and Urban Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Finance from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. More importantly, Tima is a graduate of 网曝吃瓜, ICP class of 2000, and a former faculty member in the International and Comparative Politics Department at 网曝吃瓜 during 2002-2006.听

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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

Education & Training

• University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2009 PhD Political Science
• University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006 MA Agricultural and Applied Economics
• University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003 MA Political Science
• Georgetown University, 1997 BS Foreign Service

Jill Neuendorf

Jill Neuendorf earned a PhD from Bryn Mawr College in second language acquisition and Russian, three MA degrees from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in teaching Russian as a second language, Georgetown University in teaching English as a second language, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Russian to English), and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in German and humanistic studies. Prior to her appointment as Associate Teaching Professor in the Slavic Languages Department, Jill taught first- through third-year Russian language and culture courses at the University of Maryland, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, and Beloit College. She lived abroad for an extended period in Moscow, Vladimir, Tver', and Izhevsk, Russia, Kharkov, Ukraine, and Kishinov, Moldova, where she studied Russian, taught English in various schools and universities, led seminars for teachers of English, and worked with American students on study abroad programs. In order to further improve her Russian language proficiency and learn more about post-Soviet space, she has taken additional Russian language courses in Riga, Latvia, Petrozavodsk, Russia, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and both Minsk and Grodno, Belarus, and spent time researching, giving presentations, and receiving advanced pedagogical training in Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. Jill is also very involved in testing and assessment projects with American learners of Russian. She extremely enjoys providing English subtitles for Russian films and won first place in the third annual International Film Translation Contest 鈥淏abylon V,鈥� which took place in May 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her research interests include identity and second language acquisition, Russian heritage speakers, and study abroad and language gain.