 | born | Nina Krushcheva is the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev. |
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| work | She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics. Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of media and culture in the graduate program of international affairs at the New School, a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, as well as associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is also an editor of and a contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. Dr. Khrushcheva’s articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and other international publications. She is currently working on a new book project “Russia’s Gulag of the Mind.”
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| life | 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. |
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