Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith is a professorial lecturer in the Elliott School of International Affairs and a research professor at the Department of Geography at the George Washington University. In addition to her work in academia, she participated in a wide range of social projects. She was the founder and chairperson of the Center for Civil, Social, Scientific, and Cultural Initiatives “STRATEGIA” and served as a Galina Starovoitova Fellow for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Kennan Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Rozanova-Smith has been teaching the Arctic Affairs course at GWU in the Elliott School of International Affairs since 2018.
Her current research interests include Arctic governance, urban sustainability, gender empowerment, and the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Arctic. Learn more about her current projects:
Understanding Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic
Understanding the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic (COVID-GEA)
Dr. Rozanova-Smith was in Bloomington in Ocotber 2022 for our Portraits in Permafrost: Cinema of the Russian Arctic film series and served as a discussant after the screenings of Life of Ivanna and Garagenvolk.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies