Russian Studies Workshop

Robert Elliott is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Duke University. His primary interests include modern Turkish history, communist internationalism, and the Cold War Middle East. He earned his M.A in Comparative History from Central European University in Hungary where he completed a thesis titled, “Chasing the Specter in Anatolia: Politics and the Discourse of Communism and Anti-Communism in Early Cold War Turkey.” He additionally earned an M.A in Turkish Studies from Sabanci University in Turkey.