RSW-affiliated students interview scholars and practitioners to discuss current events and directions in Russia as well as personal academic and career trajectories. Transcripts of interviews are available upon request at rsw@indiana.edu.
RSW Interviews
WFIU "Profiles" Interviews with RSW Affiliates
- Ivan Kurilla, Professor, Russian History
Ivan Kurilla is a Professor of History and International Relations at European University, St. Petersburg. Dr. Kurilla has authored monographs and edited collections in his primary field of interest, the history of US-Russian relations, especially during the American antebellum and Civil War periods and has published articles on relations between the state and society in contemporary Russia and op-ed pieces in the Washington Post and New York Times on aspects of US-Russian relations. Kurilla was REEI visiting scholar in spring 2018.
- Angelina Davydova, environmental journalist
Angelina Davydova is an environmental journalist as well as a director of the German-Russian Office of Environmental Information. She spoke remotely from St. Petersburg, Russia with Suzannah Evans Comfort, assistant professor at Indiana University's Media School in journalism practice and environmental communication. Aired on October 18, 2020.
Interviews featuring RSW Affiliates
- Professor Keith Livers, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
New Books Network Interview Series
IU Slavic PhD student Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed interviews Keith Livers about his book, Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination (U of Toronto, 2020). This interview was made possible with support from the Russian and East European Institute and the Russian Studies Workshop.
- Angelina Davydova, environmental journalist
CIBER Focus interview series by the Institute for International Business at the Kelley School of Business
Tim Smith of the Institute for International Business at the Kelley School of Business, talks with Angelina Davydova, environmental journalist and RSW visitor in spring 2019 about Russia's Green Economy, Environmental/Climate Policy, and Today's Civil Society. February 22, 2019.
- Elena Volochine, journalist and documentary filmmaker
Through the Gates: The IU Bloomington Podcast, by the IU Media School
Dean Shanahan sits down with journalist and documentarian Elena Volochine to discuss Russian politics, her experiences reporting in Moscow, and her film Oleg's Choice, which follows Russian fighters in Eastern Ukraine.
- Elena Volochine, journalist and documentary filmmaker
CIBER Focus interview series by the Institute for International Business at the Kelley School of Business
Elena Volochine, an international reporter, camerawoman, and filmmaker, discusses propaganda and the state of media in Russia and Ukraine, and what truth means in media today. Novemer 27, 2018
- Svetlana Stephenson, Professor of Sociology at London Metropolitan University
New Books Network interview series
IU Slavic PhD student Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed interviews Svetlana Stephenson about her book, Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power. Stephenson studies informal and criminal social networks in Russia. September 26, 2018.
- Leonid Polishchuk, Professor of Economics at HSE-Moscow
Leonid Polishchuk, RSW and Ostrom Workshop visitor, is interviewed by RSW Program Coordinator Sarah Fogleman. They discuss Polishchuk's stay in Bloomington, the important work of Elinor Ostrom, and his current research.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies