Alexander Etkind

Alexander Etkind was born in Leningrad and moved to Cambridge, UK in 2005, and then to Florence, Italy in 2013 - he is now is a professor of history at the European University Institute, Florence. Alexander has PhD from Bekhterev Institute, Leningrad, and another from the University of Helsinki. He was a visiting professor at New York University and Georgetown University, and a resident fellow at Harvard, Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C., Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, which has been all but closed by the Russian authorities in 2017. His research interests are internal colonization in the Russian Empire, comparative studies of cultural memory, history of Russian-American and Russian-European relations, and the dynamics of the protest movement. In 2010-2013, he directed the European research project, "Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine"; he is now working on a new project, which title is too early to disclose. His most recent book is "Roads not Taken: An Intellectual biography of William C. Bullitt".