DMITRY P. GORENBURG
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Harvard University
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E-mail: gorenburg@gmail.com
CURRENT POSITIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Executive Director, 2005 - present
 Manage national scholarly association with 2700 members.
 Direct oversight of five staff members.
 Work with Board of Directors in planning new initiatives for the organization.
Harvard University, Lecturer, 2005-present
 Taught Government Department lecture course on Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Fall 2005).
 Will teach Government Department lecture course on Russian Politics (Spring 2007).
CNA Corporation, Research Consultant, 2004-present
 Conducted research on Black Sea security issues and Russian security policy.
 Currently researching Russian government decision-making.
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Ph.D., Political Science, June 1999, M.A., Political Science, 1995.
Dissertation: “Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation.”
Princeton University, A.B., cum laude, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1992
Certificate in Russian Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 2003 - 2004
 Began research project on the evolution of Soviet policies toward minority ethnic groups in the 19531991 period and the impact of these policies on ethnic identities in the region during and after the
Soviet collapse.
CNA Corporation, Director of Russian and East European Programs, 2001 - 2003
 Responsible for overseeing research on FSU and Eastern Europe.
 Designed and managed specific research projects, including staff selection, budgeting, research design,
and briefing project sponsors.
 Participated in research on the future of global security and the transformation of American warfighting strategy.
CNA Corporation, Research Analyst, 2000 - 2001
 Conducted research on Russia’s role in the future of European security and the history of US military
operating patterns, 1970-2000.
 Responsible for developing cooperative programs with Russian academic institutes.
Harvard Cold War History Project, Research Associate, 1998 - 2000
 Created project to analyze Soviet policies toward minority ethnic groups during the Cold War.
 Responsible for content editing of book series.
 Developed educational materials for CNN Cold War documentary.
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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship
 Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Completion Fellowship
 International Research Exchange Board (IREX) Research Resident Fellowship
 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship
 National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship
1999-2000
1997-1998
1997-1998
1995-1996
1995-1996
1993-1997
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University Teaching Fellow.
 Sophomore Tutorial in Government. Sole Instructor for eight sophomores. Responsible for leading
two-hour weekly tutorial, running a writing workshop, and all grading. Received a score of 4.29 out
of 5 on student evaluations. Fall 1998
 Introduction to Comparative Politics. Spring 1997
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2003 Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Cambridge
University Press.
Journal Articles
2006
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2005
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1999
1999
“Russia Confronts Radical Islam.” Current History, October 2006.
“Rethinking Interethnic Marriage in the Soviet Union.” Post-Soviet Affairs 22 (2).
“Tatar Language Policies in Comparative Perspective: Why Some Revivals Fail and Some Succeed.”
Ab Imperio (1).
“Nationalism for the Masses: Popular Support for Nationalism in Russia’s Ethnic Republics.” EuropeAsia Studies 53 (1).
“Not with One Voice: An Explanation of Intragroup Variation in Nationalist Sentiment.” World Politics
53 (1).
“Identity Change in Bashkortostan: Tatars into Bashkirs and Back.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (3).
(Russian language version published in Vestnik Evrazii #1 2004)
“Regional Separatism in Russia: Ethnic Mobilization or Power Grab?” Europe-Asia Studies 51 (2).
(Russian language version published in Bashkortostan v Politicheskom Prostranstve, Ufa 2004)
Book Chapters
2007 “Tatar Identity and the 2002 Russian Census.” Forthcoming in The Census and the Construction of
Identity in the Russian Federation (working title), edited by Dominique Arel and David Kertzer.
2006 “Assimilation and Soviet Nationalities Policy,” in Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in
Russia and Ukraine, edited by Blair Ruble and Dominique Arel. Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
2005 “Tatars as Meso-Nation,” in Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories
Revived or Improvised?, edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato.
2004 “The Bashkir Community in Russia,” in The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe, edited by Karl
Cordell and Stefan Wolff. Palgrave Macmillan.
1993 “The Roots of Violence in South Africa,” In Beyond a Political Solution to Apartheid, edited by Evan
Lieberman, Center of International Studies Monograph Series #4, Princeton University.
Working Papers, Policy Memos, and Other Publications
2006 “Where Are We Going? What Is To Be Done?” (with Ron Suny), AAASS NewsNet 46 (4).
2006 “Great Promise Unfulfilled: How Russia Lost its Way after Independence” (with H.H. Gaffney),
Insight Turkey 8(1). Also published as CSIS PONARS Working Paper #26, February 2006.
2005 “The Failure of Tatar Language Revival” PONARS Policy Memo #379, December 2005.
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2005
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“CNA’s Russia Program, 1991-2004: A Valedictory” (with H.H. Gaffney, CNA Information
Memorandum D0012804.A3, August 2005.
“The Trajectory of ‘The Gap’ into the Future” (with H.H. Gaffney), CNA Information Memorandum
D0012724.A1, July 2005.
“The View of Russian Electoral Reforms from Russia's Ethnic Republics” PONARS Policy Memo
#338, November 2004.
“The American Way of War and its Transformation in the post-Cold War Period, 1989-2003” (with
H.H. Gaffney, Eugene Cobble and Michael McDevitt), CNA Research Memorandum D0008607.A1,
February 2004.
“The Future of Russia and the Russian Navy” (with H.H. Gaffney), CNA Information Memorandum
D0009376.A1, January 2004.
“The 2002 Russian Census and the Future of the Russian Population” PONARS Policy Memo #319,
November 2003.
“For the Record: All U.S. Forces’ Responses to Situations, 1970-2000” (with H.H. Gaffney and
Eugene Cobble), CNA Information Memorandum D0008414.A1, June 2003.
“Sustaining U.S.-Russian Strategic Relations” (with H.H. Gaffney, Eugene Cobble, and Malia
Dumont), CNA Information Memorandum D0008302.A1, May 2003.
“Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Final Report” (with Melissa Henton, Susan McArver, Debra
Roepke, and Daniel Whiteneck), CNA Research Memorandum D0006917.A2, October 2002.
“Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Country Profiles and Recommendations” (with Melissa Henton,
Susan McArver, Debra Roepke, and Daniel Whiteneck), CNA Research Memorandum D0006918.A2,
October 2002.
“The Expansion of NATO into the Baltic Sea Region: Prague 2002 and Beyond” (with Melissa
Henton, Debra Roepke, and Daniel Whiteneck), CNA Research Memorandum D0006161.A2, May
2002.
“U.S.- Russian Cooperation after September 11, 2001” (with H.H. Gaffney), CNA Information
Memorandum D0005645.A1, January 2002.
“European Security & Russia: A Workshop at CNAC, 13 April 2001” (with H.H. Gaffney and Daniel
Whiteneck), CNA Information Memorandum D0004282.A1, July 2001.
“Achieving Balance between the Navy’s Cooperation and Disclosure Policies: An Examination of the
Navy’s Personnel Exchange Program” (with Susan McArver, Mark Rosen, Caroline Lane, and Patrick
Roth), CNA Research Memorandum D0003604.A1, March 2001.
“The Future of National Security: A Report on Workshops in Four Cities” (with H.H. Gaffney), CNA
Research Memorandum D0003321.A1, February 2001.
“U.S. Naval Responses to Situations, 1970-1999” (with H.H. Gaffney, Eugene Cobble, Adam Moody,
Richard Weitz, and Daniel Whiteneck), CNA Research Memorandum D0002763.A2, December 2000.
“Renewing the US-Russian Strategic Partnership: Conference Report,” CNA Information
Memorandum D0002407.A1, November 2000.
Book Reviews
2005 Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear,
Hatred and Resentment in Eastern Europe, by Roger D. Peterson, Journal of Cold War Studies 7 (2).
2005 Nation-building and Common Values in Russia, edited by Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud, Slavic
Review 64 (1).
2004 Regiony Rossii: Khronika i Rukovoditeli, volumes 7&8, edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato, Ab Imperio
(1).
2003 Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: A Basic Contradiction?, by
Walter A. Kemp, Journal of Cold War Studies 5 (3).
2003 Na Puti k Perepisi, edited by Valerii Tishkov, Nationalities Papers 31 (3).
2001 Massovye Besporiadki v SSSR pri Khrushcheve i Brezhneve, by V.A. Kozlov, Journal of Cold War
Studies 3 (1).
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1999
The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective, by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer,
Europe-Asia Studies 52 (7).
The Tatars of the Crimea: Return to the Homeland, 2nd ed, edited by Edward Allworth, Ethnic &
Racial Studies 22 (4).
ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION
Association for the Study of Nationalities
2003-present
 Member of Annual Convention Program Committee
 Responsible for organizing Russia and North Caucasus sections, including selecting conference
papers, recruiting keynote speakers, and organizing panels based on individual paper submissions.
Census and the Construction of Identity in the Russian Federation
Watson Institute, Brown University
 Participant in multinational project to observe the 2002 Russian census and the politics
that surround it.
2002-2005
Program on Eurasia in Transition
2002-2005
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
 Participant in new program designed to examine the future of the countries that formerly
comprised the Soviet Union.
Multicultural Legacies in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
 Participant in multidisciplinary workshop that addresses the effects of ethnic legacies on
the present situation in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
2002-2004
Workshop on Ethnicity and Nationalism in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
1997-1998
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Co-organizer
 Developed and ran a bi-weekly workshop designed to bring together members of the Harvard scholarly
community working on ethnicity and nationalism.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“Language Revival Programs in Russia's Ethnic Regions: Why Russian Still Rules”
 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
March 2006
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY. March 2006
“Tatar Language Policies in Comparative Perspective: Why Some Revivals Fail and Some Succeed”
 University of Ottawa Conference on language policies.
March 2005
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY. April 2005
 Mershon Center, Ohio State University Conference on Post-Soviet In/Securities. October 2005
 Published in Ab Imperio, 2005.
“Tatar Language Revival: A Grand Failure?”
December 2004
 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
“Tatar Identity: A United, Indivisible Nation?”
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY. April 2003
 Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido, Japan.
January 2004
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“The 2002 Russian Census”
March 2003
 Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
“The Census in Tatarstan”
October 2002
 Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
“Assimilation and Soviet Nationalities Policy”
 Kennan Institute Workshop on Multicultural Legacies, Washington, DC.
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY.
“Who goes first? Sequencing of Ethnic Mobilization in Russia”
 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
 Published in World Politics, 2000.
“Comparing Ethnic Mobilization in Russia’s former Autonomous Republics”
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY.
 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
 Published in Europe-Asia Studies, 2001.
April 2002
April 2004
September 1999
April 1999
September 1999
“Center-Periphery Relations in Russia: The Case of Khakassia”
December 1998
 Joint State Department and National Intelligence Council conference on “Federalism
in Russia: Is It Working?” Washington, DC.
“Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in Russia”
 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY.
September 1998
April 1998
“Organizing Nationalists in Russia’s Republics: The Effect of Political Context”
 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
August 1997
“Identity Change in Bashkortostan: Tatars into Bashkirs and Back”
 Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, New York, NY.
 Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1999.
April 1997
“Regional Separatism: Ethnic Mobilization or Power Grab?”
November 1996
 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
 Published in Europe Asia Studies, 1999.
“Native Language Education in the Volga Republics”
March 1996
 UNESCO International Conference on National School Development. Kazan, Russian Federation.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS)
American Political Science Association
Association for the Study of Nationalities
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Reviewer for: World Politics, Political Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies.
International Election Observer, Russian Federation State Duma Elections, December 1995
LANGUAGES AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Native ability in Russian, reading comprehension of French, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
Experience with statistical analysis using SPSS, Gauss, and MS Excel.
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