 | Volodymyr Dubovyk is Visiting Professor at Tufts University and Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. He is one of the preeminent Ukrainian experts in the fields of international affairs, security studies, and foreign policy analysis. Dubovyk has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997, 2006-2007, the latter being his first Fulbright), and at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (2002). He taught at the University of Washington in 2013 as well as St. Edwards University and the University of Texas from 2016-2017 (his second Fulbright). He is co-author of Ukraine and European Security (1999) and has published numerous articles on U.S.-Ukraine relations, Black Sea regional security, international security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy and security. |
 | Liliya Khasanova is a post-doctoral fellow, researcher, negotiator, and peacemaker. Liliya specializes in international public law and governance, with a particular focus on international law of cyberspace, international trade law, dispute settlement, and international negotiations. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation on "Mutually Agreed Solutions in the WTO: Theory and Practice" in 2019, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of non-binding bilateral agreements and their role in the WTO legal system. Her current research interests include national and cultural perspectives on international law of cyberspace, global data governance, and the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the international legal order. Before joining the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Fletcher School, Liliya was a post-doctoral fellow at the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’ and at the Nanterre Center for International Law (CEDIN). She also served as a graduate research fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and was a visiting fellow at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice. In 2021, she was selected as a Women, Peace, and Security (WIIS) Next Generation Fellow. |
 | Ivan Kurilla is currently the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. He previously taught at the European University in St. Petersburg and Volgograd State University. He also conducted research at Dartmouth College (as a Fulbright Scholar) and George Washington University. His main fields of interest include the history of Russia-U.S. relations and the use of the past for political purposes in Russia and the United States. |
 | Pavel Luzin, Ph.D. in international relations (IMEMO, 2012), is a researcher of Russia’s foreign policy and defense, space policy, and global security issues. Luzin is a visiting scholar at The Fletcher School (USA) and a contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA), the Jamestown Foundation (USA), and Riddle (Intersection Foundation, Lithuania). In 2017–2018, he was a consultant on armed forces, law enforcement agencies, and defense industry issues for Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign. In 2016–2018, he was a consultant on Russia’s domestic politics for the “Nations in Transit” project at Freedom House (USA). In 2013–2014, Luzin was a research fellow at IMEMO (Russia). In 2013, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Security Index journal at PIR Center (Russia). Luzin was also a lecturer and senior lecturer at Perm State University (Russia) in 2010–2017, a senior lecturer at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2011–2013, and a visiting assistant professor at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2018–2019. |
 | Mikhail Troitskiy is a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. In 2023-24 he was Professor of Practice in Russian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research on conflicts, security, and international negotiation has been published with WIREs Climate Change, Problems of Postcommunism, Survival, Global Policy, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other journals. In 2009-15, Troitskiy was Deputy Director and Program Officer at the Moscow office of the MacArthur Foundation. He taught at the European University at St. Petersburg in 2014-22, and at MGIMO University in Moscow in 2003-22. Troitskiy is a member of PONARS Eurasia and Processes of International Negotiation networks of scholars. His personal research website is at http://mikhailtroitskiy.com |
