The
University of Rhode Island
The
University of Rhode Island
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Nicolai N. Petro received his B.A. degree
summa cum laude in history in 1980,
M.A. in public administration in 1982, and Ph.D. in foreign affairs in
1984, all from the University of Virginia.
His first teaching appointment was at the Monterey Institute of
International Studies where, in 1986, he became the founding director of the
Center for Contemporary Russian Studies (now the Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies). He has held appointments
at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and is presently
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island.
From
1989-1990 he was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign
Relations. In this capacity he
served as special assistant for policy in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs at
the U.S. Department of State, and as temporary political attache at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow. While in the
Soviet Union he was an observer to local elections in central Russia, Belarus,
and Latvia.
Dr.
Petro has received numerous post-doctoral awards, including a Senior Fulbright
Lectureship to Russia (1996-1997), the Thornton D. Hooper Fellowship in
International Affairs from the Foreign Policy Research Institute in
Philadelphia, and fellowships from the National Council for Eurasian and East
European Research (1998-2000), the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation at the
University of California, the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Miller
Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
In 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Novgorod State University
for “great merits in the development of the University and an outstanding
contribution to the Science, Culture and Education of the Land of Novgorod.”
He
has published in such journals as The
Wilson Quarterly, Comparative Strategy, Post-Soviet Affairs, Studies in
Comparative Communism, World
Development, and The Harvard International Review. In
Russian his articles have appeared in the monthly journal of the Russian Supreme
Soviet, Rodina, the social sciences
quarterlies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ONS
and Polis, and the journal of the Institute for International Economy
and International Relations, MEiMO.
Dr.
Petro has authored three books and edited five more. His most recent works are The
Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture,
(Harvard University Press, 1995, 2nd ed. 1997) and Russian
Foreign Policy: From Empire to Nation-State, co-authored with Professor
Alvin Z. Rubinstein (Longman, 1997). He
is presently working on a book about the Novgorod region.