Barnard Professor Kimberly M. Zisk Named Associate Director of The Harriman Institute

New York, NY, May 16, 2002—Kimberly M. Zisk, Barnard associate professor of political science, will officially begin in her new position as Associate Director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute in June. As associate director, she will work closely with the Institute’s director, Cathy Nepomnyashchy, also a Barnard professor. Zisk has been a faculty member at Harriman since she arrived at Barnard in September 1997.

Zisk said of her new position, "I look forward to the opportunity to contribute in new ways to the vibrancy of Russian, post-Soviet and East-Central European studies in the Columbia community."

The Harriman Institute is the oldest academic center in the United States devoted to interdisciplinary study of the Russian Empire, the Soviet bloc and the post-communist states. Zisk has written two books on Russian security policy and several articles and book chapters on Russian foreign and military policy and the U.S. reaction. She is also a member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS).

Currently on leave in Japan after receiving a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Zisk is in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. In the summer of 2000, she spent three months in Japan at the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo on an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations and Hitachi, Ltd. She has frequently commented on the war on terrorism in the national media, most recently on CNN.

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