Professor
Yuri Slezkine
University of California, Berkeley
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2008
Professor of Russian History. Director of Berkeley's Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Author of two prizewinning books on 20th century Russian history. Arctic Mirrors (1994) deals with social anthropology of polar peoples and The Jewish Century (2004) provides a bold and controversial interpretation of Jewish success in Russia, America, and Israel.
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