Deadline: March 7, 2022
The sixth Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia (MSSR), which will be held in person, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, from June 27 through July 28, 2022. Every year twelve graduate students and rising professionals in the field of Russian and Eurasian Studies are selected to participate. The Monterey Symposium is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The MSSR 2022 curriculum will include teaching modules on U.S.-Russian relations, Russian foreign policy, the history of empires, culture, arms control and international security, mass media and cyber security. The curriculum will be taught by leading scholars, practitioners and journalists from the United States, Russia, and Europe, among them:
Alexey Arbatov
George Beebe
John Beyrle
Tom Blanton
Irina Borogan
Sam Charap
Jill Dougherty
Rose Gottemoeller
Tom Graham
Michael Kimmage
Elena Kostyuchenko
Ivan Kurilla
Bob Legvold
Dominic Lieven
Anatol Lieven
Feodor Lukyanov
Jade McGlynn
Hanna Notte
William Potter
Matt Rojansky
Svetlana Savranskaya
Andrei Soldatov
Dmitry Trenin
Evgeny Vodolazkin
Victoria Zhuravleva
Andrei Zorin
The application deadline is March 7, 2022. Advanced Russian language skills are required. English and Russian are the working languages of the Monterey Summer Symposium.
For information about the application process and past Monterey Summer Symposia visit: