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Marlene LARUELLE Office: IERES, The George Washington University, 1957 E Street, NW, Suite 412, Washington D.C., 20052 Home: 2700 Virginia Av., NW, apt. 1208, Washington, DC, 20037 [email protected], http://marlene-laruelle.com ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Current position • Research Professor of International Affairs, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University (2011-). • Director of the Central Asia Program, IERES (2012-). • Associate Director, IERES (2015-). Previous positions • Senior Research Fellow, The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. (May 2010-April 2011). • Senior Research Fellow, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm (September 2007-April 2010). FUNDINGS AND AWARDS • Project Director, “Central Eurasia – Religion in International Affairs” Initiative, Henry Luce Foundation (April 1, 2014-March 31, 2016). • Principal Investigator, “Unknown Pages of the History of Fascism: The Eurasian Fixation of the European Far Right,” Anonymous donor (January 1, 2014-December 31, 2015). • Project Director, “Central Asia Fellowship,” The Open Society Foundations (January 2013- December 2016). • Project Director, ‘Kazakhstan Initiative,” Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States (September 1, 2013-October 30, 2014). • Project Director, “Women and Water in South and Central Asia: Building International Social Capital for Sustainable Peace and Development,” The U.S. State Department (January 2013- December 2015), in partnership with GW Global Gender Program. • Co-Principal Investigator, “Arctic Research Coordination Network. Building a Research Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability,” National Science Foundation (2013-2017). Team leader for the WP “Social Urban Sustainability in Russia’s Arctic Regions”. • Co-Principal Investigator, ARCSUS (ARCtic Urban SUStainability in Russia), implemented by Tromso University, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2013-2016). Team leader for the WP “Social Urban Sustainability in Russia’s Arctic Regions”. • Project Director, “Observatory of Central Asia,” The French Defense Ministry (Délégation aux affaires stratégiques) (September 2012-August 2015). 1 • Principal Investigator, “Reassessing Afghanistan’s Neighborhood: Regional Perceptions and Strategies, and US Interests,” The Smith Richardson Foundation (March 15, 2012-March 14, 2013). • Principal Investigator, International conference “Afghanistan's Stability and Regional Security Implications for Central Asia,” The NATO Science for Peace and Security Program. • Principal Investigator, “The Kremlin’s Arctic Dreams: Geo-Strategic Implications for Russia and the World in 2040,” The Office of Net Assessment (May 2010-April 2011). • Co-Investigator, “Russian Economic Trends Study until 2030,” The Office of Secretary of Defense (October 2010-March 2011), implemented by the Hudson Institute, with Richard Weitz and Clifford Gaddy. • Principal Investigator “Beyond the ‘Clans’ War’ Hypothesis: Dechipering the Complexity of Kremlin Networks,” The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (July-September 2010). • Co-Investigator, “The Challenges of Development in Central Asia,” The French Agency for Development (June-October 2010). • Co-Investigator, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and perspectives of regional security in Central Asia,” The French Defense Ministry (Délégation aux affaires stratégiques), implemented by the Foundation for Strategic Research, with Isabelle Facon and Emmanuel Puig (January-December 2010). • Principal Investigator, “Inside and Around the Kremlin's Black Box: the New Nationalist Think Tanks in Russia,” funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (July-September 2009). • Co-Investigator, “Russia in a 10-20 years perspective,” The Swedish Armed Forces HQ, implemented by the ISDP, with Anna Jonsson, and Fredrik Erixon (January-June 2009). • Principal Investigator, “Coping with the Russo-Chinese Competition in Central Asia: Local Perspectives and Strategies,” The Smith Richardson Foundation (January-December 2008). RESEARCH GRANTS AND VISITING POSITIONS • Research Fellow, “Reshaping Everyday Citizenry: Migrants in Moscow, Kiev, and Astana,” William and Helen Petrach Program on Ukraine, IERES, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (September 2011-June 2012). • Visiting Research Fellow, The Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University (October 2011). • Visiting Research Fellow, The Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki (August, September, November 2009). • Visiting Research Fellow in India, Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’homme and Indian University Grant Commission (October 2009). • Visiting Research Fellow, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (January-April 2009). • Non-resident Research Fellow, “Euphemizing Antisemitism. Conspiracy Theories in Russia’s New Academic Disciplines,” The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (June-December 2007). • Research Fellow, “Eurasianism, an Ideology of Empire,” The French National Center of Publications (October 2006-May 2007). • Informal Visiting Fellow, The Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (July- September 2006). • Research Fellow, “Nationalism and the Academia in Russia,” The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (September 2005-May 2006). 2 • Post-Doctoral Fellow, The French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan (September 2002-August 2005). • Lavoisier Fellow, The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, Moscow and St Petersburg (November 2000-May 2002). • Visiting Fellow, The French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey (May-August 2001). • Doctoral Fellow, The French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent (October 1998-October 2000). • Doctoral Fellow, The French Institute of Social Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic (October 1997- June 1998). EDUCATION • Ph.D. at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, INALCO (2002) • M.A. on Central European (Czech) Studies at INALCO (1998) • M.A. on Post-Soviet Studies at INALCO (1997) • B.A. in Post-Soviet Studies at INALCO (1994), in Political Science at Paris II-Assas (1996), and in History at Paris VII-Jussieu (1996) TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Reemerging Nationalisms in Eurasia IAFF 6638 (Spring semester), GWU. • Central Asia: Society, Security, Economy, IAFF 6638 (Fall semester), GWU • Invited Supervisor at the Department of Eurasian Studies, Gumilev University, Astana, Kazakhstan (2011-13). Co-supervision of PhD students. • Member of the pedagogical team of the Post-Soviet Studies Department at Sciences Po (the Institute of Political Studies) Paris, (2006-). Supervision of PhD and Master students. • Guest Lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Paris (2001-02) • History and Geography Teacher at the French School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1998-99) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • 2011- Associate Researcher at FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior), Madrid • 2011- Member of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia) • 2011- Contributor to Oxford Analytica • 2010- Subject Matter Expert, ISAF Strategic Assessment Group, NATO Central Intelligence • 2009- Member of EUCAM (Europe-Central Asia Monitoring) • 2008- Associate Fellow at the Post-Soviet Studies Department at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP), Paris • 2002- Associate Fellow at the Center for Russian, Caucasian and East-European Studies (CERCEC) at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS), Paris MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). • Member of the board, 2014-2016, Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). • Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). 3 • Women in International Security (WIIS). • French Center for Post-Soviet Societies Studies (INALCO, Paris). • French-Russian Center in Social Sciences and Humanities (Moscow). OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES • Editor in chief of Central Asian Affairs • Director of the book series “Contemporary Central Asia. Societies, Politics and Cultures” at Lexington, an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. • Member of the Executive Editorial Board of Demokratizatsiya. The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (2011-). • Member of the Editorial Board of Nationalities Papers (2007-), Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (2015-) The Central Eurasian Reader (2007-2010), The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly (2009-2010), Cahiers d’Asie centrale (2003-2007), and of Mezhdunarodnye issledovaniia [International Research, State University, Astana, Kazakhstan] (2010-). • Member of the Editorial Board of the book series “Eurasian Study Library” at Brill Publishers (London), and of “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society” at Verlag-Ibidem (Stuttgart). • Co-director of the book series “Sociétés postsoviétiques en mouvement” [Post-Soviet Societies on the Move] at Petra, with Virginie Symaniec (2007-2013). • Member of the International Advisory Board of MYPLACE (Memory, Young, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement), a European Commission