Part of the 2019-20 Havighurst Center Colloquia Series, Russia’s Intelligentsia: The Curse of Ideas; Eliot Borenstein is a Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network, and Acting Chair of East Asian Studies. Educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1988) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1993), Professor Borenstein was an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1993-95) before taking an appointment at NYU in 1995. His new book, Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism will soon be published by Cornell University Press; an earlier draft is available at plotsgainstrussia.oirg
