Nina Tumarkin
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies at Wellesley College and Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Nina Tumarkin is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies at Wellesley College and Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. President Bill Clinton read her book on World War II in Russian memory and myth, The Living and the Dead, in preparation for his Victory Day visit to Moscow in May 1995. Nina is also the author of Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia. At Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1975 (after receiving her PhD from Harvard the same year), Nina teaches courses in all periods of Russia's dramatic history--Medieval, Imperial, and Soviet--as well as Modern European history. She has lectured on alumni cruises in Russia, East Europe, the Dalmatian coast, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea.