Nina L. Khrushcheva


Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, USA, a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New York, USA, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World.

Family

Khrushcheva was born in Moscow, Russia, and is the granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. When Khrushchev's son Leonid died in World War II, Nikita adopted Leonid's two-year-old daughter Julia, Nina's mother. Nikita Khrushchev is thus Nina Khrushcheva's biological great-grandfather, but adoptive grandfather. Khrushcheva's father, Lev Petrov, died in 1970, aged 47.

Education

Khrushcheva received a degree from Moscow State University, Russia, with a major in Russian in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1998.

Career

From 2002 to 2004, Khrushcheva was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, USA. Khrushcheva is currently a at The New School in New York.
Khrushcheva is the author of numerous articles, director of the at the World Policy Institute, contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World, and editor of Project Syndicate's Russia column. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications.
She had a two-year research appointment at the School of Historical Studies of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at NYU School of Law. She is a member of the and a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
She is the author of and , and co-author of .

Work