December 11, 2019

Panel Discussion with Scholars from the Kennan Institute & Woodrow Wilson Center

Made possible through the Kennan Conversation program sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute

Nina Rozhanovskaya has over 7 years of experience working on international academic projects and facilitating cooperation among Russian organizations and their overseas partners in a variety of areas.

In 2013-2014, Nina worked for the Government of Tomsk Region, Russia, where her responsibility was to engage with foreign partners and oversee implementation of joint projects in business and investment, research and technology commercialization, education and culture. From 2008 to 2014, Nina also worked as a research fellow at Tomsk State University, Russia, where she was in charge of the nuclear nonproliferation project and taught classes on nonproliferation, disarmament and security.

She is the author of two chapters in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Textbook.

Nina holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Central European University, Hungary, and undergraduate degree in International Relations from Tomsk State University. She is a native Russian speaker with excellent knowledge of English and working proficiency in French. She has conducted research and published on the topics of nuclear nonproliferation and the U.S.-Russian disarmament dialogue.

Sharyl Cross, PhD, was appointed director of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward’s University and Global Policy Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 2013.  Dr. Cross was Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany from 2005-2013 where she was Director of Academics for both the Program in Advanced Security Studies and Senior Executive Seminar, and previously had been appointed Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a resident fellowship scholar and consultant at the RAND Corporation completing programs in Russian area and policy studies. Dr. Cross was a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Professor in Moscow serving on the faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO) and the Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

She has published widely in leading academic and policy sources on US/NATO-Russia security Issues, Russian foreign policy, Sino-Russian relations, Southeast European security and security sector reform, religious dimensions of security, and sources of violent extremism and terrorism.  Dr. Cross has briefed/consulted for the U.S. State Department, U.S. Congress, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and among senior policy and defense institutions throughout Europe and Eurasia.

She is currently co-directing a project on Religion and International Security together with faculty of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and with support of the Public Diplomacy Engagement section of NATO.  Her most recent book is China, Russia, and Twenty First Century Global Geopolitics, co-authored with Dr. Paul Bolt, Oxford University Press, 2018.