Dr. Victoria Zhuravleva

Department
Department of American Studies

Position
Professor, Head of the Department of American Studies, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies

Academic degree
Dr. hab. in History, Professor

State awards, honors, recognitions

• 1996 - Fulbright program research grant (American History), at George Washington University;
• 2006 - research grant (American Politics) from the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC (George Kennan Institute);
• 2007-2009 – grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanitarian Research “Perception of Russian modernization in the USA in the XIX – XX centuries”, jointly with Dr. Kurilla;
• 2008 - grant "North America and its relations with Russia" (Bolkhovitinov Academic School);
• 2009 - Grant of the SHAFR Diversity and International Outreach Fellowship Program;
• 2014 - ASEEES Regional Scholar Travel Grant.

Merit badge from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation "For the development of the research work of students".

Academic and educational activity

Courses taught: US history, US socio-political system, US foreign policy, History of international relations, Russian-American relations: images, myths, reality, Interdisciplinary methods for studying international relations.

Lecturing at foreign universities (over the last 5 years):

• 2017 (November) - Visiting Professor at the College of DuPage (Illinois), USA;
• 2016 (April) - Visiting Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA;
• 2016 (November) - Visiting Professor at Yale University, USA;
• 2016 (November) - Visiting Professor at the Middlebury College, USA;
• 2014 (November) - Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas, USA;
• 2014 (November) - Visiting Professor at the University of New Orleans, USA.

Area of expertise

Russian-American relations, US history, US foreign policy.