ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Nikolay Koposov

Nikolay Koposov is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University in Atlanta. Previously, he worked at Georgia Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Helsinki University, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and other schools. In 1998-2009, he was Founding Dean of Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a joint venture of Saint-Petersburg State University and Bard College (New York).