Blair A. Ruble
Director , Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states)
Chair, Comparative Urban Studies Project

Phone: 202/691-4239
Email: kennan@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Director, Kennan Institute Expertise Russian domestic politics; urban patterns and urban management arrangements in post-Soviet Russia; urban management and regional development Experience Staff Associate at the Social Science Research Council; Assistant Executive Director, National Council for Soviet and East European Research
Major Publications | Education | Honors

Major Publications

• Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
  
• Second Metropolis: The Politics of Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
  
• Money Sings: The Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  
• Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City (University of California Press, 1990)
  

Education
Ph.D. and M.A., Political Science, University of Toronto; A.B. Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Honors
Dean's Guest, Faculty of Law, Kyoto University; Cultural Correspondent by the Japan Foundation (1989-1990); United States Vice-President's "Hammer Award" for Reinventing Government (1999); Russian Federation's Presidential Medal for Contributions to the City of St. Petersburg (2004)

Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states)
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
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Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: kennan@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4100