http://www.hoover.org/bios/dunlop.htmlExpertise: Nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, the politics of religion in Russia
John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He is an expert on Russia's two wars in Chechnya, nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, and the politics of religion in Russia. His current research focuses on the conflict in Chechnya, Russian politics since 1985, Russia and the successor states of the former Soviet Union, Russian nationalism, and the politics of religion in Russia.
In 1995 and 1996, Dunlop was an official election observer for both the Russian parliamentary election and the first round of the Russian presidential election. In 1998, he served as an observer for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan.
His most recent publications include The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Princeton University Press, 1995) as well as numerous articles and chapters in books regarding political, social, and cultural developments in the states of the former Soviet Union. Dunlop's book Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998.
He is author of The New Russian Nationalism (Praeger Publishers, 1985), The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism (Princeton University Press, 1983), and The New Russian Revolutionaries (Nordland Publishing Company, 1976), and he is coeditor of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials (Collier-Macmillan, 1975) and Solzhenitsyn in Exile (Hoover Institution Press, 1985).
He has testified on the subject of the current war in Chechnya before the Helsinki Commission in Washington (November 1999) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (July 2001). He also made a presentation on the subject at the U.S. State Department in March 2002. He was the editor of the Chechnya Weekly (Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C.) from 2000–2002.
Dunlop was named 1995 distinguished visitor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, in Canada and was the John M. Olin Visiting Senior Fellow at Radio Liberty in Munich from 1991 to 1992.
A professor and department chair at Oberlin College from 1970 to 1983, Dunlop was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1978–79. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford and Princeton Universities, a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, and an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dunlop is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at Stanford University. From 1997–2003, he was a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.
The recipient of a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, a Younger Humanist fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, he serves as an evaluator of grant applications for the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Dunlop holds a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and master's and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
dunlop@hoover.stanford.edu
Stanford, Department of Slavic Languages & LiteraturesJohn Dunlop, Hoover Institution. Senior Fellow, Nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, the politics of religion in Russia