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Stanford University
Encina Hall E107
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

naimark@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2651 (voice)
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Research Interests
Soviet Union and Europe in the postwar period; ethnic cleansing and genocide

Norman Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies; a professor of history; core faculty member of FSI's Forum on Contemporary Europe; and an FSI senior fellow by courtesy. He is an expert in modern East European and Russian history, the history of Poland since 1863, and the history of the German Democratic Republic since World War II. His current research focuses on ethnic cleansing in the 20th century and the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe after World War II. He is author of the critically acclaimed volume The Russians in Germany: The History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 (Harvard University Press, 1995). He is editor, with David Holloway, of Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin (Westview Press, 1997). He also edited, with Leonid Gibianskii, The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 (Westview Press, 1997).

Naimark is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; a member of the visiting committee of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University; a member of the Commission Internationale des Etudes Historiques Slaves; and he is on the academic council of the Institute for Contemporary Historical Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He serves on the editorial boards of East European Politics and Societies, Problems of Post-Communism, Slavic Review, and Historical Abstracts. He formerly served as executive vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1996) and chairman of the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council (1992-1997).

Before joining the Stanford faculty, Naimark was a professor of history at Boston University and a fellow at the Russian Research Center at Harvard. He also held the visiting Catherine Wasserman Davis Chair of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1996), the Richard W. Lyman Award for outstanding faculty volunteer service (1995), and the Dean's Teaching Award from Stanford University for 1991-1992. He received a BA, MS and PhD in history, all from Stanford University.