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Martha Brill Olcott
AuthorBooks · Second hand1949-2024
Martha Brill Olcott was an American political scientist who was an expert on Central Asia and the Caspian. She was a senior associate with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, co-directing the Carnegie Moscow Center's Project on Ethnicity and Politics in the former Soviet Union from 1995 to 2014. Olcott taught political science at Colgate University from 1975 until 1998. She previously served as a special consultant to Acting United States Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and as director of the Central Asian American Enterprise Fund. Olcott was a visiting professor at the James Madison College of Michigan State University.
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About Martha Brill Olcott
Birth
1949
Death
2024
Martha Brill Olcott was an American political scientist who was an expert on Central Asia and the Caspian. She was a senior associate with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, co-directing the Carnegie Moscow Center's Project on Ethnicity and Politics in the former Soviet Union from 1995 to 2014. Olcott taught political science at Colgate University from 1975 until 1998. She previously served as a special consultant to Acting United States Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and as director of the Central Asian American Enterprise Fund. Olcott was a visiting professor at the James Madison College of Michigan State University.
Martha Brill Olcott was a prominent American political scientist born in the Bronx.
Her most recognized work, The Soviet multinational state, is a benchmark in the study of Soviet politics.
Throughout her career, she published a total of 17 works focused on politics and ethnic relations.
She dedicated herself to university teaching, sharing her deep knowledge of the former Soviet republics.
Her research covered complex topics such as economic conditions and political evolution after 1991.
