Iana Shchetinskaia is a Ph.D. student in History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the American

Studies Department at the Russian State University for the

Humanities. Her research focuses on

the institutional evolution and role of foreign policy expertise in the

United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as well as the U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange. She holds

a Master of International Studies degree from North Carolina State

University, where she studied on a Fulbright scholarship. Her

Master’s research analyzed the ways national economic,

demographic, and public opinion trends constrain Russia’s foreign

policy. Additionally, Iana worked as a Research Intern at the

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington, D.C.

More recently, she has been a Research Fellow at the International

Security working group at the Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum, where

she conducted research on the implications of the conventional arms

trade for U.S.-Russian relations alongside U.S. and Russian scholars and a Fellow at the Cold War Archives Research Institute (Wilson Center). Iana has taught courses on International Security, Public Policy, and International Organizations.