Faculty and Researchers

Elizabeth Wood

Faculty Director, MIT-Eurasia Program

MIT-Ukraine Program

Ford International Professor of History

Email

elizwood@mit.edu

Website

https://history.mit.edu/people/elizabeth-wood/

Expertise

Cold War history

Political economy of contemporary Russia

Women’s rights

Globalization

Publications

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Gender Systems in the Putin Autocracy.” Frontiers in Sociology 9 (2024): 1327946–1327946.

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Crimea in My Heart: Visualizing Putin’s Resurgent Empire in 2014.” In Picturing Russian Empire, edited by Valerie A. Kivelson, Sergei A. Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Tumarkin, Nina, Ronald Grigor Suny, Elizabeth Wood, Stephen E Hanson, and Andrea Graziosi. “The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia.” Journal of Cold War Studies 24, no. 2 (2022): 132–58.

Dezhina, Irina, and Elizabeth A Wood. “US-Russian Partnerships in Science: Working with Differences.” Post-Soviet Affairs 38, no. 5 (2022): 349–65.

Wood, Elizabeth A, and David L Hoffmann. “Performing Memory and Its Limits: Vladimir Putin and the Celebration of World War II in Russia.” In The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, 1st ed., 249–75. Routledge, 2022.

Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine

Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia

Cornell University Press

Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia

News

Building for Ukraine: A hackathon with a mission

The MIT-Ukraine program co-sponsored a hackathon where students created innovative projects addressing challenges facing Ukraine.

Building for Ukraine: A hackathon with a mission

Video: Navalny's widow to carry on his work in Russia

Faculty co-director of MIT-Ukraine program Elizabeth Wood speaks on the future of the Russian president election and European sanctions in the context of Alexei Navalny's death.

February 19, 2024

Video: Navalny's widow to carry on his work in Russia

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