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And Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Georgetown University.
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Irina Papkova
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She is based in Washington, District of Columbia and Beirut, Lebanon. A magna cum laude graduate of Hamilton College, Papkova received Master of Arts She has taught there, at George Washington University, and at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She has also held academic fellowships at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan.
Papkova is the author of The Orthodox Church in Russian Politics (Oxford University Press, 2011), a critically acclaimed study of state-church relations in post-Soviet Russia, and numerous scholarly articles in academic journals.
Papkova is a daughter of the Very Reverend André Papkov, a Russian Orthodox Archpriest and rector of Chicago"s Cathedral of the Holy Protection. She is a great-great-granddaughter of the Russian-German industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and anti-communist leader Nikolay Fyodorovitch von Ditmar.
She is chairwoman of the Russian Ball of Washington, District of Columbia.
