Daniel Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro graduated Harvard University in 2020, where he received a master’s degree in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. His research has largely focused on U.S.-Russian relations and the Caucasus: he wrote his undergraduate thesis on Ramzan Kadyrov’s post-war reconstruction of Chechnya and his graduate thesis on the views of young Russian Americanists on the future of U.S.-Russian relations. Daniel currently works for Harvard Kennedy School’s Russia Matters Project and the European Leadership Network, and plans to begin a Fulbright research grant in Armenia in 2021.