The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
Khasan Redjaboev is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a pre-doctoral Fellow at the Davis Center. His primary research interests are in the political economy of development, regime transitions, and politics of post-communist Eurasia. In his dissertation, Khasan investigates state-sponsored, gender-indiscriminate forced labor from the late Russian Empire to post-Soviet statehood, and its effects on social policy legacies in gender, state formation, and public-goods provision. Khasan speaks Uzbek and Russian and has research and professional experience with international organizations, governmental institutions, and private enterprise.
Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present a broad range of research, from Georgian history, European migration, and Kazakh elites to feminism and informal governance in Russia.