We are a community of students, scholars, and staff who share a dedication to understanding the region more deeply.
The views expressed by people affiliated with the Davis Center are as different as the people themselves and do not necessarily reflect institutional positions held by the center.
Alexandra Vacroux is the Davis Center's executive director, overseeing graduate studies and other initiatives while doing scholarly work on various policy issues.
Currently the Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing Specialist at Tufts University, Jake is a scholar of Central Asian and Tatar intellectual history.
Dr. Ilya Vidrin is an assistant professor at Northeastern University and a research-practitioner at the nexus of performing arts, ethics, and interactive media.
Harvard MDes (Ecologies) 2025, OCAD BDes 2020, Chinese-Canadian service designer and researcher interested in speculative and critical design and design research.
