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Targeted Research
The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus was established in 1993 to help strengthen research and teaching programs at Harvard on the region extending from the Caucasus, Crimea and the Volga Basin in the west to Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet in the east. The program's major focus is on the former Soviet republics, and it supports activities in all fields of social science and humanities, including course offerings, public seminars, a long-running study group, visiting scholars, information resources, curriculum development, and research projects. The program has been host to the Central Eurasian Studies Society since it was established in 2000, and the "Central Eurasian Studies World Wide" information resources. Contact: centasia@fas.harvard.edu Mark Kramer directs the Project on Cold War Studies (PCWS). The project was established in late 1997 as an autonomous part of the Davis Center. The opening of archives in the former Soviet bloc has provided new opportunities for scholars to reassess and achieve a more sophisticated understanding of the Cold War. The Project on Cold War Studies seeks to take full advantage of these opportunities. The PCWS Publications Program consists of three main types of publications: the peer-reviewed Journal of Cold War Studies, the Project on Cold War Studies Book Series, and special book projects. All three provide outlets for historians, political scientists, and other scholars who want to draw on newly available archival evidence. Some authors offer fresh historical accounts, whereas others use the new evidence to test key theories in political science and international relations. In addition to the Publications Program, the PCWS sponsors conferences and seminars, oversees a huge collection of photocopied and microfilmed archival materials, and maintains an extensive website with information about the project, detailed pages about the Cold War, dozens of links to related websites, and scanned images of declassified documents.
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