Professional Affiliation

Research Fellow, Department of Social Sciences, Charles University; Professor, Free University (Briva Universitate, Latvia)

Expert Bio

Dr. Dubrovskiy, alumnus of St. Petersburg State University and European University at St. Petersburg, founded and directed the Ethnic Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg from 1999-2005. He was also the founder and lecturer of the Human Rights program at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg State University, from 2004-2015. He was a visiting lecturer at Bard College (New York), Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), and adjunct assistant professor at Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2015-2017), as well as a Galina Starovoitova Fellow at the Kennan Institute from 2007-2008. 

Until March 2022, he was an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). In early April 2022, he was declared a "foreign agent" in Russia, left the country, and is currently working at Charles University, Prague.

Expertise

Freedom of speech, minority rights, academic rights and freedoms

Wilson Center Project

"Institution of Special Humanitarian Expert Examination in Russia: Struggle Against Discrimination or a Tool of Discrimination?"

Project Summary

The project shows the hypothetical connection between certain paradigms, within which the works are written, and the conclusions of carried out examinations connected to kindling inter-ethnic discord.

Major Publications

Kangas, Anni, Sirke Mäkinen, Dmitri Dubrovskiy, Judith Pallot, Svetlana Shenderova, Gleb Yarovoy, and Oksana Zabolotna. "Debating academic boycotts and cooperation in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine." New perspectives (2023): 2336825X23118733

Dubrovskiy, Dmitry. "Russian Academia and the Ukraine War." Russian analytical digest.  29, no. 281 (2022): 18.

Dmitry Dubrovskiy, and Irina Meyer "Academic Freedom or Freedom of Speech? Russian Social Scientists' Understanding of Academic Freedom." Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (2021). 30:1

Dmitry Dubrovskiy, and Katarzyna Kaczmarska. Authoritarian modernisation and academic freedom: the contradictions of internationalisation and "pockets of effectiveness" in Russian higher education, Transtext(e)s Transcultures (2022) 跨文本跨文化, n°16