Professor Robert Legvold was inducted into the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences October 8, 2005. Professor Legvold is an expert on the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He was Director of
The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from 1986 to 1992. Prior to coming to Columbia in 1984, he served for six years as Senior Fellow and Director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. For most of the preceding decade, he was an Assistant, then Associate, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1967.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders. Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are nominated and elected to the Academy by current members. A broad-based membership, comprised of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business, gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy research.
