Serguei Oushakine (Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures) is one of four Princeton University faculty members to receive a 2025 Graduate Mentoring Award.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, this honor is awarded to Princeton faculty members who serve as exemplary mentors in nurturing the potential of their graduate students as scholars, teachers and people.
Aprofessor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures, Serguei Oushakine serves as the director of the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and as acting chair of the Department of Anthropology. Oushakine is a member of the Program in European Cultural Studies’ executive committee. He has been on the faculty at Princeton since 2006. His research addresses social transformations and transitional processes in Soviet and post-Soviet societies.
Students at all stages of their graduate studies noted his profound influence in changing their scholarly trajectories for the better. “He is a masterful facilitator of seminars, careful asker of questions, and willing beyond any other educator I have had to push and guide his students to think beyond, against and through their own subjectivities,” shared one first-year anthropology student.
