Senior Researcher, Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Dr. Jade McGlynn is a Senior Researcher at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, where she is also the co-director of the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia and director of the Monterey Trialogue Initiative. She holds a DPhil in Russian from the University of Oxford, where she worked as a Lecturer from 2018-2020. Her research focusses on Russian state media discourse and political uses of history in Russia and the wider eastern European region.

Her work often appears in the media (Foreign Policy, The Spectator, The Telegraph) and leading academic journals (Nationalities Papers, Memory Studies). She is the author of a forthcoming book on the politics of memory in contemporary Russia, ‘The Kremlin’s Memory Makers’, due out with Bloomsbury in 2022 and is currently writing a second book, Putin’s Unreality, outlining how the Kremlin came to believe its own propaganda about Ukraine, culminating in the invasion.

Dr. McGlynn is frequently called upon to contribute her expertise on Russian political culture and foreign policy, as well as soft power and public diplomacy, by government institutions (FCDO, MOD), think tanks and NGOs (CSIS, Instituto Real Elcano, British Council) and the media (BBC Russian Service, MSNBC, Times Radio, The Telegraph). Her work is informed by her experiences living and working in and across Russia for five years. She speaks fluent Russian and Spanish and is proficient in Ukrainian, French and Serbian.

You can follow her at @DrJadeMcGlynn.