# Terry Martin George F. Baker Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University Director, Ukrainian Research Institute ![Terry Martin](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-07/martin_terry.jpg?itok=6DrIZ5Oq) location\_on Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, S328 Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-9895](tel:617-495-9895) email laptop\_windows [Department of History, Harvard University](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/terry-martin) laptop\_windows [Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University](https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/terry-martin) Terry Martin is the author of *The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939* (Cornell UP, 2001) and co-editor (with Ronald Suny) of *A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin* (Oxford UP, 2001). In addition to questions of nationality and empire, he has written on religion, political and administrative history, Soviet neo-traditionalism, and the political police, as well as the Nazi-Soviet comparison. He is currently completing a book on the politics and sociology of state information-gathering in the USSR from the revolution through the death of Stalin. - ## Fields of Expertise [History](/fields-expertise/history) - ## Role [Executive Committee](/role/executive-committee) [Staff](/role/staff)