Norman Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies, at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division. He taught at Boston University, and was a fellow at Harvard University‘s Russian Research Center before returning to Stanford as a member of the faculty in the late 1980s. His current research focuses on the history of genocide in the 20th century and on post-war Soviet policy in Europe.