Jill Dougherty & Alex Marquadt Reporting from the Front Lines in Russia & Ukraine

The event was co-sponsored by Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a conversation with Jill Dougherty, adjunct professor at CERES and former CNN Moscow bureau chief, and Alex Marquardt, CNN senior national security correspondent.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Dougherty and Alex Marquardt have both been covering the conflict on the ground in Russia and Ukraine for CNN, providing audiences with critical insights into how the crisis is impacting ordinary citizens and international relations alike. At this event, both journalists will discuss their experience working on the frontlines of this conflict and reflect upon the role played by the media in the Russia-Ukraine war.
The conversation was moderated by Dr. Angela Stent, senior advisor to CERES and SFS professor emerita of government and foreign service, with opening remarks by SFS Dean Joel Hellman and Professor Michael David-Fox, director of CERES. The discussion was followed by a Q&A session open to Georgetown University ID holders.
About The Speakers:
Jill Dougherty is an adjunct professor at CERES and spent the first two and a half weeks of the Russia-Ukraine war in Moscow, providing commentary and analysis for CNN. During her nearly decade-long tenure as CNN's Moscow bureau chief, she covered both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. As Russian forces swarmed into Ukraine, she took the pulse of the Russian capital and witnessed the initial shock of massive economic sanctions from the west.
Alex Marquardt (SFS'04) is an SFS alumnus and CNN's senior national security correspondent based in Washington, DC. Marquardt spent the initial weeks of the Russia-Ukraine War providing coverage on the ground across Ukraine for CNN. In his prior role as foreign correspondent for ABC News, Marquardt traveled across Ukraine during Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. He has decades of journalistic experience reporting from the front lines of wars and uprisings in the Middle East and in the aftermath of terror attacks across Europe.
Joel Hellman is dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in Russian and East European Studies. Before coming to Georgetown, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University, the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and as chief institutional economist at the World Bank.
Michael David-Fox is director of CERES and professor of foreign service and history at Georgetown. He also serves as executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and as a scholarly advisor at the Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the Higher School of Economics. His most recent book is Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union (Pittsburgh University Press), and he is currently working on a new book, titled Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Nazi and Soviet Rule for Harvard University Press.
Angela Stent is professor emerita of Georgetown's Department of Government. She directed CERES until 2021. She is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. Stent’s academic work focuses on the triangular political and economic relationship between the United States, Russia and Europe.
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