Our Team
Peter Slezkine
Director of the Monterey Trialogue
Peter Slezkine received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Clements Center at the University of Texas, Austin, the Belfer Center at Harvard, and International Security Studies at Yale. His essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The New Republic, and Russia in Global Affairs. He is currently completing a history of the concept of the “free world.”
Anna Vassilieva
Co-director of the Monterey Trialogue
Professor Anna Vassilieva is the Russian Studies program head at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the founding director of the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies.
Isabelle Boutaev
Program Coordinator
Isabelle Boutaev received her BA in international relations and political economy from Franklin University Switzerland. Since then, she has worked as an intelligence analyst in the private sector, specializing in threat intelligence and risk analysis. She is currently a MA candidate in nonproliferation and terrorism studies, and a research assistant at the department of Russian studies, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Coraline Yang
Program Coordinator
Coraline Yang holds a B.A. in Translation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and is currently pursuing a dual M.A. in Joint Translation and Interpretation & Localization Project Management at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She has participated in a number of Model United Nations conferences, discussing various global issues ranging from the eradication of dracunculiasis to nuclear nonproliferation.