Katherine previously did U.S.-Russian foreign policy research at the East-West Institute in New York and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.  She has a Ph.D., M.A. and M.S. in European History from Yale University and taught undergraduates at Yale, Skidmore College and Connecticut College.  Katherine has published articles on topics ranging from the Ukrainian election of 2010 to Russian émigré politics in France during the interwar era.  Katherine also holds degrees from Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (M.A. equivalent) and Harvard University (B.A.) in History and Slavic Studies.