17 Facts About Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Mark Kotkin was born on February 17,1959 and is an American historian, academic, and author.

Stephen Kotkin is the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

For 33 years, Kotkin taught at Princeton University, where he attained the title of John P Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs; he took on emeritus status from Princeton University in 2022.

Stephen Kotkin was the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the co-director of the certificate-granting program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy.

Stephen Kotkin has won a number of awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Stephen Kotkin is the husband of curator and art historian Soyoung Lee.

Stephen Kotkin was born in New Jersey, the third son of Jay Stephen Kotkin, a factory worker of Belarusian-Jewish descent, and Joanne Korolewicz, a cook and art teacher of Polish descent.

Stephen Kotkin was a visiting scholar at the USSR Academy of Sciences and then at its descendant, the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Stephen Kotkin was a visiting scholar at University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science in 1994 and 1997.

Stephen Kotkin served as the director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program for thirteen years and as the co-director of the certificate program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy from 2015 to 2022.

Stephen Kotkin is the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Stephen Kotkin has written several nonfiction books about history as well as textbooks.

Stephen Kotkin is a frequent contributor on Russian and Eurasian affairs and he writes book and film reviews for various publications, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, the Financial Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Stephen Kotkin contributed as a commentator for NPR and the BBC.

Stephen Kotkin is currently writing a multi-century history of Siberia, focusing on the Ob River Valley.

When speaking about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in an interview with Foreign Affairs, Stephen Kotkin suggested that a serous threat of regime change in Russia could ultimately motivate Vladimir Putin with to stop the war.

Stephen Kotkin described Donald Trump's foreign policy regarding the war in Ukraine as unpredictable, and said he thought it was unlikely that Trump would succeed in becoming an autocrat, given the existing checks and balances in the United States' political system.