Dr. Seth Singleton

Seth Singleton studied Russian History and Literature at Harvard and Political Science at Yale.  He won the American Political Science Association prize for best dissertation in international relations and has held grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Council on Soviet and East European Research, the Kennan Institute, the Fulbright program, and the Open Society Institute. Along with teaching in the US (Yale, Ripon College, Pacific University) he has lived in Tanzania, Russia, Ecuador, and Vietnam and consulted in China, Mongolia, and Bolivia.  In the 1970s-1990s he studied Soviet foreign policy in Africa and Asia, with publication in Slavic Review, the Washington Quarterly, the Atlantic Community Quarterly, and numerous book chapters.  In 1991 and 1992 he taught and consulted in Russia, in Ekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.  His interests have always included university development along with teaching, and he has been academic dean in universities in the US, Ecuador, and Vietnam.