Ethan Pollock, Abbott Gleason University Professor of History at Brown University, began his term as Brown’s dean of the College in July. Prior to that, Pollock chaired the Department of History from 2020 to 2025. His research examines the politics of science and academia in the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the last years of Stalin’s rule and the early Cold War. His work has been supported by numerous organizations, including Fulbright-Hays and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has held postdoc positions at George Washington University and Columbia University and was an assistant professor at Syracuse University before coming to Brown in 2006. He has also been a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.