Victoria Zhuravleva is professor of American history and international relations, Chair of the Department of American Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Her field of research interests is American history with a specialization in Russian-American relations and US foreign policy. She organized numerous international conferences, published articles in the leading Russian and American historical journals, and edited several volumes on history and imagology of Russian-American relations as well as on American history. Her latest work is Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia: Mutual Representations in Academic Projects (2016), coedited with Ivan Kurilla. She is the author of the book Understanding Russia in the United States: Images and Myths (2012) and an alumna of the Fulbright Program (1996) and the Kennan Institute Program (2006). In 2003, she was awarded with the Medal of the Russian Ministry of Education. She holds a Ph.D. in history. She is a Fellow of SSASA 14: Images of America: Reality and Stereotypes, in 2016.