Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Maps & Directions

Rita P. Peters

Professor Peters teaches in the Political Science Department of UMass Boston. She is also an Associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian Studies. Among other courses, she teaches International Relations and War and has lectured on various aspects of conflict and security at the University of Latvia and the School of Diplomacy in Tallinn- as well as for OLLI. She earned her PhD at Boston University. Her research has been published in various scholarly journals, and she is currently researching Baltic state policies in international relations.

1 Course: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (Video Conference Class)