Historian, Slavist, and professor at the Paris School for Advanced Studies (EHESS) in the Social Sciences, as well as at the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
His research interests include socio-cultural history, intellectual history, and the history of education and upbringing in Russia in the 18th-20th centuries.
Dr. Berelowitch is the author of many books and articles, such as “Sovetizatsiya russkoi shkoly, 1917–1931 [The Sovietization of the Russian School, 1917–1931],” “Rossiya–SSSR, 1914–1991, peremeny vo vzglyadakh [Russia–USSR, 1914–1991: Changes in Attitudes],” “Istoriya Sankt-Peterburga [The History of St. Petersburg]” (co-authored with Olga Medvedkova), and “Velikij russkij vek: ot Aleksandra I do Nikolaya II [The Great Russian Century: From Alexander I to Nikolai II]” as well as translations — in particular, texts by Alexander Zinov'ev, Isaac Babel, Vladimir Mayakovskii, and Joseph Brodksii.
He is on the editorial board of the magazine “Cahiers du monde russe”.