Education in Britain and The United States
In Britain Russell enrolled in a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Science and Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1961, she passed the Diploma with Distinction and also received the prize for the best student in the program. She moved to the United States, in 1963 where she had been accepted into an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Harvard University. Her research focused on sociology and the study of revolution.
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