Complex sentence: In 1986 she won the Merle Fainsod Prize for academic promise and earned, in 1988, an A.M. in Soviet Union Regional Studies from Harvard University, where she completed her PhD in Political Science 1991.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1986 she won the Merle Fainsod Prize for academic promise. In 1988 she earned an A.M. in Soviet Union Regional Studies from Harvard University where she completed her PhD in Political Science 1991.