Our Team
Director
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies
political psychology, protest, Russia, Ukraine, former Soviet Union
Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor of Political Science
autocratic institutions, authoritarian resilience, contentious politics, ethnic/religious politics in authoritarian regimes, Middle East
Professor of Sociology
Islamic studies, citizenship studies, Middle East/North Africa
Assistant Professor of Political Science
causal inference, spillover effects, panel data analysis, machine learning, social movements
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Post-Doctoral Researcher
authoritarian resilience, contentious politics, collective action, conflict, Russia and former USSR
Visiting Fellow
Anil Kahvecioğlu
Department of Political Science at Bilkent University, Turkey
pro-government mobilization, right-wing protests, Turkey
Current Graduate Students
- Winston Ardoin – political participation, peripheral politics, collective action, civil society, citizen (in)security, state repression, the Americas
- Courtney Blackington
- Bryce W. Hecht – elite power sharing, opposition cooptation, formal theory, and computational social science.
- Nika Mukasashvili
- Martin Naunov
- Silviya Nitsova
- Seowon Oh – digital authoritarianism, IT politics, international political economy, FDI
- Brian Overington
- Aleksandra Rumiantseva – Repression, Protest Activity, Local Elites, Political Behavior, Russia
- Ezio Jiaqi Wang
Former Graduate Students
- Cole Harvey, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
- Guzel Garifullina, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
- Simon Hoellerbauer, Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science and Society, Vassar College
- Sean Norton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University