Our Team
Director
Michael E. Taylor Distinguished 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
Assistant Professor of Political Science
charismatic leadership, political identity, political behavior, political movements and parties, democracy, research methods, Latin America
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
Associate Director & Post-Doc
Associate Director and 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
- João Cardoso L. Camargos
- Bryce W. Hecht – elite power sharing, opposition cooptation, formal theory, and computational social science.
- Nika Mukasashvili
- Martin Naunov
- Seowon Oh – digital authoritarianism, IT politics, international political economy, FDI
- Brian Overington
- Zeynep Ozkan
- Aleksandra Rumiantseva – repression, protest activity, local elites, political behavior, Russia
- Marta Shmendel
- Ivan Sumaneev
- Ezio Jiaqi Wang
Former Graduate Students
- Courtney Blackington, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Cole Harvey, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
- Simon Hoellerbauer, Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science and Society, Vassar College
- Guzel Garifullina, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
- Silviya Nitsova, British Academy International Fellow, University of Manchester
- Sean Norton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University