Comparative Politics; Identity Politics, Qualitative Methods and Research Design, Surveys,
Subfields: Political Behavior and Public Opinion; Social Mobilization, Democratization
Fieldwork: Russia, Tatarstan, Estonia, Kazakhstan
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1981
Publications:
Gathering Voices: Political Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union with Henry Brady (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
"Meaning-making of ethnicity in different contexts: Russians in Estonia, Russia and Kazakhstan.”w/ Triin Vihalemm, Approaches to Culture Theory Vol 6, editor Anu Kannike. Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University Press. forthcoming.
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnic Identity" (with Henry Brady). In Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Science Research, edited by Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnson, and Rose McDermott (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"The Emergence of Political Agendas: The Independence Movement in Estonia in 1985-1991," in Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World (Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young, eds.). Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006.
"Subjects to Citizens: From Non-Voting, to Protesting, to Voting in Estonia during the Transition to Democracy" (with Henry E. Brady), Journal of Baltic Studies (Winter, 2001).
"Categorically Wrong? Nominal versus Graded Measures of Ethnic Identity" (with Henry E. Brady), Studies in Comparative International Development (Fall 2000), pp. 56-91.
Courses:
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Undergraduate |
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PS 118 |
Comparative Ethnic Politics |
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PS 128 |
Foreign Policy of Russia and the Successor States |
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PS 143 |
Politics of the Former Soviet Union and the Successor States |
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PS 106 and PS 196 |
Undergraduate and Senior Seminars on Democratization, Political Culture, and Muslims in Eurasia |
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Graduate |
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PS 230 |
Comparative Politics |
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PS 231 |
Comparative Methods |
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PS 236 |
Democratization |
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PS 237 |
Social Movements and Collective Action |
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PS 280A |
Politics of the Former Soviet Union and the Successor States |
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PS 281 |
Comparative Ethnic Politics |