I am an Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs and a faculty affiliate of the John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy at Occidental College in Los Angeles. As of 2024-25 academic year, I am also the Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Research Center at the college.
I have broad research interests in international and comparative political economy. I am currently working on a new project that examines the influence of autocratic and democratic governance models on the global transition to renewable energy. Previously, I published work on authoritarianism, rule of law, corruption, financial systems, and regime dynamics in Russia, Central Asia, and the United States. My research and commentary have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Law & Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Washington Post, and other publications.
In 2024, I co-edited a special issue of Law & Policy titled "Global Perspectives on Judicial Politics and Democratic Backsliding," featuring 10 articles from 15 scholars from around the world.
My first book Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia explored how the Russian economy integrated into the global financial markets since the Soviet collapse. It was named the co-winner of the 2023 Best Book Award given by the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association.
Before joining the faculty at Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2020, I held appointments and affiliations at Wellesley College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the Davis Center at Harvard University, and the Cornell-in-Washington Program. I am a native of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where I had the good fortune to study at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #61.
I have broad research interests in international and comparative political economy. I am currently working on a new project that examines the influence of autocratic and democratic governance models on the global transition to renewable energy. Previously, I published work on authoritarianism, rule of law, corruption, financial systems, and regime dynamics in Russia, Central Asia, and the United States. My research and commentary have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Law & Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Washington Post, and other publications.
In 2024, I co-edited a special issue of Law & Policy titled "Global Perspectives on Judicial Politics and Democratic Backsliding," featuring 10 articles from 15 scholars from around the world.
My first book Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia explored how the Russian economy integrated into the global financial markets since the Soviet collapse. It was named the co-winner of the 2023 Best Book Award given by the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association.
Before joining the faculty at Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2020, I held appointments and affiliations at Wellesley College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the Davis Center at Harvard University, and the Cornell-in-Washington Program. I am a native of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where I had the good fortune to study at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #61.
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