I am an Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs, Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Research Center, and a faculty affiliate of the Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy at Occidental College in Los Angeles. 

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.  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. 

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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