Collaborators

Research Collaborators

Scholars and colleagues with whom I collaborate on research related to migration, political behavior, authoritarianism, gender, and transnational politics.

Emil Kamalov

Emil Kamalov

Stanford University (CDDRL) • OutRush Co-PI

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University. Holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. His research focuses on political behavior, repression, and war-induced migration. Alongside Ivetta Sergeeva, he co-founded OutRush — a panel survey of Russian post-2022 emigrants — and ViolenceMonitor, a survey on intimate partner violence in Russia. Both projects have received wide coverage in the New York Times, Financial Times, BBC, and other international outlets.

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Ivetta Sergeeva

Ivetta Sergeeva

George Washington University • OutRush Co-PI

Senior Research Associate at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and Research Affiliate at CDDRL, Stanford. Holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Her research focuses on authoritarianism, civil society, and emigration, combining surveys, experiments, and interviews. She is Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded DemEx project and co-founder of OutRush and ViolenceMonitor alongside Emil Kamalov.

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Margarita Zavadskaya

Margarita Zavadskaya

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Her research focuses on authoritarian states, mass protests, elections, and public opinion. She has published in Democratization, East European Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, and other journals, and is co-editor of Electoral Integrity and Political Regimes (Routledge, 2018).

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Veronica Kostenko

Veronica Kostenko

Tel Aviv University • Gender Mosaic Project

Postdoctoral researcher at the Lowy International School, Tel Aviv University, as part of the Gender Mosaic Project. Holds a PhD in social sciences. Her research spans gender inequalities, migration, intersectionality, and comparative survey methods, with a focus on Muslim-majority societies and the Middle East. She also works on Russian post-2022 emigration, gender egalitarianism among emigrants, and migrant adaptation.

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