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