Maria Snegovaya

Maria Snegovaya (PhD, Columbia University) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. She is a comparative politics, international relations, and statistical methods specialist.

The key focus of her research is democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe, as well as Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. Her research results and analysis have appeared in policy and peer-reviewed journals, including West European Politics, Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs, and the Washington Post‘s political science blog the Monkey Cage. Her research has been referenced in publications such as the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Economist, and Foreign Policy. She was also a regular contributor to Vedomosti.