Harris Mylonas, George Washington University, U.S.
Emre Amasyalı
Emre Amasyalı is the Managing Editor of Nationalities Papers. He is a Teaching Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His research examines the dynamics of nation-building and their long-term effects on ethnic group relations, conflict, and socio-political change. He received his PhD in Sociology from McGill University, an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford, and a BA (Honors) in Political Studies and History from Queen’s University; his doctoral research and teaching received several awards, including the Arts Insights Dissertation Award for the Social Sciences and Humanities (2021) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities’ Doctoral Student Paper Award (2016). He previously held a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and served as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC-funded ETHNICGOODS project. He is currently working on a series of collaborative articles on cultural elimination policies, language grievances and ethnic conflict, and the pitfalls of anachronism in social science.
Jennie L. Schulze, Duquesne University, USA
Jennie Schulze is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duquesne University. Her research interests include the influence of European institutions and kin-states on minority integration and minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as how cultural, structural, and social variables effect minority integration and democratic participation. Her book, Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia (University of Pittsburgh, 2018) received an Honorable Mention for the Joseph Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies. She is the Director of the Center for Migration, Displacement, and Community Studies at Duquesne University, and is currently working on a new comparative book project on the challenges of refugee resettlement during times of crisis. Schulze’s scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Polity, the Journal for Ethnic and Minority Issues in Europe, and Studies of Transition States and Societies.
Zeynep Bulutgil, University College London, U.K.
H. Zeynep Bulutgil is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University College London. Her general research interests focus on political violence, political institutions, state formation, religion & politics, nationalism, and ethnic politics. Her first research project explored the conditions and processes that lead to (or prevent) ethnic cleansing. This research project resulted in her first monograph, The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2016; 2018), which was the Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in the European Politics and Society Section of APSA. She has also published articles on ethnic cleansing, political violence, social cleavages, and political mobilization in International Security, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Nationalities Papers. Her second book, The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization (Oxford University Press, 2022), explored the conditions under which secular political movements and parties emerge, and state institutions become divorced from religious actors and regulations. She was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2019-2020) for this project. Her book has received the 2023 Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award at APSA, 2023 Best Book Award in the Religion and International Relations Section of ISA, 2023 Honorable Mention for the APSA David Greenstone Prize in Politics and History, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Gregory Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Politics at APSA. She has also published co-authored articles that explore the relationship between political mobilization and economic inequality within and between ethno-religious groups in India.
Elise Giuliano, Columbia U
Elise Giuliano is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science; Director of the MARS-REERS Program; Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations
Elise Giuliano’s research focuses on the politics of ethnic identity, especially the question of how ethnicity impacts popular attitudes and political mobilization. Her book, Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia’s Republics, examines minority support for nationalist separatism in Russia’s ethnic republics. Currently, Giuliano is researching how the crisis in Ukraine has influenced political opinion among Ukrainian citizens—especially in the understudied eastern regions of the country.
Eleanor Knott, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Eleanor Knott is an Associate Professor in Qualitative Methods in the Department of Methodology at the LSE. She received her PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 2016. Eleanor’s current substantive research focuses on the politics of citizenship and democracy in the Former Soviet Union. She has a particular interest in democratisation and backsliding in Moldova, as well as how Moldova is understood politically and geopolitically in the shadow of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her methodological research explores research ethics, intuitive approaches, and qualitative research more generally. Her prior research compared the politics of identity and citizenship in Moldova and Crimea from the bottom-up, published in 2022 in her first monograph, Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Global Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Qualitative Research, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Citizenship Studies, and Democratization, among others.
Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Eötvös Loránd U, Budapest, Hungary
Karolina Lendák-Kabók is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, where she leads the MTA–ELTE Lendület (Momentum) MIXED Research Group (2025–2030). Her research focuses on ethnic and national minorities, intermarriage and mixed families, gender, identity, and minority–majority relations in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Her current research examines how mixed families negotiate ethnic, national, linguistic, and gender boundaries across different historical, political, and social contexts. She was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–2024), and her research has also been supported by the Bolyai János Research Scholarship and international fellowships in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Hungary. Her work has appeared in leading international journals, including Nations and Nationalism, Ethnicities, Identities, Nationalities Papers, and Sociology Compass. She is the author of National Minorities in Serbian Academia: The Role of Gender and Language Barriers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and co-editor, with Martin Klatt, of Minorities, Identity and Intermarriage: A European Perspective (Routledge, 2026). Her academic distinctions include the ELTE Promising Researcher Award (2023), the Anđelka Milić Award (2022), the Crystal Globe Award for research achievement as a young scholar (2017), and the Erdei Ferenc Award of the Hungarian Sociological Association (2025). She has served as an Associate Editor of Nationalities Papers since 2025 and contributes to several international editorial and scholarly networks. She is also actively involved in European research collaborations.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, King’s College London, U.K.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Reader in Russian Politics at King’s College London. Gulnaz is the author of The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity (Oxford University Press, 2020), Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia (Notre Dame University Press, 2010), and editor of Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (Lexington Press, 2012). Gulnaz has studied issues related to Russian federalism and sub-national politics, political economy of post-communist transformation and political psychology of authoritarian legitimation in Russia. She has published articles in Perspective on Politics, Comparative Politics, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals. Gulnaz is originally from Tatarstan (Russia). She has received her Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University and worked at Miami University (Ohio) as Assistant and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies during 2004-2013.
David Stroup, Manchester U, UK
David R. Stroup is a Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester. He received his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in August 2017. His current research, drawing on ethnographic and interview gathered over the course of a year in China on Fulbright Research grant, focuses on how the renegotiation of ethnic boundaries in ethnic Hui Muslim communities in the context of urbanization interacts with China’s state policies on ethnic and religious identification. He is also developing further research on the everyday foundations of populist Islamophobia in China. His areas of specialization within the field of comparative politics include: nationalism and ethnic politics, everyday ethnicity, the politics of authoritarianism, and state-society relations.
Yehonatan Abramson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Fiona B. Adamson, SOAS, University of London, U.K.
Hugh Agnew, George Washington University, U.S.
Şener Aktürk, Koç University, Turkey
Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa, Canada
Monika Baar, European University Institute, Italy
Lowell Barrington, Marquette University, U.S.
Ceren Belge, Concordia University, Canada
Max Bergholz, Concordia University, Canada
Stefano Bianchini, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
Florian Bieber, University of Graz, Austria
Rogers Brubaker, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.
David Crowe, Chapman University and Elon University, U.S.
Zsuzsa Csergő, Queen’s University, Canada
Keith Darden, American University, U.S.
Bhavna Davé, SOAS, University of London, U.K.
Stephen Deets, Babson College, U.S.
Magdalena Dembinska, U de Montreal, Canada
Mila Dragojević, The University of the South, U.S.
Yuval Feinstein, University of Haifa, Israel
Julie George, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Paul Goode, Carleton U, Canada
Alexandra Goujon, University of Bourgogne, France
Henry Hale, George Washington University, U.S.
Erin Jenne, Central European University, Hungary
Emmanuel Karagiannis, Kings College, UK
Natalie Koch, Syracuse University, USA
Maria Koinova, University of Warwick, U.K.
Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine, U.S.
Dominika Koter, Colgate University, U.S.
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University, U.S.
Sandra León, Carlos III-Juan March Institute, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Srdja Pavlović, University of Alberta, Canada
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, U.S.
Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Oxana Shevel, Tufts University, U.S.
David Siroky, University of Essex, UK
Regine Spector, University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.
Djordje Stefanovic, University of Adelaide, Australia
Rok Stergar, U of Ljubljana, Slovenia
David Szakonyi, George Washington University, U.S.
Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail), Virginia Tech, U.S.
Peter Vermeersch, University of Leuven, Belgium
Elpida Vogli, University of Thrace, Greece
Myra Waterbury, Ohio University, U.S.
Timothy William Waters, Indiana University, U.S.
Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University, U.S.
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Susan L. Woodward, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, U.S.
2013-2018: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, U.S.
2009-2013: Florian Bieber, University of Graz, Austria
2002-2009: Steve Sabol, University of North Carolina, U.S.
1999-2002: Nancy Wingfield, Northern Illinois University, U.S.
1987-1998: Henry Huttenbach, The City College of New York, CUNY, U.S.
1985-1986: Orest Subtelny, York University, Canada
1972-1984: Stephen Horak, Eastern Illinois University, U.S.
