Graduate students Courtney Blackington, Frances Cayton, and Silviya Nitsova share their research on populism and protest in East European politics, and the implications of increasing populism in the EU.
Speakers
Courtney Blackington
Courtney Blackington is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is affiliated with the Authoritarian Politics Lab, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, and the Royster Society of Fellows. Her research focuses on protest, partisanship, and conspiracy theories. Courtney’s dissertation analyzes how political socialization processes and psychological factors shape who protests for different issues.
Frances Cayton
Frances Cayton is a Ph.D. student in Cornell University’s Department of Government with a primary subfield concentration is Comparative Politics and a special minor in Methodology. Frances obtained her master’s degree from Harvard University in Russian, East European, and Central Asian studies in 2021, and her bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. Her research has been supported by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the U.S. Department of Education, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Silviya Nitsova
Silviya is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, where she studies comparative politics and quantitative methodology. Her research focuses on the interactions between big business and politics in developing democracies and draws heavily from the contemporary experiences of Ukraine and other post-communist states.
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