Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise:
Ethnic politics, federalism, democratization, political parties, politics of Eurasia (esp. Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia)
Background:
Henry E. Hale (Ph.D. Harvard 1998) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He specializes in issues of democratization, federalism, ethnic politics, and regional integration, frequently with a focus on the cases of the former Soviet region. His first book, Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was selected a winner of the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award by the APSA Political Organizations and Parties (POP) section. His second book, The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World, is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press's Studies in Comparative Politics series. His articles have been published in journals ranging from Europe-Asia Studies to Orbis to Comparative Politics, with his "Divided We Stand" (World Politics 2004) winning the APSA Qualitative Methods Section's 2005 Alexander L. George Award for best article in qualitative methods. The National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research have funded his research. In 2007-08, he will be in Russia on a Fulbright research fellowship.
Courses Taught:
Psc 190 Russian Politics
Psc 266 Post-Soviet Politics
Psc 289 State-Building in Central Asia and Transcaucasia
Psc 289 Ethnic Conflict
Last update: 7/10/2008
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