Dr. Karen Dawisha
Department Profile
Teaching Interests:
- Russian Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Women in Politics
Research Interests:
- Electoral Systems
- Russian Politics
- East European Politics
"Political Learning in Early Postcommunist Elections." East European Politics and Societies (November 2006). (co-authored with Stephen Deets)
"Communism as a Lived System of Ideas in Contemporary Russia." East European Politics and Societies (Summer 2005).
"The Question of Questions: Was the Soviet Union Worth Saving." Slavic Review (Fall 2004).
"How to Build a Democratic Iraq." Foreign Affairs (May/June 2003). (co-authored with Adeed Dawisha)
"Electocracies and the Hobbesian Fishbowl of Postcommunist Politics." East European Politics and Societies (March 1999).
Authoritarian and Democratization in Post-Communist Societies, 4 volumes (co-edited with Bruce Parrott). Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The International Politics of Eurasia, 10 volumes (co-edited with Bruce Parrott). M.E. Sharpe, 1994-1997.
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval. Cambridge University Press, 1994. (coauthored with Bruce Parrot)
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform: The Great Challenge (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press, 1989, 1990.
The Kremlin and the Prague Spring. California University Press, 1984.
Professor Dawisha is working on the use of law to restrict freedom in Russia. After two decades of examining democratization and its steady course in other post-communist countries, the legal and political situation in Russia does not appear to be following this trajectory. She is examining the electoral landscape over the last 3 cycles to determine the extent to which authoritarianism is reemerging there.
Professor Dawisha has been a:
- Rockefeller International Relations Fellow at the Brookings Institution
- Council on Foreign Relations Fellow at the U.S. Department of State
- MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Before coming to Miami, she was a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. Professor Dawisha is the recipient of grants from:
- the Rockefeller Foundation
- the Ford Foundation
- Smith-Richardson
- MacArthur Foundation
- Department of Education
- Fulbright-Hays
- and many others.
Visit Professor Dawisha's website for more information about funded projects.