Ellen P. Carnaghan, Ph.D.
Professor
Political Science
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Communism, Capitalism and Social Justice; Comparative Revolution; Ethnicity and Internal War; Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics: Graduate: Democratization; Russian Political Culture
Education
Ph.D., New York University, 1992
M.A. in Law and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1981
B.A., Brown University, 1979
Research Interests
- Russian politics
- The politics of post-communism
- Political change
- Democratization
- Social movements
Publications and Media Placements
Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World. Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2007.
鈥淔rom Balcony to Barricade: Mobilizing Citizens in Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia,鈥滶urope-Asia
Studies, 68, no. 9 (November 2016): 1579-1607.
鈥淭he difficulty of measuring support for democracy in a changing society: Evidence
from Russia,鈥滵emocratization 18, no. 3 (June 2011): 682-706.
鈥淒o Russians Dislike Democracy?,鈥漃S: Political Science and Politics 40, no. 1, January
2007, pp. 61-67. This article was abstracted in International Political Science Abstracts
57, no. 5 (October 2007): 634.
鈥淭hinking 麻豆传媒 Democracy: Interviews with Russian Citizens,鈥漇lavic Review 60, no.
2, Summer 2001: 336-366.
鈥淎lienation, Apathy or Ambivalence?: 'Don't Knows' and Democracy in Russia,鈥� Slavic
Review 55, no. 2, Summer 1996: 325-363.
鈥淕enerational Effects on Attitudes to Communist Regimes: A Comparative Analysis.鈥�
Post-Soviet Affairs, 11, January-March 1995: 28-56, (with Richard Rose).
鈥淧olitical Attitudes and the Gender Gap in the USSR.鈥� Comparative Politics 22, July
1990: 379-399, (with Donna Bahry).
Honors and Awards
- John Slosar Shared Governance Award, SLU, 2014
- Robert A. Johnston, S.J. Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009 and 1998
- International Research and Exchanges Board, long and short-term travel grants, 2007, 1999, 1998, 1990
- Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad, 1998
Professional Organizations and Associations
- American Political Science Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies