Mikhail A. Strokan

Graduate Student in Political Science

Ph.D. Candidate (Comparative Politics, International Relations), Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA

M.A., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA

M.A., American Studies (with distinction), School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

M.A., International Relations, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA

B.A., Area Studies (with distinction), School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. In the past three years I have been conducting my fieldwork in Russia, Azerbaijan and Central Asia (since the Spring of 2020). My current research focuses on energy politics of Eurasian petrostates and I am planning to defend my dissertation by August of 2024. Previously, my works were published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press.

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Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Energy Politics, International Relations, Russia and Eurasia Studies (Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus), Nationalism and National Identity Formation, Qualitative Methodology.

Selected Publications

Courses Taught

Served as:

TA or Head TA in:

  • PSCI 217: Russian Politics (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
  • PSCI 150: Introduction to IR Theory (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
  • GLBS 2000: Globalization: Social, Economic, and Political Aspects (Spring 2023)

Grader in:

  • PSCI 112: Socialism (Spring 2021)
  • PSCI 144 / RUSS 134 / EEUR153: Communism: History, Politics, and Culture (Fall 2020, Fall 2021)