about

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics at the George Washington University, and I earned my PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University in 2026.

My research focuses on political communication, mis/disinformation, public diplomacy, and political psychology, with projects in post-Soviet Central Asia and Eastern Europe, the United States, and India. I use quantitative observational and experimental methods, including causal inference, survey experiments, and text analysis.

My work has been published in PLOS One, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies and has been accepted to American Journal of Political Science. I have also served as a peer reviewer for Post-Soviet Affairs, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Central Asian Survey, Journal of Politics, and Nationalities Papers. Alongside my academic research, I am committed to public scholarship, and my writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, PONARS Eurasia, and Vlast, among other outlets.

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I have completed advanced training in quantitative methods through programs at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, and in international survey methods through the LAPOP Summer School at Vanderbilt University. From 2023 to 2025, I was a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.

At GWU, I worked as a teaching assistant in both the Department of Political Science and Elliott School of International Affairs for courses such as Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Affairs, and Nationalism. In Fall 2025, I taught my own undergraduate course, Politics of Information, as part of the Dean's Graduate Lectureship at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

I earned a Master of Arts in Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. I also spent a semester as an exchange student at California State University, Bakersfield on a U.S. State Department scholarship.

For more details on my research, publications, and teaching, explore the sections above. Feel free to reach out via the contact page.