Graeme Robertson
Associate Professor
255 Hamilton Hall
graeme@email.unc.edu| 919-962-0408
Graeme Robertson is an Associate Professor of Political Science. He received his B.A. from Oxford University (1990), an M.A. in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard University (1997), and his Ph.D from Columbia University (2004). A specialist in Russian politics, Graeme’s work focuses on labor, contentious politics, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. He has contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Democracy, Slavic Review, Communist and Post-Communist Studies and Pro et Contra. His is the author of “The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia”, which will be available from Cambridge University Press in December 2010.
Graeme is currently working on projects in a number of areas including looking at labor and protest in the developing world, at the interaction of structural factors and politics in political change in the post-Cold War period, and at governance in contemporary authoritarian regimes.