Oxana Shevel

Comparative Politics, post-Communist region
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003

Biography

Oxana Shevel's area of research and teaching focuses on the post-Communist region surrounding Russia and issues such as nation- and state-building, the politics of citizenship and migration, and the influence of international institutions on democratization. Professor Shevel holds a BA from Kiev University in Ukraine, and a M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in England. Her book, Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe, which examines how the politics of national identity and strategies of the UNHCR shape refugee admission policies in the post-Communist region, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

At present, Professor Shevel is working on a comparative study of the sources of citizenship policies in new post-Communist states. An article based on this project was published in Comparative Politics in 2009, and another article is forthcoming Post-Soviet Affairs in 2012. Her research has also appeared in the East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, Slavic Review, Political Science Quarterly, Nationality Papers, and in edited volumes. Prior to coming to Tufts, Prof. Shevel taught at Purdue University and held post-doctoral appointments at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Publications

Books

Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Articles

"Between identity and real-politik: Russian citizenship policy dilemmas." Forthcoming in Post-Soviet Affairs (January 2012).

"The politics of memory in a divided society: a comparison of post-Franco Spain and post-Soviet Ukraine." Slavic Review, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 137-164.

"Russian nation-building from Yeltsin to Medvedev: ethnic, civic, or purposefully ambiguous?" Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March 2011): 179-202.

"The post-Communist diaspora laws: Beyond the "good civic vs. bad ethnic" nationalism dichotomy." East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 2010): 159-187.

"The Politics of Citizenship Policy in New States." Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No. 3 (April 2009): 273-291

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