Associate Professor of Government Sharon Rivera has been selected as a 2012-13 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to the Russian Federation. While in Russia on a teaching/research award, she will further her ongoing project on the demographic and professional composition of the Russian elite in collaboration with Russian scholars.

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Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera published “Improving Assessments of the Transformation of the Russian Elite” in Politicheskie issledovaniya [Political Research] in Sept. Politicheskie issledovaniya is the leading academic political science journal in the Russian Federation. More ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera and Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera have published a paper titled “Yeltsin, Putin, and Clinton: Presidential Leadership and Russian Democratization in Comparative Perspective” in the September issue of Perspectives on Politics, one of the core journals of the American Political Science Association. More ...