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Sharon Werning Rivera, the Sidney Wertimer Professor of Government, recently presented a paper at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Chicago.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth week, we asked several Hamilton professors, experts in various aspects of the region and the war, to comment on recent events.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera and Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera recently published an article titled “Are Siloviki and Democracy Still Incompatible?"

Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera recently presented “New Findings from the 2020 Survey of Russian Elites” at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) in Stockholm.

Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera recently served as chair and discussant of a panel at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

In an interview for The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, Professor and chair of the government department Sharon Werning Rivera discussed results of the eighth survey wave of the Survey of Russian Elites (SRE) and a special issue of Post-Soviet Affairs.

Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera recently published an article in the British journal Russian Politics.

Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera co-edited a special double issue of Post-Soviet Affairs titled “The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Russian Elites, 1993-2016.”

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera convened a conference on April 20 – 21 titled “Russian Elite Attitudes toward Conflict and the West,” one of two international meetings conducted on campus this past weekend.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled “The Decline of Elite Uncertainty during Authoritarian Consolidation: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin,” on Nov. 11 in Chicago.