Sharon Werning Rivera, associate professor of government, participated in a roundtable titled “Categories and Individuals in Political Science—An Assessment” at the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Association of Slavic Studies on Nov. 13 in Boston. She presented a co-authored article (with David W. Rivera, visiting assistant professor of government) titled “Yeltsin, Putin, and Clinton: Presidential Leadership and Russian Democratization in Comparative Perspective” published in the September 2009 issue of Perspectives on Politics. She discussed new directions for research on leadership in post-communist countries.
