- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Kathleen Gergely is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. She earned her BA in Foreign Affairs and Russian Language & Literature from the University of Virginia. She earned her MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently studies the political economy of authoritarian regimes and the behavior of authoritarian elites using computational methods, such as social network analysis and text analysis. Her research focuses on questions of political survival, personalization of power, and elite management in the Russian Federation. Her work is forthcoming in Publius: The Journal of Federalism.