Elise Giuliano

Lecturer, Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs

Elise Giuliano is a lecturer in the political science department and director of graduate studies of the MA program at The Harriman Institute. Her research focuses on the politics of ethnic identity, especially the question of how ethnicity impacts popular attitudes and political mobilization. Her award-winning book, Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia’s Republics (Cornell University Press, 2011), examines minority support for nationalist separatism in Russia’s ethnic republics.


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