Elena Gadjanova
Welcome
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I'm a political scientist studying political communication, elections, and ethnic politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. I aim to understand the sources of polarization in plural societies and its consequences, which leads me to a focus on electoral campaigns. I combine extensive fieldwork with statistical methods and survey experiments to study parties' campaign strategies, targeting decisions, and electoral appeals, and the effects these have on citizens' self-identification, trust in government, and support for democracy.
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Currently, I'm an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Politics at the University of Exeter, associate faculty at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, and associate fellow at Nuffield College.
Previously, I was a Departmental Lecturer in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. I also co-edit the interdisciplinary journal New Diversities. |