Elena Gadjanova
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Elena Gadjanova

Welcome                                           

​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.

​Click here for my C.V.



Contact: Elena Gadjanova, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK


  • Home
  • About
  • Research
    • Social Media and Electoral Politics in Ghana
    • Publications
    • Work in progress
    • Book manuscript
  • Teaching
  • Media and Policy Writing