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Reader in PoliticsÌý
Room: 2.10, 29/30 Tavistock Square
Email:Ìýs.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I joined ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº in 2005 as Programme Coordinator of the MSc in Democracy and Comparative Politics. IÌýwas previously an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2003-2005) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio University (2001-2005). I have also been a fellow at the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University (2000-2001). I received myÌýPhDÌýfrom Columbia University inÌý2000, and myÌýprimary supervisor was the late DrÌýCharles Tilly. IÌýreceived myÌýundergraduate degree magna cum laude from Amherst College.

I am an Associate Editor of the journalÌý, and an Advisory Board member forÌýtheÌý.

Research

My research examines the dynamics of ethnic or religious identity in politics, in democratic states as well as democratising states or hybrid regimes. I am currently especially interested in states where democratic structures are incrementally replaced with more authoritarian control or patronal rule. I have published articles inÌýPerspectives on Politics,ÌýParty Politics,ÌýNations and Nationalism,ÌýEurope-Asia Studies, andÌýEthnopolitics, as well as other journals.

I am finishing a book manuscript on the entrenchment of party control across a state. The book focuses on ethnic enclaves, as spaces of potential resistance or co-optation into these structures of control. I examine trajectories of city council elections in ethnic enclave cities, to trace shifting lines of party control over time – and their implications for central-local power interactions. The research focuses on Albanian enclave cites in North Macedonia and Hungarian enclave cities in Serbia, Romania, and Slovakia. Fieldwork for the project was supported by theÌý.

My first bookÌý, received honourable mentions from 1) theÌýInternational Studies Association,Ìýsection on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies, Distinguished Book Award,Ìýand 2) the Joseph Rothschild Book Prize, Association for the Study of Nationalities. The book examines how contention helped forge common rules and institutions during the democratic transition in the ethnically-mixed states of Romania, Slovakia, and (Western) Ukraine.

Selected publications

Books

• Stroschein, S. (2014)Ìý.ÌýNew York: Cambridge University Press.
• Stroschein, S. (ed.) (2007)Ìý.ÌýLondon/New York: Routledge.

Journal articles

• Stroschein, S. (2019) ‘’,ÌýNationalities Papers, 47(6), pp. 923–935.
• Stroschein, S. (2016) ‘’,ÌýEthnopolitics, 16(1), pp. 74–81.
• Stroschein, S. (2014)Ìý‘’,ÌýThe ANNALSÌýof the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 656(1), pp. 97–115.
• Stroschein, S. (2013)Ìý‘’,ÌýEurope-Asia Studies,Ìý65(5), pp. 874–888.
• Stroschein, S. (2012)Ìý‘’,ÌýSudosteuropa, 60(4), pp. 514–525.
• Stroschein, S. (2011)Ìý‘’,ÌýEthnopolitics, 10(1), pp. 1–34.
• Stroschein, S. (2011)Ìý‘’,ÌýParty Politics, 17(2), pp. 189–204.
• Stroschein, S. (2008)Ìý‘’,ÌýPerspectives on Politics, 6(4), pp. 655–674.
• Deets, S. and Stroschein, S. (2005)Ìý‘’, Nations and Nationalism, 11(2), pp. 285–305.
• Stroschein, S. (2005) ‘’,ÌýEthnopolitics, 4(1), pp. 49–64.
• Stroschein, S. (2003)Ìý‘’,ÌýJournal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 3.
• Stroschein, S. (2002)Ìý‘’,ÌýVoluntas, 13(1), pp. 1–26.
• Stroschein, S. (2001)Ìý‘’,ÌýProblems of Post-Communism, 48(4),Ìýpp. 59–69.
• Juviler, P. andÌýStroschein, S. (1999)Ìý‘’, Political Science Quarterly, 114(3), pp. 435–453.

Book chapters

• Stroschein, S. (2017) ‘’,Ìýin A. Fagan and P. Kopecky (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 213–24.
• Stroschein, S. (2015) ‘’,Ìýin T.ÌýMalloy, A.ÌýOsipovÌýand B.ÌýVizi (eds.)ÌýManaging Diversity through Non-Territorial Autonomy: Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks. Oxford: Oxford University Press,Ìýpp. 19–30.
• Stroschein, S. (2014) ‘’,Ìýin J. Tripathy and S. Padmanabahn (eds.)ÌýBecoming Minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India. London/New Delhi: Sage, pp. 111–129.
• Stroschein, S. (2014) ‘’,Ìýin L.ÌýSalat, S.ÌýConstantin, A.ÌýOsipovÌýand I.ÌýG. Székely (eds.)ÌýAutonomy Arrangements around the World: A Collection of Well and Lesser Known Cases. Cluj-Napoca and Bolzano: Romanian Institute for Research on National MinoritiesÌýand the European Academy of Bolzano, pp. 187–199.
• Stroschein, S. (2013) ‘Organic versus Strategic Approaches to Peacebuilding’,Ìýin R. MacÌýGinty (ed.)Ìý.ÌýLondon: Routledge, pp. 276–286.
• Stroschein, S. (2006) ‘’,Ìýin O. Ieda (ed.)ÌýBeyond Sovereignty: From Status Law to Transnational Citizenship?. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Legal Studies, and Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University.

Other articles

• Stroschein, S. (2018) ‘How Can We Talk Politics across the Post-2016 Divide?’, in R. Kiddey (ed.)Ìý, pp. 23–26.
• Stroschein, S. (2018) ‘’,ÌýTimes Higher Education.
• Stroschein, S. (2017) ‘Beyond Technique to Accuracy and Agency’,Ìýin ÌýR. Kiddey (ed.)Ìý, pp. 13–18.
• Stroschein, S. (2017) ‘’,ÌýDuck of Minerva.
• Stroschein, S. (2016) ‘’,ÌýThe Convention on Higher Education.

Teaching

I designed and usually teach the two core modules for the MSc in Democracy and Comparative Politics: ‘Democracy and Constitutional Design’ which I teach with Phillip Ayoub, and ‘Democratic Political Institutions’. I also designed the course on ‘Governing Divided Societies’, which I teach with Dr Sarah Correia.

I am especially interested in supervising PhD students working on topics of ethnic party politics, local politics, and potentially projects on populism, hybrid regimes, or democratic backsliding.