Energy and Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Energy and Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

About The Speaker — Susanne Wengle

Post-doctoral research fellow, Political Science, University of Chicago

Susanne Wengle is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago’s Political Science Department. She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science in 2010 at the University of California Berkeley, a MIA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Her book—Post-Soviet Power—will appear later this year with Cambridge University Press; her work has appeared in Studies in Comparative International Development, Economy and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, the Russian Analytical Digest and the Chicago Policy Review. She is currently working on a project on the political economy of food and agriculture in the US and Russia.