Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya to join DPIR

The Department is pleased to announce that Oxford Politics alumna Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya will join the team in September 2023 as Associate Professor in Comparative Politics (Brasenose College).

Dr Tertytchnaya is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at University College London. Previously, she was a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, and a Fulbright-Schuman pre-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. She holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford.

Dr Tertytchnaya's research interests include comparative political behaviour and authoritarian politics. Dr Tertytchnaya is presently writing a book that explains how contemporary autocrats use strategies of nonviolent repression to lower the costs of staying in power. In dissertation form, this research was awarded the 2019 Arthur McDougall Prize for Best Dissertation for elections and representation by the Political Studies Association.

Dr Tertytchnaya is the Principal Investigator of a three-year UKRI-ESRC New Investigator grant that studies how nonviolent repression influences voter and opposition coordination in Russia. She is also a co-Principal Investigator of the 2021 Russian Election Study, supported by the National Science Foundation, and an investigator on the European Research Council project ‘Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it’.  

Dr Tertytchnaya said: “I am excited to return to Oxford, this time as faculty, and to join an exceptional community of scholars at Brasenose and DPIR. I look forward to contributing to the department’s research and teaching.”