Russian Studies Workshop

I am Irina Toland, 4^th year Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Oregon. I have started my academic journey at the Far East Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia. I am majoring in Comparative Politics and minoring in International Relations with the focus on authoritarianism, politics of protest, and US-Russia relations. I am developing a mixed method research approach for my dissertation using interviews, regression, and text analysis.