Russian Studies Workshop

Dr. Stanislav Budnitsky is a postdoctoral fellow with the Russian Studies Workshop during 2020-21.  His research focuses on nationalism and global communication. Budnitsky’s book project, Russia’s Digital Sovereignty: National Identity and Global Internet Governance, illuminates how states’ national identity constructions inform their internet agendas and, by extension, the global politics of the internet. Ultimately, the project reveals the enduring significance of nationalism in the digital age. The lecture will present the project’s findings about the cultural factors, which explain continuities in post-Soviet Russia’s global communication diplomacy against the backdrop of changing political ideologies.

Stanislav Budnitsky received his PhD in Communication from Ottawa’s Carleton University. In 2018-20, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Budnitsky holds Master’s degrees in Nationalism Studies from Budapest’s Central European University and in Journalism from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. Prior to his graduate studies, Budnitsky was a Moscow-based media writer and producer.

A recording of this lecture is available.